Jane Fonda has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 SAG Life Achievement Award
Jane Fonda will be honored with SAG-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, seven Golden Globes, 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.
Fonda’s credits include Klute, which earned her her first Academy Award for best actress, Coming Home, for which she earned her second Oscar, 9 to 5, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, The China Syndrome and On Golden Pond. After 1990’s Stanley & Iris, she announced her retirement from film, but returned in 2005 with Monster-in Law, and then starred in Georgia Rule, Our Souls at Night and Book Club. And in 2023, she starred in Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, Book Club 2, Moving On and 80 for Brady.
In terms of television, 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.
“Jane Fonda is a trailblazer and an extraordinary talent; a dynamic force who has shaped the landscape of entertainment, advocacy and culture with unwavering passion,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said in a statement. “We honor Jane not only for her artistic brilliance but for the profound legacy of activism and empowerment she has created. Her fearless honesty has been an inspiration to me and many others in our industry.”
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.”
She will receive the honor at the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which are taking place on Feb. 23, 2025 and will be live streamed on Netflix.