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Fonda (surname)
Fonda is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bridget Fonda (b. 1964), US film actress *Douw Fonda (1700–1780), early settler in the Mohawk Valley, New York *Enrico Fonda (1892-1929), Italian artist * Gloria Fonda (1896-1978), US film actress *Henry Fonda (1905–1982), US stage and film actor * Jane Fonda (b. 1937), US film actress * Joe Fonda (b. 1954), US musician * Lorenzo Fonda (b. 1979), Italian-born US film director and artist * Luciano Fonda (1931-1998), Italian physicist *Mary Alice Fonda (1837-1897; pen name, "Octavia Hensel"), American musician, linguist, author, critic *Olga Fonda Olga Tchakova (russian: Ольга Чакова; known professionally as Olga Fonda) is a Russian- American film and television actress and model. She is also known for her role as Nadia Petrova in ''The Vampire Diaries'' (2013–2014). Early li ... (b. 1982), Russian-born US actress and model (née Olga Tchakova) * Pavel Fonda (b. 1942), Italian psychiatrist * Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Fonda
Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in ''The Godfather Part III'' (1990), ''Single White Female'' (1992), ''Singles'' (1992), ''Point of No Return'' (1993), '' It Could Happen to You'' (1994), ''Jackie Brown'' (1997), and '' A Simple Plan'' (1998). She is the daughter of Peter Fonda, niece of Jane Fonda, and granddaughter of Henry Fonda. Fonda was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Mandy Rice-Davies in the 1989 film ''Scandal'' and provided the voice for Jenna in the 1995 animated feature film ''Balto''. She received an Emmy Award nomination for the 1997 TV film '' In the Gloaming'', and a second Golden Globe Award nomination for the 2001 TV film ''No Ordinary Baby''. Early life Fonda was born on January 27, 1964, in Los Angeles, California, to a family of actors, including her grandfather Henry Fonda, father Peter Fonda, and her aunt Jane Fonda. Her mother, Susan Jane Brewer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douw Fonda
Douw Jellise Fonda (1700–1780) was a prominent settler and trader in the Mohawk Valley of New York State. The village of Fonda, New York is named for him. Douw Fonda was born in Schenectady, New York on August 22, 1700, the third child of Jillis (or Jelles) Adam and Rachel (Winnie) Fonda. He married Maritje Vrooman on October 29, 1725. Around 1751, he moved to Caughnawaga. The couple had seven children. Maritje died in 1756, and apparently Douw remarried, to the widow Deborah (Veeder) Wimple. Fonda "conducted a flourishing trading business" in Caughnawaga. In 1780, Sir John Johnson led a party of about 528 Loyalists and Mohawk warriors on a raid into the Mohawk Valley. Many residents fled the area, but Fonda decided to stay and fight. On May 22, 1780, he was captured by a Mohawk called "One Armed Peter", with whom he was acquainted, tomahawked, and scalped. Fonda had been a longtime friend of Johnson's father Sir William Johnson, and Johnson was unhappy about the killing. In fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Fonda
Enrico Fonda (1892– 1929) was an Italian painter born in Fiume (now in Croatia). Biography Fonda was a student at the art academies of Budapest and Munich when he was young man. After World War I he visited Florence, where he studied the painting of the Macchiaioli group, and Venice, where came into contact with the Burano School of Art which heavily influenced his later work. He focused above all on landscapes set in the Istria region and began to obtain positive recognition from art critics in 1920 at the exhibitions of the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. He moved to Milan in 1924 and came into contact with the Novecento Italiano movement, taking part in their first group exhibition in 1926 with compositions of greater solidity. Having moved to Paris in 1927, he acquired a much deeper understanding of the work of Paul Cézanne and Pierre Bonnard and exhibited at the Salon d’Automne, on which occasion the French government bought a work now on permanent display in the Centre Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Fonda
Gloria Fonda (1896 ''-'' January 20, 1978) was a U.S. actress of the silent film era. She was from St. Paul, Minnesota. Brief Movie Career Fonda won a most beautiful girl in Washington pageant sponsored by Universal Pictures. Her home was in Seattle, Washington. She came to Hollywood with sixty other beauties from American states. Fonda made only seven films during a career which lasted from 1915–1916. Often she appeared in movies directed by William C. Dowlan. Among these are ''The Mayor's Decision'' (1915), ''The Devil and Idle Hands'' (1915), and ''Drugged Waters'' (1916). She played the role of ''Gladys Saunders'' in the latter, her final film. Released by Red Feather Productions, the drama concerned a health resort and a spring of water which was pure. The water was drugged daily in order to deceive wealthy people who came to the spa to restore their health. ''The Mayor's Decision'' was a short drama of ''politics, slum life, and double intrigue.'' It was a Universal and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor. He had a career that spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. He cultivated an everyman screen image in several films considered to be classics. Born and raised in Nebraska, Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood film debut in 1935. He rose to film stardom with performances in films like ''Jezebel'' (1938), '' Jesse James'' (1939), and ''Young Mr. Lincoln'' (1939). His career further progressed with his portrayal of Tom Joad in ''The Grapes of Wrath'' (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1941, Fonda starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy classic ''The Lady Eve''. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring roles in two highly regarded Westerns: ''The Ox-Bow Incident'' (1943) and '' My Darling Clementine'' (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also starred in Ford's Western '' Fort Apache'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model. Recognized as a film icon, Fonda is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Born to socialite Frances Ford Seymour and actor Henry Fonda, Fonda made her acting debut with the 1960 Broadway play ''There Was a Little Girl'', for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and made her screen debut later the same year with the romantic comedy ''Tall Story''. She rose to prominence during the 1960s with the comedies ''Period of Adjustment'' (1962), ''Sunday in New York'' (1963), ''Cat Ballou'' (1965), ''Barefoot in the Park'' (1967), and '' Barbarella'' (1968). Fonda established herself as one of the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Fonda
Joe Fonda (born December 16, 1954) is an American jazz bassist. Career Fonda was born in Amsterdam, New York to parents who both played jazz. He played guitar as a youth but switched to bass guitar later. He studied bass at Berklee College of Music, where he also began playing upright bass. He played in the New Haven, Connecticut area in the early 1980s, and recorded with Wadada Leo Smith. In 1994 he began playing with Anthony Braxton, collaborating with him extensively for the next five years. He and Michael Jefry Stevens led the Fonda-Stevens band that began in 1991. Since the late 1990s Fonda has recorded often as a bandleader. Fonda has also explored dance in relation to jazz. He played bass with a dance company in the 1980s and incorporated a tap dancer into his ensemble for the albums ''From the Source'' and ''The Healing''. Discography As leader or co-leader * ''Looking for the Lake'' (Alacra, 1981) * ''Up from the Sky'' (Kaleidoscope, 1987) * ''What We're Hearing'' (W. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Fonda
Lorenzo Fonda (born 1979) is an Italian filmmaker and multi-media artist and artist based in Italy. He is recognized for his eclectic use of multi-media techniques and often surreal storytelling. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 2021. His works include feature films, commercials, music video, short films, interactive installations, illustrations and murals. He is best known for his collaboration with mural artist and animator Blu, which resulted in the feature-length documentary ''Megunica'', shot in 2006 across Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Argentina. During the production of the film Fonda encouraged Blu to experiment mixing the stop-motion technique and painting, and the first test they created ended up being included in the film. Subsequently, Blu further explored the technique which led to the creation of the groundbreaking film ''Muto''. Fonda collaborated with Rodney Ascher on his documentary A Glitch in the Matrix, for which he acted as dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Fonda
Luciano Fonda (12 December 1931 – 21 July 1998) was an Italian theoretical physicist, author of a hundred of scientific publications, including a book on quantum symmetries. His research activity covered several areas, from nuclear and subnuclear physics to condensed state physics. Biography Born in Pola (then part of Italy, now Croatia), the events of the war brought his family to Trieste in December 1943. He completed his high school and college studies at the local Dante Alighieri school, before graduating in Physics summa cum laude at the University of Trieste in July 1955. After becoming a Theoretical Physics assistant at the University of Trieste, he travelled to the United States of America with a Fulbright Program grant in 1958 to take the position of Research Associate at the Indiana University Bloomington. In 1959 Robert Oppenheimer invited him to become a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In November 1960 he won an Italian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Alice Fonda
Lady Mary Alice Seymour (, Ives; after first marriage, Seymour; after second marriage, Fonda; pen and stage name, Octavia Hensel; October 21, 1837 – May 12, 1897) was a 19th-century American musician, author, elocutionist, and critic. She was referred to as "Octavia Hensel" in the music world, where she was an internationally-known music critic. As a critic, Seymour was renowned. Her musical nature, her superior education, her thorough knowledge of the laws of theory and familiarity with the works of the great composers of the classic, romantic and Wagnerian schools, and the later schools of harmony, gave her a point of vantage above the ordinary. She was one of the original staff writers on the ''Musical Courier'', having been its correspondent from Vienna and other European centers. Seymour played the piano, harp, guitar and organ, but never appeared on the stage, except for charitable events, as her relatives were opposed to her pursuing a professional life. A "confirmed bluesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Fonda
Olga Tchakova (russian: Ольга Чакова; known professionally as Olga Fonda) is a Russian-American film and television actress and model. She is also known for her role as Nadia Petrova in ''The Vampire Diaries'' (2013–2014). Early life Olga Tchakova was born in the Siberian region of Russia and then lived in Ukhta, Komi ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, in the country's Komi Republic. Her father, she said, "had grocery stores in one of the Russian villages that I grew up in". She has an older brother. She moved to Maine in the United States for a year at age 14, as an exchange student living with the Auclair family in East Winthrop, Maine, while attending Winthrop High School from 1996 to 1997. She returned to attend the University of Maine at Augusta, majoring in financial management. Career While vacationing in Los Angeles, California, Fonda was scouted by agent Paul Fisher to pursue modeling, her longtime ambition. After acting in TV commercials, she played a Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Fonda
Pavel Fonda (born September 22, 1942), is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and a notable member of Slovene minority in Italy.Every nation has to reconcile with itself first, only then we can face each other (in Slovene: ''Vsak narod se mora najprej spraviti sam s seboj, šele nato je možno soočanje''), , 20 June 2009. He was a mayor of local community from 1984 to 1985 in the |
