Jane Fonda is set to collect yet another trophy. The “Grace and Frankie” star will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival, a press release has revealed. The fest runs from July 31 to August 5.
Back in 2013 Fonda received the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film. Just a couple of weeks back it was announced that the “Grace and Frankie” star will be given an honorary Lumière Award in October.
A seven-time Academy Award nominee, Fonda took home Oscars for her performances in “Coming Home” and “Klute.”
“I can think of no other artist who has given more to her country,” said Moore. “What an honor for our festival audience to welcome and to be inspired by the work of this American Icon. Her voice is as needed today as much as ever.”
Well-known for her off-screen activism, Fonda chairs the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and sits on the boards of Women’s Media Center, which she helped found, and V-Day: Until the Violence Stops. She also established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at the Emory School of Medicine.
“I am very grateful to be alive through this,” Fonda has said of the #MeToo movement. “I did not think I would live to see it. Yes. And I think that it’s going to continue, it’s not just a moment. I love the Time’s Up aspect of it. We’re working with women from all different places. I’m going to DC to lobby with domestic workers. The farm workers up in Bakersfield. It’s all of us together, having each other’s backs.”
Fonda can currently be seen on the big screen in “Book Club,” a comedy about a group of female friends whose lives are changed when they read “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen co-star.
“Grace and Frankie’s” fourth season dropped on Netflix back in January. A fifth season has been confirmed with a premiere date TBA. Fonda and co-star Lily Tomlin made headlines in 2015 when they revealed that they were making the same amount as the actors playing supporting roles on their sitcom.
Fonda will attend the Traverse City Film Festival. Susan Lacy’s “Jane Fonda In Five Acts,” an HBO documentary about the multi-hyphenate that made its world premiere at Sundance this year, is going to screen, as will Fonda favorites “Coming Home,” “Julia,” and “Nine to Five.”
