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Jordan Bridges

 
Actor: Jordan Bridges
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  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: New Suit, Happy Campers, Love Finds a Home
  • First Major Screen Credit: P.T. Barnum (1999)

Biography

With his GQ good looks and strong Hollywood bloodline (son, nephew, and grandson of Beau, Jeff, and Lloyd Bridges, respectively), audiences are virtually guaranteed to be seeing more of actor Jordan Bridges as he makes a name for himself in film and television. A native Californian, young Bridges began making his way into the family business at the tender age of nine with a supporting role in the 1982 made-for-television feature The Kid From Nowhere. Throughout the remainder of the decade, as well as the majority of the 1990s, one could always count on spotting Jordan in father Beau's many made-for-TV movies. Climbing the credits from The Thanksgiving Promise (1986) to The Defenders: Taking the First, it wasn't until 1999's Macbeth in Manhattan that young Bridges finally began to carve his own path in show business. That same year, Bridges was a natural portraying a young P.T. Barnum opposite his father in the titled biographical television biographical miniseries P.T. Barnum and, soon after supporting roles in Drive Me Crazy (also 1999) and Frequency (2000), Bridges made an impression in the summer-camp comedy Happy Campers (2001). Of course, it was only a matter of time before Bridges got a lead role and he did just that with the 2002 comedy New Suit. An updated version of the classic fairy tale The Emperor's New Clothes, New Suit found Bridges cast as an aspiring young screenwriter who starts a Hollywood feeding frenzy by mentioning a "hot" script that never existed. In 2003, Bridges appeared in director Mike Newell's Mona Lisa Smile. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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Jordan Bridges
Born Jordan P. Bridges
November 13, 1973 (1973-11-13) (age 35)
Los Angeles County, California
Spouse(s) Carrie Eastman (2002-)

Jordan Bridges (born November 13, 1973 in California, U.S.) is an American actor.

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Biography

Personal life

He is the son of actor Beau Bridges and Beau's first wife Julie Landfield. He's the nephew of Jeff Bridges and grandson of Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Bridges.[1] Jordan has one adopted brother and three half-siblings from his father's second marriage. He married artist-inventor Caroline (Carrie) Eastman in 2002 and has a daughter with her named Caroline (nicknamed "Lola").[2] Their son Orson was born on October 20, 2005.

Career

Bridges first acted professionally at the age of five in the television film "The Kid from Nowhere," directed by his father. After a break he returned once more in the television film "The Thanksgiving Promise" (1986) starring the entire Bridges family. Not wanting to be a child actor he left acting and attended L.A.'s progressive Oakwood school. The school had a strong emphasis on the arts which got him interested in acting again. He followed it up as a theater major and literature minor at New York's Bard College. Before earning his bachelor's degree, Bridges spent his junior year in England studying at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, living in a tiny basement flat in Chelsea, eating lots of chicken noodles and attending West End theatre productions on free passes.

Although classically trained, he still worked as a "cater waiter" in New York and Los Angeles for several years each before he started getting roles in films, television series, and theater.[3] He starred in the short-lived NBC series Conviction as Nick Potter, a lawyer from an "old money" family of prominence, who leaves his job at a private law firm to join the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. He is also known for his starring role in the 2002 film, New Suit and the 2009 Love Comes Softly Movie Series,Love Takes Wing & Love Finds A Home, as well as a recurring role on the TV series, Dawson's Creek and a guest role in the series Charmed season four two part premiere episode as Paige's boyfriend Shane. He plays the recurring character Tom Hastings in the Bionic Woman series. He has also played supporting roles in the films Drive Me Crazy, Happy Campers, Frequency, and Mona Lisa Smile.

References

  1. ^ "Actress Dorothy Bridges dies, Mother of Beau and Jeff Bridges was 93". Variety Magazine. 2009-02-20. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000396.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved 2009-04-23. 
  2. ^ Jordan Bridges Biography (1973-)
  3. ^ PikMail

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