Jane Fonda to be honoured in France

Veteran actress Jane Fonda will receive this year’s Lumiere Award at the 10th Lumiere Festival in Lyon, France.

Describing the Oscarwinning actress, festival director Thierry Fremaux said Fonda is “a feminist, activist, and she remains a star”.

The festival said it was honouring Fonda for an “acting career that has led her from [directors] Sydney Pollack to Arthur Penn, from Rene Clement to Roger Vadim; for her willingness to embody fierce independence from a young age.”

Fonda said: “I am honoured to be invited to the Lumiere Festival in Lyon.”

The actress follows Lumiere Award winners such as filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, actress Catherine Deneuve, filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino.

The festival will take place from October 13 to 21.