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Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949 in Los
Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is the son
of Dorothy Simpson and Lloyd Bridges, the brother of Beau Bridges and the uncle
of Jordan Bridges.
Bridges's first major role was in the 1971 movie
The Last Picture Show for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated again for the same award for his
performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
Another early role was the 1982 movie Tron, in which he played Kevin Flynn, a
video game programmer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in
1984 for playing the alien in Starman. He gained repute in the mid-80s for his
roles in the sexy thriller Against All Odds and the crime drama Jagged Edge. He
also took the leading role of "The Dude" in the Coen brothers' film The Big
Lebowski. His role in Fearless is recognized by some critics to be one of his
best performances, not to mention perhaps one of the most underrated films of
the 1990s. One critic dubbed it a masterpiece;[1] Pauline Kael wrote that he
'may be the most natural and least self-conscious screen actor that has ever
lived'.[2]
Bridges is also a first rate character actor in
films like The Vanishing as a psychopathic college professor, a standoffish U.S.
president in 2000's The Contender (produced by co-star Gary Oldman and producer
Douglas Urbanski and for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor again) and The Muse as a carefree screenwriter buddy of Albert
Brooks. Bridges narrated the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), a singularly
unique filmographic witness of the "unmaking" of a Terry Gilliam retelling of
Don Quixote, tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which would have
starred Johnny Depp as Sancho Panza and Jean Rochefort as the quixotic hero.
Bridges has worked with Gilliam on The Fisher King and Tideland. Bridges also
narrated the documentaries Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (2002, IMAX),
Raising the Mammoth (2000, TV), and The Heroes of Rock and Roll (1979, TV).
In his off time while on set, he has been known to
document the filmmaking process by photographing fellow actors and on-set staff
with a panoramic camera. He began doing this during the filming of Starman at
the suggestion of co-star Karen Allen. He has published many of these
photographs online and in print titled "Pictures" (Hardcover, 2003, ISBN
1-57687-177-0; Library of Congress control number: 2003046711[3],[4],[5],[6])
Bridges is also a cartoonist. Some of his "doodles"
have appeared in various films, such as K-PAX and The Door in the Floor (a short
story-within-story by John Irving). He incorporates his drawings at his web
site, notable because it is almost completely hand-written and drawn art—not
typed. He also plays guitar.
Bridges is known for his liberal political views.
He married Susan Geston on June 5, 1977 after meeting her on the set of Rancho
Deluxe in 1975, filmed on a dude ranch where Geston worked as a maid. The couple
have 3 daughters, Isabelle (b. 1981), Jessica (b. 1983), and Hayley (b. 1987).
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Birth name Jeffrey Leon Bridges
Born December 4, 1949
Los Angeles, California, United States Of America
Height 6' 1"
Other name(s) Jeffo Bridges
Spouse(s) Susan Geston (June 5, 1977-present) 3
children
Notable roles Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in The
Big Lebowski
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Filmography
The Company She Keeps (1951)
The Yin and Yang of Mr. Go (1970)
Halls of Anger (1970)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Fat City (1972)
Bad Company (1972)
Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973)
The Last American Hero (1973)
The Iceman Cometh (1973)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Rancho Deluxe (1975)
Stay Hungry (1976)
King Kong (1976)
Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)
Winter Kills (1979)
The American Success Company (1980)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Cutter's Way (1981)
Tron (1982)
The Last Unicorn (1982) (voice)
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
Against All Odds (1984)
Starman (1984)
Jagged Edge (1985)
8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
The Morning After (1986)
Nadine (1987)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
See You in the Morning (1989)
Cold Feet (1989) (Cameo)
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
Texasville (1990)
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in
Archer City, Texas (1991) (documentary)
The Fisher King (1991)
American Heart (1992)
The Vanishing (1993)
Fearless (1993)
Blown Away (1994)
Wild Bill (1995)
White Squall (1996)
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Arlington Road (1999)
The Muse (1999)
Simpatico (1999)
The Contender (2000)
Scenes Of The Crime (2001)
K-PAX (2001)
Lost in La Mancha (2002) (documentary) (narrator)
Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (2002) (short
subject) (narrator)
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
Seabiscuit (2003)
Big City Dick: Richard Peterson's First Movie
(2004) (documentary)
The Door in the Floor (2004)
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
(2004) (documentary)
Backstage at the Bowl (2005) (documentary)
(narrator)
The Moguls (2005)
Tideland (2005)
Stick It (2006)
Chasing the Lotus (2006) (documentary) (narrator)
Upcoming:
The Amateurs
A Dog Year (2007)
Surf's Up (2007) (voice)
The Giver (2007)
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