Jeff Bridges

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Jeff Bridges
Birthname	Jeffrey Leon Bridges
Gender	Male
Date of birth	December 4, 1949 (age 72)
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, USA
Awards	1984 Saturn Award for Best Actor - Starman, 2010 Oscar Award for Best Actor - Crazy Heart
Character(s)	Kevin Flynn, Clu, Clu 2
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Jeff Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an Academy Award-winning American actor best known for portraying the character Kevin Flynn (and his programs, Clu & Clu 2) in TRON and TRON: Legacy.

Biography

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Personal life

Jeff Bridges was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Dorothy Dean (née Simpson) and actor Lloyd Bridges. He has two older brothers, Beau and Garrett, and one younger sister, Lucinda. His brother, Garrett, died of sudden infant death syndrome on August 3, 1948. He shared a close relationship with his brother, actor Beau Bridges, who acted as a surrogate father during his earlier life when their real father was busy with work. He is an uncle of Jordan Bridges. He married Susan Geston on June 5. He met Geston during the shooting of the movie Rancho Delux which was filmed on a ranch where Geston worked as a maid. The couple have three daughters: Isabelle (b. 6 August 1981), Jessica Lily (b. 14 June 1983), and Hayley Roselouise (b. 17 October 1985). He is also a known marijuana user; in an interview, he admitted to ceasing smoking during filming of The Big Lebowski, but has not "permanently kicked the habit."

Film career

Bridges's first major role was in the 1971 movie The Last Picture Show for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated again for the same award for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. One of his better known roles was in the 1982 science fiction cult classic TRON, in which he played Kevin Flynn, a video game programmer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1984 for playing the alien in Starman. He was also acclaimed for his roles in the thriller Against All Odds and the crime drama Jagged Edge. His role in Fearless is recognized by some critics to be one of his best performances. One critic dubbed it a masterpiece; Pauline Kael wrote that he 'may be the most natural and least self-conscious screen actor that has ever lived'. He also appeared as "The Dude" in the Coen Brothers' classic cult film The Big Lebowski.

In 2000, Bridges was nominated for his fourth Academy-Award for his role in The Contender. He also starred in the 2005 Terry Gilliam movie Tideland, his second with the director (the first being 1991's The Fisher King). He played the role of Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger in the 2008 Marvel motion picture, Iron Man.

In July 2008, he was shown in the Comic Con teaser for TRON: Legacy, the sequel to TRON, leading fans to assume he would once again reprise the role of Flynn from the 1982 classic film.

In 2010, he won first (and only, to date) Academy Award. The award came in the Best Actor category for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film "Crazy Heart." The following year, he earned his sixth Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn in 2010's "True Grit".

Other work

In his off time while on set, he has pursued other artistic ventures. Bridges had a burgeoning interest in photography while in high school, but began seriously taking photos while on the set of Starman at the suggestion of co-star Karen Allen. He has published many of these photographs online and in print titled "Pictures: Photographs by Jeff Bridges."

Bridges is also a cartoonist. Some of his "doodles" have appeared in various films, such as K-PAX and The Door in the Floor (a short story-within-story by John Irving).

Bridges narrated the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), a singular filmographic witness of the "unmaking" of a Terry Gilliam retelling of Don Quixote, tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which would have starred Johnny Depp as Sancho Panza and Jean Rochefort as the quixotic hero. Bridges has worked with Gilliam on The Fisher King and Tideland. Bridges also narrated the documentaries Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (2002, IMAX), Raising the Mammoth (2000, TV), and The Heroes of Rock and Roll (1979, TV). He also voiced the character Big Z in the animated picture Surf's Up.

Bridges has performed voice-over work as well: he was behind Hyundai 2007 "Think About It" ad campaign, and has done all of the Duracell ads in the "Trusted Everywhere" campaign (2006-current).

In the film The Contender, in which he co-starred, he recorded a version of Johnny Cash standard "Ring of Fire" that played over the beginning of the film. As of 2008, the song has not been released commercially outside of the film.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1951	The Company She Keeps	Infant	Uncredited
1970	Halls of Anger	Douglas “Doug”
1971	The Last Picture Show	Duane Jackson	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1971	The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go	Nero Finnighan
1972	Fat City	Ernie Munger
1972	Bad Company	Jake Rumsey
1973	Lolly-Madonna XXX	Zack Feather
1973	The Last American Hero	Elroy Jackson Jr.
1973	The Iceman Cometh	Don Parritt
1974	Thunderbolt and Lightfoot	Lightfoot	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1975	Rancho Deluxe	Jack McKee
1975	Hearts of the West	Lewis Tater
1976	Stay Hungry	Craig Blake
1976	King Kong (1976)	Jack Prescott
1978	Somebody Killed Her Husband	Jerry Green
1979	Winter Kills	Nick Kegan
1979	The American Success Company	Harry Flowers
1980	Heaven's Gate	John L. Bridges
1981	Cutter's Way	Richard Bone
1982	TRON	Kevin Flynn / CLU
1982	Kiss Me Goodbye	Dr. Rupert Baines
1982	The Last Unicorn	Prince Lír (voice)
1984	Against All Odds	Terry Brogan
1984	Starman	Scott Hayden / Starman	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
1985	Jagged Edge	Jack Forrester
1986	8 Million Ways to Die	Matthew "Matt" Scudder
1986	The Morning After	Turner Kendall
1987	Nadine	Vernon Hightower
1988	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Preston Tucker
1989	See You in the Morning	Larry Livingstone
1989	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Jack Baker
1990	Texasville	Duane Jackson
1991	The Fisher King	Jack Lucas
1992	American Heart	Jack Kelson	Also producer
1993	The Vanishing	Barney Cousins
1993	Fearless	Max Klein
1994	Blown Away	Jimmy Dove / Liam McGivney
1995	Wild Bill	[[Wild Bill Hickok|
1996	White Squall	Captain Christopher "Skipper" Sheldon
1996	The Mirror Has Two Faces	Gregory Larkin
1998	The Big Lebowski	Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski
1999	Arlington Road	Michael Faraday
1999	The Muse	Jack Warrick
1999	Simpatico	Lyle Carter
2000	The Contender	President Jackson Evans	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
2001	Scenes of the Crime	Jimmy Berg
2001	K-PAX	Dr. Mark Powell
2002	Lost in La Mancha	Narrator (voice)	Documentary
2003	Masked and Anonymous	Tom Friend
2003	Seabiscuit	Charles S. Howard
2004	The Door in the Floor	Ted Cole
2005	The Amateurs	Andy
2005	Tideland	Noah
2006	Stick It	Burt Vickerman
2007	Surf's Up	Ezekiel 'Big Z' Topanga / Geek (voice)
2008	Iron Man	Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger
2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Clayton Harding
2009	The Open Road	Kyle
2009	Crazy Heart	Otis "Bad" Blake	Also executive producer; Academy Award for Best Actor
2009	Template:Sortname	Bill Django
2010	Tron: Legacy	Kevin Flynn / CLU 2
2010	True Grit	Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
2011	Tron: The Next Day	Kevin Flynn / CLU 2
2012	A Place at the Table	Narrator (voice)	Documentary
2013	R.I.P.D.	Roycephus "Roy" Pulsipher
2013	Pablo	Narrator (voice) / Professor
2014	The Giver	The Giver	Also producer
2014	Seventh Son	Master Gregory
2015	The Little Prince	The Aviator (voice)
2016	Hell or High Water	Marcus Hamilton	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
2017	Dream Big	Narrator (voice)	Documentary
2017	The Only Living Boy in New York	W.F. Gerald	Also executive producer
2017	Kingsman: The Golden Circle	Champagne "Champ"
2017	Only the Brave	Duane Steinbrink
2018	Bad Times at the El Royale	Father Daniel Flynn / Donald "Dock" O'Reilly
2018	Living in the Future's Past	Narrator (voice)	Documentary; also producer
2019	Spider-Man: Far From Home	Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger	Archive footage
2025	TRON: Ares	Kevin Flynn	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1958–1960	Sea Hunt	Davey Crane / Jimmy / Boy / Kelly Bailey	4 episodes
1962–1963	The Lloyd Bridges Show	Various characters	3 episodes
1965	The Loner	Bud Windom	Episode: "The Ordeal of Bud Windom"
1969	The F.B.I.	Terry Shelton	Episode: "Boomerang"
1969	Lassie	Cal Baker	Episode: "Success Story"
1969	Silent Night, Lonely Night	John Young	Television film
1970	The Don Knotts Show	Himself	1 episode
1970	The Most Deadly Game	Hawk	Episode: "Nightbirds"
1971	In Search of America	Mike Olson	Television film
1981	Great Performances	Michael Loomis	Episode: "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and Other Stories"
1983	Faerie Tale Theatre	Claude / Prince	Episode: "Rapunzel"
1983	Saturday Night Live	Himself / Host	Episode: "Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges/Randy Newman"
1996	Hidden in America	Vincent	Television film; also executive producer
2008	Template:Sortname	Jon Katz	Television film
2010	Saturday Night Live	Himself / Host	Episode: "Jeff Bridges/Eminem and Lil Wayne"

External Links

Jeff Bridges at the Internet Movie Database