Jane Fonda/Photo © Jaguar PS/Shutterstock

What do you think of when you think of Jane Fonda? It probably depends on which decade you hail from. If you came of age in the 1960s, Fonda was an up-and-comer, making her way from Lee Strasberg's Acting Studio to the stage and over to film. Her first Golden Globe, in fact, was for Most Promising Newcomer and she received it for her role in Edward Dmytryk's "Walk on the Wild Side." Fonda then appeared in 1965's "Cat Ballou," which went on to become one of the blockbuster films of the year, and earned five Oscar nominations.

Are you more a product of the 1970s? It was finally in 1970 that Fonda was nominated for her first Best Actress Academy Award, for "The Shoot Horses, Don't They." It wasn't until the next year, though -- 1971 -- that she won her first Oscar for "Klute," directed by Alan J. Pakula. The nominations and awards came in quick succession throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, for gems such as "Coming Home," "The China Syndrome," and "On Golden Pond" -- the last of which she co-starred in with her father, Henry. (Henry won an Oscar for his performance that year.)

And then came the exercise years. If you weren't living under a rock in America in the 1980s, you remember Fonda's role as aerobics queen -- leotard, legwarmers, sweatband and all. Springboarding off of the advent of the high-tech and highly sought after VHS machine, Fonda ultimately released almost two dozen workout videos, for total sales of 17 million copies.

Nowadays, Fonda is back on film. Most recently she was seen in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" -- but one of her juiciest, funnest roles to date is as Leona Lansing, the no-nonsense corporate head of ACN Cable News on HBO's Aaron Sorkin-scripted "The Newsroom." Ah yes, Jane Fonda -- you roll with the years, putting your immense talents to great use. And this is all only a small smattering of what she's done in her life. To get the full scoop, check out My Life So Far, written by the legend herself. Below is a clip from the audiobook version, read by none other than Jane Fonda.