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Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor. Known for his leading man roles in film and television, he has received various accolades throughout his career spanning over seven decades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2019, and the Critics Choice Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023.

Bridges comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt (1958–1960) alongside his father Lloyd and brother Beau. He received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as an alcoholic singer in Crazy Heart (2009). Other Oscar-nominated roles include The Last Picture Show (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Starman (1984), The Contender (2000), True Grit (2010), and Hell or High Water (2016). He also starred in Fat City (1972), Cutter's Way (1981), Against All Odds (1984), Jagged Edge (1985), The Morning After (1986), Nadine (1987), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Fisher King (1991), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), Seabiscuit (2003) and Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), along with the blockbusters King Kong (1976), Tron (1982), Iron Man (2008), and Tron: Legacy (2010).

He earned a nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his role in the HBO film A Dog Year (2009). He returned to television for a role as a former CIA operative in the FX series The Old Man (2022).

Early life
Bridges was born on December 4, 1949, in Los Angeles, the son of actor Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998) and actress and writer Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson; 1915–2009). He is one of four children: older brother Beau Bridges (born 1941), who is also an actor; a younger sister Lucinda; and a brother named Garrett, who died of sudden infant death syndrome in 1948. His maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Liverpool, England.

Bridges and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. He shared a close relationship with his brother Beau, who acted as a surrogate father when their father was working. He graduated from University High School in 1967. At age 17 he toured with his father in a stage production of Anniversary Waltz, and then moved to New York City, where he studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio. He also 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.