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Bridget Fonda
Bridget Fonda and Luc Besson at Cannes, 2001
Birth name	Bridget Jane Fonda
Born	January 27, 1964 (1964-01-27) (age 43) Los Angeles, California
Years active	1982 - present
Spouse(s)	Danny Elfman (2003-)
Parents	Peter Fonda

Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-award nominated American actress.

Fonda was born in Los Angeles, California into a family of actors, including her grandfather Henry Fonda, father Peter Fonda, and aunt Jane Fonda. Her mother, Susan Jane Brewer, is an artist.^[1] She was named after Bridget Hayward, Margaret Sullavan's daughter with whom her father was in love at one time. Peter and Susan Brewer divorced and he married Portia Rebecca Crockett (aka Becky McGuane), who brought up Bridget and her brother, Justin, in the Coldwater Canyon section of Los Angeles.

Fonda attended Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles. During this time, Bridget and Justin had little contact with their father or any of the Fonda family, recalling in an interview: "When I was a kid, the most important thing for me was my home... People would come and go, and things would change, but that place wouldn't. I loved it. I want to have that for the rest of my life. I want to have a place."

Fonda first became involved with the theatre when she was cast in a school production of Harvey. She refused to solicit acting tips and advice from her famous relatives, and studied method acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

Fonda made her film debut with a non-speaking role in the 1982 comedy Partners. It was not until 1988 that she had her first speaking role in a feature film starring with John Hurt in Scandal, based on the Profumo affair. That year, she also appeared in both You Can't Hurry Love and Shag.

Fonda's first big role in a movie was when she starred as an attractive journalist in The Godfather, Part III. After gaining additional work experience on a few theater productions and small movie roles, she was cast in the lead for Barbet Schroeder's Single White Female. A review in the New Yorker proclaimed she had "...a provocative, taunting assertiveness" and Rolling Stone said that Fonda was "a comic delight". Fonda was also offered the role of Ally McBeal before Calista Flockhart, but turned it down to focus on her film career.^[2]

On November 29, 2003, Fonda married film composer Danny Elfman. They have one son, Oliver, born in January 2005. She has not appeared in a film since her marriage.

• Partners (1982)
• Aria (1987)
• You Can't Hurry Love (1988)
• Light Years (1988) (voice in English version)
• Scandal (1989)
• Shag (1989)
• Strapless (1989)
• Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
• The Godfather Part III (1990)
• Drop Dead Fred (1991)
• Out of the Rain (1991)
• Doc Hollywood (1991)
• Iron Maze (1991)
• Leather Jackets (1992)
• Single White Female (1992)
• Singles (1992)
• Army of Darkness (1992)
• Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
• Point of No Return (1993) AKA. (outside the US.) The Assassin
• Little Buddha (1993)
• It Could Happen to You (1994)
• The Road to Wellville (1994)
• Camilla (1994)
• Rough Magic (1995)
• Balto (1995) (voice)
• City Hall (1996)
• Grace of My Heart (1996)
• Touch (1997)
• Mr. Jealousy (1997)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Break Up (1998)
• A Simple Plan (1998)
• Finding Graceland (1998)
• Lake Placid (1999)
• South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000)
• Delivering Milo (2001)
• Monkeybone (2001)
• Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
• The Whole Shebang (2001)
• Snow Queen (2002)

• Bridget Fonda at the Internet Movie Database