By Annabella Ramirez
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Lloyd Vernet “Beau” Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy, two-time Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner, as well as a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee. Bridges also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to television. He is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and elder brother of fellow actor Jeff Bridges.
Bridges was born on December 9, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, the son of actors Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998) and Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson; 1915–2009). He was nicknamed Beau by his parents after Ashley Wilkes‘ son in Gone with the Wind. His younger brother is actor Jeff Bridges, and he has a younger sister, Lucinda. Another brother, Garrett, died in 1948 of sudden infant death syndrome. Beau has shared a close relationship with Jeff, for whom he acted as a surrogate father during childhood when their father was busy with work.[7] He and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles.
Wanting to become a basketball star, he played in his freshman year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under legendary coach John Wooden, where he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He later transferred to the University of Hawaii. In 1959, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard Reserve and served for eight years.
Bridges is a Christian. He has stated that if the script calls for his character to say God’s name in vain, he will ask the director if he can change the line. Bridges has been a vegan since 2004.
Bridges, his brother Jeff Bridges and late father Lloyd Bridges were among six veterans – the others being Jerry Coleman, Bob Feller and Brian Lamb – honored with the Lone Sailor Award by the United States Navy Memorial in 2011. The award recognizes Navy, Marine and Coast Guard veterans who have distinguished themselves in their civilian careers.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
In what year did Charles Dickens write A Christmas Carol?
Dickens wrote the story in 1843.
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Whangdoodle
Puzzle of the Day
What is the difference between a professor and a mosquito?
Born
- Clarence Birdseye (businessman) –
- Jean de Brunhoff (author of Babar books) –
- Kirk Douglas (actor) –
- Redd Foxx (actor) –
- Dame Judi Dench (actress) –
- Beau Bridges (actor) –
- John Malkovich (actor) –
- Donnie Osmond (entertainer) –
- Jesse Metcalfe (actor) –
- Simon Helberg (actor) –
Died
- Paul Simon (5-term Democratic congressman and 2-term senator from Illinois who ran unsuccessfully for presidential nomination in 1988) –
- Georgia Gibbs (singer) –
- Gene Barry (actor) –
Events
- Robert Cushman gave first known sermon in the United States, in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts –
- Noah Webster established The American Minerva, NY’s first daily newspaper –
- Canada’s first coin club, Numismatic Society of Montreal, formed –
- Lincoln letter sold for $748,000 –
- First Heisman Trophy awarded to Jay Berwanger –
- Quebec adopted a new coat of arms –
- British troops opened their first major offensive in North Africa during World War II –
- Bob Waterfield became the first professional football player to kick 5 field goals in one game –
- Public debut of the computer mouse, in San Francisco –
- Marguerite d’Youville became first Canadian-born saint –
- Twin polar bear cubs were born at the Hellabrunn Zoo, Munich, Germany –
