US actress Jane Fonda to get Golden Globes' lifetime achievement award
US actress
Jane Fonda is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next month's
Golden Globes, which celebrate excellence in film and TV.
"Her
undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition," said
the Hollywood Foreign Press view
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"While
her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to
evoking change has remained."
Fonda, 83,
has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades.
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The HFPA
said she would be given the Cecil B deMille Award at the annual ceremony in
Beverly Hills, California, on 28 February.
The
Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, later becoming one of the
brightest Hollywood stars with films like Barbarella, Nine to Five and On
Golden Pond.
Her most
recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.
Fonda is also
well known as a political activist, most recently as a campaigner against
climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at
Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access
Pipeline.
In the 1960s
she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.
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The actress
- who has written a book about how people can get involved in such activism -
has been arrested several times.
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