Jordan Bridges on AllMovie

With his GQ good looks and strong Hollywood bloodline (son, nephew, and grandson of Beau, Jeff, and Lloyd Bridges, respectively), audiences are virtually guaranteed to be seeing more of actor Jordan Bridges as he makes a name for himself in film and television. A native Californian, young Bridges began making his way into the family business at the tender age of nine with a supporting role in the 1982 made-for-television feature The Kid From Nowhere. Throughout the remainder of the decade, as well as the majority of the 1990s, one could always count on spotting Jordan in father Beau's many made-for-TV movies. Climbing the credits from The Thanksgiving Promise (1986) to The Defenders: Taking the First, it wasn't until 1999's Macbeth in Manhattan that young Bridges finally began to carve his own path in show business. That same year, Bridges was a natural portraying a young P.T. Barnum opposite his father in the titled biographical television biographical miniseries P.T. Barnum and, soon after supporting roles in Drive Me Crazy (also 1999) and Frequency (2000), Bridges made an impression in the summer-camp comedy Happy Campers (2001). Of course, it was only a matter of time before Bridges got a lead role and he did just that with the 2002 comedy New Suit. An updated version of the classic fairy tale The Emperor's New Clothes, New Suit found Bridges cast as an aspiring young screenwriter who starts a Hollywood feeding frenzy by mentioning a "hot" script that never existed. In 2003, Bridges appeared in director Mike Newell's Mona Lisa Smile.