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Son of actor Lloyd Bridges and older brother of actor Jeff Bridges.

With a great predisposition for basketball and after university studies in Hawaii, Beau Bridges decides to fully embark on comedy. Because if he had to wait until 1967 to obtain his first important role, in the detective film The Incident by Larry Peerce, this native of Hollywood, member of a large film family, was immersed very young in the artistic bath: at only 8 years old, he has already appeared in the credits of two films by Lewis Milestone: No minor vices (1948) and The Red Pony (1949). Until The Incident, he also landed a few small roles (including one of delinquent in the science fiction film Village of the Giants, opposite Ron Howard) and surveyed numerous television sets. The small screen will become

From the end of the 1960s, while pursuing an active career on the small screen, Beau Bridges was increasingly courted by the seventh art. In 1968, he gave the reply to Sidney Poitier in For love of Ivy then, a year later, he was chosen by Norman Jewison to take the lead role of the comedy Gaily, Gaily. In the 70s, the actor distinguished himself in particular for Hal Ashby (The Owner, 1970), Peter Ustinov (Hammersmith is Out, 1972), or Sidney Lumet (Child's Play, id .; Lovin 'Mully, 1974) and participates in the pirate film Swashbuckler (1976). Very present in the cinema during this decade, at ease in all registers, Beau Bridges, whose placid and childish face makes him very appreciated by the public, does not however avoid certain questionable artistic choices.

Subsequently, Beau Bridges continued to juggle between small and big screen, while appearing occasionally in the theater. After an appearance in the credits of Hotel New Hampshire (1984), he tried his hand at directing with, consecutively, the thrillers The Wild pair (1987) and Seven hours to judgment (1988), then experienced one of his most great public successes with Susie and the Baker Boys (1989), where he plays with his younger brother Jeff Bridges the musicians Frank and Jack Baker opposite Michelle Pfeiffer. However, in the 90s, Beau Bridges' career continued mainly on television and, at that time, the actor made television films. In 1996, he still appeared in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire alongside Tom Cruise.

In the 2000s, Beau Bridges distinguished himself in the State Spy and Stargate SG-1 series, and quietly returned to the big screen with the drama The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2006), then in the family film Le Petit. Charlotte's world (2007) and in the dark Good German (id.) by Steven Soderbergh, in which he plays George Clooney. The two reunited in 2012 for the acclaimed dramatic comedy The Descendants. Bridges, however, continues to alternate between cinema (generally turning in small independent productions, with the notable exception of Max Payne, 2008) and television. Thus, on the small screen, he plays a key role in the last season of Brothers & Sisters and participates in a few episodes of FBI: very special duo and Franklin & Bash. On the big one,