Beau Bridges

Lloyd Vernet Bridges III was born on December 9, 1941, in Los Angeles (California), where his father, Lloyd Bridges , who had a career in film, earned a living, while his mother, Dorothy Dean Bridges, was also an occasional actress. . Eight years later his brother would be born, the now prestigious Jeff Bridges . He was nicknamed ‘Beau’ after the son of Leslie Howard ‘s Ashley Wilkes inGone with the Wind .

As a child his father got him a few movie appearances, in No Lesser Vice andThe red pony . In principle, for him it was a game, because he did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps, but since he could remember, he aspired to succeed as a professional baseball player, and was part of the team at the University of Hawaii and UCLA . Things did not turn out as he expected, so after a series of failures, he reconsidered his life and decided to become a professional actor, for which he appeared in numerous castings, for advertisements and minor roles. He manages to get signed for supporting roles in series like Underwater Investigator and Ensign O’Toole , which consecrate him on the small screen. During the 1960s he seems to have specialized in the television medium, appearing in titles as famous asGunsmoke ,Bonanza andThe fugitive .

Since the end of the decade, it has become a regular secondary film, with numerous titles such asnight escape ,Norma Rae , Time to Kill orBeyond love .

He married Julie Landifield in 1964, who occasionally also worked as an actress on the screen, and with whom he adopted a child, Casey Bridges. Later, the marriage had a biological son, Jordan Bridges . However, in 1984, Bridges filed for divorce and joined Wendy Treece, with whom he has had three other offspring.

His most important film is undoubtedlyThe Fabulous Baker Boys , opposite Jeff Bridges, who was also his on-screen brother. Specifically, they played two jazz musicians who decided to include a singer ( Michelle Pfeiffer ) in their performances. Beau won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting.

Since then he has continued making films such asthe good germanMax Payne and above allThe Descendants , with George Clooney . But he’s been more successful on TV, most notably as the boss on The Agency and as Major Hank Landry on Stargate . He has also been seen in My Name is Earl ,desperate housewives andFive brothers . A firm defender of the environment, he plays the guitar in his spare time.