18 interesting facts about Jeff Bridges
- In 2010, Jeff Bridges won the Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for his role as Bad Blake in the film Crazy Heart.
- Jeff Bridges has been nominated for two SAG Awards. In 2001, he was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for The Contender. In 2004, he was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Seabiscuit.
- At the age of 17, Jeff Bridges was addicted to marijuana. His parents contacted a group called Developing Adolescents Without Narcotics, which put Bridges through an "intervention" to kick his habit.
- In 1983, Jeff Bridges formed the End Hunger Network. It is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to feed children around the world.
- Jeff Bridges incorporates his drawings at his website, notable because it is almost completely hand-written and drawn art.
- Although Jeff and his father Lloyd Bridges appeared in six different productions together, they never played father and son.
- Jeff Bridges is a big fan the The Beach Boys and, Brian Wilson, former lead singer/song writer for the group.
- Jeff Bridges is well known for his liberal political views.
- Jeff Bridges was in the United States Coast Guard.
- Jeff Bridges has been nominated for five Academy Awards.
- Jeff Bridges is a talented cartoonist. Some of his drawing have appeared in various films, such as K-PAX and The Door in the Floor.
- His performance in Starman is the only non-human Academy Award nominee role.
- His older brother, Gary (b. 1947), died of sudden infant death syndrome.
- Like his older brother Beau Bridges, he likes to play the guitar.
- He met his wife, Susan Geston, in 1975 while filming Rancho Deluxe. She was working as a maid on a dude ranch. They married on June 5, 1977 and have three daughters, Isabelle (b. 1981), Jessica (b. 1983) and Hayley (b. 1987).
- He has stated American Heart and Fearless as his favourite films of his own.
- Jeff is the son of Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Dean Bridges.
- Jeff Bridges is the younger brother of Beau Bridges and the older brother of Cindy Bridges.
