Laura Dern

Over the years, the talent of American actress Laura Dern blossomed, surprised with new, unexpected facets. She started with the roles of naive simpletons, but a decade later she turned into a sexy femme fatale. The muse of David Lynch has crossed the 50-year threshold of life as a still in demand person in the cinema.

Laura Elizabeth Dern belongs to the famous American elite. The future actress was born on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, into a family of successful actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern. The couple starred together in the film "Wild Angels", the couple were nominated for an Oscar.

The biography of ancestors and relatives is no less brilliant. Grandfather George Dern served as governor of Utah for eight years, and in the 1930s he was promoted to US Secretary of Defense. Grandmother - George's wife - renowned actress Mary Lanier. In addition, Laura is the niece of the poet, head of the Library of Congress Archibald McLeish. The woman's uncle is the writer Tennessee Williams.

When Laura was two years old, her parents filed for divorce. The girl was raised by her mother and grandmother. At the age of seven, she spent her summer holidays on the set of two films by legendary directors Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese: her father was shot in The Family Conspiracy, and her mother was in Alice No Longer. In an interview, Laura admits that it was then that she wanted to devote her life to cinema. The actors were free to improvise and were full-fledged filmmakers.

At the age of 9, the girl declared her desire to become an actress and found support from her mother, who warned that she would have to work hard and in the next two years forget about the weekend.

Her hobbies for horse riding and ballet (Laura danced since she was 5) gave way to acting classes and auditions. After leaving school, Laura Dern studied at the University of Southern California, but she mastered the whole semester and left the walls of the institution. She preferred the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles.

Laura's first appearance in the frame took place in the film "White Lightning". But the second shooting was more memorable - during those summer vacations from childhood. The actress in the movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" got a small episode in which she was eating ice cream in the kissing scene of the main characters performed by Ellen Burstyn and Chris Kristofferson. To the ideal, it took 20 takes, which is 19 ice cream cones. Martin Scorsese joked about such endurance, calling little Laura a natural-born actress. And the secret lay in the girl's love for Chris - she admired the idol and did not even notice the bust with ice cream.

The actress does not consider tiny episodes a debut in a movie. The first full-fledged role with which talent began to unfold was in the drama Foxes by Adrian Lyne. At the age of 11, Lara's height was already 1.75 m, and she got a significant and adult role. At the age of 16, she was lucky enough to join the cast of Peter Bogdanovich's film "The Mask", for which the actress received her first recognition - an award from the Association of Film Critics.

In the mid-80s, Laura Dern became the muse of director David Lynch and soared to the top of popularity. The love of the audience was brought by the painting "Blue Velvet", which was called the best thriller and detective of all time. In 1990, Laura again played in the Lynch tape, this time in a duet with her mother. For the drama Wild at Heart, the director received the Palme d'Or, and Diane Ladd was nominated for an Oscar. Laura herself was first nominated for the main award of the American film industry for the image of a young nymphomaniac in the film Dissolute Rose.

The last decade of the 20th century was successful for Laura Dern. The filmography was adorned with roles in films of famous directors and brought the actress long-awaited awards - work in The Fast and the Furious by Robert Markowitz was awarded the Golden Globe, and for her role in Citizen Ruth by Alexander Payne, the woman received an award at the Montreal International Film Festival. Significant works of that time can also be called the main roles in the Oscar-winning "Jurassic Park" by Steven Spielberg and the film "Ideal World" by Clint Eastwood.

The actress met the new millennium with a creative crisis, starred mainly in episodes. 2006 was another breakthrough in the acting biography - the film by David Lynch "Empire Inland" was released. The director admitted that he considers the picture significant for himself: he acted as a director, scriptwriter and music writer, cameraman, editor and even a producer. At the same time, the cast was filmed for the first time on a digital camera.

The master is sure that without Laura "Empire" would not have worked - Dern managed to simultaneously embody the images of an actress, a housewife and a prostitute. By the way, Laura gave the title to the film, dropping the phrase “inner empire” in conversation. Critics predicted an Oscar nomination for the film, but the film never made it to the list of nominees for the award. But he won the prize for the Digital Cinema of the Future at the Venice Festival.

Then a whole scattering of bright pictures awaited. This is "Tenderness" with Russell Crowe, and "Recount" with Kevin Spacey (for the role of Laura received the second "Golden Globe"), and "Meet the Fockers-2" with Robert De Niro himself. And participation in the TV series "Enlightened" brought the third "Golden Globe".

In 2014, Dern delighted viewers with roles in The Fault in the Stars and The Wild, which made a strong impression on the audience. Laura in both films plays mothers with complex and deep characters. She was again nominated for an Oscar for her character in the film Wild.

For the past four years, Laura has lived alone, absorbed in the career and upbringing of Ellery Walker's son and daughter Jaya. The children were born in a single marriage with musician Ben Harper - the couple got married in 2005, but broke up eight years later.

Although the actress managed to go down the aisle only once, her biography is distinguished by a stormy personal life. In the piggy bank of novels - a short relationship with the actor Kyle McLachlan, with whom fate brought together on the set of the movie "Blue Velvet", a serious relationship with director Rennie Harlin, love with Nicholas Cage, a partner in the film "Wild at Heart". In 1993, Laura met Jeff Goldblum while filming Jurassic Park, and the couple were even engaged.

The heart of the actress was wounded by her relationship with Billy Bob Thornton. A long romance ended with the fact that Laura learned from the newspapers about the marriage of her beloved to the beautiful Angelina Jolie.

Laura Dern continues to delight with the presence at all significant star parties, new victories and works. In January, the actress got into the lenses of photographers at the Palm Springs festival - in the photo she poses with her daughter.

The beginning of autumn was marked by another award. On September 18 the winners of the 2017 Emmy Awards were named, among whom was Laura - the statuette won the Best Supporting Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie nomination for her participation in the Big Little Lies project.

In May, Showtime premiered the miniseries Twin Peaks, a sequel to the legendary television movie from the early 90s, where Dern portrayed Agent Cooper's imaginary secretary. And soon the viewer will see Laura in the sequel to the cult saga "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", the premiere is scheduled for December.

At the same time, the actress worked on the next project "Trial by Fire": in Ed Zwick's film Laura will play in tandem with Jack O'Connell. The plot is based on the murder of three young children that took place in Texas in 1991.

In February 2020, Laura's name reappeared in the news headlines: the actress was awarded the coveted Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film "Marriage Story".

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1974 - "Alice doesn't live here anymore" 1980 - "Foxes" 1985 - "Mask" 1986 - "Blue Velvet" 1990 - "Wild at Heart" 1991 - "Weak Rose" 1992 - "Fast and the Furious" 1993 - "Jurassic Park" 1993 - "Ideal World" 1996 - "Citizen Ruth" 1999 - "October Sky" 2001 - "Jurassic Park-3" 2006 - "Inland Empire" 2008 - "Recount" 2010 - "Meet the Fockers-2" 2011 - "Enlightened "2014 - Fault in the Stars" 2014 - "Wild" 2017 - "Big Little Lies" 2017 - "Twin Peaks"

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Laura Dern Net Worth 2021

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