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Laura Dern

Laura Dern

Birthday: 1967-02-10 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, and five Golden Globes. Born to actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, Dern embarked on an acting career in the 1980s and rose to prominence for her performances in Peter Bogdanovich's Mask (1985) and in David Lynch's films Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart (1990). She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as the orphan Rose in the drama film Rambling Rose (1991), and received her first Golden Globe for her performance in the television film Afterburn (1992). She achieved international recognition for her role as Ellie Sattler in Steven Spielberg's adventure film Jurassic Park (1993), a role she reprised in the sequels Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022). After winning two Golden Globes for her performances as Katherine Harris in the television film Recount (2008), and Amy Jellicoe in the comedy series Enlightened (2011–2013), Dern garnered her second Academy Award nomination for her performance as the mother of Cheryl Strayed in the biopic Wild (2014). She portrayed Renata Klein in the drama series Big Little Lies, winning a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe, and reunited with Lynch for Inland Empire (2006) and Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). She had supporting roles in the films Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Little Women (2019), and Marriage Story (2019). Her performance as a divorce lawyer in Marriage Story won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with the corresponding BAFTA Award and Golden Globe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laura Dern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Jay Kelly

as    Liz

2025
Welcome to Lynchland

as    Self - Actor

2025
Is This Thing On?

as    Tess Novak

2024
Lonely Planet

as    Katherine Loewe

2024
Palm Royale

as    Linda Shaw / Penelope Rollins

2024
OZI: Voice of the Forest

as    Seema

2023
Common Ground

as    Self

2023
The Endangered Generation?

as    Self (voice)

2022
Jurassic World Dominion

as    Ellie Sattler

2022
The Son

as    Kate

2022
Sheryl

as    Self

2022
Halftime

as    Self

2021
2020
Crazy, Not Insane

as    Literary Voice of Dorothy Lewis (voice)

2020
2020
Grizzly II: Revenge

as    Tina

2019
Trial by Fire

as    Elizabeth Gilbert

2019
Cold Pursuit

as    Grace Coxman

2019
J.T. LeRoy

as    Laura Albert

2019
Little Women

as    Marmee March

2019
Marriage Story

as    Nora Fanshaw

2018
The Tale

as    Jennifer

2018
Wild at Heart: The Deleted Scenes

as    Lula Fortune

2018
The Director and the Jedi

as    Self

2017
Big Little Lies

as    Renata Klein