Bridget Fonda

Overview

Bridget Jane Fonda was born in Los Angeles, California, to Susan Brewer and actor Peter Fonda. She is the granddaughter of Henry Fonda and niece of Jane Fonda, both famous actors. Bridget made her film debut at age five as an extra in Easy Rider (1969), but first became interested in acting after appearing in a high school production of "Harvey." At age 18, she enrolled at New York University and spent four years there and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

She went on to hone her craft in workshop productions and worked on such stage projects as "Just Horrible," written by Nicholas Kazan, who later cast Bridget in his directorial debut, "Professional Man," an episode for The Edge (1989) series on HBO. She also starred in PBS's Jacob Have I Loved (1989) and in a segment of Aria (1987), a film composed of short works by 10 respected directors. Her film credits include The Godfather Part III (1990), Strapless (1989), Doc Hollywood (1991), Singles (1992), and Single White Female (1992).
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Retired from acting in 2002.
Her godfather was Larry Hagman.
Flipped and crashed her 1998 Jaguar XK8 sports car, along the same infamous Malibu stretch of highway where both Nick Nolte and Robert Downey Jr. got into trouble with the law. She survived, but with minor back injuries. One week later, her publicist announced Fonda's engagement to composer and former Oingo-Boingo member Danny Elfman.
Was offered the title role on Ally McBeal (1997) but turned it down to focus on movies. In fact, she didn't even read the script out of fear that she would like it too much.
Was in an eight-year relationship with Eric Stoltz (1990-1998).

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.
I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.
Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.
[when asked by the paparazzi at Los Angeles International Airport in 2023 if she would make another movie] "No, I don't think so, it's too nice being a civilian".