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Everyone loves Jane.
Jane Fonda got a standing ovation at the 2025 SAG Awards Sunday as she got onstage to accept the Life Achievement Award, which went to Barbra Streisand last year.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus presented the award to Fonda, 87, in front of the star-studded crowd at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, after a montage played that highlighted Fonda’s film and TV career.
“This means the world to me,” Fonda said to the crowd. “Thank you SAG AFTRA. Your enthusiasm makes this seem less like a late twilight of my life, and more like a go girl, kick ass. Which is good because I’m not done.”
“I have had a really weird career. Totally unstrategic. I retired for 15 years and then I came back at 65 which is not usual, and then I made one of my most successful movies in my 80s. And probably in my 90s I’ll be doing my own stunts in an action movie.”
Fonda went on to call herself a “late bloomer” and said that her SAG Award is “the flower show.”
“I love acting,” she continued. “We get to open people’s minds to new ideas and help them laugh when things are tough — like now. And for a woman like me who grew up in the 40s and 50s when women weren’t supposed to have opinions and get angry, acting gave me a chance to play angry women with opinions.”
Fonda also said she’s “a big believer in unions” including SAG-AFTRA. “What we create is empathy. Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly that we can touch their souls. We feel their joy.”
After Fonda’s speech awkwardly got interrupted by an announcer, she joked, “And I can conjure up voices!”
Fonda then spoke about the importance of showing “empathy” to others. “We must not isolate. We must stay in community. We must find ways to project an inspiring message of the future. There will still be love. There will still be beauty. And there will be an ocean of truth for us to swim in.”
“Let’s make it so. Thank you for this encouragement,” she concluded.
The Life Achievement Award is the highest honor that SAG-AFTRA gives to its members. The latest recipients include Streisand, Sally Field, Helen Mirren, Robert De Niro, Alan Alda and Morgan Freeman.
“I am deeply honored and humbled to be this year’s recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award,” Fonda said in a statement after she was announced as the 2025 recipient.
“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,” she added.
Fonda, the daughter of famed actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Ford Seymour, made her film debut in the 1960 comedy “Tall Story.”
She went on to star in movies like “Fun with Dick and Jane,” “9 to 5,” Julia” and “The Morning After,” and then took a 15-year acting break before returning with “Monster-in-Law” in 2005.
She won the Best Actress Oscars for “Klute” in 1972 and “Coming Home” in 1979.
Her TV work includes the ABC drama “The Dollmaker,” which won her an Emmy in 1984, and the hit Netflix comedy “Grace and Frankie,” also starring Lily Tomlin.
Fonda has been a vocal advocate for social causes since the 1960s, advocating for antiwar movements, gender equality, civil rights and climate change.
In an interview with Variety before the SAGs, Fonda called herself a “quintessential late bloomer” in life, and said she’s spent the past 20 years getting to know herself in new ways.
“It’s recent that I am starting to let that into my psyche and it makes me very happy because you don’t always know what kind of impact you have,” she said.
“I have just always felt that I wasn’t good enough. That has made the difference — that I was never satisfied, that I always wanted to get better,” she went on. “I know why I made the mistakes I did, and I know what was in my heart. And so I really worked at it, and I’m proud of myself that I didn’t settle.”