‘The Broad Lebowski’ megastar Jeff Bridges announces he has been identified with lymphoma

Jeff Bridges, the Oscar-successful actor most productive acknowledged for taking part in a stoner bowler in “The Broad Lebowski,” supplied Monday that he has been identified with lymphoma.

“As the Dude would utter,” the actor tweeted, referring to his “Lebowski” persona, “Fresh ST has arrive to light.”

Bridges, 70, did not provide crucial facets on his diagnosis, however he said he changed into as soon as beginning set aside remedy and planned to defend his followers up so a long way.

“Though it is miles a severe illness, I in actual fact feel lucky that I truly possess a colossal group of workers of doctors and the prognosis is simply,” Bridges said.

In a custom-up tweet, Bridges implored his Twitter followers to vote in the Nov. 3 election, asserting “we are all on this collectively.”

Bridges, a famously laid-abet cloak cloak outdated vogue who made his film debut in the early 1970s, has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, including a nod for his goal in the melancholic coming-of-age drama “The Closing Image Imprint.”

He lastly won an Oscar in 2010 for his performance as a grizzled nation crooner struggling with alcoholism in “Loopy Heart.”

However he is most effectively known for his flip because the Dude — a floppy-haired pothead who chugs White Russians and loafs around Los Angeles — in the Coen brothers’ cult traditional “The Broad Lebowski.”

The actor’s varied vital movies include “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,” “Starman,” “The Unimaginable Baker Boys,” “The Fisher King” and the first installment in the “Iron Man” sequence.