Oscar Winners on the Small Screen

Winning an Academy Award used to mean you’d never have to stoop to doing television again. But nowadays, more than a dozen former Oscar winners are finding new dramatic challenges on the small screen. Click through to find out which award-winners you can watch at home every week.

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Jane Fonda

Won For: Playing call girl Bree Daniels in 1971’s “Klute,” and then again for her role as a Marine’s unfaithful wife in the 1978 post-Vietnam drama “Coming Home.”

Now She Plays: Brittle media CEO Leona Lansing on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama “The Newsroom.”
Jane Fonda

Won For: Playing call girl Bree Daniels in 1971’s “Klute,” and then again for her role as a Marine’s unfaithful wife in the 1978 post-Vietnam drama “Coming Home.”

Now She Plays: Brittle media CEO Leona Lansing on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama “The Newsroom.”