Jeff Bridges

Jeffrey Leon "Jeff" Bridges (gebore op 4 Desember 1949) is ’n Amerikaanse akteur, sanger en vervaardiger. Hy kom uit ’n vooraanstaande akteursgesin.

Loopbaan 
Bridges het in 1951 in sy eerste rolprent, The Company She Keeps, verskyn toe hy amper twee jaar oud was. In sy jeugjare het hy in die televisiereeks Sea Hunt (1958–'60) verskyn saam met sy pa, Lloyd Bridges, en broer, Beau Bridges. Hy was ook in die reeks The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962–1963) te sien. 

In 1971 het hy die hoofrol in die televisieprent In Search of America vertolk. Sy eerste groot rol was in die 1971-rolprent The Last Picture Show, waarvoor hy vir ’n Oscar vir beste manlike byspeler benoem is. In 1972 was hy in die hoog aangeskrewe neo-noir-boksfliek Fat City. 

Hy het die Oscar vir beste akteur gewen vir sy rol as Otis "Bad" Blake in die 2009-rolprent Crazy Heart, en het nog benoemings vir dié prys gekry vir sy rolle in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Starman (1984), The Contender (2000) en True Grit (2010). 

Bridges se ander prente sluit in Tron (1982), waarin hy een van sy bekendste rolle vertolk, 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) en The Giver (2014).

Filmografie

Rolprente 
 1951: The Company She Keeps
 1970: Halls of Anger
 1971: The Last Picture Show
 1971: The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
 1972: Fat City
 1972: Bad Company
 1973: Lolly-Madonna XXX
 1973: The Last American Hero
 1973: The Iceman Cometh
 1974: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
 1975: Rancho Deluxe
 1975: Hearts of the West
 1976: Stay Hungry
 1976: King Kong
 1978: Somebody Killed Her Husband
 1979: Winter Kills
 1979: The American Success Company
 1980: Heaven's Gate
 1981: Cutter's Way
 1982: Tron
 1982: Kiss Me Goodbye
 1982: The Last Unicorn
 1984: Against All Odds
 1984: Starman
 1985: Jagged Edge
 1986: 8 Million Ways to Die
 1986: The Morning After
 1987: Nadine
 1988: Tucker: The Man and His Dream
 1989: See You in the Morning
 1989: The Fabulous Baker Boys
 1990: Texasville
 1991: The Fisher King
 1992: American Heart
 1993: The Vanishing
 1993: Fearless
 1994: Blown Away
 1995: Wild Bill
 1996: White Squall
 1996: The Mirror Has Two Faces
 1998: The Big Lebowski
 1999: Arlington Road
 1999: The Muse
 1999: Simpatico
 2000: The Contender
 2001: Scenes of the Crime
 2001: K-PAX
 2002: Lost in La Mancha
 2003: Masked and Anonymous
 2003: Seabiscuit
 2004: The Door in the Floor
 2005: The Amateurs
 2005: Tideland
 2006: Stick It
 2007: Surf's Up
 2008: Iron Man
 2008: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
 2009: The Open Road
 2009: Crazy Heart
 2009: The Men Who Stare at Goats
 2010: Tron: Legacy
 2010: True Grit
 2012: A Place at the Table
 2013: R.I.P.D.
 2013: Pablo
 2014: The Giver
 2014: Seventh Son
 2015: The Little Prince
 2016: Hell or High Water
 2017: Dream Big
 2017: The Only Living Boy in New York
 2017: Kingsman: The Golden Circle
 2017: Only the Brave
 2018: Bad Times at the El Royale
 2018: Living in the Future's Past

Verwysings

Eksterne skakels 

 
 
 
 Jeff Bridges by Emmys.com

Geboortes in 1949
Lewende mense
Amerikaanse manlike akteurs van die 20ste eeu
Amerikaanse rolprentvervaardigers
Amerikaanse manlike akteurs van die 21ste eeu