After two decades since her retirement from cinema, Peter Fonda's daughter appeared on her 58th birthday
It's been almost 20 years since Bridget Fonda completely abandoned her career. The actress, who has almost 50 titles to her credit, completely disappeared from the public eye despite being part of one of the most recognized dynasties in Hollywood and being married to one of the most emblematic composers of the big screen, Danny Elfman. . This Thursday, however, for the first time in 12 years, photos of the Single Woman Seeking actress emerged, on her 58th birthday.
Bridget is the daughter of Peter Fonda, niece of Jane Fonda, and granddaughter of Henry Fonda. In fact, her first appearance on the big screen was at the age of five alongside her father in the legendary road movie Easy Rider (1969), directed by Dennis Hopper. But it was not until her adolescence that the actress developed a true interest in acting, when at the age of 18 she enrolled in the prestigious New York University to study performing arts and, during her last year of school, she made her first appearance with the film Strapless (1989).
Her first big success came only in 1990 when she played the attractive journalist Grace Hamilton in the third installment of the highest-grossing saga in history: The Godfather. Finally in 1991, after obtaining small roles in several films, she obtained the leading role for which she is best known, playing Allison Jones in Single Woman Wants, a box office success that definitively put her in the center of the scene.
Although throughout her career she had to prevail in the face of constant family comparisons, during the 15 years she worked as an actress she did so under the orders of directors as prestigious and diverse as Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci (Little Buddha), Paul Schrader (Touch) and Sam Reimi (A Simple Plan).
By the time Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino's fourth film, where she played Melanie Ralston, was released, the actress was already in the process of losing her presence in cinema. After that, an offer would come that, perhaps, if she had accepted it, could have changed her destiny: the leading role in the TV series Ally McBeal, which later led Calista Flockhart to success.
With appearances increasingly spaced out over time, by 2001 she had already cemented her place as a television movie actress. She thus gave life to the miniseries produced by Hallmark, Snow Queen (2002), in which she played a malicious woman. That was her last intervention in her performance.
“I have a lot of respect for what movies can do. I feel a great sense of responsibility and a great longing to be in the kind of film I love. But I have accepted the fact that that will never happen. In a way, I've gotten going. I'll never be able to be in one of those movies that gives me so much pleasure, because once you're in it you can never watch it as an audience member. So sometimes I think, well, why wish and long and get depressed if it's not going to happen anyway? Why punish me for that? ”She reflected some time before retiring.
At over thirty years old, Fonda, a true icon of the 90s, completely left the spotlight after suffering a serious car accident on a dangerous stretch of a well-known highway in Malibu, in February 2003. The rollover caused severe injuries. back injury, which led her to be confined for a long time to undergo rehabilitation treatment. A month after the incident, the actress married her current husband with whom she, shortly after, had her only child, Oliver.
Along with Elfman, who is still very active in the film industry and recently announced that she will participate in the Coachella music festival, the actress recently acquired a couple of neighboring houses in Encino, California. The couple, who are familiar with this type of acquisition, had previously sold two neighboring properties in Hancock Park, an elegant Italianate residential neighborhood in the same state.
