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December 4, 1949

Jeffrey Leon Bridges

Susan Geston (1977–present)

Actor

True Grit (2010)

Tron Legacy (2010)

Crazy Heart (2009)

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

A Dog Year (2009)

The Open Road (2009)

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

Iron Man (2008)

Surf's Up (2007) (voice)

Stick It (2006)

Tideland (2005)

The Moguls (2005)

The Door in the Floor (2004)

Seabiscuit (2003)

Masked and Anonymous (2003)

K-PAX (2001)

Scenes of the Crime (2001)

The Contender (2000)

Simpatico (1999)

The Muse (1999)

Arlington Road (1999)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Hidden in America (1996) (TV)

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

White Squall (1996)

Wild Bill (1995)

Blown Away (1994)

Fearless (1993)

The Vanishing (1993)

American Heart (1992)

The Fisher King (1991)

Texasville (1990)

The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)

Cold Feet (1989) (uncredited)

See You in the Morning (1989)

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

Nadine (1987)

The Morning After (1986)

The Thanksgiving Promise (1986) (TV) (uncredited)

8 Million Ways to Die (1986)

Jagged Edge (1985)

Starman (1984)

Against All Odds (1984)

"Faerie Tale Theatre" (1 episode, 1983)

Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)

The Last Unicorn (1982) (voice)

TRON (1982)

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories by Irwin Shaw (1981) (TV)

Cutter's Way (1981)

Heaven's Gate (1980)

The American Success Company (1980)

Winter Kills (1979)

Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)

King Kong (1976)

Stay Hungry (1976)

Hearts of the West (1975)

Rancho Deluxe (1975)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

The Iceman Cometh (1973)

The Last American Hero (1973)

Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973)

Bad Company (1972)

Fat City (1972)

The Last Picture Show (1971)

In Search of America (1971) (TV)

"The Most Deadly Game" (1 episode, 1970)

Halls of Anger (1970)

The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970)

Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969) (TV)

"The F.B.I." (1 episode, 1969)

"The Loner" (1 episode, 1965)

"The Lloyd Bridges Show" (3 episodes, 1962-1963)

"Sea Hunt" (3 episodes, 1958-1960)

The Company She Keeps (1951) (uncredited)

Producer

Crazy Heart (2009) (executive producer)

Hidden in America (1996) (TV) (executive producer)

American Heart (1992) (producer)

Appearances

Pablo (2010) Narrator

"Tavis Smiley" (2 episodes, 2009-2010)

Entertainment Tonight (12 episodes, 2007-2010)

The Oprah Winfrey Show (2 episodes, 2010)

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards 2010 (TV)

"Cinema 3" (1 episode, 2010)

"Breakfast" (1 episode, 2010)

"Live from Studio Five" (1 episode, 2010)

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (1 episode, 2010)

Late Show with David Letterman (1 episode, 2010)

"Up Close with Carrie Keagan" (3 episodes, 2007-2010)

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards 2010 (TV)

"CMT Insider" (1 episode, 2010)

16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2010) (TV)

Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (3 episodes, 2004-2010)

Golden Globes Red Carpet Live (2010) (TV)

The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2010 (TV)

15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards (2010) (TV)

"The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" (1 episode, 2010)

"The Jay Leno Show" (1 episode, 2009)

"Made in Hollywood" (1 episode, 2009)

The Charlie Rose Show (3 episodes, 2001-2009)

The Orange British Academy Film Awards (2009) (TV)

The Achievers: The Story of the Lebowski Fans (2009)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2 episodes, 2007-2008)

The Cool School (2008) Narrator

Behind the Scenes with 'The Amateurs' (2008)

Richard & Judy (1 episode, 2007)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition (2007) (TV)

The Making of 'Tideland' (2007)

Chasing the Lotus (2006) Narrator

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies (2006) (TV)

"The Henry Rollins Show" (1 episode, 2006)

"Martha" (1 episode, 2006)

Big Lebowski: Jeff Bridges' Photography (2005)

The 20th IFP Independent Spirit Awards (2005) (TV)

Backstage at the Bowl (2005) (voice)

Los Angeles (2005)

Frame on the Wall: The Making of 'The Door in the Floor' (2004)

Inside Out: Joey Pants (2004) (TV)

Ceremonia de clausura del festival de cine de San Sebastián (2004) (TV)

Premio Donostia a Jeff Bridges (2004) (TV)

Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (2004)

"Anatomy of a Scene" (1 episode, 2004)

Biography (1 episode, 2004)

Big City Dick: Richard Peterson's First Movie (2004)

Hollywood Legenden (2004) (TV)

The Making of 'Seabiscuit' (2003)

Seabiscuit: The Making of a Legend (2003) (TV)

Academy Awards

2010 Won Oscar Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for: Crazy Heart (2009)

2001 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Contender (2000)

1985 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Starman (1984)

1975 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

1972 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Last Picture Show (1971)


Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

2009 Nominated Saturn Award Best Supporting Actor for: Iron Man (2008)

1994 Nominated Saturn Award Best Actor for: The Vanishing (1993)

1992 Nominated Saturn Award Best Actor for: The Fisher King (1991)

1985 Won Saturn Award Best Actor for: Starman (1984)


BAFTA Awards

2010Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Leading Actor for: Crazy Heart (2009)


Boston Film Festival

2000 Won Film Excellence Award


Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

2010 Won Critics Choice Award Best Actor for: Crazy Heart (2009)

2001 Won Alan J. Pakula Award for: The Contender (2000) Shared with: Rod Lurie (screenwriter),Gary Oldman,Joan Allen,Christian Slater,Sam Elliott,William Petersen,Saul Rubinek,Philip Baker Hall,Mike Binder,Robin Thomas,Mariel Hemingway For artistic excellence by illuminating issues of great social and political importance.


Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

2009 Nominated CFCA Award Best Actor for: Crazy Heart (2009)


Golden Apple Awards

1975 Nominated Golden Apple Male New Star of the Year


Golden Globes

2010 Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for: Crazy Heart (2009)

2001 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for: The Contender (2000)

1992 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical for: The Fisher King (1991)

1985 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for: Starman (1984)


Independent Spirit Awards

2010 Won Independent Spirit Award Best Male Lead for: Crazy Heart (2009)

2005 Nominated Independent Spirit Award Best Male Lead for: The Door in the Floor (2004)

1994 Won Independent Spirit Award Best Male Lead for: American Heart (1992)

1994 Nominated Independent Spirit Award Best First Feature for: American Heart (1992) Shared with: Martin Bell (director),Rosilyn Heller (producer)


London Critics Circle Film Awards

2010 Nominated ALFS Award Actor of the Year for: Crazy Heart (2009)


Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

2009 Won LAFCA Award Best Actor for: Crazy Heart (2009)


National Board of Review, USA

2004 Career Achievement Award


Online Film Critics Society Awards

2010 Nominated OFCS Award Best Actor for: Crazy Heart (2009)


Palm Springs International Film Festival

2010Desert Palm Achievement Award for: Crazy Heart (2009)


San Sebastián International Film Festival

2004 Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award


Santa Barbara International Film Festival

2003 Modern Master Award


Satellite Awards

2009 Nominated Satellite Award Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for: Crazy Heart (2009)

2004 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama for: Seabiscuit (2003)

2001 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama for: The Contender (2000)

1999 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical for: The Big Lebowski (1998)


Screen Actors Guild Awards

2010 Won Actor Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for: Crazy Heart (2009)

2004 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for: Seabiscuit (2003) Shared with: Elizabeth Banks,Chris Cooper,William H. Macy,Tobey Maguire,Gary Stevens

2001 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Contender (2000)


ShoWest Convention, USA

1990 ShoWest Award Male Star of the Year


Teen Choice Awards

2008 Nominated Teen Choice Award Choice Movie Villain for: Iron Man (2008)


Walk of Fame

1994 Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture At 7065 Hollywood Blvd.

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Son of Hollywood titan Lloyd Bridges, and brother of actor Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges began acting on Sea Hunt (1958), a TV series centered on his father. TV jobs and movie walk-ons followed. Then, aged only twenty-two, Bridges landed the plum part of Duane Jackson in Peter Bogdanovich's adaptation of the larry McMurtry novel The Last Picture Show (1971). Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and considered a force to be reckoned with, he worked with Clint Eastwood on Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), another Oscar nod, and tackled a giant gorilla in the remake of King Kong (1976).

Then Bridges took on a pair of unusual roles: the Michael Cimino epic Western Heaven's Gate (1980) and the Disney-inspired Tron (1982). By the mid-1980s, he settled into a groove of charismatic performances in Starman (1984) and Jagged Edge (1985) before reprising his Last Picture Show character Duane Jackson in Texasville (1990) and becoming another version of himself, this time both more experimental and entertaining. The Fisher King (1991) illustrates his style, which includes Fearless (1993), The Big Lebowski (1998), and even the dramatic turns of The Contender (2000) and Seabiscuit (2003). American Heart (1992) and Lebowski demonstrate that his strengths lie as much within independent movies as in mainstream Hollywood. Having been happily married for decades, an oddity in his field, and having now become believably sexy, even comfortable in his skin, Bridges is an Old Hollywood star in New Hollywood: suave without arrogance, talented without too much attitude, able and convincing. He is also an accomplished cartoonist and photographer. His drawings appeared in The Door in the Floor (2004), in which he plays a children's novelist.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can. What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.

Is a talented guitarist.

Enjoys cigars, and smokes a couple every day.

Served in the United States Coast Guard.

Is a big fan of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys.

Auditioned for the part of 'Cpt. Willard' in Apocalypse Now (1979), as did his good friend Nick Nolte.

He is a big fan of actors Robert Ryan and Lee Marvin. Favorite movie is Billy Budd (1962).


Roles Turned Down:

The role of Redfoot, the LA fence in The Usual Suspects (1995).

The role of Bobby Grady in Crimes of Passion (1984).

Was director Taylor Hackford's original choice for the lead role in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), but he had to turn it down due to a busy schedule

The lead role of 'Jack Cates' in 48 Hrs. (1982), because he didn't want to do a simple cop movie. The role went to Nick Nolte.

Jacknife (1989) was developed as a vehicle for Bridges. He turned it down, and Robert De Niro took on the lead role.

The role of 'Snake Plissken' in Escape from New York (1981) that went to 'Kurt Russell'.

The lead in Love Story (1970). His brother Beau Bridges was the director's first choice. Both turned it down.

The role of Hooper in Jaws (1975).

A part in The California Kid (1974) (TV).

The part of Zachariah in Zachariah (1971) to work on The Last Picture Show (1971).