Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges

actor, producer, art department

Jeff Bridges was born on Dec 04, 1949 in USA. Jeff Bridges's big-screen debut came with The Company She Keeps directed by John Cromwell in 1951, strarring Infant at Train Station (uncredited). Jeff Bridges is known for The Old Man directed by Jon Watts, Jeff Bridges stars as Dan Chase and John Lithgow as Harold Harper. Jeff Bridges has got 51 awards and 112 nominations so far. The most recent award Jeff Bridges achieved is Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Awards. The upcoming new tvshow Jeff Bridges plays is The Old Man - Season 1 which will be released on Jun 16, 2022.

Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without billing, alongside their mother in the film La voleuse d'amour (1951), and appeared on occasion with their famous dad on his popular underwater TV series Remous (1958) while growing up. At age 14, Jeff toured with his father in a stage production of "Anniversary Waltz". The "troublesome teen" years proved just that for Jeff and his parents were compelled at one point to intervene when problems with drugs and marijuana got out of hand.He recovered and began shaping his nascent young adult career appearing on TV as a younger version of his father in the acclaimed TV- movie Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969), and in the strange Burgess Meredith film Le 3eme oeil (1970). Following fine notices for his portrayal of a white student caught up in the racially-themed Colère noire (1970), his career-maker arrived just a year later when he earned a coming-of-age role in the critically-acclaimed ensemble film La dernière séance (1971). The Peter Bogdanovich- directed film made stars out off its young leads (Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd) and Oscar winners out of its older cast (Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman). The part of Duane Jackson, for which Jeff received his first Oscar-nomination (for "best supporting actor"), set the tone for the types of roles Jeff would acquaint himself with his fans -- rambling, reckless, rascally and usually unpredictable).Owning a casual carefree handsomeness and armed with a perpetual grin and sly charm, he started immediately on an intriguing 70s sojourn into offbeat filming. Chief among them were his boxer on his way up opposite a declining Stacy Keach in Fat City (1972); his Civil War-era conman in the western Les rebelles viennent de l'enfer (1972); his redneck stock car racer in Last American Hero (1973); his young student anarchist opposite a stellar veteran cast in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (1973); his bank-robbing (also Oscar-nominated) sidekick to Clint Eastwood in Le Canardeur (1974); his aimless cattle rustler in Rancho Deluxe (1975); his low-level western writer who wants to be a real-life cowboy in Hollywood Cow-Boy (1975); and the brother of an assassinated President who pursues leads to the crime in Qui a tué le président? (1979). All are simply marvelous characters that should have propelled him to the very top rungs of stardom...but strangely didn't.Perhaps it was his trademark ease and naturalistic approach that made him somewhat under appreciated at that time when Hollywood was run by a Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino-like intensity. Neverthless, Jeff continued to be a scene-stealing favorite into the next decade, notably as the video game programmer in the 1982 science-fiction cult classic Tron (1982), and the struggling musician brother vying with brother Beau Bridges over the attentions of sexy singer Michelle Pfeiffer in Susie et les Baker Boys (1989). Jeff became a third-time Oscar nominee with his highly intriguing (and strangely sexy) portrayal of a blank-faced alien in Starman (1984), and earned even higher regard as the ever-optimistic inventor Preston Tucker in Tucker: L'homme et son rêve (1988).Since then Jeff has continued to pour on the Bridges magic on film. Few enjoy such an enduring popularity while maintaining equal respect with the critics. Fisher King - Le roi pêcheur (1991), American Heart (1992), État second (1993), The Big Lebowski (1998) (now a cult phenomenon) and Manipulations (2000) (which gave him a fourth Oscar nomination) are prime examples. More recently he seized the moment as a bald-pated villain as Robert Downey Jr.'s nemesis in Iron Man (2008) and then, at age 60, he capped his rewarding career by winning the elusive Oscar, plus the Golden Globe and Screen Actor Guild awards (among many others), for his down-and-out country singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart (2009). Bridges next starred in Tron: L'Héritage (2010), reprising one of his more famous roles, and received another Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in the Western remake True Grit (2010). In 2014, he co-produced and starred in an adaptation of the Lois Lowry science fiction drama The Giver (2014).Jeff has been married since 1977 to non-professional Susan Geston (they met on the set of Rancho Deluxe (1975)). The couple have three daughters, Isabelle (born 1981), Jessica (born 1983), and Hayley (born 1985). He hobbies as a photographer on and off his film sets, and has been known to play around as a cartoonist and pop musician. His ancestry is English, and smaller amounts of Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Irish, Swiss-German, and German.

  • Birthday

    Dec 04, 1949
  • Place of Birth

    Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Also known

    جيف بريدجز, เจฟฟ์ บริดเจส, Τζεφ Μπρίτζες, Jeffrey Leon Bridges, Джефф Бриджес, 傑夫·布里吉, Jeffrey Bridges, 제프 브리지스, ジェフ・ブリッジス

Known For

Awards

51 wins & 112 nominations

Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Awards
2021
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award
Winner - Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award
The Beast of Our Time (2021)
American Society of Cinematographers, USA
2019
Winner - Board of the Governors Award
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