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  Laura Dern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress.
Dern and her mother Diane Ladd were the first and only mother and daughter ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in the same film in Rambling Rose.
Dern is the daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd and the great-granddaughter to former Utah governor George H. Dern.
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 Laura Dern Biography
Laura Dern was born on February 10th, 1967, in Los Angeles.
When Laura was born, the couple were filming TV show Castle Keep, written by Robert Altman who recalls them bringing the baby on to the set, using one of the drawers from their motel room as a makeshift crib.
Laura, an only child, was used to hanging around with her mother's friends - her godmother was Shelley Winters - and conversed with them as friends and equals (she got a fine education in radicalism and feminism).
www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/laura_dern_biog.html   (2493 words)

  
 Laura Dern News
Laura Dern right plays a lippie lesbian The Opposite of Sex in 1998 was Don Roos' impish and satirical take on love both gay and hetero and established Roos as another Algonquin-style New York wit, let loose in...
Dern and Harper's Noel Nuptials Laura Dern and Ben Harper reportedly...
Actress Laura Dern, 38, tied the knot with her longtime boyfriend, musician Ben Harper, 36, during a star-studded, outdoor sunset ceremony on December 23 at a sprawling private estate — once owned by the...
www.topix.net /who/laura-dern   (634 words)

  
 Any Old Actress // Mariel's Favorite Actresses [Laura Dern]
Dern was superb as Ruth and incredibly realistic.
Dern was still fantastic and the fear and confusion radiated from her every bit as much as Connie's sexuality did.
Dern's greatest attribute was her ability to make her selfish and trashy mom heartbreaking too.
www.anyoldactress.com /lauradern.html   (1526 words)

  
 Laura Dern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Laura Dern was bitten by the acting bug as a child, when she played bit parts in her parents' (actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern) movies.
Dern could have easily been typecast into such roles had Joyce Chopra not cast her as a rebellious teen anxious to experience a sexual awakening in Smooth Talk (1986).
Dern's naturalistic performance as a troubled 19-year-old who wants love, but has confused it with sex, won her considerable acclaim that culminated in an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2616   (454 words)

  
 Laura Dern, Focus and Novocaine Interview by Paul Fischer, Published By Mike Freni
Tall, blonde, blue-eyed, and slender, Dern moves with a coltish combination of grace and gangliness that she uses to make herself alternately plain or beautiful, innocent or seductive as her roles require.
Her parents, Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, are both successful actors but initially discouraged her from becoming involved in the profession.
Next up for Dern is Novocaine, in which she stars as Steve Martin's ambitious dental hygienist and fiancée, until Martin sees his career in dentistry go down the rinsing drain as he gets caught up in an ill-fated romance with a painkiller addict and the seedy drug underworld.
www.dealmemo.com /Interview/Laura_Dern.htm   (919 words)

  
 Laura Dern at artist-blitz
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television actor.
Dern was previously in relationships with fellow actors Treat Williams, Jeff Goldblum, Kyle MacLachlan and Billy Bob Thornton, and now is in a long-term relationship with blues musician Ben Harper with whom she has two children.
Dern was exposed to movie sets and the movie industry from infancy, and obtained several bit parts as a child.
www.artist-blitz.com /f/laura-dern.html   (219 words)

  
 Laura Dern marries Ben Harper - People - Entertainment - theage.com.au
This is the first marriage for Dern, who was engaged to actor Jeff Goldblum in the mid-1990s and was later engaged to performer-filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton before he broke up with Dern in the spring of 2000 to date actress Angelina Jolie.
The daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, Laura Dern earned an Oscar nomination for her signature role in the 1991 film Rambling Rose as a sexually precocious Southern housemaid during the Depression era.
Dern also made a bit of television history as the woman to whom Ellen DeGeneres finally came out as a lesbian on her ABC sitcom Ellen.
www.theage.com.au /news/people/laura-dern-marries-ben-harper/2005/12/24/1135353176320.html   (290 words)

  
 Celebrity Breakups: Billy Bob Thornton & Laura Dern :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dern dated "Smooth Talk" co-star Treat Williams, "Blue Velvet" co-star Kyle MacLachlan for four years, director Renny Harlin, and "Jurassic Park" co-star Jeff Goldblum, to whom she became engaged in 1994.
They were together ever since, and Dern (as well as her mother, Diane Ladd) even reportedly turned down "The General's Daughter" to star in Thornton's independent feature, "Daddy and Them," which he directed and produced.
What they've said: Both Dern and Thornton were telling magazines earlier this year of their plans for marriage and their happy home life.
www.hollywood.com /features/t1/nav/5/id/471885   (322 words)

  
 Laura Dern - Cranky Critic® StarTalk - Movie Star Interviews
Laura Dern: Isn't that amazing and shocking and disturbing because you want it to be your history and you don't want it to be what you are going through now, but in fact that is the case.
Laura Dern: Right, any kind of racial profile and I'm sure is a draft and it asks those questions.
Laura Dern: There are actually two different projects, both of which are, I shouldn't say probably titles of or anything, but one is a southern dark comedy and the other one is a southern dark comedy.
www.crankycritic.com /qa/pf_articles/lauradern.html   (1577 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Damaged Care: DVD: Harry Winer,Laura Dern,James LeGros,Suki Kaiser,Michelle Clunie,Adam Arkin,Regina ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Laura Dern ("Jurassic Park", "Blue Velvet") gives a scintillating performance in "Damaged Care," the true story of Dr. Linda peeno, a woman pushed to the edge, risking her career and family to punish the ruthless companies who valued profit over human life.
Laura Dern stars as a doctor who married and had kids before she was ever able to practice medicine.
Laura Dern makes a convincing portrait of a doctor who is incapable to understand the mechanism of the actual state of things and decides to act like a voice in the desert.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006RCNB?v=glance   (1391 words)

  
 Laura Dern pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
Her turn as a blind camper who befriends freakish Eric Stoltz in Mask (1985) was all innocence and vulnerability, and her leading performance as a confused, coltish girl at the point of womanhood in Smooth Talk (1985) demonstrated her versatility.
In 1991 Dern enchanted audiences with her most mature, accomplished performance to date, playing a love-starved, promiscuous but gentle orphan in Rambling Rose (1991).
Dern was excellent in the 1992 cable-TV movie Afterburn She then costarred in two high-profile 1993 films: Jurassic Park and A Perfect World.
www.perfectpeople.net /biopage.php3/cid=818   (341 words)

  
 The Laura Dern Picture Pages
In 2005, Dern married musician Ben Harper and gave birth to Ellery Walker in 2001 and Jaya in 2004.
In Los Angeles, California, Laura Elizabeth Dern was born on February 10, 1967, to actor parents Bruce Dern (born on June 4, 1936) and Diane Ladd (born on November 29, 1932).
Dern entered the blockbuster realm in 1993 when renowned director Steven Spielberg cast her in the starring role of Dr. Ellie Sattler in the sci-fi hit Jurassic Park.
www.superiorpics.com /laura_dern   (1035 words)

  
 From Lynchian weirdness to motherhood -- Laura Dern has chosen the path less traveled
Laura Dern first entered college nearly 20 years ago, and she's still working on a degree.
Dern is the linchpin of the movie, imbuing her character, both more volatile and less duplicitous than those around her, with her signature authenticity.
If Dern has a regret about her career, it's that she wasn't of age in the 1970s, when actors like her father and mother carved out careers within the studio system.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/16/DDG5H881KV1.DTL   (1115 words)

  
 Ananova - Laura Dern back fighting dinosaurs
Laura Dern, who starred in the original Jurassic Park, will reprise her role in Jurassic Park 3.
Dern will appear alongside Sam Neill in the opening section of the film, which is currently on location in Hawaii and Los Angeles.
Neill and Dern will be joined in the film by William H Macy and Tea Leoni who play a married couple whose son gets separated from them and has to try and avoid being eaten by the dinosaurs.
www.ananova.com /entertainment/story/sm_87435.html   (120 words)

  
 Laura Dern pictures, photos, wallpapers, desktop themes, posters, music, videos, DVDs, and memorabilia
Laura Ellen Dern (born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television actor.
She had an elder sister, born in 1961, who drowned at the age of 18 months, years before Laura was born.
Dern was previously in relationships with fellow actors Jeff Goldblum and Billy Bob Thornton, and now is in a long-term relationship with blues musician Ben Harper with whom she has two children.
www.entertainzones.com /actresses/d/laura-dern/index.html   (308 words)

  
 Laura Dern - TrikiWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Laura Dern was born on February 10th 1967 to parents that where already actors - Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd.
Result of this was her exposure to the world of film and acting from a very young age.
However, despite having an impressive resume of critically acclaimed films under her belt, Dern is famouse thanks to her role as Ellie Sattler in the Jurassic Park movies.
www.trikiwiki.com /Laura_Dern   (578 words)

  
 Laura Dern Bio, News and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
In 1992, Dern was honored with Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award nominations for her performance in the title role of Martha Coolidge's Rambling Rose.
Dern's mother, Diane Ladd, was also Oscar®-nominated for her work in the film, making it the first time that a mother and daughter have received Oscar® nominations in the same film.
Dern received another Independent Spirit Award nomination for her work in David Lynch's Blue Velvet, and reunited with Lynch in Wild at Heart, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.
www.ropeofsilicon.com /profile.php?id=2270   (537 words)

  
 Mark Ruffalo, Peter Krause, Laura Dern and John Curran talk about We Don't Live Here Anymore.
Jack's relationship with his wife Terry (Laura Dern) is like a war front.
Laura Dern has been a respected actress since she was a teenager.
The film’s director John Curran and three of the stars, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Krause and Laura Dern all sat down with us at the Regency Hotel in New York a few days before the film’s debut.
www.popentertainment.com /ruffalokrausedern.htm   (1406 words)

  
 Laura Dern - MovieActors.com
Laura Dern was born on February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California.
Laura is the daughter of actor Bruce Dern and actress Diane Ladd.
At the age of 13 Laura Dern was cast in LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, THE FABULOUS STAINS, but hermother Diane Ladd her mother refused to let her go, Laura sued for emancipation and won.
www.movieactors.com /actors/lauradern.htm   (134 words)

  
 Laura Dern and Ben Harper wed - People - Entertainment - smh.com.au
US actress Laura Dern, star of such films as Rambling Rose and Jurassic Park, has married her longtime boyfriend, singer-songwriter Ben Harper, Us Weekly magazine reported today.
This is the first marriage for Dern, who was engaged to actor Jeff Goldblum in the mid-1990s and was later engaged to actor Billy Bob Thornton before he broke up with Dern in the spring of 2000 to date actress Angelina Jolie.
Dern also made a bit of television history as the woman to whom Ellen DeGeneres finally came out as a lesbian on her TV sitcom Ellen.
www.smh.com.au /news/people/laura-dern-and-ben-harper-wed/2005/12/24/1135353175241.html   (256 words)

  
 AbsoluteNow: Laura Dern photos - LAURA DERN at the 2004 IFP Independent Spirit Awards on the beach at Santa Monica, CA. ...
Actress LAURA DERN at the Los Angeles premiere of Proof of Life.
LAURA DERN at the 2004 IFP Independent Spirit Awards on the beach at Santa Monica, CA.
Actress LAURA DERN & boyfriend BEN HARPER arriving at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles for performance by Mick Jagger to promote his new solo album Goddess in the Doorway.
www.absolutenow.com /new/dern_l~1.html   (367 words)

  
 Laura Dern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dern demonstrated her wider range with a hell-raising performance as Lula, Nicolas Cage's uninhibited traveling companion, in Lynch's WILD AT HEART (1990).
Dern was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for this performance, and her mother, who co-starred, was nominated as Best Supporting Actress -- the first time a mother-daughter team was nominated in the same year for the same film.
Dern has also worked on stage and TV, winning a Golden Globe for her performance in the HBO docudrama AFTERBURN (1992).
theoscarsite.com /whoswho7/dern_l.htm   (303 words)

  
 Backstage.com interview with Mark Ruffalo and Laura Dern
But spend a few minutes with Mark Ruffalo and Laura Dern, and it is impossible not to notice the way they continually complete each other's thoughts.
It was such an enormous joy working with Laura that even [with] the heavy stuff [we] had a real fun sort of working relationship.
We didn't have any rehearsal, and we had such a short amount of prep time that we were all kind of running around with our pants down a little bit, getting it on the fly.
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 ABC12.com: Laura Dern, Ben Harper Wed
LOS ANGELES - Laura Dern and her longtime musician boyfriend Ben Harper were married Friday in a sunset ceremony filled with Christmas decorations, the magazine US Weekly reported on its Web site.
Dern, 38, and Harper, 36, tied the knot in front of more than 150 friends and family, according to the magazine.
It is the first marriage for Dern, whose film credits include "Rambling Rose," "Jurassic Park" and "Wild at Heart," and the second marriage for Harper, who won a Grammy for pop instrumental performance earlier this year for "11th Commandment."
abclocal.go.com /wjrt/story?section=entertainment&id=3755361   (192 words)

  
 Laura Dern, Interview Magazine 1990
In David Lynch's new film, Wild at Heart, Dern plays Lula, a sexually wise, rebellious, quirkily tough and vulnerable girl from North Carolina who hits the road with her lover, Sailor (Nicolas Cage), pursued by a small army of gargoyles hired by her mother, Marietta (Diane Ladd), to bring Lula home.
Dern's performance is something to burn your fingers on - raunchy and passionate and anxious and sweet.
Laura Dern arrived in a very summery white Azzedine Alaia dress and no makeup, looking Southern California beautiful rather than movie-star beautiful.
www.davidlynch.de /dernmagazine.html   (4459 words)

  
 LUCYlibrary Profile: Laura Dern: "Laura Loves Lucy"
And she certainly had the wardrobe to prove it -- she arrived on Rosie's set wearing an exact copy of Lucy's famous "Vitameatavegamin" dress from "Lucy Does a TV Commercial " (Episode #30 of I Love Lucy).
Born in Los Angeles, the willowy, five-foot-ten-inch blonde, daughter of actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern got her start in the business with bit parts in her parents' movies.
Laura received an Best Actress Oscar nomination for her starring role in Rambling Rose, which also earned her mother a Best Supporting Actress nomination (the first time a mother and daughter had both been nominated).
www.lucylibrary.com /Pages/profile-dern.html   (242 words)

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