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  • Catch the multi faceted Jeff Bridge on Inside the Actors Studio this Sunday at 7:00pm

    MUMBAI: He got cast in a film when he was an infant and has not looked back ever since. He has performed in over 60 films and received several nominations in Academy awards, Golden Satellite, Screen Actor’s Guild, and The Golden Globe. His peers have saluted him with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

     

    But Jeff Bridges is much more than just an actor. He has several talents and pursues them with equal passion. To put it in his words, “I don’t think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.”

     

    Read below to catch some interesting Trivia about this American actor…

     

    He is the son of Lloyd Bridges, the brother of Beau Bridges and the uncle of Jordan Bridges, who are all successful actors

     

    Although he and his father Lloyd Bridges appeared in six different productions together, they never played father and son

     

    In his off time while on sets, he is known to document the filmmaking process by photographing fellow actors and on-set staff with a panoramic camera. He has published many of these photographs online and in print titled “Pictures”

     

    Bridges is also a cartoonist. Some of his “doodles” have appeared in various films, such as K-PAX and The Door in the Floor.He incorporates his drawings on his web site, notable because it is almost completely hand-written and drawn art—not typed

     

    He loves playing the guitar and indulges in music at every opportunity he gets

     

    He married Susan Geston on June 5, 1977 after meeting her on the sets of Rancho Deluxe in 1975. The couple have 3 daughters, Isabelle , Jessica ,and Hayley

     

    At the age of 17, he was addicted to marijuana. His parents contacted a group called Developing Adolescents Without Narcotics, which put Bridges through an “intervention” to kick his habit

     

    He is a big fan of the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, former lead singer/song writer for the group.

     

    Before Bridges went to school, he served in the United States Coast Guard.

     

     

    Meet the very talented Jeff Bridges in a discussion with James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio this Sunday at 7:00 pm on PIX.

  • Catch Hugh John Mungo Grant in a tete- a- tete with James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio this Sunday on PIX

    MUMBAI: Inside the Actors Studio is proud to welcome Hugh Grant, this Sunday Jan 21st, 7:00pm on PIX. Although his classic good looks make him a shoo-in for romantic leads, Grant’s comic capabilities — marked by a nervous stutter, desperately fluttering eyelids, and an ability to capture a brand of distinctly English embarrassment, have marked him as more of a comic performer than a serious leading man.

    He has won various awards like the Venice Film Festival Best Actor Award, The British Academy Best Actor Award and the Golden Globe award and many more. Some of his very popular movies are Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sense and Sensibility, Extreme Measures, Notting Hill, Mickey Blue Eyes, Bridget Jones’ Diary, for which he was nominated for an Empire Award. Read below to take a quick peep into Hugh Grants’ Diary and watch out for much more this Sunday on Jan 21st at 7:00pm on PIX…

    Got his start by performing in a British comedy sketch group, The Jockeys of Norfolk

    His favorite artist is Patrick Rondat

    Is an avid golfer and has been spotted taking part in pro-am tournaments

    Won the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy at the 1995 and 2002 Evening Standard British Film Awards

    His production company is called “Simian Films” — so named by Elizabeth Hurley because she has said that he resembles an ape or a monkey

    Opted not to do a nude scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral when a make up artist asked if he wanted definition painted on his body

    On the set of Mickey Blue Eyes, James Caan gave Hugh the nickname of Whippy, because Caan said Hugh worried about everything like “the little whippet dogs that get nervous and you got to put a sweater on them when they’re cold”

    Featured in the 1996 paperback “Mug Shots” that includes many other celebrities who’ve been arrested for one reason or another

    So what you waiting for… get yourselves ready for a cozy Sunday evening with Hugh Grant in an exciting episode of Inside the Actors Studio on21st January, 7:00 pm only on PIX…

  • Sissy Spacek lights up the screen with ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ only on Pix!!

    As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam and played in the woods and gave no indication of one day growing up to be an Oscar-winning actress. Catch this tomboy turned Hollywood star this Sunday on Inside the Actors Studio on 10 September on Pix.

     

    Sissy decided on an acting career, having gotten interested in the profession through her cousin, Rip Torn. She relocated to New York, and through him, enrolled in the New York branch of the Actors Studio.

     

    She also tried modeling and singing. The petite Sissy finally broke into films, one of her first being Badlands. Her breakout role was in another film, Carrie, in which she played the humiliated Prom Queen who goes postal with her telekinesis.

     

    Read more to get a quick peek into another exciting episode of Inside the Actors Studio …

    – “Sissy” was a nickname that her brothers used to call her, short for “sister” and it stayed with her ever since

    – During her audition for Carrie (1976), she wore a dress that her mother forced her to wear to a party when she was in the seventh grade

     

    – She released a country LP titled Hangin’ Up My Heart on Atlantic Records in 1983

     

    – Decided to skip college after her older brother, Robbie, died at 18 years of age in 1967 from leukemia during her senior year in high school. She decided life was way too short to waste it in four years of college

    – Lives on 300 acre farmland named “Beau Val” near Charlottesville, Virginia

     

    Watch out for Sissy Spacek and her Tap dance demonstration only for James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio this Sunday 10 September at 7 pm on Pix!!!