Bridget Jane Fonda is a retired actress born on 27 January 1964, in Los Angeles, California USA, to mother Susan Brewer, an artist, and father Peter Fonda, an actor. She comes from a family of Hollywood stars, being the granddaughter of the late actor Henry Fonda and the niece of actress Jane Fonda. Fonda is probably most famous for her roles in “Jacky Brown”, “Single White Female” and “Point of No Return”.
So just how wealthy is Bridget Fonda? The most recent reports state that the actress has acquired a net worth of over $10 million, earned during her long acting career in which she produced diverse and memorable roles. Fonda bought a modern Italian Renaissance villa in 2000 for $2.1 million. Several years after, she bought a Prairie-style home in the Freemont Place neighborhood in LA for $3.6 million.
Bridget Fonda Net Worth $10 Million
After her parents divorced in 1972, her father remarried and Fonda was raised by him and his new wife in a suburb of LA, the Coldwater Canyon. She attended the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles, where she became involved in school theater productions, such as the comedy “Harvey”. Suffering from chronic stage fright didn’t prevent her moving to New York and majoring in theater at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She also attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
Fonda’s first acting experience had been when she was only five years old, accompanying her father in his 1969 classic “Easy Rider”. After being cast in several school productions, in 1982 she had a non-speaking role in the comedy “Partners” and in 1987 in “Aria”. Performing in several stage productions, she appeared in the 1988 movie “Scandal”, which earned her her first measure of acclaim as well as a Golden Globe nomination. The same year she appeared in the movies “You Can’t Hurry Love”, “Shag” and “Strapless”, launching herself into the public eye and increasing her net worth.
After establishing her acting career, in 1990 Fonda was cast in “The Godfather III” in which she played a reporter. Soon after she found herself in several roles in the early 90s movie scene, such as in the 1991 romantic comedy “Doc Hollywood”, the 1992 erotic thriller “Single White Female” playing the lead role, and the romantic comedy “Singles” of the same year. When she appeared in the action-drama “Point of No Return” the following year, her reputation as a Hollywood star was established and her wealth boosted; her portrayal of Maggie Hayward, a trained killer, received high praise from both the critics and a worldwide audience. In 1994 Fonda starred in “It Could Happen to You” demonstrating her talents once again. Respectable directors admired her performances which led to her being cast in the 1996 “City Hall”, the 1997 “Jacky Brown” and the 1998 “A Simple Plan”.
The 2000s brought Fonda new acting challenges, taking roles in several movies such as “South of Heaven, West of Hell”, “Delivering Milo” and “Kiss of the Dragon”. In 2003 she was in a car crash, but fortunately only resulting in cracked vertebrae, but went on to make several cameo appearances, such as in the series “The Chris Isaak Show” and “Night Visions”. She then retired gracefully from acting.
Fonda is a two-time Golden Globe winner. Throughout her career, she appeared in over 40 movies, producing a number of memorable, distinctive roles which contributed to the actress’s net worth. Aside from her acting career, Fonda has also done modeling for the H&M’s Christmas lingerie catalog in 2001.
When it comes to her personal life, Fonda has been married to film/TV composer Danny Elfman since 2003. The couple has a son together, while Elfman has a daughter from previous marriage. Fonda previously dated screenwriter Lee Drysdale, her co-actor from “Singles” Eric Stoltz, and country singer Dwight Yoakam, in whose directorial debut she starred back in 2000.
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (1990), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress(1997), Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series (2002)
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television, Independent Spirit Award for Best S...
Movies
"Easy Rider" (1969), "Partners" (1982), "Scandal" (1988), "The Godfather Part III" (1990), "Single White Female" (1992), "Point of No Return" (1993), "In the Gloaming" (1997), "After Amy" (2002)
TV Shows
“The Chris Isaak Show”, “Night Visions”
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Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.
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I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.
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I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.
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Was considered for the role of Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988).
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Auditioned for the role of Emmeline in The Blue Lagoon (1980).
Was considered for the role of Dr. Ellie Satler in Jurassic Park (1993).
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Was originally cast as Ellen/Dorothy Carlsson in A Kiss Before Dying (1991), but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. She was replaced with Sean Young.
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Was a candidate to play Sarah Connor in The Terminator (1984).
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Was considered for the role of Dorothy Boyd in Jerry Maguire (1996).
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Was considered for the role of Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct (1992).
Named after Bridget Hayward, a step-aunt who committed suicide.
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NBC has ordered a TV pilot for the series Lipstick Jungle (2008), based on Candace Bushnell's novel. In the book, Bushnell (the writer behind Sex and the City (1998)) portrays three successful New York women, who are not looking for Mr. Big but to become their own Mr. Big. Bushnell wrote the part of the designer with Fonda in mind; however, the part went to Lindsay Price.
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Son Oliver Henry Milton Elfman was born mid-January 2005.
One week after her unexplained car crash, her publicist announced Fonda's engagement to composer and former Oingo-Boingo member Danny Elfman.
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Flipped and crashed her 1998 Jaguar XK8 sports car, along the same infamous Malibu stretch of highway where both Nick Nolte and Robert Downey Jr. got into trouble with the law. She survived, but with minor back injuries. [February 2003]
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Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#85). [1995]
Was offered the the title role on Ally McBeal (1997) but turned it down to focus on movies. In fact, she didn't even read the script out of fear that she would like it too much.