Jeff Bridges

Jeffrey Leon Bridges (Los Angeles, December 4, 1949), known as Jeff Bridges, is an actor, musician, producer, photographer, cartoonist, narrator and Oscar-winning, Golden Globe-winning, Screen Actors Guild Award-winning, and Cecil B. DeMille Award-winning American winegrower. He is the son of legendary actor Lloyd Bridges.

Biography

Son of actor Lloyd Bridges and actress Dorothy Dean Simpson and brother of fellow actor Beau Bridges. Apart from Beau, Jeff has a younger sister named Cindy and a late brother named Gary. Precisely in the movie The Fabulous Baker Boys Jeff and Beau also play the Baker brothers. His godparents were Betty Garrett and Larry Parks. At the age of two, Bridges starred, uncredited, alongside his mother and his brother Beau, in a film title directed by John Cromwell, Parole (1951). At the end of the 1950s and during the 1960s he began to appear on the small screen, taking part in series starring his father, such as Sea Hunt or The Loner .

Influenced by his father, Bridges prepared for acting, studying acting in New York with Herbert Berghof and making his debut in 1969 in a made-for-television film. He made his film debut with Hate in the Classrooms (1970), a drama directed by Paul Bogart, and in 1971 he was hired by Peter Bogdanovich for the award-winning film The Last Film, with the one that obtained an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor, and from which he was considered a young promise of cinema. He later worked with John Huston in Fat City (1972), a film in which actress and model Candy Clark appeared, who became his sentimental partner. After breaking up with Clark, Bridges began a courtship with Valerie Perrine, his co-star in The Last American Hero (1973), a film directed by Lamont Johnson.

For Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) by Michael Cimino and co-starring Clint Eastwood, Bridges once again demonstrated his dramatic range, being nominated again for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, but without success.

In 1977, he married photographer Susan Geston, to whom he is still married. Geston and Bridges, who have three daughters together, met while filming the movie Rancho Deluxe (1975), a film directed by Frank Perry. During the second half of the 1970s, Bridges appeared in titles such as the blockbuster King Kong (1976), an adaptation of John Guillermin co-starring Jessica Lange, then went through a stage in which his films did not They had the expected success. He made Someone Killed Her Husband (1978), a film in which he again met director Lamont Johnson and in 1982 he worked on the science fiction film Tron .

Until in 1984 he first made Against All Odds and the classic and acclaimed Starman for which he was nominated for an Oscar for best leading actor. Bridges changed his luck again, both films were praised by specialized critics and were well received by the public. Since then he has followed an upward trajectory and has become over the years one of the most solid actors in American cinema, demonstrating on numerous occasions his ability to interpret many different characters realistically and convincingly.

He then worked on Hal Ashby's 8 Million Ways to Die (1986), Nadine (1987), a comedy co-starring Kim Basinger, Tucker: A Man and his dream (1988), a film by Francis Ford Coppola, or The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), one of his most popular titles co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer and her brother Beau.

In the 1990s, he starred in Texasville (1990), a sequel to The Last Movie; The Fisher King (1991), a fantasy directed by Terry Gilliam; Fearless (1993), a psychological drama directed by Peter Weir; and The Big Lebowski (1998), a title filmed by the Coen brothers. Other films in his filmography, which he usually spends his spare time playing his guitar and practicing photography, are The Contender (2000), a film that earned him his fourth Oscar nomination, Seabiscuit (2003), a title co-starring Tobey Maguire and Chris Cooper, The Door in the Floor (2004), an adaptation by John Irving that again paired him with actress Kim Basinger after his leading role in Nadine.

In Iron Man (2008), with a shaved head and beard, he played Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger, the partner and rival of Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man.

Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges at the 2011 Lebowski Fest.

In 2010, 39 years after his first nomination, Bridges, who had won the Golden Globe two months earlier, received the Academy Award for Best Actor for Crazy Heart, in which plays Bad Blake, a harried country singer who is given the chance to change his life. In 2011, he was again nominated for an Oscar for his role in the Coen brothers' western True Grit (2010), where he played a grumpy cowboy named Rooster Cogburn, a character who had already been played several times. late 1960's by John Wayne.

After announcing that he was diagnosed with Lymphoma in 2020, Jeff Bridges is set to return to acting with the series 'The Old Man' on FX that premieres on June 16, 2022.

Personal life

Bridges married Susan Geston in 1977. On October 19, 2020, Bridges announced that he had been diagnosed with lymphoma and had received chemotherapy. Bridges also announced that he contracted COVID-19 while undergoing treatment, noting that it was a difficult experience that he said made cancer "seem like a piece of cake." He said that he is now fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Oscars

San Sebastian International Film Festival