Laura Dern Biography, Age, Movies, Star Wars and Husband

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Laura Dern Biography

Laura Dern is an American actress. She is has received several awards, including four Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards.

She started  a full-time acting career in the 1980s with roles in the dramas Foxes (1980) opposite Jodie Foster, and Mask (1985). Laura continued to collaborate with David Lynch in several films, including Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) and Inland Empire (2006), as well as the television revival of Twin Peaks (2017).  For playing the titular orphan in Rambling Rose (1991),Laura received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress  and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for the 1992 film Afterburn. She became popular internationally with her role in the adventure film Jurassic Park (1993).  Laur guest-starred in the “Puppy Episode” of the sitcom Ellen in 1997,in which Ellen DeGeneres publicly came out.

Her roles in such films as Citizen Ruth (1997), October Sky (1999), and I Am Sam (2001), Laura won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for portraying Katherine Harris in the television film Recount (2008). She also won the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series for her role as Amy Jellicoe in the HBO series Enlightened (2011–2013).

Laura went on to take on supporting roles in several successful films, including The Master (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). She she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the biopic Wild (2014). Laura won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and received another Golden Globe for her role as Renata Klein in the HBO series Big Little Lies (2017–present).

Laura is an activist for raising awareness about toxic substances that can affect children’s health. She is also a supporter of various charities and an activist for Down syndrome awareness.

Laura Dern Age | How Old Is Laura Dern

Laura was born on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, Californian. She is 51 years old as of 2018.

Laura Dern Height |How Tall Is Laura Dern |Laura Dern Measurements

Laura stands at a height of 1.79 m. and her body measurements are; -34-25-33.

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Laura was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern. She is great-granddaughter of former Utah governor and Secretary of War, George Dern. Laura was conceived while her parents were filming The Wild Angels. Archibald MacLeish the poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress was her great-great-uncle.

When her parents’ divorce when she was two years old, she was largely raised by her mother and grandmother.  She was brought up Roman Catholic. Laura studied ballet at the age of five, but quit at age ten once she developed scoliosis.

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Laura started dating musician Ben Harper after they met at one of his concerts in fall 2000. They married on December 23, 2005, at their home in Los Angeles.  They couple has two children together, son Ellery Walker (born August 21, 2001) and daughter Jaya (born November 28, 2004).  In this marriage, Laura also became a stepmother to Harper’s children from his first marriage, his son Charles and daughter Harris.

Harper filed for divorce from Dern in October 2010,  citing irreconcilable differences.  The couple briefly reconciled and attended the 2012 Golden Globe Awards together, but Laura revived the divorce by filing a legal response in July 2012. In September 2013 that when their divorce was finalized.

Laura Dern Dating

Laura  also had romances with Kyle MacLachlan, Nicolas Cage, Baron Davis, Renny Harlin, Jeff Goldblum, and Billy Bob Thornton.

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Laura Dern Star Wars

Laura appeared in Rian Johnson’s blockbuster Star Wars: The Last Jedi as Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo.

Laura Dern Billy Bob

Laura who escaped being Billy Bob’s fifth wife, revealed about her cruel split from the Sling Blade dude. In the new Talk magazine, Dern says, “I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I’ve never heard from him again.”Ouch.

Laura was featured in Widespread Panic’s music video for their song, “Aunt Avis”, in 1997 which was directed by Laura’s then boyfriend and future fiancé, Billy Bob Thornton.

Laura Dern And Common

Laura and Common where rumored to be dating after spotted spending time together back in 2016.  Laura certainly looked thrilled to see Common at the screening for their film The Tale at the Landmark theater.

Enlightened Laura Dern

Laura starred in a new HBO television series called Enlightened in October 2011 .  She plays Amy Jellicoe, “a health and beauty executive who returns from a post-meltdown retreat to pick up the pieces of her broken life” with, among others, her mother, played by her real-life mother Ladd.

Laura Dern Mask

Between 1985 and 1990, Dern gained critical acclaim for roles in Mask, Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart.

Laura Dern Rambling Rose |Laura Dern Diane Ladd

She and her mother became the first mother and daughter to be nominated in 1992, for an Academy Award for acting in the same film in Rambling Rose although, unlike in Wild at Heart, they did not play mother and daughter in the film.

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The Tale is a 2018  drama film written and directed by Jennifer Fox. It stars Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Ritter, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabelle Nélisse, Common, Frances Conroy, and John Heard. It is based on the story about Fox’s own childhood sexual abuse and how it affects her later relationships. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO on May 26, 2018.

Laura Dern Wild

Wild is a biographical adventure drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The film’s  screenplay was created by Nick Hornby. It is based on Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. It stars Reese Witherspoon as Strayed, alongside Laura Dern (as Strayed’s mother), with Thomas Sadoski, Michiel Huisman and Gaby Hoffmann among several others in supporting roles. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2014, and was released theatrically on December 3, 2014, in North America.

Laura Dern Angelina Jolie

Angelina jolie met with Billy Bob who at that time was Laura’s fiance on the set of 1999 dramedy pushing Tin in which they played husband and wife.
Both were romantically attached at the time. Angelina and Bob in May 2000 shocking the world, and perhaps most of all Dern, who said she “left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I’ve never heard from him again.”

Laura Dern David Lynch

Laura’s affiliation with David Lynch has continued with her roles in Inland Empire and Twin Peaks.

Nicolas Cage Laura Dern

Laura and Nicolas starred on Wild at Heart a 1990  neo-noir black comedy-crime film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford’s 1989 novel of the same name.

Jeff Goldblum And Laura Dern

Laura  encountered more than dinosaurs when she took on one of the lead roles in “Jurassic Park.” She found a new love. Laura and co-star Jeff Goldblum say that, though the movie brought them together, it wasn’t until after filming that they became sweethearts.

Laura Dern Ellen |Laura Dern Lesbian

Laura guest-starred on The West Wing. She was a voice on King of the Hill, and was a lesbian who coaxes Ellen DeGeneres out of the closet in the famous 1997 “The Puppy Episode” of the television series Ellen.

Is Laura Dern Related To Bruce Dern

Laura  and Bruce since Laura is the daughter to Bruce Dern .