Bridget Fonda (Actor)

"An actress whom I respect said about me, 'God, she just has it in her blood.' And it hurt me so bad. 'Cause I DIDN'T have it in my blood. I went to school for four years and I was petrified--I had the WORST stage fright. I never learned anything from my family. I didn't take classes with them. I was just told to clean up my room and shit like that." --Bridget Fonda quoted in Premiere, March 1991.

"I feel like I've done a range of different roles, but, to a lot of people, it seems, I'm typecast as this slightly dangerous, raunchy, femme fatale type. Sometimes, I think the only way I could get out of it would be to play Nancy Drew, but I suspect the reviews would say that 'Bridget Fonda makes an awfully smutty Nancy Drew ... '" --Fonda quoted in press notes for "Strapless".

"It's funny, I was in Peru, in the airport, and three girls with some bible study group taking a trip down the Amazon came up to me and said, 'Ohmygod you're Bridget Fonda, aren't you?' I said, 'Yeah.' And they said, 'You were in "Jacob Have I Loved". Did you do anything else?' That was the only thing they'd seen. That PBS movie of the week. I think, 'Yes! Let me take you home, you've seen this movie that nobody ever saw.'" --Bridget Fonda to Empire, May 1996.

"It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and then you have to live with it when it's finished. It's forever in your section in the video store. It's you. It's almost like deciding who you have a child with." --Fonda to London's Evening Standard, May 6, 1999.

"She projects modern-day confidence and sexuality, often with an undercurrent of soul-searching, similar to the persona of Barbara Stanwyck in an earlier era." --From THE FILM ENCYCLOPEDIA by Ephraim Katz (New York: Harper Perennial: 1994)

About what her father called a "magical childhood": "On the weekends, we had parades down at the beach--we would carry flags and wear hats. Halloween was always so much fun--my mom would make costumes--and we used to dress up to go to the Renaissance Fair." To Bridget, famous hippies were just her parents' friends, the way Jane Fonda was just Aunt Jane, and Henry Fonda was just Grandpa. It was an upbringing that insulated her so completely from less progressive parts of the world that she was in her late twenties when she first discovered that some people despised her Aunt Jane for having opposed the Vietnam War. "It was shocking to me. I was stunned." --From Details, February 1998.

Fonda rolled her silver 1998 Jaguar on the morning of Feb. 27, 2003 after losing control of the car on a rain-slicked section of Malibu's Pacific Coast Highway, flipping it over an embankment . The actress, who was driving alone, suffered a slight fracture of two thoracic vertebrae but was reportedly expected to make a full recovery.

Fonda was named after Bridget Hayward and Jane Fonda.

On similarities with her famous father, Fonda told Movieline (November 1993): "We have the same sense of humor and we are both sort of cynical idealists."