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Roles turned down by Jane Fonda:
Turned down the role of Carol.
Actor who got the part: Natalie Wood
Jane Fonda turned down the role of Bonnie Parker.
Actor who got the part: Faye Dunaway
Columbia Pictures wanted Jane Fonda for the role and, although Fonda wanted to play the mother of a missing child, director Otto Preminger had another actress in mind.
Actor who got the part: Carol Lynley
Mike Nichols had spent six months looking for the right girl to play the part of Bobbie. He had considered and rejected Jane Fonda.
Actor who got the part: Ann-Margrett
Producers wanted Jane Fonda to play Evelyn Mulwray but director Roman Polanski insisted on Dunaway.
Actor who got the part: Faye Dunaway
Jane Fonda turned down the role of Tiffany Case.
Actor who got the part: Jill St. John
Jane Fonda reportedly declined the part of Lara in David Lean's epic.
Actor who got the part: Julie Christie
Fonda was actually cast as Hollie Baylor but dropped out because of a delay in production.
Actor who got the part: Susan Sarandon
She turned down the role of Chris MacNeill.
Actor who got the part: Ellen Burstyn
Turned down the offer to star for Francois Truffaut in the movie version of Ray Bradbury's prescient novel.
Actor who got the part: Julie Christie
Jane was considered for the role of actress Frances Farmer.
Actor who got the part: Jessica Lange
The star turned down the leading female role of "Ella Watson" in the Michael Cimino-directed movie that brought down an entire film studio.
Actor who got the part: Isabelle Huppert
Jane Fonda turned down the role of Joanna Kramer.
Actor who got the part: Meryl Streep
Jane declined the role of Diana Christensen that won Faye Dunaway an Oscar.
Actor who got the part: Faye Dunaway
Turned down the role of Norma Rae.
Actor who got the part: Sally Field
Fonda was considered for the role of Ratched.
Actor who got the part: Louise Fletcher
Jane Fonda was tested for the leading female by director Joshua Logan, who left the project.
Actor who got the part: Connie Stevens
Turned down the role when director Roman Polanski's first choice, Tuesday Weld, refused to do a screen test.
Actor who got the part: Mia Farrow
Screentested for director Elia Kazan to play the role of the fragile, troubled "Deanie."
Actor who got the part: Natalie Wood
According to the book, 'Memo from David O'Selznick...', Fonda was very keen on playing Rosemary Hoyt, in the film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name.
Actor who got the part: Jill St. John
Turned down the high-profile role of a woman who makes a new life for herself after being left by her husband.
Actor who got the part: Jill Clayburgh
A proposed reunion for Jane, Robert Redford and director Sydney Pollack, with screenplay by Eric Roth. Jane would have played an archeologist who discovers the origins of man in a dig in Machu Picchu.
Actor who got the part: Film Unmade
Did you know that Jane Fonda was not the only choice for these movies? (click to learn more)
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