# What happened to Bridget Fonda? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412 "2006-07-28T15:58:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/1 "2006-07-28T15:58:55Z")
She hasn’t done anything in 5 years according to IMDB. Has she said what she’s been up to in any interviews at all? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/2 "2006-07-28T16:01:06Z")
I’m not sure but you may find your answer in Cafe Society which is where this thread belongs. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/3 "2006-07-28T16:11:10Z")
She’s actually been very busy inhabiting my fantasies. I’ll let you know when she becomes available. ---
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/4 "2006-07-28T16:18:38Z")
Yeah, I realized that this may be the wrong forum after I hit Submit. Sorry guys. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/5 "2006-07-28T16:36:23Z")
Well, according to IMDB she married Danny Elfman in 2003 and they have had a child. Maybe she just wants to be a mother for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/6 "2006-07-28T17:34:45Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Well, according to IMDB she married Danny Elfman in 2003… Wait, wait. She married [_this_](http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/charlie_and_the_chocolate_factory/danny_elfman/charliepre.jpg)? I don’t know whether to feel hope or despair. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/7 "2006-07-28T17:39:50Z")
Maybe she’s an Oingo Boingo fan. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/8 "2006-07-28T17:41:12Z")
She did something before five years ago? Color me stunned. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/9 "2006-07-28T17:54:48Z")
Hopefully, taking acting lessons. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/10 "2006-07-28T18:48:14Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Well, according to IMDB she married Danny Elfman in 2003 and they have had a child. Maybe she just wants to be a mother for a while. That makes her Jenna Elfman’s aunt by marriage! ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/11 "2006-07-28T19:44:29Z")
According to [this site](http://archives.gophercentral.com/where_is_bridget_fonda.html)… > [@](#): > > WHERE IS SHE NOW: Bridget has been busy being a wife and mother. But she is getting ready to come back to acting. Word is NBC has ordered a TV pilot based on Candace Bushnell’s book “Lipstick Jungle”. In this book Bushnell (the writer behind Sex and the City) portrays three successful New York Women, who are not looking for Mr. Big but to become their own Mr. Big. The part of the designer was written with Bridget Fonda in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/12 "2006-07-28T19:46:36Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > Wait, wait. She married [_this_](http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/charlie_and_the_chocolate_factory/danny_elfman/charliepre.jpg)? > > I don’t know whether to feel hope or despair. I _know_! She stole my future husband! (although having seen that photo, perhaps I dodged a bullet…) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/13 "2006-07-28T19:52:42Z")
[That’s better](http://www.tracksounds.com/composers/images/delfman2.jpg). Whew. I can continue mourning my loss. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/14 "2006-07-28T20:27:34Z")
> [@Darth Vader's Little Pal](#): > > [That’s better](http://www.tracksounds.com/composers/images/delfman2.jpg). Whew. I can continue mourning my loss. Damn. Ever since I saw Oingo Boingo in concert I vowed that he would one day be mine. Guess now that they have a kid it’s too late for me. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/15 "2006-07-28T20:31:33Z")
Unless I’m misremembering, she was also in a fairly bad car accident a couple of years back. Nope, I’m not, at least according to the always-accurate IMDB mini-bio. She had back injuries, which might have slowed her down a bit, then she had kids, which definitely would have. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/16 "2006-07-28T22:08:30Z")
> [@Alma](#): > > Damn. Ever since I saw Oingo Boingo in concert I vowed that he would one day be mine. Guess now that they have a kid it’s too late for me. I say you and I get in there and break up this marriage, dividing the spouses between us. (We’ll just have to toss a coin for the kid.) ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/17 "2006-07-28T22:19:09Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > I say you and I get in there and break up this marriage, dividing the spouses between us. (We’ll just have to toss a coin for the kid.) :elbows **Alma** out of the way: I got dibs! **spoke-** , the kid is yours. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-bridget-fonda/366412/18 "2006-07-29T23:50:40Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > That makes her Jenna Elfman’s aunt by marriage! Is Danny Elfman a $cientologist?