- Date of Birth: December 4, 1949
- Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA
- Claim to Fame: played "Dude" in The Big Lebowski
Jeff Bridges had his first film role when he was just an infant, in the movie, The Company She Keeps; his mother, Dorothy, and brother, Beau, also had uncredited roles in the same picture. His break-out role, however, was that of Duane Jackson in The Last Picture Show (1971). He went on to play in dozens of movies, managing to avoid type-casting, by choosing an eclectic array of roles.
Among the movies he has appeared in are: Bad Company (1972), The Iceman Cometh (1973), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), King Kong (1976), Heaven's Gate (1980), Cutter's Way (1981), Tron (1982), Starman (1984), Jagged Edge (1985), The Morning After (1986), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Texasville (1990), The Fisher King (1991), American Heart (1992), Fearless (1993), White Squall (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), Arlington Road (1999), The Contender (2000), K-PAX (2001), Seabiscuit (2003), The Door in the Floor (2004), The Amateurs (2005), Surf's Up (voice — 2007) and Iron Man (2008).
Bridges has been nominated six times for Academy Awards, for Starman, The Last Picture Show, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Contender, Crazy Heart and a remake of True Grit. He won the Best Actor award in 2010 for his role as Bad Blake, the hard-drinking country singer in Crazy Heart.
Bridges is an accomplished photographer, likes to paint and sketch, and plays the guitar. He provided the pen and ink illustrations for the book he published in his role as a writer of spooky children's stories, in The Door in the Floor.
Bridges, whose father Lloyd and brother, Beau, are both well-known actors, is married to Susan Geston. They have three daughters.
Last updated: March 08, 2010.
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