Jane Fonda: SAG Life Achievement Award
The actress and activist will receive the actors union’s highest tribute for her career and humanitarian accomplishments.
Jane Fonda will be honored with SAA-AFTRA’s Life Achievement Award, the Screen Actors Guild announced on Thursday.
The actress and activist will receive the organization’s highest tribute for her career and humanitarian accomplishments. The achievement is awarded to people who foster “the finest ideals of the acting profession,” according to the organization.
Fonda’s career spans six decades, and she has received two Oscars, two BAFTAs, an Emmy, the 2015 AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, Elle’s Women in Hollywood Icon award, and the Women in Film Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award was named after Fonda. She also most recently accepted The Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, as well as the TIME Magazine Earth Award in April.
In TV, she earned an Emmy for her role in The Dollmaker, and starred in The Newsroom and Grace and Frankie. She co-founded the Hollywood Women’s Political Committee as well as the Women’s Media Center, and has been an advocate for gender equality, civil rights and environmental justice.
Adds Fonda: “I am deeply honored and humbled to be this year’s recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award.
I have been working in this industry for almost the entirety of my life and there’s no honor like the one bestowed on you by your peers. SAG-AFTRA works tirelessly to protect the working actor and to ensure that union members are being treated equitably in all areas, and I am proud to be a member as we continue to work to protect generations of performers to come.”