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<h2>Early Life and Family Background</h2>
<p><a href="/biography/bridget-fonda">Bridget Jane Fonda</a> is an American <a href="/biography/bridget-fonda">actress</a> known for her versatile performances in several critically acclaimed films. She was born in the Los Angeles area of California into a renowned acting family. Her father was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fonda">actor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fonda">Peter Fonda</a>, her aunt is acclaimed <a href="/biography/bridget-fonda">actress</a> and activist <a href="/biography/bridget-fonda">Jane Fonda</a>, and her grandfather was iconic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fonda">screen legend</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fonda">Henry Fonda</a>. Her mother, Susan Jane Brewer, is an artist.</p>

<p>Fonda was named after Bridget Hayward, the daughter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sullavan">actress</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sullavan">Margaret Sullavan</a>. Her maternal grandmother, Mary Sweet, later married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Dietrich">businessman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Dietrich">Noah Dietrich</a>. Bridget’s parents eventually divorced, and her father later married Portia Rebecca Crockett, the former wife of novelist Thomas McGuane. Bridget was raised by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fonda">Peter</a> and Portia alongside her brother Justin and stepbrother Thomas McGuane Jr.</p>

<h2>Education and Early Relationships</h2>
<p>Bridget Fonda attended the prestigious Westlake School for Girls. She developed an interest in acting during her school years, appearing in a school production of the play Harvey. In 1986, she met <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Stoltz">actor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Stoltz">Eric Stoltz</a>, and the two began a relationship that lasted over eight years.</p>

<h2>Formal Training in Acting</h2>
<p>Passionate about developing her craft, Fonda studied method acting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She also trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She graduated from NYU in 1986, solidifying her foundation in acting before pursuing a full-time film career.</p>

<h2>Early Acting Roles and Career Beginnings</h2>
<p>Bridget Fonda made her first screen appearance at the age of five in the 1969 film <em>Easy Rider</em>, which starred her father <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fonda">Peter Fonda</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper">Dennis Hopper</a>. Her second role came in 1982 in the film <em>Partners</em>. In 1988, her career began to gain momentum with roles in films such as <em>Scandal</em>, <em>Shag</em>, and <em>You Can’t Hurry Love</em>.</p>

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<h2>Breakthrough Performances and Major Roles</h2>
<p>Fonda’s breakthrough came with a brief but notable role as a journalist in <em>The Godfather Part III</em> (1990). She followed this up with starring roles in a string of successful films throughout the early 1990s. These included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbet_Schroeder">Barbet Schroeder</a>’s psychological thriller <em>Single White Female</em>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Crowe">Cameron Crowe</a>’s romantic comedy <em>Singles</em>, and the action-thriller <em>Point of No Return</em> (1993), in which she played the lead role.</p>

<p>Her performance in <em>Point of No Return</em> was well received; a reviewer in <em>The New Yorker</em> noted her portrayal as both assertive and provocative. In <a href="/biography/quentin-tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a>’s <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown">Jackie Brown</a></em> (1997), Fonda played Melanie Ralston, a stoner girlfriend, after accepting the role during a conversation with <a href="/biography/quentin-tarantino">Tarantino</a> on a plane flight. She also provided the voice for Jenna in the 1995 animated feature <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto_(film)">Balto</a></em>.</p>

<h2>Career Decisions and Later Life</h2>
<p>At one point, Fonda was offered a role in the television series <em>Ally McBeal</em> but declined to focus on her film career. In 2003, she was involved in a serious car accident in which she suffered a fractured vertebra. In the same year, she became engaged to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Elfman">composer</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Elfman">Danny Elfman</a>, the former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Elfman">frontman</a> of Oingo Boingo and a prolific film and television composer. The couple married and have one son, Oliver.</p>

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