“There are two people I have to thank for that - I guess for my birth and also for the vocation. To my parents Bruce and Diane, who showed me the love and the passion for acting.”
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Laura Dern
Laura Elizabeth Dern is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and five Golden Globes.
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entertainment · American actress (born 1967) · film actor · film producer · voice actor · television actor · screenwriter · film director · actor · also Laura Dern, Laura Elizabeth Dern, Laura Elizabeth Dern-Harper, Laura E. Dern, L. E. Dern, L. Dern
Born 10 February 1967 · Q220901
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 27,147 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.3× the usual 4,286, with 1 article edits.
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2022· 1 entry
Dern reprised her role as Dr
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2020· 4 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Marriage Story (2020).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Marriage Story (2020).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Marriage Story (2020).
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Served as an executive producer on the animated short film If Anything Happens I Love You, which was released on Netflix, and was a producer on the documentary film The Way I See It
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2019· 2 entries
Became a board member of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
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Dern reprised her role of Renata Klein in Big Little Lies after the series was renewed for a second season where she once again received critical acclaim and received her eighth Primetime Emmy Award nomination
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2018· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Big Little Lies (2018).
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To a standing ovation, and later on HBO on May 26, 2018
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Dern brought activist Mónica Ramírez to the 75th Golden Globe Awards as a guest
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Dern starred as professor and documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox, recalling her traumatic past in the autobiographical feature film The Tale, written and directed by Fox
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2017· 4 entries
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal, Dern appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and revealed that she had been sexually assaulted at age 14
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Big Little Lies (2017).
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Dern reteamed with both Witherspoon and Vallée from Wild and The Fault In Our Stars co-star Shailene Woodley for the 2017 HBO miniseries Big Little Lies, the latter who Dern had helped convince to join the cast
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First portrayed Renata Klein in the drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), winning a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe, and reunited with Lynch for the final time in Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
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2014· 1 entry
Co-starred alongside Reese Witherspoon in Jean-Marc Vallée's biographical drama film Wild portraying the character of Bobbi, mother of Cheryl Strayed in flashback scenes, for which she received her second Academy Awa
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2012· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for Enlightened (2012).
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Dern starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's psychological drama film The Master
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2010· 1 entry
Appeared in Little Fockers, portraying Prudence, an elementary school principal
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2009· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Recount (2009).
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Dern expressed support for the incoming administration of Barack Obama during her acceptance speech for her Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film win, stating: "I will cherish this as a reminder
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2008· 1 entry
Dern starred as Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris in Recount, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
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2007· 2 entries
“I will cherish this as a reminder of the extraordinary, incredible outpouring of people who demanded their voice be heard in this last election so we can look forward to amazing change in this country.”
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“Many of us were taught not to tattle. It was a culture of silencing and that was normalized. I urge all of us to not only support survivors and bystanders, who are brave enough to tell their truth, but to promote restorative justice. May we also please protect and employ them. May we teach our children that speaking out without the fear of retribution, is our culture’s new North Star.”
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2006· 1 entry
Dern reunited with director David Lynch for the third time after Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart in the experimental film Inland Empire which was largely shot on a hand-held Sony DSR-PD150 by Lynch himself and without a co
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2004· 1 entry
Starred in the film We Don't Live Here Anymore
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2001· 1 entry
Dern reprised her role as Ellie in Jurassic Park III, which was directed by Johnston, whom she had worked with in October Sky
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2000· 1 entry
Robert Altman cast Dern in his comedy Dr
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1997· 1 entry
Dern was asked by Ellen DeGeneres to guest star as Susan Richmond in "The Puppy Episode" of the sitcom Ellen
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1993· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Afterburn (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Dern and Ladd became the first mother and daughter to be nominated for Academy Awards for acting in the same film for their performances in Rambling Rose
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1990· 1 entry
Dern once again collaborated with Lynch, and starred opposite Nicolas Cage in the black comedy crime film Wild At Heart, in which Dern played a vastly different character from her previous role in Blue Velvet
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1985· 1 entry
Was cast in the film Smooth Talk two weeks before production began as protagonist Connie Wyatt, a carefree 15-year-old girl who grabs the attention of a predatory stranger
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1982· 1 entry
Dern, aged just 15, served as Miss Golden Globe
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1967· 1 entry
Born 1967-02-10.
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