1. Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4,1949 and is an American actor.
48 Facts About Jeff Bridges
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Jeff Bridges is known for his leading man roles in film and television.
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Jeff Bridges made his feature film debut in the drama Halls of Anger, and starred in The Last Picture Show, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination.
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Jeff Bridges received further Oscar nominations for his roles in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Starman, The Contender, True Grit, and Hell or High Water ; and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as an alcoholic singer in Crazy Heart.
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Jeff Bridges has starred in big-budget films, such as Seabiscuit, Iron Man, and Tron: Legacy.
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Jeff Bridges's maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Liverpool, England.
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Jeff Bridges shared a close relationship with his brother Beau, who acted as a surrogate father when their father was working.
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Jeff Bridges served in the United States Coast Guard Reserve as a boatswain's mate from 1967 to 1975 in San Luis Obispo, California, with a terminal rating of Boatswain's Mate Second Class.
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Jeff Bridges made his first screen appearance in an uncredited role in The Company She Keeps ; the film was released shortly after his first birthday.
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Jeff Bridges next co-starred in the 1972 gritty boxing film Fat City, directed by John Huston.
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Jeff Bridges was again nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
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In 1982, Jeff Bridges starred in the science fiction film Tron, in which he played Kevin Flynn, a video game programmer.
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In 1990 he reunited with Cybill Shepard for Peter Bogdanovich's Texasville, a sequel to the 1971 film The Last Picture Show, which Jeff Bridges had starred in.
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Jeff Bridges's role is thought by some critics to be one of his best performances.
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On July 11,1994, Jeff Bridges received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture industry.
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Jeff Bridges portrayed James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok in the western film Wild Bill acting with Ellen Burstyn, John Hurt and Bruce Dern.
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Jeff Bridges played a fictional president of the United States in the political drama The Contender acting opposite Gary Oldman and Joan Allen.
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Jeff Bridges portrayed businessman Charles S Howard in the horse racing drama film Seabiscuit co-starring with Tobey Maguire and Chris Cooper.
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Jeff Bridges starred in the 2005 Terry Gilliam fantasy film Tideland co-starring with Janet McTeer and Jennifer Tilly.
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Jeff Bridges hosted VH1's Top 100 Greatest Albums of Rock and Roll series in 2001.
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Jeff Bridges narrated the documentary Lost in La Mancha, about the making of a Terry Gilliam retelling of Don Quixote, tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which would have starred Johnny Depp as Sancho Panza and Jean Rochefort as the quixotic hero.
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Jeff Bridges voiced the character Big Z in the animated film Surf's Up.
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Jeff Bridges has performed TV commercial voiceover work as well, including Hyundai's 2007 "Think About It" advertising campaign, and the Duracell advertisements in the "Trusted Everywhere" campaign.
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In 2008, Jeff Bridges shaved his head to play the role of Obadiah Stane in the Marvel comic book adaptation of Iron Man starring Robert Downey Jr.
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Jeff Bridges gained widespread acclaim for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Crazy Heart for which he earned the Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
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Jeff Bridges is one of the youngest actors ever to be nominated for an Academy Award, and one of the oldest ever to win.
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Jeff Bridges received his sixth Academy Award nomination for his role in True Grit, a collaboration with the Coen brothers in which he starred alongside Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, and Hailee Steinfeld.
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Jeff Bridges lost to Colin Firth, whom he had beaten for the Oscar in the same category the previous year.
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On December 18,2010, Jeff Bridges hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live; he had hosted the show before in 1983 with his brother, Beau.
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That same year Jeff Bridges wrote The Dude and the Zen Master with Bernie Glassman.
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Jeff Bridges found himself at a party with Glassman and Ram Dass and their conversation led to discussing the parallels between "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski and Zen Buddhism.
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In 2015 Jeff Bridges voiced The Aviator in the animated film The Little Prince based on the 1943 children's novella of the same name.
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In 2024, Jeff Bridges received the annual Chaplin Gala Award which was held at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
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Also in 2024, it was announced that Jeff Bridges would be reprising his role as Kevin Flynn in Tron: Ares.
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Jeff Bridges released his debut album Be Here Soon on January 1,2000.
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In 2005, Jeff Bridges, known as "The Dude" in the film The Big Lebowski, showed up at a Lebowski Fest in Los Angeles singing and playing the film's theme song written by Bob Dylan, "Man in Me".
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On January 15,2010, Jeff Bridges performed the song "I Don't Know" from Crazy Heart on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
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On October 24,2010, Jeff Bridges appeared at Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit concert and played a set with singer-songwriter Neko Case.
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Jeff Bridges worked with producer T Bone Burnett and released his second album, Jeff Bridges, on August 16,2011.
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On November 5,2011, Jeff Bridges played Austin City Limits in support of this album.
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In 2020, Jeff Bridges partnered with Breedlove Guitars to release his signature Oregon Concerto Bourbon CE with "All In This Together" scrawled across the fretboard.
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Jeff Bridges began taking photographs on film sets during Starman at the suggestion of co-star Karen Allen in 1984, with his favorite camera, a Widelux F8 that his wife bought him.
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Jeff Bridges published many of these photographs online and in a 2003 book entitled Pictures: Photographs by Jeff Bridges.
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Jeff Bridges has studied Buddhism and has described himself as "a Buddhistly bent guy".
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On October 19,2020, Jeff Bridges announced that he had been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and has gone through chemotherapy.
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Jeff Bridges described the long process of recovery from both diseases, relating how large his tumor had grown, yet being unaware it was there.
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Jeff Bridges supported President Obama's initiative to End Childhood Hunger by 2015.
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In November 2010, Jeff Bridges became spokesman for the No Kid Hungry campaign of the organization Share our Strength.