Jane Fonda, an actor and humanitarian, has added the SAG Life Achievement Award to her list of achievements. The 86-year-old will receive the award at the Screen Actors Group Awards in February, the group said Thursday.

Fonda expressed in a statement that she was “deeply honored and humbled” to be chosen.

“I have been working in this industry for almost the entirety of my life and there’s no honor like the one bestowed on you by your peers,” Fonda told the crowd.

Jane Fonda To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Actors’ Guild

In her almost six decades in the profession, Fonda has won two Oscars (for “Klute” and “Coming Home”), two BAFTA Awards, an Emmy, and seven Golden Globes. With an active attitude that dates back to her antiwar rallies in the 1960s and 1970s, she has utilized her platform to push for gender equality, civil rights, and environmental protection. Last year, Fonda spent her 85th birthday raising $1 million for a non-profit in Georgia that teaches school-aged youngsters to make healthy life choices.

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher described Fonda as a “trailblazer.”

“We honor Jane not only for her artistic brilliance but for the profound legacy of activism and empowerment she has created,” Drescher told the crowd.

Jane Fonda To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Actors’ Guild

Fonda was born in New York City on December 21, 1937, as the first child of the late actor Henry Fonda and socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, who committed herself at the age of 42, when Jane was 12. Her brother Peter, an Oscar-nominated actor and screenwriter, died in 2019. Fonda reflects on her amazing life, family, profession, relationships, and activism in the 2018 multipart documentary “Jane Fonda in Five Acts,” which is currently available on MAX.

A SAG-AFTRA committee nominates and votes on SAG Life Achievement Award honorees, who are meant to reward actors who embody the “finest ideals” of their industry.

The 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will air live on Netflix on February 23rd at 8 p.m. ET.

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Al Pacino revealed that he nearly died from COVID-19 in 2020 and expressed his thoughts on what happens after death.

In interviews with The New York Times and People magazine, the Academy Award-winning actor discussed getting the virus and temporarily losing his pulse.

Al, 84, told the Times in a wide-ranging interview that he started feeling “unusually not good” and soon got a fever and dehydration. “I was sitting there in my house, and I was gone,” he stated. “I didn’t have a pulse.”

Al Pacino Reveals He Nearly Died Of Covid-19 – And Gives His Thoughts On The Afterlife

“You’re here, and you’re not. I thought, “Wow, you don’t even have any memories.” You have nothing. “Strange porridge,” the “Scarface” actor claimed about his near-death encounter.

Within minutes, an ambulance arrived at Al’s house, and he regained consciousness with six paramedics and two physicians in his living room, he claimed.

“They had these outfits on that looked like they were from outer space or something,” he told the local newspaper. “It was very frightening to open your eyes and witness that. Everyone was surrounding me, and they said, ‘He’s back. “He’s here.”

Al told People that when he regained consciousness, he felt confused. “I looked around and I thought, ‘What happened to me?'”

Despite “everybody” believing he was dead, the movie veteran claimed he is not sure if he perished. “I thought I had died. I might not have. I honestly don’t think I have. “I know I made it,” he stated.

Al hailed his “great assistant” by swiftly alerting paramedics after his nurse confirmed that he no longer had a pulse.

“He got the people coming, because the nurse that was taking care of me said, ‘I don’t feel a pulse on this guy,'” remembered Al Pacino.

When asked if the health concern had impacted the way he lived his life, Pacino replied, “Not at all.”

However, this does not imply that the experience had no impact on the performer.

Al Pacino Reveals He Nearly Died Of Covid-19 – And Gives His Thoughts On The Afterlife

Pacino, who is presently prepping for a film rendition of Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” told The New York Times that the event had a philosophical significance.

“I did not see the white light or anything. “There is nothing there,” he explained. “As Hamlet says, ‘To be or not to be,’ and ‘The uncharted place from which no traveler returns.’ He then says two words: ‘no more.’ “It was no more,” Pacino concluded.

“You are gone. I’d never considered it in my life. But, you know, actors: It sounds good to say you died once. What happens when there is no more?

Pacino’s experiences are described in his book, “Sonny Boy,” which will be published on Tuesday.

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Washington — The Supreme Court declined to hear R. Kelly’s appeal on Monday, despite the fact that he is currently serving 20 years in jail for child rape charges in Chicago.

The Grammy Award-winning R&B artist, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted in 2022 of three counts of making child sexual abuse photos and three counts of enticing children for sex.

Supreme Court Declines To Hear Appeal From Singer R. Kelly, Convicted Of Child Sex Crimes

His lawyers contended that a lower statute of limitations on child sex crime prosecutions should have applied to actions committed in the 1990s. Current legislation allows charges to be filed when the accuser is still alive.

As is common, the justices did not explain why they declined to consider the case. There were no public dissents. Lower courts have previously rejected his arguments.

Supreme Court Declines To Hear Appeal From Singer R. Kelly, Convicted Of Child Sex Crimes

According to federal prosecutors, the video shows Robert sexually abusing a girl. The accuser, Jane, testified that she was 14 when the video was taken.

Robert has also appealed a 30-year sentence for federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges in New York.

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