# Bridget Powers
**Bridget Powers** is an American former adult-film performer and mainstream film and television actress, known professionally as Bridget "The Midget" Powers, Bridget Powerz, or Bridget the Midget. Born Cheryl Marie Murphy in 1980, in [Boise, Idaho](https://www.edgepedia.org/boise-idaho), she is a dwarf, listed by The Movie Database at 3 feet 7 inches tall; her height was reported as 3 feet 10 inches in a 1999 [Howard Stern](https://www.edgepedia.org/howard-stern) show account and in a 2001 New Yorker profile.[1](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2158470-bridget-powers) • [2](https://www.marksfriggin.com/news99/8-16-99.htm) • [3](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/23/american-pimp)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1980, Boise, Idaho, USA; birth name Cheryl Marie Murphy[1](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2158470-bridget-powers) |
| Stage names | Bridget the Midget, Bridget Powerz, Bridgette Powerz, Bridgett Powerz, Brideget Powerz, Cheryl Murphy[1](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2158470-bridget-powers) |
| Adult career | Active from 1998, first screen credit in *More Dirty Debutantes 103* (1998); first television appearance *Bridget P.I.* (1999)[4](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/30331/) |
| Mainstream debut | *Confessions of a Dangerous Mind* (2002), credited as Cheryl Murphy[4](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/30331/) |
| Known films | *S.W.A.T.* (2003), *Tiptoes* (2003), *Wristcutters: A Love Story* (2006), *I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell* (2009), *Big Money Rustlas* (2010)[1](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2158470-bridget-powers) |
| Music | Lead singer of a punk band performing as Bridget the Midget; has said she wants to perform a punk version of Randy Newman's "Short People"[5](https://www.montereycountynow.com/entertainment/music/bridget-the-midget-band-leads-a-four-band-punk-o-rama-at-planet-gemini/article_24f759bc-06d8-11e8-a6fb-f7c557577306.html) |
| Current status | Retired from porn but takes occasional mainstream movie or TV roles and works as a feature dancer on the strip club circuit[1](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2158470-bridget-powers) |
## Early work and entry into adult film
Powers described herself in a 2000 interview as an entertainer who had worked since childhood in commercials, television, and freak-show acts including fire breathing and sword swallowing. She said she grew tired of being offered only leprechaun, elf, and fairy roles, and after turning 18 began considering adult film.[6](https://ainews.xxx/2000/03/14/ainews-exclusive-an-innerview-of-bridget-the-midget-powerz/)
Her route into the business, as she told it, began at a goth club in Long Beach, where a makeup artist for a first-time porn production gave her a phone number; she was soon cast in her first scene. Her first screen credit was *More Dirty Debutantes 103* in 1998, and a credit list reconstructed by Kinopoisk shows *Bridget P.I.* (1999) and *Midget Goes to Hollywood* (2000) among her early titles.[4](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/30331/) • [4](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/30331/) In August 1999, at age 19, she appeared on the Howard Stern radio show to promote her early videos, telling the program she had been in the business since that April.[2](https://www.marksfriggin.com/news99/8-16-99.htm)
## Television exposure and mainstream film
The Howard Stern TV and radio appearances raised her profile, and she was featured in HBO's *Cathouse*, a documentary series about a legal Nevada brothel; a 2001 New Yorker profile of [Dennis Hof](https://www.edgepedia.org/dennis-hof)'s Moonlite BunnyRanch described her among the porn stars who appeared there.[1](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2158470-bridget-powers) • [3](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/23/american-pimp)
Her mainstream credits concentrate in the 2000s. She played a "Little Person" in *Confessions of a Dangerous Mind* (2002), credited under her birth name Cheryl Murphy, then appeared in *S.W.A.T.* (2003), the dwarf-themed drama *[Tiptoes](https://www.edgepedia.org/tiptoes)* (2003) as Sally, and *Temptation* (2003).[4](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/30331/) Later roles include a stripper in *[Wristcutters: A Love Story](https://www.edgepedia.org/wristcutters-a-love-story)* (2006), a part in *I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell* (2009), and Tink in the [Insane Clown Posse](https://www.edgepedia.org/insane-clown-posse) western comedy *Big Money Rustlas* (2010).[4](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/30331/)
## Music
Powers fronts a punk band. In a 2018 Monterey County Weekly interview ahead of a four-band punk show at Planet Gemini, she said she had long wanted to perform a punk version of [Randy Newman](https://www.edgepedia.org/randy-newman)'s "[Short People](https://www.edgepedia.org/short-people)," and that adopting the band name immediately attracted larger crowds. The paper noted she had already built a cult following from her adult-film work in the late 1990s.[5](https://www.montereycountynow.com/entertainment/music/bridget-the-midget-band-leads-a-four-band-punk-o-rama-at-planet-gemini/article_24f759bc-06d8-11e8-a6fb-f7c557577306.html) A German profile lists her as frontwoman of the band "Blackout" under the name Bridget the Midget.[7](https://www.uncut.at/stars/person.php?person_id=15048)
## How the credit counts differ
Published figures for her output vary widely by source. The Movie Database lists 26 acting credits; Kinopoisk lists 24 films spanning 1998 to 2024.[1](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2158470-bridget-powers) • [4](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/30331/) A 2018 interview reported that over roughly six years she appeared in close to a hundred films before ending her adult career in 2006.[8](https://www.lavoixdux.com/2018/05/12/du-x-avec-des-naines/) Film Threat's profile put her adult-film total at around 40 before she left the business.[9](https://filmthreat.com/uncategorized/bridgets-midget-power/) The gap reflects different counting bases: database entries record credited titles, while interview and trade estimates include uncredited appearances and shorts.
## References
1. [Bridget Powers, The Movie Database (TMDB)](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2158470-bridget-powers)
2. [MarksFriggin.com, Howard Stern Show news archive, week of August 16, 1999](https://www.marksfriggin.com/news99/8-16-99.htm)
3. [American Pimp, The New Yorker, April 23, 2001](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/23/american-pimp)
4. [Бриджет Пауэрс (Bridget Powers): фильмография, Кинопоиск](https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/30331/)
5. [Bridget the Midget Band leads a four-band punk-o-rama at Planet Gemini, Monterey County Weekly](https://www.montereycountynow.com/entertainment/music/bridget-the-midget-band-leads-a-four-band-punk-o-rama-at-planet-gemini/article_24f759bc-06d8-11e8-a6fb-f7c557577306.html)
6. [AINews Exclusive: An InnerView of Bridget "the Midget" Powerz, Adult Industry News, March 14, 2000](https://ainews.xxx/2000/03/14/ainews-exclusive-an-innerview-of-bridget-the-midget-powerz/)
7. [Bridget Powers, UNCUT](https://www.uncut.at/stars/person.php?person_id=15048)
8. [Du X avec des naines !, La Voix du X, May 12, 2018](https://www.lavoixdux.com/2018/05/12/du-x-avec-des-naines/)
9. [Bridget's Midget Power, Film Threat](https://filmthreat.com/uncategorized/bridgets-midget-power/)
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