Beau Bridges
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Beau Bridges is an award-winning actor who has
portrayed a myriad of characters during his successful career
spanning more than four decades. Part of a preeminent Hollywood
acting dynasty, he started at a young age and has worked virtually
non-stop in his profession ever since.
Beau Bridges is an award-winning actor who has
portrayed a myriad of characters during his successful career
spanning more than four decades. Part of a preeminent Hollywood
acting dynasty, he started at a young age and has worked virtually
non-stop in his profession ever since.
Bridges has just begun production in Chicago on
the new Lifetime original series “Family Practice” which he will
headline. He recently wrapped production on two made-for-television
films based on the popular sci-fi drama “Stargate SG1” in which he
played General Hank Landry. He was last seen on the small screen as
a guest star on NBC’s hit comedy “My Name is Earl” as Carl, Earl’s
father. His role as Carl garnered him a 2007 Emmy nomination for
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
Bridges has been extremely busy having filmed
several independent features including “Don’t Fade Away” with Mischa
Barton, “Americanizing Shelley” which premiered at the 2007
Nashville Film Festival, and “Spinning into Butter” with Sarah
Jessica Parker and Miranda Richardson which premiered at the 2007
Montreal World Film Festival. He also appeared in several feature
films in
2006 including Warner Bros./Section Eight’s “The
Good German” from director Steven Soderbergh, also starring Cate
Blanchett and George Clooney, in which he plays a German officer in
World War II and Paramount’s live action/animated remake of
“Charlotte’s Web” from director Gary Winick.
Bridges also appeared in the Steven
Spielberg-produced mini-series “Into
The West” for TNT. Filming for this six-part epic
western took place in Calgary. The film is directed by Robert
Dornhelm and Simon Wincer and co-stars Josh Brolin, Keri Russell,
Matthew Settle, and Skeet Ulrich. The series aired over six weeks in
summer 2005 and was nominated for a Golden Globe award.
In 2005, Bridges appeared in two
critically-acclaimed independent films:
“The Ballad of Jack and Rose” written and directed
by Rebecca Miller and “Smile” written and directed by Jeff Kramer.
In July 2004, Bridges appeared in the biopic “Evel
Knievel” for TNT. In
this film, Bridges plays John Bork, the
father-in-law of the title character. In May of the same year,
Bridges was seen opposite Kim Delaney in the
NBC mini-series “10.5” about a deadly earthquake
that hit the West Coast. The project centered on a seismologist at
the University of Washington who discovered a correlation between
the early tremors and warned that they will lead to a big one.
Bridges played the President of the United States. “10.5” delivered
NBC the highest ratings for a telefilm in five years. John
Schneider, David Cubitt, Fred Ward, and Dule Hill also starred in
the picture. Bridges reprised his role in the sequel “10.5:
Apocalypse” which aired on NBC in 2006.
In April 2003, Bridges starred in Showtime’s “Out
of the Ashes,” based on Gisella Perl’s autobiographical novel, “I
Was a Doctor at Auschwitz.” Bridges appeared opposite Bruce Davison,
Richard Crenna, and Christine Lahti. Bridges was also seen on the
popular WB series “Everwood,” along with James Earl Jones.
Bridges joined the CBS series “The Agency” when it
premiered in the fall of 2001 and returned to star in the second
season in 2002 and 2003.
Bridges earned a 2002 Emmy nomination in the
category of Outstanding
LeadActor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his role
as Michael Mulvaney in the Lifetime original movie “We Were the
Mulvaneys.” The movie, based on the best-selling novel of the same
name by Joyce Carol Oates, also stared Blythe Danner and Tammy
Blanchard.
In September 1999, Bridges starred as Phineas
Taylor Barnum, the legendary showman who transformed the circus from
a one-ring juggling act to a three-ring spectacle, in A&E’s original
production “P.T. Barnum.” Beau’s son Jordan portrayed young P.T.
Barnum, marking the first time father and son have played the same
character in a film. Co-produced by A&E and Hallmark Entertainment,
the four-hour biopic garnered Bridges a 2000 Emmy nomination for
Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.
Also in 1999, Bridges starred in Showtime’s new
production of the classic telepicture “Inherit the Wind,” opposite
Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott. Bridges received an Emmy nomination
in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a
Movie for this role.
In 1997, Bridges received his third Emmy Award for
his portrayal of
Governor Farley of Idaho in HBO’s “The Second
Civil War,” a black comedy about race relations, rebellion, and the
American dream run amok. James Coburn, Dan Hedaya, James Earl Jones,
Elizabeth Pena, and Dems Leary also starred in this film.
In 1996, Bridges starred in a hard-hitting drama
for Showtime, “Hidden in America.” He received lead actor
nominations for both the Emmy Award and SAG Award for his portrayal
of a family man who finds himself without ajob and struggling to
feed his children after his company downsizes and his wife’s
untimely death leaves the family penniless. Jeff Bridges served as
executive producer on the film, which has drawn much needed
attention to the issue of childhood hunger in the United States. On
June 23, 1997, the film was screened in Washington D.C. for members
of Congress, hunger activists, and community leaders to gamer more
attention to the issue and possible solutions.
Also in 1996, Bridges starred as Richard Nixon in
TNT’s “Kissinger & Nixon” for which he received an Emmy nomination
as Best Actor in a Miniseries or Special. He also starred with Kyra
Sedgwick and Helen Mirren in Showtime’s “Losing Chase,” Kevin
Bacon’s directorial debut. The role earned him a 1996 Golden Globe
nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Made-For- Television.
In 1993, Bridges won an Emmy Award and a Golden
Globe Award for his supporting role opposite Holly Hunter in the HBO
project “The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas
Cheerleader Murdering Mom.” He also starred in CBS’ “The Man with
Three Wives,” the highest rated television movie of the season.
Bridges starred in the critically acclaimed HBO
film “Without Warning:
The James Brady Story,” for which he won the Emmy,
Golden Globe, and
Cab1eACE Awards in 1991. In the film, written by
Academy Award winner
Robert Bolt, he portrayed former White House Press
Secretary James Brady, who was shot and paralyzed during an
assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Brady has become a
gun control advocate in the intervening years. Bridges made his
feature film debut in director Lewis Milestone’s “The Red Pony” with
Robert Mitchum and Myrna Loy. In 1967 Bridges played his first adult
role in Larry Peerce’s feature film, “The Incident.” He next
co-starred with Sidney Poitier in “For Love of Ivy” and portrayed a
cub reporter in Norman Jewison’s “Gaily, Gaily.” Bridges starred in
the late Hal Ashby’s first film, “The Landlord,” then teamed with
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in “Hammersmith is Out.”
Throughout his career, Bridges has demonstrated
enviable range. He played an athletic coach in Sidney Lumet’s
“Child’s Play,” the boyfriend of an ill- fated skiing champion in
“The Other Side of the Mountain,” Richard Pryor’s buddy in “Greased
Lightning,” and Sally Field’s husband in the powerful “Norma Rae.”
His film work also includes the independent
features “Sordid Lives” with Olivia Newton-John and Delta Burke,
“Meeting Daddy” with Lloyd Bridges, John Schlesinger’s “Honky-tonk
Freeway,” Delbert Mann’s “Night Crossing,” Jonathan Kaplan’s “Heart
Like a Wheel,” Tony Richardson’s “The Hotel New Hampshire,” “The
Killing Time,” “Iron Triangle,” “Daddy’s Dyin’...Who’s Got the
Will?,” “Married to It” directed by Arthur Hiller, and “The Fabulous
Baker Boys,” for which he was named Best Supporting Actor by the
National Society of Film Critics in 1989.
Bridges has appeared in more than 80 television
shows, ranging from “The Fugitive” with David Janssen, to an
“Amazing Stories” episode directed by Clint Eastwood, to “Sea Hunt”
with his father, Lloyd Bridges. Bridges starred in the CBS series
“Harts of the West,” had a recurring role on Showtixne’s critically-
acclaimed comedy series “Beggars and Choosers,” and starred as the
title character in ABC’s quirky one-hour drama, “Maximum Bob,”
adapted from Elmore Leonard’s best-selling novel. He also starred
with his father and son Dylan in “The Sand Kings,” the debut episode
of the Showtime series “Outer Limits.” For his performance, Bridges
received Emmy and Cab1eACE nominations for Best Actor.
His television films and specials include
Showtime’s “Sightings: Heartland Ghost,” “Voyage of the Unicorn,”
“The Christmas Secret,” “Songs in Ordinary Time” opposite Sissy
Spacek, “The Haunting of Patricia Johnson,” “A Stranger to Love,” “Nightjohn,”
the CBS mini-series “Million Dollar Babies,” “Wildflower” directed
by Diane Keaton, “Elvis & the Colonel: The Untold Story,” “UFO
Cafe,” “The Four Feathers,” “The Man Without a Country,” “The
President’s Mistress,”
“Behind the Iron Mask,” “Witness for the
Prosecution,” “The Child Stealers,” “Stubby Pringle’s Christmas,”
“James A. Michner’s ‘Space’,” and “One for Sorrow, Two for Joy,” an
American Playhouse presentation for PBS. He also appeared opposite
Elizabeth McGovern in the critically acclaimed “The Man in the
Brooks Brothers Shirt” for HBO’s “Women and Men” trilogy and acted
in and executive produced three installments of Showtime’s “The
Defenders,” a series of telefilms based on the original 1960s CBS
series.
Bridges has also directed films in recent years,
including “The Wild Pair,” and “Seven Hours to Judgment,” in which
he also starred. In 1994, Bridges directed his father, Lloyd
Bridges, and his son, Jordan Bridges, in a movie-of-the- week titled
“Secret Sins of the Father.” He also directed Jordan in
“Thanksgiving Promise,” the highest-rated Disney television film
ever broadcast at that time. His after school special “Don’t Touch”
was nominated for an Emmy.
Bridges has appeared on Broadway in Where’s Daddy?
by writer William Inge and Who’s Who in Hell by Peter Ustinov. His
most recent theater work was in Ron Lagomarsino’s play “Looking for
Normal” at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Bridges starred
opposite Laurie Metcalf and his son Jordan Bridges as a married man
who upends his family’s situation when he opts for a sex-change
operation. Bridges also appeared in the original production of The
Trial of the Catonsville Nine at the Mark Taper Forum in Los
Angeles.
Bridges resides in the Los Angeles area with his
wife Wendy, four sons, and one daughter.
Bridges has been extremely busy having filmed
several independent features including “Don’t Fade Away” with Mischa
Barton, “Americanizing Shelley” which premiered at the 2007
Nashville Film Festival, and “Spinning into Butter” with Sarah
Jessica Parker and Miranda Richardson which premiered at the 2007
Montreal World Film Festival. He also appeared in several feature
films in
2006 including Warner Bros./Section Eight’s “The
Good German” from director Steven Soderbergh, also starring Cate
Blanchett and George Clooney, in which he plays a German officer in
World War II and Paramount’s live action/animated remake of
“Charlotte’s Web” from director Gary Winick.
Bridges also appeared in the Steven
Spielberg-produced mini-series “Into
The West” for TNT. Filming for this six-part epic
western took place in Calgary. The film is directed by Robert
Dornhelm and Simon Wincer and co-stars Josh Brolin, Keri Russell,
Matthew Settle, and Skeet Ulrich. The series aired over six weeks in
summer 2005 and was nominated for a Golden Globe award.
In 2005, Bridges appeared in two
critically-acclaimed independent films:
“The Ballad of Jack and Rose” written and directed
by Rebecca Miller and “Smile” written and directed by Jeff Kramer.
In July 2004, Bridges appeared in the biopic “Evel
Knievel” for TNT. In
this film, Bridges plays John Bork, the
father-in-law of the title character. In May of the same year,
Bridges was seen opposite Kim Delaney in the
NBC mini-series “10.5” about a deadly earthquake
that hit the West Coast. The project centered on a seismologist at
the University of Washington who discovered a correlation between
the early tremors and warned that they will lead to a big one.
Bridges played the President of the United States. “10.5” delivered
NBC the highest ratings for a telefilm in five years. John
Schneider, David Cubitt, Fred Ward, and Dule Hill also starred in
the picture. Bridges reprised his role in the sequel “10.5:
Apocalypse” which aired on NBC in 2006.
In April 2003, Bridges starred in Showtime’s “Out
of the Ashes,” based on Gisella Perl’s autobiographical novel, “I
Was a Doctor at Auschwitz.” Bridges appeared opposite Bruce Davison,
Richard Crenna, and Christine Lahti. Bridges was also seen on the
popular WB series “Everwood,” along with James Earl Jones.
Bridges joined the CBS series “The Agency” when it
premiered in the fall of 2001 and returned to star in the second
season in 2002 and 2003.
Bridges earned a 2002 Emmy nomination in the
category of Outstanding
LeadActor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his role
as Michael Mulvaney in the Lifetime original movie “We Were the
Mulvaneys.” The movie, based on the best-selling novel of the same
name by Joyce Carol Oates, also stared Blythe Danner and Tammy
Blanchard.
In September 1999, Bridges starred as Phineas
Taylor Barnum, the legendary showman who transformed the circus from
a one-ring juggling act to a three-ring spectacle, in A&E’s original
production “P.T. Barnum.” Beau’s son Jordan portrayed young P.T.
Barnum, marking the first time father and son have played the same
character in a film. Co-produced by A&E and Hallmark Entertainment,
the four-hour biopic garnered Bridges a 2000 Emmy nomination for
Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.
Also in 1999, Bridges starred in Showtime’s new
production of the classic telepicture “Inherit the Wind,” opposite
Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott. Bridges received an Emmy nomination
in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a
Movie for this role.
In 1997, Bridges received his third Emmy Award for
his portrayal of
Governor Farley of Idaho in HBO’s “The Second
Civil War,” a black comedy about race relations, rebellion, and the
American dream run amok. James Coburn, Dan Hedaya, James Earl Jones,
Elizabeth Pena, and Dems Leary also starred in this film.
In 1996, Bridges starred in a hard-hitting drama
for Showtime, “Hidden in America.” He received lead actor
nominations for both the Emmy Award and SAG Award for his portrayal
of a family man who finds himself without ajob and struggling to
feed his children after his company downsizes and his wife’s
untimely death leaves the family penniless. Jeff Bridges served as
executive producer on the film, which has drawn much needed
attention to the issue of childhood hunger in the United States. On
June 23, 1997, the film was screened in Washington D.C. for members
of Congress, hunger activists, and community leaders to gamer more
attention to the issue and possible solutions.
Also in 1996, Bridges starred as Richard Nixon in
TNT’s “Kissinger & Nixon” for which he received an Emmy nomination
as Best Actor in a Miniseries or Special. He also starred with Kyra
Sedgwick and Helen Mirren in Showtime’s “Losing Chase,” Kevin
Bacon’s directorial debut. The role earned him a 1996 Golden Globe
nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Made-For- Television.
In 1993, Bridges won an Emmy Award and a Golden
Globe Award for his supporting role opposite Holly Hunter in the HBO
project “The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas
Cheerleader Murdering Mom.” He also starred in CBS’ “The Man with
Three Wives,” the highest rated television movie of the season.
Bridges starred in the critically acclaimed HBO
film “Without Warning:
The James Brady Story,” for which he won the Emmy,
Golden Globe, and
Cab1eACE Awards in 1991. In the film, written by
Academy Award winner
Robert Bolt, he portrayed former White House Press
Secretary James Brady, who was shot and paralyzed during an
assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Brady has become a
gun control advocate in the intervening years. Bridges made his
feature film debut in director Lewis Milestone’s “The Red Pony” with
Robert Mitchum and Myrna Loy. In 1967 Bridges played his first adult
role in Larry Peerce’s feature film, “The Incident.” He next
co-starred with Sidney Poitier in “For Love of Ivy” and portrayed a
cub reporter in Norman Jewison’s “Gaily, Gaily.” Bridges starred in
the late Hal Ashby’s first film, “The Landlord,” then teamed with
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in “Hammersmith is Out.”
Throughout his career, Bridges has demonstrated
enviable range. He played an athletic coach in Sidney Lumet’s
“Child’s Play,” the boyfriend of an ill- fated skiing champion in
“The Other Side of the Mountain,” Richard Pryor’s buddy in “Greased
Lightning,” and Sally Field’s husband in the powerful “Norma Rae.”
His film work also includes the independent
features “Sordid Lives” with Olivia Newton-John and Delta Burke,
“Meeting Daddy” with Lloyd Bridges, John Schlesinger’s “Honky-tonk
Freeway,” Delbert Mann’s “Night Crossing,” Jonathan Kaplan’s “Heart
Like a Wheel,” Tony Richardson’s “The Hotel New Hampshire,” “The
Killing Time,” “Iron Triangle,” “Daddy’s Dyin’...Who’s Got the
Will?,” “Married to It” directed by Arthur Hiller, and “The Fabulous
Baker Boys,” for which he was named Best Supporting Actor by the
National Society of Film Critics in 1989.
Bridges has appeared in more than 80 television
shows, ranging from “The Fugitive” with David Janssen, to an
“Amazing Stories” episode directed by Clint Eastwood, to “Sea Hunt”
with his father, Lloyd Bridges. Bridges starred in the CBS series
“Harts of the West,” had a recurring role on Showtixne’s critically-
acclaimed comedy series “Beggars and Choosers,” and starred as the
title character in ABC’s quirky one-hour drama, “Maximum Bob,”
adapted from Elmore Leonard’s best-selling novel. He also starred
with his father and son Dylan in “The Sand Kings,” the debut episode
of the Showtime series “Outer Limits.” For his performance, Bridges
received Emmy and Cab1eACE nominations for Best Actor.
His television films and specials include
Showtime’s “Sightings: Heartland Ghost,” “Voyage of the Unicorn,”
“The Christmas Secret,” “Songs in Ordinary Time” opposite Sissy
Spacek, “The Haunting of Patricia Johnson,” “A Stranger to Love,” “Nightjohn,”
the CBS mini-series “Million Dollar Babies,” “Wildflower” directed
by Diane Keaton, “Elvis & the Colonel: The Untold Story,” “UFO
Cafe,” “The Four Feathers,” “The Man Without a Country,” “The
President’s Mistress,”
“Behind the Iron Mask,” “Witness for the
Prosecution,” “The Child Stealers,” “Stubby Pringle’s Christmas,”
“James A. Michner’s ‘Space’,” and “One for Sorrow, Two for Joy,” an
American Playhouse presentation for PBS. He also appeared opposite
Elizabeth McGovern in the critically acclaimed “The Man in the
Brooks Brothers Shirt” for HBO’s “Women and Men” trilogy and acted
in and executive produced three installments of Showtime’s “The
Defenders,” a series of telefilms based on the original 1960s CBS
series.
Bridges has also directed films in recent years,
including “The Wild Pair,” and “Seven Hours to Judgment,” in which
he also starred. In 1994, Bridges directed his father, Lloyd
Bridges, and his son, Jordan Bridges, in a movie-of-the- week titled
“Secret Sins of the Father.” He also directed Jordan in
“Thanksgiving Promise,” the highest-rated Disney television film
ever broadcast at that time. His after school special “Don’t Touch”
was nominated for an Emmy.
Bridges has appeared on Broadway in Where’s Daddy?
by writer William Inge and Who’s Who in Hell by Peter Ustinov. His
most recent theater work was in Ron Lagomarsino’s play “Looking for
Normal” at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Bridges starred
opposite Laurie Metcalf and his son Jordan Bridges as a married man
who upends his family’s situation when he opts for a sex-change
operation. Bridges also appeared in the original production of The
Trial of the Catonsville Nine at the Mark Taper Forum in Los
Angeles.
Bridges resides in the Los Angeles area with his
wife Wendy, four sons, and one daughter.