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 
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* Jeff Bridges by Emmys.com