Personal life

Fonda was born in Los Angeles, California, to 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. Her maternal grandmother, Mary Sweet, married businessman Noah Dietrich.

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. in the Coldwater Canyon section of Los Angeles and south of Livingston, Montana. Fonda attended Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles. In 1986, Bridget met Eric Stoltz and, in 1990, they began dating. The relationship ended after eight years.

On February 27, 2003, she suffered a serious car crash in Los Angeles which caused a fracture in her vertebra. In March of the same year, she became engaged to film/TV composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman, and they married in November. They have a son named Oliver.

Career

Fonda became involved with the theatre when she was cast in a school production of Harvey. She studied method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute as part of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts acting program and graduated from NYU in 1986.

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 in Scandal. That same 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 1992).

A notable action-drama role was in 1993's Point of No Return. A review in the New Yorker proclaimed her "provocative, taunting assertiveness". In 1997, she was on the same plane flight as Quentin Tarantino when he offered her the part of Melanie in Jackie Brown. She was also reportedly offered the lead, eponymous role in the television series Ally McBeal 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.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	Easy Rider	Child in Commune	Uncredited
1987	Aria	Lover	Segment: "Liebestod"
1988	You Can't Hurry Love	Peggy Kellogg
1988	Gandahar	Head/Historian	Voice (English version)
1989	Scandal	Mandy Rice-Davies
1989	Shag	Melaina
1989	Strapless	Amy Hempel
1990	Frankenstein Unbound	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
1990	Godfather Part III, TheThe Godfather Part III	Grace Hamilton
1991	Iron Maze	Chris Sugita
1991	Drop Dead Fred	Annabella (uncredited)
1991	Out of the Rain	Jo
1991	Doc Hollywood	Nancy Lee Nicholson
1992	Leather Jackets	Claudi
1992	Single White Female	Allison Jones
1992	Singles	Janet Livermore
1992	Army of Darkness	Linda (uncredited cameo)
1993	Bodies, Rest & Motion	Beth
1993	Point of No Return	Maggie Hayward / Claudia Anne Doran / Nina
1993	Little Buddha	Lisa Conrad
1994	It Could Happen to You	Yvonne Biasi
1994	Road to Wellville, TheThe Road to Wellville	Eleanor Lightbody
1994	Camilla	Freda Lopez
1995	Rough Magic	Myra Shumway
1995	Balto	Jenna	Voice
1996	City Hall	Marybeth Cogan
1996	Grace of My Heart	Kelly Porter
1997	Touch	Lynn Marie Faulkner
1997	Mr. Jealousy	Irene
1997	Jackie Brown	Melanie Ralston
1998	Break Up	Jimmy Dade
1998	Finding Graceland	Ashley
1998	Simple Plan, AA Simple Plan	Sarah
1999	Lake Placid	Kelly Scott
2000	South of Heaven, West of Hell	Adalyne Dunfries
2001	Delivering Milo	Elizabeth
2001	Monkeybone	Dr. Julie McElroy
2001	Kiss of the Dragon	Jessica Kamen
2001	The Whole Shebang	Val Bazinni

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Jacob Have I Loved	Louise Bradshaw	Movie
1989	21 Jump Street	Molly 'Moho' Chapman	Episode: "Blinded by the Thousand Points of Light"
1989	Edge, TheThe Edge	Dorite	Pilot for HBO
1997	In the Gloaming	Anne	Movie
2001	Night Visions	Mary	Episode: "The Occupant"
2001	No Ordinary Baby	Linda Sanclair	Movie
2002	Chris Isaak Show, TheThe Chris Isaak Show	Stephanie Furst	4 episodes
2002	Snow Queen	Snow Queen	Movie

Award nominations

• 1990: Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Scandal
• 1997: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for In the Gloaming
• 2002: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television for After Amy

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