Jeffrey Leon "Jeff" Bridges is an American actor, singer, comedian, producer, and composer. He comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt (1958–1960). He also voiced Ezekiel "Big Z" Topanga in the 2007 Sony Pictures animated film Surf's Up. Additionally, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2009 film Crazy Heart and earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in six other films.
For Disney, he played Kevin Flynn and his program CLU in Tron. He reprised his role as Flynn and played a recreation of CLU in the sequel, Tron: Legacy, with a digital replica of his younger likeness used for the younger Flynn and CLU 2. He also played Burt Vickerman in Stick It, Preston Tucker in Tucker: The Man and His Dream, and Skipper in White Squall, and posed as the Prince in "Where a moment of beauty lasts forever" in the Disney Dream Portrait Series.
He is also the son of the actor Lloyd Bridges and younger brother of the actor Beau Bridges.
Bridges also portrayed Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger in Iron Man, which is the first instalment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Disney Roles
(Tron)
(Tron: Legacy)
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- Bridges was originally offered to play Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but he turned down the offer, so Harrison Ford was cast instead at the end.[1]