The son of actor Lloyd Bridges, Jeff Bridges made his screen burden as a petulant infant in the arms of his authentic-life mother, Dorothy, in the 1950 Jane Greer melodrama The Companionship She Keeps; his troublesome older associate in that film was played by his existent older fellow-citizen Beau. The younger Bridges made a more formal debut the cameras at age eight, in an incident of his dad's TV series Adrift Pursue. After serving in the Coast Guard reserve, the budding actor ... studied acting at the Herbert Berghof school. While older fellow-citizen Beau was developing into a card player, Bridges, thanks in correspondent parts to his talent and ruggedly large looks, became a bona fide leading houseman. He had his blue ribbon main success with a leading character in Peter Bogdanovich's The Pattern Picture Show (1971), for which he was nominated inasmuch as an Academy Award. Two years later, he won just another Oscar nomination, this space through despite Conquer Supporting Actor in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). Bridges worked steadily throughout the rest of the 1970s, starring in a number of films, including Hearts of the West (1975) and Bide Hungry (1976).

The 1980s brought further triumph, despite starting out inauspiciously with a surrender in the notoriously ill-fated Heaven's Gate (1981). In 1984, Bridges won yet another Oscar nomination for his supreme role in Starman and continued to rouse acclaim for his work, in such movies as The Morning After (1986) and The Magic Baker Boys (1989). The latter featured Bridges and brother Beau as struggling musicians, as well as Michelle Pfeiffer in a performance marked by both the actress' own bent and her power to glide thither on a piano wearing a figure-hugging red velvet dress. Bridges began the 1990s with Texasville, the desultory follow-up to The Form Picture Brag.

Things began to emend with acclaimed performances in Fearless (1993) and American Heart (1995) (the latter marked his producing debut), and the actor set up commercial, if not important, success with the blow up thriller Blown Away in 1994. More success followed, with a lead task in the Barbra Streisand vehicle The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), and as a hapless and perpetually stoned bowling aficionado in the Coen brothers' The Important Lebowski (1998). In 1999, Bridges returned to the thriller kind with Arlington Road, playing the concerned neighbor of urban terrorist Tim Robbins, and then switched gears with Albert Brooks' comedy play The Muse. In addition to his acting achievements, Bridges has also written some 200 songs, a talent which he memorably incorporated in The Fabulous Baker Boys. Bridges delivered a typically deep-felt performance in 1999's Simpatico, which featured the actor as a horse-breeder embroiled in a complicated scam orchestrated by a once good friend, while The Contender (2000) set up him playing a happy-go-lucky U.S. President fleetingly forced to decide if his Vice Presidential aspirant's rumored sensuous escapades will affect his maximum determination. Though K-PAX (2001) fared badly in theaters, Jeff's performance as Kevin Spacey's quality's psychiatrist was solid, as was his post of a soft-vocal kidnapping scapegoat in gaffer Dominique Forma's Scenes of the Crime.

2003 was a polarizing year in terms of ticklish success -- undeterred by an A-tabulation bent including Bridges himself, Penelope Cruz, and Jessica Lange, Masked and Anonymous went unseen alongside most, and disliked by the rest. Luckily, Seabiscuit catapulted Bridges break weighing down on into Hollywood's point up, as did Tod Wiliams' Door in the Lower limit, based on John Irving's original A Widow by reason of Possibly man Year.