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Bridget Fonda
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Actress. (b. Jan. 27, 1964, Los Angeles.) One of the very few third-generation movie stars, this freshfaced, appealing young actress certainly has some good genes going for her. The daughter of actor-director Peter Fonda, niece of actress/fitness guru Jane Fon- da, and granddaughter of actor Henry Fonda, young Bridget spent her childhood years in Los Angeles and Montana. While studying theater at New York University, she starred in a graduate student film called PPT and the workshop stage productions "Confession" and "Pastels." Following her first film roles in Aria (1988, which nobody should have to admit having debuted in) and You Can't Hurry Love (1988, another stinker, but a lead role for Fonda), the talented young actress made critics and audiences stand up and take notice of her portrayal of British call girl Mandy Rice-Davies in the 1989 steamer Scandal for which she affected a very credible British accent. Fonda worked nonstop throughout 1989 and 1990, appearing in such films as Shag (as the guileless beauty pageant contestant), Strapless, Frankenstein Unbound, Leather Jackets and The Godfather, Part III 1991 saw her back in supporting roles in Drop Dead Fred and Doc Hollywood neither of which used her to good advantage. Her breakthrough parts came in 1992 (with the shared lead in Single White Female and an appealing light comic role in the ensemble film Singles) and 1993 (as the deadheadturned-assassin in Point of No Return and the young woman courted and pursued by Eric Stoltz-her real-life companion-in Bodies, Rest & Motion). She continues to alternate commercial projects with more idiosyncratic efforts, like Little Buddha, It Could Happen to You, The Road to Wellville, Camilla (all 1994), and City Hall (1995). |  |
