Vanessa Vadim

Freelancer + Producer + Cameraman

Female

Born Sep 28, 1968

Age 44

Vanessa Vadim is an independent producer and cinematographer. In the 1990s she co-founded MayDay media with Brown University classmate Rory Kennedy. It is a non-profit production and distribution group that uses video as the center force in campaigns… Read More

Family

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Vanessa Vadim

Age 44

parents

Jane Fonda
Mother, Age 75

News + Updates

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Despite New Film Role, Jane Fonda Says She Was 'Never A Hippie'
LATimes - Jun 07, 2012

Now 74 and in her self-described “third act,” Jane Fonda is clear-eyed, focused, fit, relaxed — and busier than ever. Her new film, “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding,” opens Friday in limited release, with Fonda playing an aging Woodstock hippie named Grace. Directed by Bruce Beresford (“Driving Miss Daisy”), the movie revolves around Grace, who is thrilled when her conservative attorney daughter Diane (Catherine Keener), whom she hasn’t seen in 20 years, arrives at her doorstep with h...
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Versions Of A Life
NYTimes - Sep 11, 2011

JANE FONDA The Private Life of a Public Woman By Patricia Bosworth Illustrated. 596 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $30. There's often a moment in a biographer's life when the subject, once nonchalantly inaccessible or perhaps even hostile, decides that he must satisfy his curiosity about the project at the price of tossing scraps to this desperate
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Jane Fonda, Constantly Evolving New York Times
Google News - Sep 09, 2011

But original interviews with many of those who worked with Fonda on her films and political campaigns, as well as interviews with her brother, Peter, and daughter, Vanessa Vadim — whom Fonda admits she treated at arm's length before turning to
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Jane Fonda Bio Reveals Flashy, Messy Stardom Charlotte Observer
Google News - Sep 08, 2011

Listen to what Vanessa Vadim, Jane Fonda's oldest child, told Fonda's biographer Patricia Bosworth in 2001: "Mom has the worst judgment of anybody I've ever known. She is so smart and yet she makes decisions too fast." Crushing, and as demonstrated in
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1968 Birth Born in 1968.

THIRTIES

2002 34 Years Old In 2002 a documentary she co-directed and produced with Matt Arnett called The Quilts of Gee's Bend was released. This film accompanies a museum exhibition and features the quiltmakers and quilts, historical photography and a musical soundtrack based on the gospel songs of Gee's Bend. Vadim married Paul Van Winkle in France in June 2010.

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