Step 1 : Introduction to the question "5. Who played the part of Bridget Jones in the films based on her diaries?"
...1. Bridget Fonda 2. Keira Knightley 3. Renee Zellweger 4. Catherine Zeta Jones Bridget Jones' Diary actually started life as a newspaper column in the British daily broadsheet, the "Independent". The author, Helen Fielding, turned the diaries into novels, and in 2001, "Bridget Jones' Diary" was released as a film, to be followed three years later by "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason". Renee Zellweger starred in both films.