Actor Jeff Bridges has worked consistently on film and in television since the late 1960s. Bridges won the Best Actor Oscar at the 2010 Academy Awards for his performance as faded country music singer-songwriter Bad Blake in the 2009 drama Crazy Heart. During his acceptance speech, Bridges thanked his wife of 33 years and his children. Bridges also won a Golden Globe in 2010 for his performance in Crazy Heart and his co-star, Maggie Gyllenhaal, was also Oscar-nominated.
His first notable film role was high school senior Duane Jackson in the Peter Bogdanovich adaptation of the novel The Last Picture Show. Bridges was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for that film, but lost to his co-star, Ben Johnson.
His late father, Lloyd Bridges and his older brother Beau are also acclaimed actors. His mother, the actress and poet Dorothy Bridges, died at the age of 93 on February 16, 2009.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000313/bio
Jeff Bridges accepts his first Oscar at the 2010 Academy Awards for Best Actor.
"Tron Legacy"
Bridges played the role of software engineer Kevin Flynn in the original 1982 film Tron, and is returning for the film's 2010 sequel, Tron Legacy. The new film follows Flynn's son, Sam (played by Garrett Hedlund, who's investigating his infamous father's disappearance. Once Sam is also pulled into the cruel and mysterious world of Tron, father-and-son must fight side-by-side against the Tron security protocol.
The Dude Abides
One of Bridges' most celebrated and iconic roles was Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski from the Coen Brothers 1998 comedy-noir The Big Lebowski. The Dude, an aging former roadie who becomes entangled in a bizarre kidnapping case, along with his bowling buddies Walter (John Goodman) and Donny (Steve Buscemi), is based on an actual friend of the Coens, Jeff Dowd. The film has become a cult favorite and a popular film at "midnight screenings," and even has a series of conventions (called "Lebowski Fests") held annually in movie theaters and bowling alleys nationwide.
"Crazy Heart" Trailer
"The Big Lebowski": "Gutterballs" Sequence
In this dream sequence from the film The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges (as "The Dude") dreams that he and his new acquaintance Maude Lebowski (played by Julianne Moore) are in a Busby Berkeley-style musical revue set in a bowling alley. The sequence includes a number of visual gags and references to earlier scenes in the film.
Jeff Bridges Timeline
1949: Jeff Bridges Bornhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bridges
1971: The Last Picture Showhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067328/
1973: The Last American Herohttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070287/
1980: Heaven's Gatehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080855/
1985: Jagged Edgehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089360/
1988: Tucker: The Man and His Dreamhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096316/
1991: The Fisher Kinghttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/
1998: The Big Lebowskihttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/
2001: K-PAXhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272152/
2003: Seabiscuithttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329575/
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Fast Facts
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Given name
Jeffrey Leon Bridges
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Born
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Also an accomplished musician and songwriter
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Married Susan Geston in 1977; Geston worked as a maid on a ranch where Bridges was filming
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Has three daughters
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Prolific cartoonist
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Performed on the 2010 charity single We Are the World - 25 for Haiti"
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Won Oscar for Best Actor at the 2010 Academy Awards
