American actor, Academy Award winner for Crazy Heart and the lead of The Big Lebowski, with a six-decade career across drama and Westerns.
Background
Born in Los Angeles, California, to actors Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Dean Bridges, he made his screen debut as an infant and acted on his father’s series “Sea Hunt” as a child.
Career
He earned his first Oscar nomination at twenty-one for Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show,” continued through “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,” “Starman,” and the Coen brothers’ “The Big Lebowski,” and won Best Actor for “Crazy Heart.” He played Obadiah Stane in “Iron Man” and led “Hell or High Water” and the FX series “The Old Man.”
Style
Bridges is known for relaxed naturalistic underplaying and frequent collaboration with the Coens, John Carpenter, and other American auteurs.