| Jeff Bridges  AKA Jeffrey Leon Bridges
Born: 4-Dec-1949
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Dude abides Military service: U.S. Coast Guard Jeff Bridges's father was busy B-movie star and TV icon Lloyd Bridges, so he got to skip the entire "struggling actor" phase. An infant in his first movie, The Company She Keeps (1951), as a youth he appeared on his father's Sea Hunt and toured with a stage production of Anniversary Waltz. At 17, his parents contacted a group called Developing Adolescents Without Narcotics, which put Bridges through an "intervention" to snap his marijuana habit. At 21, he found national fame in The Last Picture Show.
His famous films include Hearts of the West, the 1976 King Kong, Tron, Starman, Jagged Edge, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, and Seabiscuit. Bridges also starred in The Big Lebowski (1998), directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, in which he was simply perfect as an aging, bearded, cocktail-sipping, pothead bowler who answers only to "The Dude". The part was written for him, and he wears some of his own clothes in the movie, causing some to suspect that "The Dude" is Jeff Bridges, but the character was actually based on a Hollywood backstage character, Jeff Dowd.
He won a long-deserved Oscar for the over-rated Crazy Heart in 2010. When he isn't making movies, Bridges chairs Hunger Free America. He has dropped acid, done transcendental meditation, and in 2000 he released an album of pop music.
Father: Lloyd Bridges (actor)
Mother: Dorothy Dean Simpson (former actress)
Brother: Beau Bridges (actor, b. 9-Dec-1941)
Brother: Gary Bridges (b. 1947, d. 1947, sudden infant death syndrome)
Sister: Lucinda Bridges (b. 1954)
Girlfriend: Cybill Shepherd (actress, dated 1971)
Girlfriend: Candy Clark (actress, dated 1972)
Girlfriend: Valerie Perrine (actress, dated 1973)
Wife: Susan Geston (former maid; b. 1954, dated 1975-77, m. 1977)
Daughter: Isabelle Bridges (b. 1982)
Daughter: Jessica Bridges (b. 1984)
Daughter: Haley Bridges (b. 1988)
High School: Palisades High School, Pacific Palisades, CA
High School: University High School, Los Angeles, CA
Oscar for Best Actor 2010 for Crazy Heart
Hollywood Walk of Fame 7065 Hollywood Blvd. (1994)
Golden Globe 2010, Best Leading Actor for Crazy Heart
John Kerry for President
Kucinich for President
MoveOn.org
Transcendental Meditation
Endorsement of Hyundai 2007
Risk Factors: Smoking, Marijuana, LSD, Lymphoma
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Bad Times at the El Royale (27-Sep-2018)
Only the Brave (18-Oct-2017)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (20-Sep-2017)
The Only Living Boy in New York (27-Jul-2017)
Hell or High Water (16-May-2016)
The Little Prince (22-May-2015) [VOICE]
Seventh Son (17-Dec-2014)
The Giver (11-Aug-2014)
R.I.P.D. (17-Jul-2013)
Pablo (30-Jan-2012) · Narrator [VOICE]
A Place at the Table (22-Jan-2012) · Himself
True Grit (22-Dec-2010) · Rooster Cogburn
TRON: Legacy (5-Dec-2010) · Kevin Flynn
Crazy Heart (6-Dec-2009) · Bad Blake
The Men Who Stare at Goats (8-Sep-2009) · Bill Django
A Dog Year (3-Sep-2009)
The Open Road (7-Feb-2009) · Kyle
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (3-Oct-2008) · Clayton Harding
Iron Man (14-Apr-2008)
The Cool School (7-Mar-2008) · Himself
Surf's Up (7-Jun-2007) [VOICE]
Stick It (21-Apr-2006)
Tideland (9-Sep-2005)
The Amateurs (6-Feb-2005) · Andy Sargentee
The Door in the Floor (18-Jun-2004) · Ted Cole
Seabiscuit (22-Jul-2003) · Charles Howard
Masked and Anonymous (22-Jan-2003) · Tom Friend
Lost in La Mancha (11-Feb-2002) · Narrator [VOICE]
K-PAX (22-Oct-2001) · Dr. Mark Powell
Scenes of the Crime (8-Sep-2001)
The Contender (10-Sep-2000) · President Jackson Evans
Simpatico (15-Sep-1999)
The Muse (27-Aug-1999) · Jack Warrick
Arlington Road (19-Mar-1999)
The Big Lebowski (15-Feb-1998) · The Dude
Hidden in America (1-Dec-1996)
The Mirror Has Two Faces (15-Nov-1996) · Gregory Larkin
White Squall (2-Feb-1996) · Sheldon "Skipper"
Wild Bill (1-Dec-1995) · Wild Bill Hickok
Blown Away (1-Jul-1994) · Dove
Fearless (15-Oct-1993)
The Vanishing (5-Feb-1993) · Barney
American Heart (17-Sep-1992) · Jack
The Fisher King (13-Sep-1991)
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (7-Sep-1991) · Himself
Texasville (28-Sep-1990)
The Fabulous Baker Boys (13-Oct-1989) · Jack Baker
See You in the Morning (14-Apr-1989)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (12-Aug-1988)
Nadine (7-Aug-1987) · Vernon Hightower
The Morning After (25-Dec-1986) · Turner Kendall
8 Million Ways to Die (3-Oct-1986)
Jagged Edge (5-Sep-1985) · Jack Forrester
Live Aid (13-Jul-1985) · Himself
Starman (14-Dec-1984) · Starman
Against All Odds (2-Mar-1984)
Kiss Me Goodbye (22-Dec-1982) · Rupert
The Last Unicorn (19-Nov-1982) [VOICE]
TRON (9-Jul-1982)
Cutter's Way (12-Sep-1981) · Richard Bone
Heaven's Gate (19-Nov-1980) · John L. Bridges
The American Success Company (Mar-1980)
Winter Kills (11-May-1979)
Somebody Killed Her Husband (29-Sep-1978)
King Kong (17-Dec-1976) · Jack Prescott
Stay Hungry (23-Apr-1976)
Hearts of the West (4-Oct-1975) · Lewis Tater
Rancho Deluxe (14-Mar-1975) · Jack McKee
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (23-May-1974) · Lightfoot
The Iceman Cometh (10-Nov-1973)
The Last American Hero (27-Jul-1973)
Lolly-Madonna XXX (21-Feb-1973)
Bad Company (8-Oct-1972) · Jake Rumsey
Fat City (26-Jul-1972) · Ernie
The Last Picture Show (3-Oct-1971) · Duane Jackson
Halls of Anger (29-Apr-1970)
Silent Night, Lonely Night (16-Dec-1969)
Official Website:
http://www.jeffbridges.com/
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