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deadline.comActor Beau Bridges is being honored in a place of special significance to his family. The star of The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Descendants, Norma Rae, and more than 200 other films and television series received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sonoma International Film Festival on Friday.
His late father, actor Lloyd Bridges, traced his roots to the town in California’s wine country. “I can really feel my dad, Lloyd’s spirit here with me in Sonoma, because this is where he was raised,” Bridges tells Deadline. “He was born in San Leandro and raised in Sonoma on Spain Street.
He was an altar boy at the St. Francis Church, and then he moved to Petaluma, went to Petaluma High School. So, this is his territory, and to have this acknowledgement here in the seat of our family, so to speak, is really special to me.” Beau Bridges’ earliest performances came on the big screen in the late 1940s in Force of Evil, No Minor Vices, and The Red Pony.
His latest work — the lead role in The Neon Highway, a drama opening theatrically this month in Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, and other cities.
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