Bridget Fonda hurt in car crash
Bridget Fonda was in hospital last night after a car crash.
The American actress suffered head and neck injuries in the smash in Los Angeles.
She was being treated in the UCLA Medical Centre, but the extent of her injuries was not immediately known.
She was thought to have been driving her new Jaguar, which she bought in Beverly Hills in November.
It is thought the car rolled over after a collision with another car, but full details of exactly how and where the accident happened were not immediately clear, said a spokesman for Miss Fonda.
The 39-year-old daughter of Peter Fonda and niece of Jane Fonda has film credits including The Godfather, Part III, Strapless and Single White Female.
Miss Fonda first took up acting after appearing in a school production of the play Harvey.
At 18, she enrolled at New York University and spent four years studying there and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
She went on to hone her craft in workshop productions and worked on such stage projects as Just Horrible, written by Nicholas Kazan, who later cast Miss Fonda in his directorial debut, Professional Man.
She also starred in Jacob Have I Loved and in a segment of Aria, a film composed of short works by 10 respected directors.
Fonda, grand-daughter of Hollywood legend Henry Fonda, is one of very few third-generation film stars. Despite hailing from one of Hollywood's best known acting dynasties, she has often confessed to a turbulent relationship with her parents.
She told one interviewer: 'I can be pretty nasty. Not "mean" nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.' She was offered the television role of Ally McBeal in 1997 but turned it down to focus on her film career.
She is believed to have not even read the script to what became one of the most successful American TV dramas of the last ten years because she feared that she would like it too much.
She has recently been romantically linked with the singer and actor Dwight Yoakam. Before that, she spent most of the 1990s living with actor Eric Stoltz.
She shared a house with the filmwriter Lee Drysdale in the late 1980s. Cameron Crowe wrote his 1992 film Singles specifically for her.
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