8 Fun Facts About the Bridges Family: Jeff, Beau, Lloyd, Emily and More - Parade Magazine
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- The only time Beau and Jeff teamed up was for The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989).
- Beau's Emmys are for The Second Civil War (1997), The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993) and Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991).
- Jeff won an Academy Award playing a country singer in Crazy Heart (2009), but he's perhaps best known as "The Dude" in The Big Lebowski (1998).
- Beau's son Jordan starred in the TNT drama Rizzoli & Isles (2010–16), playing Frankie Rizzoli Jr.
- Lloyd may be most famous for his TV drama series Sea Hunt (1958–61), but he wrapped up his career in a comedy bow with Airplane! (1980), Hot Shots! (1991) and Mafia! (1998).
- Lloyd, Beau and Jeff all served in the Coast Guard. They were among six veterans honored with the Lone Sailor Award by the United States Navy Memorial in 2011.
- An avid environmentalist, Beau shares a 2009 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth with CynthiaNixon and BlairUnderwood.
- Lloyd, Beau and Beau's son Dylan Bridges played three generations of the Kress family in a 1995 episode of The Outer Limits called "Sandkings."
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