Out of all the “Tron” stars, Jeff Bridges is probably the one who is best known among today’s audiences. He catapulted onto the scene in the early 1970s with leading performances in films like “The Last Picture Show,” which earned him his first Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor just a year into his adult career; “The Last American Hero”; and “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” (his second Oscar nomination). He worked consistently throughout the 1980s, starring in “Starman” and “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” but took on iconic status when he landed the lead role as The Dude in “The Big Lebowski,” a landmark film of the 1990s with a fervently devoted following.
Over the course of his career, he’s earned seven Academy Award nominations, finally winning in 2010 for playing a country singer whose alcohol addiction has ravaged his personal life in “Crazy Heart.” Throughout the 2010s, he continued working at a frenetic pace, appearing in films such as “True Grit,” “The Giver,” “Hell or High Water,” and “Kingsman: The Golden Circle.” In 2010, he reprised his role as Kevin Flynn in “Tron: Legacy,” and is slated to do so again in 2025, when the upcoming sequel “Tron: Ares” is released.
