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PERSONAL DATA OF JEFF BRIDGES
Age: 71 years old
Born in: Los Angeles, USA
Born on: 04/12/1949
JEFF BRIDGES BIOGRAPHY
Jeffrey Leon Bridges, one of the most charismatic actors of his generation, as well as a producer and country mucisist, has a career of over 40 years (many more if you consider his first television appearances). He was born in Los Angeles into an established family belonging to the entertainment world. In fact, he is the son of two actors: the famous Lloyd, a face known to film and television audiences, who passed away in 1998, e Dorothy Simpson, died in 2009. The older brother Beau is another renowned performer. Although he began acting as a child, after high school the future Oscar winner studied at the prestigious Herbert Berghof Studio in New York, where many of his talented colleagues were trained including Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Anne Bancroft, Gene Wilder is Liza Minnelli.
With the ability to act in DNA, at 2 she first appears on screen in a movie titled NN supervised special, between 9 and 10 has a recurring role in the TV series Sea Hunt and between 13 and 14 in The Lloyd Bridges Show. He then appears on show as The lone knight, Lassie is FBI before returning to the screen, in 1970, in the drama Halls of Anger, where he is part of a group of white boys transferred to a formerly black-only high school. The role that makes the difference comes in 1971, and is that of Duane Jackson in poignant The last show of Peter Bogdanovich, for which is nominated for an Oscar as a supporting character. Another excellent performance was offered the following year in Bitter city of John Huston, in which he plays a boxer. In 1974 comes his second nomination for A 20 gauge for the specialist of Michael Cimino, where it is the young car thief who happens to be standing alongside the robber played by Clint Eastwood. In the following years we see him busy on the road to more commercial cinema, such as the remake of King Kong from 1976, great success, paired with Jessica Lange. His good looks seem to naturally nominate him for star, but in the end it will be the character soul that prevails. In 1980 he returned to work with Michael Cimino in the mythical but troubled The gates of heaven, gone down in history as the movie that made United Artists go bankrupt. Two years later he is co-star of the futuristic Tron (is In 2010 will return in the sequel Tron: Legacy), a film that became a cult. In the same year he starred in the romantic comedy with Sally Field There is … a ghost between us is in 1985 comes again nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe, this time as the protagonist, for the role of the alien in the moving Starman, a science fiction film that is one of the director’s very few forays into the mainstream John Carpenter. Thrillers follow Double cut is Next morning and the biopic of Francis Ford Coppola: Tucker: a man and his dream (1988). In 1989 in The fabulous Bakers reads paired with his brother Beau and the following year he comes back with Bogdanovich in the uninspired sequel de The last show, Texasville.
The Nineties are the year of his maturity, which churns out some of the his best proofs: is the depressed DJ who makes friends with the homeless Robin Williams in the touching The legend of the fisher king of Terry Gilliam, the survivor of Fearless of Peter Weir (1993), the psychopath of The Vanishing, the former inmate of American Heart, the Irish bomber of Blown Away, the lover of Barbra Streisand in Love has two faces and especially, in 1996, he is the unforgettable Dude, or Dude, in Big Lebowski gods Coen brothers, film – and character – that give rise to a real pop cult. In 1999 he plays the acclaimed thriller Arlington Road, then reads for Albert Brooks in The goddess of success and in 2001 with The Contender he obtained another Oscar and Golden Globe nomination.
In 2005 back to work with Terry Gilliam in a small and intense role in Tideland. In the meantime he also cultivates a musical career: engraved the first album in 2000 10 years later, in the film which finally brings him the awaited Oscar and the Screen Actors Guild Award, Crazy Heart, sings in the role of a country singer inspired by his friend and colleague Kris Kristofferson. Among other films of the period, it appears as Obadiah Shane in Iron Man (2008) and works in The man who stares at the goats. In the year of the Oscar, 2010, it comes out The Grit, where is again directed by the Coen brothers in the role it was of John Wayne. For the film he gets a new Oscar nomination in 2011. He then acts in bankruptcy RIPD – Cops from beyond, but redeems itself with dystopian fantasy The Giver – The world of Jonas. Lois Lowry’s book from which it is based was a favorite reading of the daughters and Bridges, who produces it, has long wanted to bring it to the screen with his father in the role he will later play. But the rights are unlocked too late, even if, on his own, the actor shoots a homemade and obviously unedited version of the story. In 2014 is part of the choral cast of fantasy The seventh son, directed by Sergej Bodrov and with Julianne Moore. It is Master Thomas, the sorcerer who teaches the magical arts to the character of Ben Barnes.
In 2015 he recorded an ambient music disc entitled Sleeping Tapes.
He has been married since 1977 to Susan Geston who gave him three daughters and became a grandfather in 2011. He is a well-known philanthropist and author of beautiful set photos, collected in a book in 2003.
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THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY JEFF BRIDGES
7 strangers in El Royale (Bad Times at the El Royale)
Role: Actor
Year: 2018
Fire Squad – Only the Brave
Role: Actor
Year: 2017
Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle (Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle)
Role: Actor
Year: 2017
The Only Living Boy in New York
Role: Actor
Year: 2017 Go to the complete Filmography
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF JEFF BRIDGES
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