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![]() Bridges at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International
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Born |
Jeffrey Leon Bridges December 4, 1949 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor, singer, producer, composer |
Years active | 1950–present |
Spouse(s) | Susan Geston (m. 1977) |
Children | 3 |
Parent(s) |
Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Bridges |
Family |
Beau Bridges (brother) Jordan Bridges (nephew) |
Jeffrey Leon "Jeff" Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor, singer, and producer. He comes from a prominent acting family, and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt (1958–60), with his father, Lloyd Bridges and brother, Beau Bridges. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart, and earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in The Last Picture Show (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Starman (1984), The Contender (2000), True Grit (2010), and Hell or High Water (2016). His other films include Tron (1982), Jagged Edge (1985), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Fisher King (1991), Fearless (1993), The Big Lebowski (1998), Seabiscuit (2003), Iron Man (2008), Tron: Legacy (2010), and The Giver (2014).
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949, in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of show business parents, actor Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998) and actress and writer Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson; 1915–2009). His older brother, Beau Bridges, is also an actor. He has a younger sister, Lucinda, and had another brother, Garrett, who died of sudden infant death syndrome in 1948. His maternal grandfather was an English emigrant from Liverpool.