(...and Jeff)
M y name is Allison Koehler , I'm 29, and live just outside Detroit. I've created this page as a tribute to my favorite actor, Jeff Bridges. There aren't enough "fan" pages on the web, so I thought why not do one on MySpace? Plus, this is a place we can all gush over his cute pictures that he'd never personally post on his official web site . If you're a J.B. fan (of course you are, you're here!), you will love his official web site! It's a place where Jeff expresses himself in "doodles", plugs his projects and those of his good friends, and keeps in touch with his fans. There's also a fun and friendly message board.
J eff has also has a MySpace profile of his own here (to the best of my knowledge, this is official.)
I 've been a fan of Jeff's since seeing him in Blown Away in 1994. After that, I just couldn't get enough. I found myself renting movie after movie, enjoying the next one as much as the first.
I truly believe he is one of America's most underrated actors. And most of his best work is already done. His resume is nothing short of outstanding. Not only is he an actor, producer, musician, illustrator, composer, filmographer... whew!... but also has a gift from behind the camera - the still camera. I recently discovered that he created the artwork for the 2004 New York Film Festival.
Y ou can see more of his photography in his 2003 work, Pictures by Jeff Bridges .
[Kevin Spacey showing off Jeff's book during an interview with CNN]
Brief bio on Jeff from Wikipedia.org.:
Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is the son of Dorothy Simpson and Lloyd Bridges, the brother of Beau Bridges and the uncle of Jordan Bridges.
Bridges's first major role was in the 1971 movie The Last Picture Show for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated again for the same award for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Another early role was the 1982 movie Tron, in which he played Kevin Flynn, a video game programmer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1984 for playing the alien in Starman. He gained repute in the mid-80s for his roles in the sexy thriller Against All Odds and the crime drama Jagged Edge. He also took the leading role of "The Dude" in the Coen brothers' film The Big Lebowski. His role in Fearless is recognized by some critics to be one of his best performances, not to mention perhaps one of the most underrated films of the 1990s. One critic dubbed it a masterpiece; Pauline Kael wrote that he 'may be the most natural and least self-conscious screen actor that has ever lived'.
Bridges is also a first rate character actor in films like The Vanishing as a psychopathic college professor, a standoffish U.S. president in 2000's The Contender (produced by co-star Gary Oldman and producer Douglas Urbanski and for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor again) and The Muse as a carefree screenwriter buddy of Albert Brooks. Bridges narrated the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), a singularly unique filmographic witness of the "unmaking" 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. Bridges has worked with Gilliam on The Fisher King and Tideland. Bridges also narrated the documentaries Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (2002, IMAX), Raising the Mammoth (2000, TV), and The Heroes of Rock and Roll (1979, TV).
In his off time while on set, he has been known to document the filmmaking process by photographing fellow actors and on-set staff with a panoramic camera. He began doing this during the filming of Starman at the suggestion of co-star Karen Allen. He has published many of these photographs .. and in print titled "Pictures".
Bridges is also a cartoonist. Some of his "doodles" have appeared in various films, such as K-PAX and The Door in the Floor (a short story-within-story by John Irving). He incorporates his drawings at his web site, notable because it is almost completely hand-written and drawn art—not typed. He also plays guitar.
Bridges is known for his liberal political views. He married Susan Geston on June 5, 1977 after meeting her on the set of Rancho Deluxe in 1975, filmed on a dude ranch where Geston worked as a maid. The couple have 3 daughters, Isabelle (b. 1981), Jessica (b. 1983), and Hayley (b. 1987).
Awards:Academy
2000 Best Supporting Actor Contender
1984 Best Actor Starman
1974 Best Supporting Actor Thunderbolt And Lightfoot
1971 Best Supporting Actor Last Picture ShowGolden Globe
2000 Best Supporting Actor Contender
1991 Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Fisher KingIndependent Spirit Award
2004 Best Actor Door in the Floor
1993 Best Actor American HeartNational Board of Review
2004 Career AchievementScreen Actors Guild
2000 Best Supporting Actor Contender
(Disclaimer: I'm just an admirer of Jeff Bridges. This page is in no way affiliated with Mr. Bridges)
Most photos used on his page were found using Google.com: images .
