Beau Bridges

Beau Bridges
Bridges at the premiere of Max Payne in 2008
Born	Lloyd Vernet Bridges III (1941-12-09) December 9, 1941 (age 75) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Actor, director
Years active	1948–present
Spouse(s)	Julie Landfield (m. 1964–84) Wendy Treece (m. 1984)
Children	5 Jordan Bridges
Parent(s)	Lloyd Bridges Dorothy Bridges
Relatives	Jeff Bridges (brother)

Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor and director. He is a three-time Emmy, two-time Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner. He is also a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee. Bridges was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 7, 2003 at 7065 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the television industry. He is the elder brother of fellow actor Jeff Bridges.

Bridges was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actors Lloyd (1913–1998) and Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson; 1915–2009). He was nicknamed Beau by his parents after Ashley Wilkes' son in Gone with the Wind. His younger brother is actor Jeff Bridges, and he has a younger sister, Lucinda. Another brother, Garrett, died in 1948 of sudden infant death syndrome. Beau has shared a close relationship with Jeff, for whom he acted as a surrogate father during childhood, when their father was busy with work. He and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles.

Wanting to become a basketball star, he played in his freshman year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon, he later transferred to the University of Hawaii. In 1959, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard Reserve and served for eight years.