Birth Name: Jeffrey Leon Bridges
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth: December 4, 1949
Ethnicity:
*English (father)
*English, Irish, Swiss-German (mother)
Jeff Bridges is an American actor. He is the son of actors Lloyd Bridges (Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr.) and Dorothy Bridges (Dorothy Dean Simpson).
His father was from a family that had long lived in the United States, and had English ancestry. His mother had English, Irish, and Swiss-German ancestry.
Jeff’s paternal grandparents were Lloyd Vernet Bridges (the son of John Hewston Bridges and Minnie H. Stanwood) and Harriet Evelyn Brown (the daughter of Prairie Frank Brown and Mary Elizabeth Barnhill).
Jeff’s maternal grandparents were Frederick Walter Simpson (the son of Henry Simpson and Jane Anne Jago) and Louise Myles (the daughter of Frederick William Myles and Eliza Gunter). Frederick was born in Liverpool, England. Louisa was born in New Jersey. Frederick was born in Dublin, Ireland. Eliza was born in New Jersey, to a Swiss-born father, of Swiss-German descent, and an American-born mother.
Source: Genealogy of Jeff Bridges – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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