Bridget Fonda

Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is a former American actress. She is known for her roles in such films as The Godfather Part III, Single White Female, Point of No Return, It Could Happen to You, and Jackie Brown. She also provides the voice for Jenna in the 1995 animated feature film Balto. She is the daughter of Peter Fonda, niece of Jane Fonda and granddaughter of Henry Fonda. --- Fonda was born in Los Angeles, California into a family of actors, including her grandfather Henry Fonda, father Peter Fonda, and her aunt Jane Fonda. Her mother, Susan Jane Brewer, is an artist. She is named after actress Margaret Sullavan's daughter Bridget Hayward who committed suicide at the age of 21. Sullavan was Henry Fonda's first wife. Bridget's parents divorced and Peter remarried Portia Rebecca Crockett (former wife of author Thomas McGuane). Peter and Portia raised Bridget, her brother Justin, and older stepbrother Thomas McGuane Jr (born circa 1962) in the Coldwater Canyon section of Los Angeles and south of Livingston, Montana, where both brothers attended high school. Fonda attended Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles. Fonda became involved with the theatre when she was cast in a school production of Harvey. She studied method acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and graduated from NYU in 1986. refused to solicit acting tips and advice from her famous relatives. She made her film debut at the age of five in the 1969 movie Easy Rider as a child in the hippie commune that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper visit on their trek across the United States. Her second ( non-speaking) part was in the 1982 comedy Partners. In 1988, she got her first substantial film role, co-starring with John Hurt in Scandal, based on the Profumo affair. That year she appeared in You Can't Hurry Love and Shag. Her breakthrough role was as a journalist in The Godfather, Part III. After gaining additional work experience in a few theater productions she was cast in the lead in Barbet Schroeder's Single White Female, followed by a role in Cameron Crowe's ensemble comedy Singles, both in 1992. A review in the New Yorker proclaimed her "provocative, taunting assertiveness", and Rolling Stone said Fonda was "a comic delight". In 1997, Fonda was on the same plane flight as Quentin Tarantino when he offered her the part of Melanie in Jackie Brown. Fonda was offered the lead role in the television series Ally McBeal (later played by Calista Flockhart), but turned it down to concentrate on her film career. She took on cameo roles in projects until 2002, and has not appeared in films since then. --- In 1986, Bridget met Eric Stoltz and, in 1990, they began dating. The relationship ended eight years later. On November 29, 2003, she married the film composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman. They have a son named Oliver.