"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
— as The Dude in The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. The son of the late actors Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Bridges, he has been acting for over forty years, and is probably best known for playing Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in The Big Lebowski. He's also found some success as a Singer-Songwriter, most notably with a 2011 Self-Titled Album that made the pop, rock, folk, and country charts.
He married Susan Geston in 1977 and they have three daughters and one grandchild. Jeff Bridges lives in California, and meditates every day. His older brother, Beau Bridges, is an actor himself.
Roles:
- Sea Hunt (1958-1961) as Kelly Bailey / Boy / Jimmy / Davy Crane
- The Last Picture Show (1971) as Duane Jackson
- Bad Company (1972) as Jake Rumsey
- Fat City (1972) as Ernie Munger
- Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973) as Zack Feather
- The Last American Hero (1973) as Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson
- The Iceman Cometh (1973) as Don Parritt
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) as Lightfoot
- Rancho Deluxe (1975) as Jack McKee
- King Kong (1976) as Jack Prescott
- Winter Kills (1979) as Nick Kegan
- Heaven's Gate (1980) as John L. Bridges
- TRON (1982) as Kevin Flynn/Clu
- The Last Unicorn (1982) as Prince Lír
- Starman (1984) as Starman/Scott Hayden
- Jagged Edge (1985) as Jack Forrester
- 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) as Matthew 'Matt' Scudder
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) as Preston Tucker
- The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) as Jack Baker
- The Fisher King (1991) as Jack Lucas
- Fearless (1993) as Max Klein
- Blown Away (1994) as Jimmy Dove (real name Liam McGivney)
- Wild Bill (1995) as Wild Bill Hickok
- The Big Lebowski (1998) as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski
- Arlington Road (1999) as Michael Faraday
- The Muse (1999) as Jack Warrick
- The Contender (2000) as President Jackson Evans
- K-PAX (2001) as Doctor Mark Powell
- Lost in La Mancha (2002) as the narrator
- Seabiscuit (2003) as Charles S. Howard
- The Door In The Floor (2004) as Ted Cole
- Stick It (2006) as Burt Vickerman
- Surf's Up (2007) as Ezekiel "Big Z" Topanga/Geek
- Iron Man (2008) as Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) as Clayton Harding
- The Open Road (2009) as Kyle
- Crazy Heart (2009) as Bad Blake
- The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) as Bill Django
- TRON: Legacy (2010) as Kevin Flynn/Clu 2
- True Grit (2010) as Rooster Cogburn
- R.I.P.D. (2013) as Roy Pulsipher
- The Giver (2014) as The Giver
- Seventh Son (2015) as John Gregory
- The Little Prince (2015) as The Aviator
- Hell or High Water (2016) as Marcus Hamilton
- Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) as Champagne
- Only the Brave (2017) as Duane Steinbrink
- Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) as Daniel Flynn
- The Old Man as Dan Chase (2022)
- TRON: Ares as Kevin Flynn (2025)
Tropes associated with his roles:
- The Charmer: Unless they're written to be, his characters are basically impossible not to like.
- The Danza: His iconic character of The Dude is named Jeffrey, and the character is so (exaggeratedly) similar to himself that he has joked that he thought the Coen brothers spied on him and interviewed his friends when writing the part.
- Dyeing for Your Art: In interviews, he admits that one of the reasons he took the part of Obediah Stane in Iron Man was because he would get to shave his head and grow a beard, which were two things he'd always wanted to do.
- I Am Not Spock: He has played a WIDE variety of roles and has a lot of range, to say the least (he’s an Oscar winner for a reason), but let’s face it. You know what his signature role is, man.
- Large Ham:
- "The Dude abides."
- "Tony Stark was able to build this IN A CAVE! With a box of scraps!"
- "And unlike our selfish creator, who reserved the privilege of our world only for himself, I will make their world open and available to all of us. Yes! TO ALL OF US!!!!!"
- "I'm talking to the little people ! They say: Jack, go to the nearest liquor store and findeth the Jack of Daniels, that ye may be shitfaced! DULANG DULANG! YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND!".
- Verbal Tic: He really does say "man" a lot. When he entered The Little Lebowski store in lower Manhattan for the first time, his reaction was "Cool shop, man!"