Her grandfather Henry starred in films including The Grapes of Wrath.
Her father Peter became permanently associated with Easy Rider.
Her aunt Jane built an extraordinary career that included Coming Home and multiple Academy Awards.
Bridget knew comparisons were inevitable.
In a 1992 interview, she admitted that thinking too much about the family legacy could become overwhelming.
“I try not to think of it because it can weigh on you,” she said.
She remembered experiencing that pressure while she was still in school and eventually deciding she needed to separate herself from it.
Instead, she tried to ask herself a simpler question: what kinds of movies did she personally admire, and what kind of actress did she want to become?
She was proud of her family.
But she wanted her own work to stand independently.
“I’m always hoping that I’ll do something that can stand out the way that the films have, that my dad and my aunt and my grandfather did,” she explained.
