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Playing characters ranging from wide-eyed virgins to willful sirens to drug-addicted losers, Laura Dern is among the screen's most interesting modern actresses. 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. Still, acting was Dern's childhood goal, and after her parents divorced, she made her film debut at the age of six in White Lightning (1973).
The following year, Dern played a bit part in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. She got her first major role in 1980, playing a teenager in Adrian Lyne's Foxes. By 1983, she had appeared in more films, and in defiance of her parents' wishes, decided to get some formal dramatic training at the Lee Strasberg Institute, where she studied Method acting. She went on to appear in films such as Teachers (1984) and Mask (1985) and gained a reputation for realistic portrayals of goodhearted innocents. 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). The young actress' portrayal earned her a New Generation Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics. That same year, Dern became an even more marketable actress when she played a fresh-faced young sleuth in David Lynch's disturbing, groundbreaking Blue Velvet. She again worked with Lynch in the flamboyantly bizarre Wild at Heart (1990), in which she played an oversexed 20-year-old on the run with her lover (Nicholas Cage). The film proved to be a family affair, as Ladd played her villainous mother. The two appeared together again the following year in the beautifully wrought Rambling Rose. 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. Ladd was also nominated, making it the first time a mother-daughter team had been so honored in the same year.
Filmography
> The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (2005) (pre-production) .... Mother
> Inland Empire (2006) (post-production)
> Lonely Hearts (2006) .... Rene
> The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) .... Dortha Schaefer
> Happy Endings (2005) .... Pam
> We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) .... Terry Linden
> "King of the Hill"
- Patch Boomhauer (2003) TV Episode (voice) .... Katherine
- Joust Like a Woman (2002) TV Episode (voice) .... Serving Wench
> Damaged Care (2002) (TV) .... Linda Peeno
> "The West Wing"
- The U.S. Poet Laureate (2002) TV Episode .... U.S. Poet Laureate Tabatha Fortis
> I Am Sam (2001) .... Randy Carpenter
> Focus (2001/I) .... Gertrude 'Gert' Hart
> Novocaine (2001) .... Jean Noble
> Within These Walls (2001) (TV) .... Sister Pauline Quinn
> Jurassic Park III (2001) .... Dr. Ellie Sattler
... aka JP3 (USA: promotional abbreviation)
> Daddy and Them (2001) .... Ruby Montgomery
> Dr T and the Women (2000) .... Peggy
... aka Dr. T and the Women (Germany) (USA: alternative spelling)
> A Season for Miracles (1999) (TV) .... Berry Thompson
... aka Hallmark Hall of Fame: A Season for Miracles (USA: series title)
> October Sky (1999) .... Miss Frieda Riley
> The Baby Dance (1998) (TV) .... Wanda LeFauve
> "Ellen"
... aka These Friends of Mine (original title)
- The Puppy Episode: Part 1 (1997) TV Episode .... Susan
- The Puppy Episode: Part 2 (1997) TV Episode .... Susan
> Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) (voice) .... Narrator
> The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996) (TV) .... Vicki Weaver
... aka Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy
> Citizen Ruth (1996) .... Ruth Stoops
... aka Meet Ruth Stoops
> "Frasier"
- Sleeping with the Enemy (1995) TV Episode (voice) .... June
> Down Came a Blackbird (1995) (TV) .... Helen McNulty
... aka Ramirez
> A Perfect World (1993) .... Sally Gerber
> Jurassic Park (1993) .... Dr. Ellie Sattler
... aka JP (USA: promotional abbreviation)
> "Fallen Angels"
- Murder, Obliquely (????) TV Episode .... Annie Ainsley
> Afterburn (1992) (TV) .... Janet Harduvel
> Rambling Rose (1991) .... Rose
> Wild at Heart (1990) .... Lula
... aka David Lynch's Wild at Heart (USA)
> Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted (1990) (TV) .... Heartbroken Woman
> Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) .... Kathleen Robinson
... aka Shadow Makers (UK)
> Nightmare Classics (1989) (TV)
> The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1989) (TV) .... Rebecca
> Haunted Summer (1988) .... Claire Clairmont
> Blue Velvet (1986) .... Sandy Williams
> Smooth Talk (1985) .... Connie
> Mask (1985) .... Diana Adams
... aka Peter Bogdanovich's Mask (USA: complete title)
> The Three Wishes of Billy Grier (1984) (TV) .... Crissy
> Teachers (1984) .... Diane
> Happy Endings (1983/I) (TV) .... Audrey Constantine
> "Shannon"
- Gotham Swansong (1981) TV Episode
> Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1981) .... Jessica McNeil
... aka All Washed Up
> Foxes (1980) .... Debbie
> Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) (uncredited) .... Girl Eating Ice Cream Cone
> White Lightning (1973) (uncredited) .... Sharon Anne, Maggie's Daughter
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