"I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was"

Jane Fonda (1937 – present) See her in Barbarella

Born into Hollywood’s most royal of families Jane has held up a respectable acting career over many decades. But it was for a less respectable movie role that shot her to legendary status as the space-age, scantily clad Barbarella. Fonda used her fame during the Vietnam War to highlight anti-war protests and then in 91 she married media mogul Ted Turner. Oh – mustn’t forget those exercise videos from the 80s either.