Jane Fonda has been a film star for more than 50 years, gaining notice in 1962's camp classic Walk On The Wild Side.

With seven Oscar nominations and two wins (for Klute and Coming Home), she's one of the most honored performers in Hollywood history, and along with father Henry, brother Peter, niece Bridget and son Troy Garity is part of the celebrated Fonda acting family.

After sporadic time away from acting, she's started a late-in-life career resurgence with appearances on TV shows like The Newsroom and Grace and Frankie, and a Golden Globe-nominated performance in Youth.

We're celebrating Janes's 78th birthday with a look back at ten of her most unforgettable performances.

The Morning After

Jane received her most recent Oscar nomination for this hysterically overwrought Sydney Lumet melodrama from 1986.

As alcoholic actress Alex, Jane wakes up from a bender to find a dead man in her bed. With gorgeous '80s hair and fashion, she seek help from Jeff Bridges, at the peak of his sex appeal, to prove her innocence.

Barbarella

Of course 1968's fabulous campfest was going to be on this list.

Directed by then-husband Roger Vadim, Barbarella was eviscerated by critics at the time but has become one of the all-time cult classics, thanks to Jane's go-for-broke performance, mind-bending visuals and its general air of WTF-ery.

And it does feature one of the greatest opening scenes in film history (which you can see above).

Cat Ballou

Jane was at her most luscious in this 1965 comedy western, playing a lady train robber alongside Lee Marvin in his Oscar-winning role. An enormous box office hit, Cat Ballou helped put Fonda on the map as a box-office icon.

Barefoot In The Park

Has there ever been a more gorgeous on-screen couple than Jane Fonda and Robert Redford?

Both stars are luminous in this Neil Simon/Gene Saks collaboration from 1967, as newlyweds contending with little money and a problem-riddled apartment.

Coming Home

Jane won her second Oscar for this 1978 drama, as '60s housewife Sally Hyde, who dutifully waits for Marine husband Bruce Dern to come back from his tour in Vietnam. She meets injured veteran Jon Voight, and the two begin an affair that opens Sally's eyes to the world around her.

Jane's Oscar speech was extraordinary: First, presenter Shirley MacLaine told brother Warren Beatty to keep it in his pants (Diane Keaton did not look amused), and then Jane's speech included sign language as young son Troy looked on.

Julia

Fonda starred with Vanessa Redgrave, another outspoken actress, in this 1977 biopic about writer Lillian Hellman, who she managed to make relatable. Redgrave and co-star Jason Robards (as Dashiell Hammett) both picked up Oscars, and Jane received her third nomination for Best Actress.

The China Syndrome

At the peak of her career in this prescient 1979 drama, a steely Fonda played a frustrated reporter who uncovers corruption and gross negligence at a nuclear power plant.

Eerily, China Syndrome was released 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Jane received her first Oscar nomination for this brutal 1969 drama, playing Gloria, one of the doomed contestants in a Depression-era dance marathon. Released a year after Barbarella, the film proved she was far more than a pretty face.

Klute

In one of the greatest film performances of all time, Fonda played hard and sarcastic call girl Bree Daniels, who is anything but a hooker with a heart of gold. Bree teams us with cop Donald Sutherland to investigate the disappearance of a man who may also be her stalker.

She won her first Oscar for the role, though the victory was a tense one, as her controversial politics were starting to overshadow her career.

The Dollmaker

Jane made a rare television appearance in 1984 with this three-hour ABC movie, and won the Emmy for her performance.

She plays Gertie Nevels, a mother of five from the Kentucky hills who is forced to uproot her children and follow her husband to Detroit when he finds work during World War II.

Jane is magnificent, raw and stripped of all vanity, as she shows us Gertie's grit and determination. More than 30 years later, the scene where she has to deal with a tragic loss remains one of the most unforgettable moments in TV history.

Runners-Up: Nine To Five, California Suite, Grace and Frankie, The Newsroom