Happy 86th birthday to Jane Fonda! See her latest interview about her childhood on Tigertail Road

The remarkable Jane Fonda is marking her 86th birthday today and she does so as busy and engaged as ever in her acting and her activism which in recent years has focused on the climate change crisis.

The seventh and final season of her Grace and Frankie series with Lily Tomlin streamed last year and she’s had two new films out in 2023: 80 For Brady with Tomlin, Sally Field and Rita Moreno and
Book Club: The Next Chapter with Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenbergen.

She and Tomlin, who co-starred in 9 to 5more than 40 years ago, also starred in Moving On about old friends reconnect at a funeral and decide to revenge on the widower who messed with them decades before.

Was it when she first became a movie star in the 1960s and was in such films as Barefoot in the Park, Cat Ballou and Barbarella? Or the 1970s when she won Oscars for Klute and Coming Home and starred in Julia and The China Syndrome?

Then there’s the 1980s when she teamed with Dolly and Lily and starred in 9 to 5, won an Emmy for The Dollmaker, produced and co-starred in On Golden Pond, was Oscar-nominated for The Morning After, and launched her hugely successful workout business.

Or was it after her 10 year marriage to Ted Turner ended and she returned to films in 2005′s Monster-In-Law.

In the past few decades, Jane has worked constantly including on Broadway in 33 Variations (Tony nomination), and on television in The Newsroom (two Emmy nominations). Her other later films include Youth, Our Souls at Night, Georgia Rule, Fathers and Daughters, This is Where I Leave You.

Below is the latest interview new with Jane which came out a few days ago. It’s this week’s episode of Street You Grew Up On hosted by Kerry Washington. The two go back to Jane’s childhood home in California, on Tigertail Road, where she was raised in a beautiful Dutch farmhouse during a time when the world was at odds. Despite growing up hearing the sounds of WW2 air raid sirens, and at the height of racism, Jane still had glimmers of light of fond childhood memories. She shares with us moments of listening to Nat King Cole with her father (Henry Fonda), going to the beach with her brother (Peter Fonda), and funny Christmas memories involving spiked eggnog and Jimmy Stewart falling on a tree. Jane’s legacy of fighting for social and environmental justice comes as no surprise given the values and interests she developed from an early age.