| 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: Starman 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. Bridges is 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.
When he isn't making movies, Bridges chairs Hunger Free America. Bridges has dropped acid, done transcendental meditation, and in 2000 he released an album of pop music.
Father: Lloyd Bridges (actor)
Mother: Dorothy (Simpson) Dean Bridges (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
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Risk Factors: Smoking, Marijuana, LSD
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Iron Man (14-Apr-2008)
Surf's Up (7-Jun-2007) [VOICE]
Stick It (21-Apr-2006)
Tideland (9-Sep-2005)
The Amateurs (6-Feb-2005)
The Door in the Floor (18-Jun-2004)
Seabiscuit (22-Jul-2003)
Masked and Anonymous (22-Jan-2003)
Lost in La Mancha (11-Feb-2002) Narrator [VOICE]
K-PAX (22-Oct-2001)
Scenes of the Crime (8-Sep-2001)
The Contender (10-Sep-2000)
Simpatico (15-Sep-1999)
The Muse (27-Aug-1999)
Arlington Road (19-Mar-1999)
The Big Lebowski (15-Feb-1998)
Hidden in America (1-Dec-1996)
The Mirror Has Two Faces (15-Nov-1996)
White Squall (2-Feb-1996)
Wild Bill (1-Dec-1995)
Blown Away (1-Jul-1994)
Fearless (15-Oct-1993)
The Vanishing (05-Feb-1993)
American Heart (17-Sep-1992)
The Fisher King (13-Sep-1991)
Texasville (28-Sep-1990)
The Fabulous Baker Boys (13-Oct-1989)
See You in the Morning (14-Apr-1989)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (12-Aug-1988)
Nadine (07-Aug-1987)
The Morning After (25-Dec-1986)
8 Million Ways to Die (3-Oct-1986)
Jagged Edge (5-Sep-1985)
Live Aid (13-Jul-1985) Himself
Starman (14-Dec-1984)
Against All Odds (02-Mar-1984)
Kiss Me Goodbye (22-Dec-1982)
The Last Unicorn (19-Nov-1982) [VOICE]
TRON (9-Jul-1982)
Cutter's Way (12-Sep-1981)
Heaven's Gate (19-Nov-1980)
The American Success Company (1980)
Winter Kills (11-May-1979)
King Kong (17-Dec-1976)
Hearts of the West (28-May-1976)
Stay Hungry (23-Apr-1976)
Rancho Deluxe (14-Mar-1975)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (2-Sep-1974)
The Iceman Cometh (10-Nov-1973)
The Last American Hero (27-Jul-1973)
Bad Company (8-Oct-1972)
Fat City (26-Jul-1972)
The Last Picture Show (3-Oct-1971)
Silent Night, Lonely Night (16-Dec-1969)
Official Website:
http://www.jeffbridges.com/
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