#Jame fonda movie

A review in The New Yorker cited her 'provocative, taunting assertiveness'. After gaining additional work experience in a few theater productions, she was cast in the lead in Barbet Schroeder's Single White Female, followed by a role in Cameron Crowe's ensemble comedy Singles (both 1992).įonda starred in 1993's Point of No Return, an American remake of the 1990 French film Nikita. Her breakthrough role was as a journalist in The Godfather Part III, released in late 1990. In 1988, she got her first substantial film role in Scandal, and appeared in You Can't Hurry Love and Shag. Her second (non-speaking) part was in the 1982 comedy Partners.

#Jame fonda movie

She made her movie debut at age five (filmed at age four) in Easy Rider ( 1969) as a child in the hippie commune that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper visit on their trek across the United States. She studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute as part of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts acting program and graduated from NYU in 1986.

Fonda attended Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles.įonda became involved with the theatre when she was cast in a school production of Harvey.

in the Coldwater Canyon section of Los Angeles, as well as in Paradise Valley, south of Livingston, Montana. įonda's parents divorced, and her father Peter later married Portia Rebecca Crockett (former wife of author Thomas McGuane), who raised Bridget, her brother Justin, and older stepbrother Thomas McGuane Jr. Her maternal grandmother, Mary Sweet, married businessman Noah Dietrich. She is named after actress Margaret Sullavan's daughter Bridget Hayward. Her mother, Susan Jane Brewer, is an artist. Fonda was born on January 27, 1964, in Los Angeles, California, to a family of actors, including her grandfather Henry Fonda, father Peter Fonda, and her aunt Jane Fonda.