Acting

Jeff Bridges first saw his father, Lloyd Bridges, who passed away in 1998, in the role of the wizened Giver in Lois Lowry's 1993 best-selling novel The Giver. In Reddit.com's "Ask Me Anything" series, he discussed the man who inspired him to produce a new film adaptation of the novel.

Julie Harris took up acting because she was self-conscious about her looks as a young girl. "I looked so plain - bands on my teeth, bird legs, mouse face, hair that wouldn't curl," she once explained in an interview.