Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin Friendship Timeline

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin share one in all Hollywood’s oldest friendships. The duo first met in 1977, and their connection quickly was an onscreen collaboration within the seminal feminist comedy “9 to five.” The pair have remained very shut mates by means of the years and determined to work collectively once more in Netflix’s long-running hit comedy sequence “Grace and Frankie,” which led to 2022 after seven seasons.

“We’ve been mates ever since,” Tomlin advised the Washington Post in 2017 of their first assembly in 1977, backstage at her one-woman present. “We’re mates as a result of I simply love her. I do know Jane has my again every time she will.”

In the identical interview, Fonda added that she left Hollywood when she was 50 and got here again at 65, and ageism is alive and effectively — however she and Tomlin struggle it collectively. “And one of many issues that Lily and I are pleased with — and wish to proceed with — is exhibiting that you could be be previous, you might be in your third act, however you possibly can nonetheless be very important and sexual and humorous . . . that life is not over. Even after I was youthful, I wished to provide a cultural face to previous age,” she mentioned. Fonda additionally mentioned she needs to see extra “good, multidimensional, advanced girls — of any age, however particularly older girls” on tv.

Fonda and Tomlin have since continued to collaborate on display. In 2023, they starred in two movies together: “80 For Brady” in February and “Moving On” in March.

Ahead, revisit among the greatest moments from their friendship!