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  1. Frances Ford Seymour Fonda (4 April 1908 – 14 April 1950) was a Canadian-American socialite. She was the second wife of actor Henry Fonda and the mother of actors Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda. Biography. Born in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, Seymour was the daughter of Sophie Mildred (née Bower) and Eugene Ford Seymour. According to her ...

  2. Sep 19, 2018 · But one of the most pivotal moments of her life occurred in 1950 when she was just 12 years old, when her mother Frances Ford Seymour died by suicide. In a new interview with People, Fonda delves ...

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  3. Frances Ford Seymour was born on April 4, 1908, in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, to Eugene Ford Seymour and Sophie Mildred. Not much is known about her childhood, but it was later proved via medical reports that Frances had been sexually abused repeatedly as a child.

  4. Aug 17, 2015 · Many were fascinated by her father and mother, Henry Fonda and Frances Ford Seymour, but despite the bright spotlight on her family, there were certain things of which a young Jane was completely unaware. Namely, her parents' troubled relationship and her mother's suicide.

  5. Mar 4, 2017 · When researching her memoirs in 2014, Fonda found that her mother, Frances Ford Seymour, had been sexually abused aged eight. Seymour killed herself at the age of 42, when Fonda was 12.

  6. Jan 23, 2023 · Frances Ford Seymour was a Canadian socialite from an aristocratic family. She was a distant relative of King Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, whom daughter Jane Fonda was named after. After being married to Henry Fonda for 13 years, Frances found herself part of a fraught existence.

  7. Sep 19, 2018 · Fonda's mother, Frances Ford Seymour, was a Canadian-born socialite when she married actor Henry Fonda. They later had Jane and her brother Peter Fonda.

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