Jeff Bridges

American actor

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77
Born 1949
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Iron Man
2008

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Updated 2026-08-29

He's the guy you trust to play the guy who's barely holding it together — drunks, drifters, washed-up singers, faded gunslingers — and make you root for them anyway. Seven decades in, Bridges moves through Hollywood like someone who never needed to prove anything, which is exactly why he proves everything.

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Born December 4, 1949, into an acting family, Bridges started young on Sea Hunt alongside his father Lloyd and brother Beau in the late fifties. His first Oscar nod came at twenty-one for The Last Picture Show in 1971, launching a run of leading roles that zigzagged from the '76 King Kong to the neon grid of Tron to the noir edge of Cutter's Way. He kept circling the Academy Award — nominations for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Starman, The Contender — until 2009, when he finally won Best Actor playing a broken-down country singer in Crazy Heart. The Big Lebowski turned him into a cult object in…

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