Bridget Jones

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fictional character film character literary character

Bridget Jones is a fictional, self-deprecating British singleton whose humorous diaries about love, career, and insecurity became iconic through Helen Fielding’s novels and their film adaptations.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form	Occurrences
Bridget Jones series	2
Bridget Jones column in The Daily Telegraph	1
Bridget Jones column in The Independent	1
Bridget Jones franchise	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ
ageInFirstNovel	early thirties ⓘ
appearsIn	Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy ⓘ Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film) ⓘ Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (novel) ⓘ Bridget Jones’s Baby ⓘ surface form: Bridget Jones’s Baby (film) Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries ⓘ Bridget Jones’s Diary ⓘ surface form: Bridget Jones’s Diary (film) Bridget Jones’s Diary ⓘ surface form: Bridget Jones’s Diary (novel)
basedOn	Helen Fielding’s newspaper columns ⓘ
characteristic	insecure ⓘ romantic ⓘ self-deprecating ⓘ singleton ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
creator	Helen Fielding ⓘ
firstAppearance	1995 ⓘ Bridget Jones’s Diary ⓘ surface form: Bridget Jones’s Diary (column) The Independent ⓘ surface form: The Independent newspaper
gender	female ⓘ
genre	chick lit ⓘ
hasFather	Colin Jones ⓘ
hasFriend	Jude ⓘ Shazzer ⓘ surface form: Sharon ‘Shazzer’ Tom ⓘ
hasMother	Pamela Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasRomanticInterest	Daniel Cleaver ⓘ Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary ⓘ surface form: Mark Darcy
influenced	modern chick lit heroines ⓘ
inspiredBy	Pride and Prejudice ⓘ surface form: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (structure and themes)
knownFor	humorous diaries about love, career, and insecurity ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
narrativeForm	diary ⓘ
nationality	British ⓘ
notableWork	Bridget Jones’s Diary ⓘ surface form: Bridget Jones’s Diary (diary entries)
occupation	columnist ⓘ journalist ⓘ publicist ⓘ
parentOf	Billy Jones ⓘ Mabel Jones ⓘ
portrayedBy	Renée Zellweger ⓘ
residence	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
strugglesWith	body image ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ self-esteem ⓘ

Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary → associatedWith → Bridget Jones ⓘ

subject surface form: Mark Darcy (Bridget Jones)

this entity surface form: Bridget Jones franchise

Daniel Cleaver → breaksUpWith → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Bridget Jones’s Baby → character → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Bridget Jones’s Diary → character → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Daniel Cleaver → cheatsOn → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Bridget Jones’s Baby → editedBy → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Daniel Cleaver → fictionalUniverse → Bridget Jones ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bridget Jones series

Daniel Cleaver → hasAffairWith → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Helen Fielding → hasGenreInSeries → Bridget Jones ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bridget Jones series

Bridget Jones’s Diary → leadActressRole → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Daniel Cleaver → loveInterestOf → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary → loveInterestOf → Bridget Jones ⓘ

subject surface form: Mark Darcy (Bridget Jones)

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film) → mainCharacter → Bridget Jones ⓘ

subject surface form: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones’s Baby → mainCharacter → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Jones → notableBearer → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Helen Fielding → notableCharacterCreated → Bridget Jones ⓘ

Helen Fielding → notableWork → Bridget Jones ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bridget Jones column in The Independent

Helen Fielding → notableWork → Bridget Jones ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bridget Jones column in The Daily Telegraph