Bridget Powers

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Bridget Powers
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Powers in 2000
Born (1980-10-11) October 11, 1980 (age 43)
Boise, Idaho, U.S.
Other namesBridget Powerz
Bridget "the Midget" Powers
Bridgette
Cheryl Marie Murphy
Height114 cm (3 ft 9 in) [1]

Bridget Powers (born October 11, 1980) is an American pornographic actress with dwarfism. She is often credited as "Bridget the Midget" [2] or with the alternate spelling "Bridget Powerz". [2] Besides her adult work, she has also appeared in many films in either comedic or dramatic roles, such as Big Money Rustlas , Tiptoes , and S.W.A.T.

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Early life

Powers was born in Boise, Idaho. 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 bowed legs; the results left her with one straight leg and one that points to the left. Powers has to wear a knee brace. [1]

Career

Powers was discovered at a goth nightclub by a man who was working as a make-up artist for a gothic vampire adult movie. [1] She made her first porn film in 1999. [3] By her own count, she appeared in 65 to 70 original films, with compilations bringing that up to over 110. [4] She left the business, as she wished to do condom-only scenes yet many of the male performers would remove the condoms. [4] Disillusioned with the exploitation of the porn film industry, she then set up her own video on demand website. [2]

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 8mm , Confessions of a Dangerous Mind , S.W.A.T. , Wristcutters: A Love Story , I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell [ citation needed ] and independent films such as Almost Amateur, Tiptoes , and Lynsey does Jody 2 – Extreme Edition.

She appeared as herself in the 2002 HBO documentary series Cathouse: The Series , which explored the lives of the owners, management, staff and customers of the Moonlite BunnyRanch brothel in Mound House, Nevada. As "Bridget the Midget", she was featured in an episode of the History Channel series Wild West Tech. In 2006, she appeared on an episode of VH1's celebrity reality show, The Surreal Life . She has also appeared on The Howard Stern Show on E! [5] She also played the role of Tink, Sheriff Sugar Wolf's love interest in the 2010 film Big Money Rustlas .

Personal life

She has one child. [6] On September 18, 2019, she was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center after stabbing her boyfriend Jesse James [7] in the leg at her home in Las Vegas, after discovering him in bed with another woman. [8]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Little Person
2003 Temptation Rita's Porn Partner
2003 S.W.A.T. Self
2003 Tiptoes Sally
2006 Wristcutters: A Love Story Stripper
2006 Cain and Abel Little Vito
2009 I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Rainbow Sprite
2010 Big Money Rustlas Tink
2020Tidy Tim'sTiny Tammy

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001 The Andy Dick Show Episode: "Blind Date"
2005 Cathouse: The Series Self3 episodes
2006 The Surreal Life SelfEpisode: "Tawny Takes on Flo Part: 2"
2013–2014 The League Candy2 episodes

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