Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges

Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born 1949) is an American actor. His father Lloyd Bridges and brother Beau have also been actors. Consequently, he has been acting for over forty years, and has won or been nominated for several awards. He finally won an Oscar for his role in Crazy Heart.

He married his wife Susan in 1977 and they have three daughters. Jeff Bridges lives in California, and meditates every day.

Jeff Bridges has performed in the following roles:

Film:

• The Last Picture Show (1971) as Duane Jackson
• Bad Company (1972) as Jake Rumsey
• The Last American Hero (1973) as Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson
• The Iceman Cometh (1973) as Don Parritt
• Thunderbolt And Lightfoot (1974) as Lightfoot
• Rancho Deluxe (1975) as Jack McKee
• King Kong (1976) as Jack Prescott
• Winter Kills (1979) as Nick Kegan
• Heavens Gate (1980) as John L. Bridges
• Tron (1982) as Kevin Flynn/Clu
• The Last Unicorn (1982) as Prince Lir
• Starman (1984) as Starman/Scott Hayden
• Tucker The Man And His Dream (1988) as Preston Tucker
• The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) as Jack Baker
• The Fisher King (1991) as Jack Lucas
• Fearless (1993) as Max Klein
• Wild Bill (1995) as Wild Bill Hickok
• The Big Lebowski (1998) as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski
• Arlington Road (1999) as Michael Faraday
• The Contender (2000) as President Jackson Evans
• K-PAX (2001) as Doctor Mark Powell
• Seabiscuit (2003) as Charles S. Howard
• The Door In The Floor (2004) as Ted Cole
• Stick It (2006) as Burt Vickerman
• Surf's Up (2007) as Ezekiel "Big Z" Topanga/Geek
• Iron Man (2008) as Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger
• How To Lose Friends And Alienate People (2008) as Clayton Harding
• The Open Road (2009) as Kyle
• Crazy Heart (2009) as Bad Blake
• The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) as Bill Django
• Tron: Legacy (2010) as Kevin Flynn/Clu 2
• True Grit (2010) as Rooster Cogburn
• A Place at the Table (2012) as the narrator
• R.I.P.D. (2013) as Roycephus "Roy" Pulsipher
• Pablo (2013) as the Narrator/Professor
• The Giver (2014) as The Giver
• Seventh Son (2014) as Master Gregory
• The Little Prince (2015) as The Aviator
• Hell or High Water (2016) as Marcus Hamilton
• Dream Big (2017) as the narrator
• The Only Living Boy in New York (2017) as W.F. Gerald
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) as Champagne "Champ"
• Only the Brave (2017) as Duane Steinbrink
• Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) as Father Daniel Flynn/Donald "Dock" O'Reilly
• Living in the Future's Past (2018) as the narrator

Jeff Bridges provides examples of the following tropes:

• Cool Old Guy: He does sci-fi movies, is not too far removed personality-wise from his iconic role, and now has a music album coming out. And no one really has a bad thing to say about him, ever.
• The Danza: His iconic character of The Dude is named Jeffrey, and the character is so (exaggeratedly) similar to himself that he has joked that he thought the Coen brothers spied on him and interviewed his friends when writing the part.
• Large Ham:
  • "The Dude abides."
  • "Tony Stark was able to build this IN A CAVE!!! With a... box of scraps!"
  • "And unlike our selfish creator, who reserved the privilege of our world only for himself, I will make their world open and available to all of us. Yes! TO ALL OF US!!!!!"
  • "I'm talking to the little people ! They say: Jack go to the nearest liqueur store find-ith the Jack of Daniels and ye may be shit faced !! DULANG DULANG!! YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND !!!".
• Mean Character, Nice Actor
• New Age Retro Hippie: He's studied Buddhism, mediates on set and has a zen garden at his house. And is, you know, laid-back in other ways.
• Rule of Sean Connery: Most of those movies are good, they wouldn't be as awesome without Bridges.
• Verbal Tic: He really does say "man" a lot. When he entered The Little Lebowski store in lower Manhattan for the first time, his reaction was "Cool shop, man!"