Bridget Powers (born October 11, 1980) is an American

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with

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. She is often credited as "Bridget the Midget" or with the alternate spelling "Bridget Powerz". Besides her adult work, she has also appeared in many films in either comedic or dramatic roles, such as ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' S.W.A.T.''. She also is the singer in the

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Bridget and the Nameless.

Early life

Powers was born in

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. Her parents divorced when she was one year old, and she had a number of operations between the ages of three and fourteen to correct

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; the results left her with one straight leg and one that points to the left. Powers has to wear a knee brace.

Career

Powers was discovered at a

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nightclub by a man who was working as a make-up artist for a gothic vampire

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. She made her first porn film in 1999. By her own count, she appeared in 65 to 70 original films, with compilations bringing that up to over 110. She left the business, as she wished to do condom-only scenes yet many of the male performers would remove the condoms. Disillusioned with the exploitation of the porn film industry, she then set up her own

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website. She was a co-host on Ed Powers' radio show ''Bedtime Stories''. She is also in a band named Blakkout. In addition to her erotic film roles, she has appeared in several mainstream films, such as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' S.W.A.T.'', '' Wristcutters: A Love Story'', ''

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'' and independent films such as ''Almost Amateur'', ''

'', and ''Lynsey does Jody 2 – Extreme Edition''. She appeared as herself in the 2002

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series '' Cathouse: The Series'', which explored the lives of the owners, management, staff and customers of the

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. As "Bridget the Midget", she was featured in an episode of the

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series ''Wild West Tech''. In 2006, she appeared on an episode of

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's celebrity reality show, ''

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''. She has also appeared on ''

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'' on E! She also played the role of Tink, Sheriff Sugar Wolf's love interest in the 2010 film ''

''. In 2022, Powers formed the

Bridget and the Nameless.

Personal life

She has one child. On September 18, 2019, she was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center after stabbing her boyfriend Jesse James in the leg at her home in

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, after discovering him in bed with another woman.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Powers, Bridget 1980 births Living people 21st-century American women musicians Actors with dwarfism American actors with disabilities American people of Guatemalan descent American pornographic film actresses Hispanic and Latino American television people Hispanic and Latino American pornographic film actors Actresses from Boise, Idaho Pornographic film actors from Idaho