Laura Dern

Laura Dern was born in the city of stars, that is, in Los Angeles, in 1967. Natural, since her parents, Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd , were actors. She was unfortunately divorced when she was only two years old, so she was quite disconnected from her father. She had an older sister, whom she did not get to know, as she drowned at the early age of 18 months. It is clear that the movie environment in which she grew up to reach the almost 1.80 meters tall with which she composes her stylized figure was a powerful incentive to decide to direct her professional career towards film acting. And to prepare, nothing better than in the theatrical institution of the prestigious Lee Strasberg .

His first film that sounds, with a supporting role, is Zorras (1980), by Adrian Lyne , always controversial due to his eroticism , who here painted an adolescent world with drugs and sex; in the cast there was also a young woman although older than Laura Jodie Foster . When he comes of age, he does so with a Peter Bogdanovich movie about a boy with a deformed face, Mask . Although his first indisputable successes were achieved thanks to two emblematic titles by David Lynch , Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild Heart(1990): about her relationship with the director, she says that at times she has felt like a protective sister, which seems absurd to her, but it is. In addition, under the command of Roland Joffé , she is one of the few women in Shadow Creators (1987), about how the first atomic bomb was made. His first Oscar nomination came in 1991 directed by a woman, Martha Coolidge , in the powerful The Price of Ambition , where his parents were Robert Duvall , and his real mother, that is, Diane Ladd , who also opted for the golden statuette.

1993 is a perfect year. She dances with the dinosaurs by Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton as a paleontologist in Jurassic Park , -in 2001 she returned to Jurassic Park III and in 2022 to Jurassic World: Dominion- and she plays an expert criminologist in the case of the kidnapping of a child along with Clint Eastwood , also a director, in A Perfect World . The actress grew up and even dared to direct a TV movie in 1994, The Gift , with little impact.

Laura Dern is a versatile actress, who moves well in all genres, comedy, drama, adventure, thriller, and who manages to work with prestigious directors. With Alexander Payne she did Citizen Ruth 1996, which touches on the issue of abortion. She’s charming the nostalgic teen with space dreams October Sky (1999). And with Robert Altman she does the failed comedy Dr. T and the Women (2000).

He doesn’t shy away from complicated films like Focus (2001), about anti-Semitism, and he’s in I Am Sam (2001), about a charming girl and her mentally handicapped father, Sean Penn . She at the same time she can be a guest artist in an episode of The West Wing of the White House , as poet laureate. She also wins the lottery, literally and figuratively, with La ganadora (2005), a film based on real events where she is the inspired protagonist. And the following year Lynch requests her again for what is her last feature film, Inland Empire . 2005 is the year in which she married the musician Ben Harper, with whom she had two children, but the couple ended up divorcing in 2013.

In 2011 Laura Dern launched into the world of series creating with Mike White Illuminated , where she is also the protagonist and returns to work with her mother Diane Ladd, in a plot of a self-destructive woman who tries to recover the balance with the lighting alluded to by the title. Although more or less well valued, it only had two seasons. It is seen that it was a time of gurus and search, because in 2012 she did The Master with Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix . And in 2014 The Fault in Our Stars she tackles a teenage love story of cancer patients; as well as Wild Soul , directed by Jean-Marc Vallée for which she is nominated for an Oscar, where she is the mother ofReese Witherspoon , who after a tragedy walks alone in search of herself.

For Laura there is no small role, they are all worth it, especially if they are in an interesting movie. So we see her in The Founder (2016), the history of McDonald’s hamburgers, and even galactic with little presence in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). She also holds wick in 2019 with Liam Neeson in Below Zero and she is the lovely Marmee from Greta Gerwig ‘s Little Women ; but above all she is the brilliant heartless but very effective lawyer in Noah Baumbach ‘s Story of a Marriage , which gives her the Oscar and where she looks radiant, see the shots of her next to Scarlett Johansson showing her leg.