Bridges first acted professionally at the age of five in the television film The Kid from Nowhere (1982), directed by his father.[3][4][5] After a break he returned once more in the television film The Thanksgiving Promise (1986), starring the entire Bridges family.
Not wanting to be a child actor, he left acting and attended L.A.'s Oakwood School.[3][4][5] The school had a strong emphasis on the arts, which rekindled Bridges interest in acting. He followed it up as a theater major and literature minor at New York's Bard College.[4][6][5]
Although classically trained, Bridges worked as a waiter in New York and Los Angeles for several years each before he started getting roles in films, television series, and theater.[4][5][7] He starred in the short-lived NBC series Conviction as Nick Potter, a lawyer from an "old money" family of prominence,[4] who leaves his job at a private law firm to join the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
He has also played supporting roles in the films Drive Me Crazy (1999), Frequency (2000), Happy Campers (2001), and Mona Lisa Smile (2003). In A Holiday Engagement (2011) he plays David, a man hired to impersonate a woman's fiancé to her family over Thanksgiving. Similarly, in Family Plan (2005) he plays Buck, a man hired to impersonate a woman's husband to her boss for the night.
Bridges appeared in the TNT drama series Rizzoli & Isles,[3][4] which premiered in July 2010 and concluded in September 2016.[8][9]
Personal life
Bridges married artist-inventor Caroline Sherman Eastman in 2002 at Burning Man and again on January 2, 2003, at a small ceremony in Kauai, Hawaii.[10] They have two children.[10][11][12]
