Full Birth Name: Bridget Sweeney

Full Legal Name: Bridget Sweeney

Preferred Name: Bridget or Sweeney

Timeline: Seasons 6-10

Date of Birth: March 17th, 1974

Age: 32 years

Gender: Cisgender Female

Species: Human

Race: Caucasian

Heritage: Irish

Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado

Place of Residence: Colorado Springs, Colorado

Nationality: Irish, American

Citizenship: Irish, American

Moral Alignment: Chaotic and Lawful Good

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Marital Status: Dating

Religion: Unlabeled

Religious Identity: Unlabeled

Gender Identity: Female

Education: Kindergarten through twelfth grade and honors graduate, doctorate in History

Professions: Military Historian, Published Author

Place of Work: Stargate Command (SG-1)

Height: 5'3

Weight: 132 pounds

Body type: Athletic mesomorph

Physical appearance: Bridget Sweeney had lightly tanned white skin. She was of average height and slightly above average weight. She had long brown ringlets that fell slightly over her shoulders and her curls had a soft, bouncy texture. Her eyes were oval-shaped and their color was deep brown. Her eyelashes were long, She had a small, slightly upturned nose with a subtle bridge, thin lips, and hard cheekbones.

Portrayer: Orla Brady

Medical Condition: Type 1 Diabetes

Important Relationships:
-  Caoimhe Fay (biological mother, human, alive)
- Liam Sweeney (biological father, human, deceased)
- Daniel Jackson (close friend, ex-boyfriend, human, alive)
- Jack ‘O’ Neall (best friend, brother figure, human, alive)
- Samantha Carter (best friend, sister figure, human, alive)
- Teal’c (best friend, father figure, Jaffa, alive)
- Janet Fraiser (aunt figure, human, deceased)
- Cameron Mitchell (boyfriend, human, alive)
- Vala Mal Doran (close friend, former rival, human, alive)
- Hank Landry (boss, friend, human, alive)

Character Arc: Bridget Sweeney was born in Denver, Colorado to Irish immigrants. In America, she faced discrimination for her Irish heritage and did not have many friends other than her relatives and friends in Ireland. No one she knew or was related to was in the military, but when she was in high school, she decided to study military history because she was mortified by war and wanted to know how it started. She had the intention of de-escelating conflicts and preventing wars, which led to her interest in becoming a military historian.
Bridget’s mother, a retired biochemist named Caoimhe Fay, encouraged Bridget in pursuing a career as a historian. However, Bridget’s father, a medical doctor named Liam Sweeney, thought that Bridget would be better off pursuing something in a different field. Bridget and Liam had a strained relationship because of her career choice, even after she accepted a scholarship to university at nineteen years old.
While pursuing her military history degree, she read a study by an archaeologist named Daniel Jackson that proposed a theory about aliens in the pyramids of Giza, suggesting that the pyramids were older than they seemed. Many people mocked his theory and he was laughed out of academia for it. Bridget, however, believed it and began to follow his work, though she never referenced it for fear of ruining her career. In the year 1998, she graduated from university one year early, at twenty-three years old, with a doctorate in history, and began teaching history at a university in Colorado while publishing papers on the side.
Due to her work, Bridget was invited in the year 2002 to be a member of a military organization named Stargate Command, which pertained off-world matters. The offer was extended to her in-person by Daniel. Daniel revealed that he worked for SG-1, read her work, and said that Jack ‘O’ Neal, the commanding officer of SG-1 (an elite United States Air Force special operations team who protected Earth from off-world threats), would like to have her working at the command center. When she asked why Jack did not come in-person, Daniel told her that he wanted to meet her in-person to compliment her on her work. She considered the offer for no more than a few days and sent an acceptance letter to Jack along with her resume for good measure. Jack interviewed her and she was accepted into the program on the spot. She quit her job as a professor and became a member of Stargate Command, though she struggled to fit in with everyone there.
During her time at Stargate Command, Bridget proved to be useful in developing war strategies against the evil alien race, the Goa'uld, due to her knowledge in ancient military tactics. She developed a close friendship with Samantha Carter, who was an astrophysicist for SG-1, and proved her loyalty to the team when she risked her life to save Samantha when the Goa’uld attacked Stargate Command. Bridget was invited to be a member of SG-1 after her heroic actions, an offer which she eagerly accepted.
Bridget developed a crush on Daniel not long after she joined SG-1. The feeling was mutual and she asked him out on a date shortly after joining SG-1. The date went well and they developed a romantic relationship. However, rumors began to circulate among other workers that she only became a member of SG-1 because Daniel was interested in her. This put a strain on their relationship, but it was not the reason why they ultimately broke up. Though they wanted to be together, they decided to put work over their feelings and agreed to just be friends. This happened shortly before SG-1 disbanded and after the death of Janet Fraiser, a doctor for SG-1 who Bridget had grown to see as an aunt.
While everyone else left, Bridget decided to stay with SG-1. She also kept in touch with Samantha, Daniel, Jack, and a Jaffa named Teal’c, who was also a member of SG-1.
Following the breakup of the team and Jack’s retirement, Liam passed away due to a heart attack, leaving Bridget devastated. She took several months off from work to live with Caoimhe and considered retiring until she was recruited by air force lieutenant Cameron Mitchell, the new leader of SG-1, to help him re-recruit the retired members of SG-1. Bridget eventually accepted and grew fond of Cameron when he risked his life to save SG-1 from the Goa’uld. She spent frequent time with him during his recovery process and developed a close friendship with him that slowly developed into something more. They both eventually realized that they had romantic feelings for each other, but they never acknowledged their feelings explicitly and continued to keep each other at a professional distance. She also eventually became friends with Vala Mal-Doran, an on-off ally to Stargate Command and eventual member of SG-1, despite their initial antagonistic relationship.
In the year 2008, SG-1 was made aware of the existence of the Ori, ascended beings who tried to force people into converting to their religion. Caoimhe was approached by the Ori, but was saved by Bridget with backup from SG-1. Due to Bridget’s convincing, Caoimhe agreed to be brought to Stargate Command and put under military protection until further notice. While Caoimhe was at Stargate Command, she realized that Bridget and Cameron had feelings for each other and jumped at every opportunity to subtly set them up. Bridget and Cameron noticed this and were polite about it, but they never really responded to it.
In the year 2009, while SG-1 was traveling on the Earth ship Odyssey to the Asgard home world, the Asgard people alerted SG-1 that the Asgard were dangerously close to extinction after millennia of genetic manipulation. When Ori warships attacked, the Asgard race went extinct as a result of the planet Orilla's massive explosions, which eventually blew up altogether. The Ori shot a final energy beam at the ship after Odyssey beamed the majority of its people down and used a Stargate to flee to the next planet. To give SG-1 and General Hank Landry time to come up with a defense, Samantha (who had become a Lieutenant-Colonel) created a confined time dilation field that made time appear to be frozen outside the area.
During the initial months on board, Bridget grew panicked about losing time with Caoimhe. Through her grief, Bridget found comfort in her friendship with Cameron and admitted that she regretted not being closer with her father. Over the next few years, Bridget and Cameron came clean about their feelings and began a romantic relationship that lasted throughout the next fifty years when they were trapped on board. Shortly after, Samantha managed to reverse time in a limited field, but the Odyssey's power supply (ZPM) was nearly exhausted from sustaining the time dilation field for that long. According to Cameron, the energy needed to turn back time was found in the Ori energy beam's power. However, in order to complete the procedure, they needed to choose one individual to exist outside of the time reversal; this individual would continue to live at their old age, while everyone else would return to their previous state fifty years ago, losing all recollection of those fifty years. As a Jaffa with a significantly longer lifetime than the other crew members, Teal'c offered to stay behind and carry out the rescue while being shielded in a different field. Odyssey left before it was destroyed, saving SG-1 and the Asgard legacy.
After everyone returned to the current time and the rescue happened, Bridget instinctively called Caoimhe to check on her. Caoimhe was alive and well. Back at Stargate Command, Teal'c refused to reveal any of the events on the ship, while SG-1 contemplated Teal'c's joking words of wisdom in the gateroom. Hank wished the team God-speed and SG-1 stepped through the gate on their next mission. Months later, Bridget and Cameron revealed their feelings to each other and agreed to enter into an official romantic relationship. A few days later, they announced their relationship status to Caoimhe, who responded with an ecstatic, “I knew it!”

Personality and Character Analysis: Bridget Sweeney was dedicated to her work and often saw the bright side to every situation. She was confident in herself while still being modest and generous. She was often seen as eccentric because of how blunt and cheerful she could be, but she took it as a compliment and never let it bring her down. She did not often hold grudges, but the biggest grudge that she held was against her father, who caused her to have many insecurities. Despite the self-esteem issues that he caused her, she forever regretted not making up with him before he died. Because of this, she usually always gave second chances to people and was very forgiving. She was intelligent, well-read, and open-minded. However, she could also be stubborn and oblivious, which was a troublesome combination that often got her into trouble. Her strong sense of humanity and empathetic nature balanced out her stubbornness and she grew to become more aware over the years.