Bridget Fonda

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Bridget Fonda
Bridget Fonda at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Bridget Jane Fonda (1964-01-27) January 27, 1964 (age 48) Los Angeles, California, US
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1969, 1982–2002
Spouse	Danny Elfman (m. 2003–present)
Children	Oliver Elfman
Parents	Peter Fonda, Susan Brewer
Relatives	Henry Fonda (grandfather, deceased) Frances Ford Seymour (grandmother, deceased)

Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in films such as The Godfather Part III, Single White Female, Point of No Return, It Could Happen to You, and Jackie Brown. She also provides the voice for Jenna in the 1995 animated feature film Balto. She is the daughter of Peter Fonda, niece of Jane Fonda and granddaughter of Henry Fonda.

Early life

Fonda was born in Los Angeles, California into a family of actors, including her grandfather Henry Fonda, her father Peter Fonda, and her aunt Jane Fonda. Her mother, Susan Jane Brewer, is an artist.^[1] She is named after actress Margaret Sullavan's daughter Bridget Hayward who committed suicide at the age of 21. Sullavan was Henry Fonda's first wife. Bridget's parents divorced and Peter remarried Portia Rebecca Crockett (former wife of author Thomas McGuane). Peter and Portia brought up Bridget, her brother Justin, and older stepbrother Thomas McGuane Jr (born circa 1962) in the Coldwater Canyon section of Los Angeles as well as just south of Livingston, Montana, where both brothers attended high school.^{[citation needed]} Fonda attended Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles.

Career

Fonda first became involved with the theatre when she was cast in a school production of Harvey. She refused to solicit acting tips and advice from her famous relatives and studied method acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and graduated from NYU in 1986.^[2]

She made her film debut at the age of five in the 1969 movie Easy Rider as a child in the hippie commune that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper visit on their trek across the United States. Her second (also non-speaking) bit part was in the 1982 comedy Partners. In 1988, she got her first substantial film role, costarring with John Hurt in Scandal, based on the Profumo affair. That year she also appeared in You Can't Hurry Love and Shag.

Her breakthrough role, however, was as a journalist in The Godfather, Part III. After gaining additional work experience in a few theater productions she was cast in the lead in Barbet Schroeder's Single White Female, followed by a role in Cameron Crowe's ensemble comedy Singles, both in 1992. A review in the New Yorker proclaimed her "provocative, taunting assertiveness", and Rolling Stone said Fonda was "a comic delight". In 1997, Fonda was on the same plane flight as Quentin Tarantino when he offered her the part of a beach babe in Jackie Brown. Fonda was also offered the lead role in the television series Ally McBeal (later accepted by Calista Flockhart), but turned it down to focus on her film career.^[3]

Personal life

Fonda has not appeared in films since 2002. On November 29, 2003, she married the film composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman.^[4] She has a son named Oliver.^[5]

Award nominations

• 1990 - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Scandal
• 1997 - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie^[6] for In the Gloaming
• 2002 - Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television for After Amy

Filmography

• Easy Rider (1969) (uncredited part as little girl in hippie commune)
• Partners (1982)
• Aria (1987)
• You Can't Hurry Love (1988)
• Light Years (1988) (voice in English version)
• Scandal (1989)
• Jacob Have I loved (1989)
• Shag (1989)
• Strapless (1989)
• Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
• The Godfather Part III (1990)
• Out of the Rain (1991)
• Doc Hollywood (1991)
• Iron Maze (1991)
• Drop Dead Fred (1991)
• Leather Jackets (1992)
• Single White Female (1992)
• Singles (1992)
• Army of Darkness (1992)
• Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
• Point of No Return (1993) aka (outside the US) The Assassin
• Little Buddha (1993)
• It Could Happen to You (1994)
• The Road to Wellville (1994)
• Camilla (1994)
• Rough Magic (1995)
• Balto (1995) (voice of Jenna)
• City Hall (1996)
• Grace of My Heart (1996)
• Touch (1997)
• Mr. Jealousy (1997)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Break Up (1998)
• A Simple Plan (1998)
• Finding Graceland (1998)
• Lake Placid (1999)
• South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000)
• Delivering Milo (2001)
• Monkeybone (2001)
• Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
• No Ordinary Baby (2001)
• The Whole Shebang (2001)
• Snow Queen (2002)

References

Further reading

• Collier, Peter (1991). The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-13592-8. 

External links

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• Bridget Fonda at the Notable Names Database
• Bridget Fonda at Emmys.com