Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, and five Golden Globes. Born to actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, Dern embarked on an acting career in the 1980s and rose to prominence for her performances in Peter Bogdanovich's Mask (1985) and in David Lynch's films Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart (1990). She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as the orphan Rose in the drama film Rambling Rose (1991), and received her first Golden Globe for her performance in the television film Afterburn (1992). She achieved international recognition for her role as Ellie Sattler in Steven Spielberg's adventure film Jurassic Park (1993), a role she reprised in the sequels Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022). After winning two Golden Globes for her performances as Katherine Harris in the television film Recount (2008), and Amy Jellicoe in the comedy series Enlightened (2011–2013), Dern garnered her second Academy Award nomination for her performance as the mother of Cheryl Strayed in the biopic Wild (2014). She portrayed Renata Klein in the drama series Big Little Lies, winning a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe, and reunited with Lynch for Inland Empire (2006) and Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). She had supporting roles in the films Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Little Women (2019), and Marriage Story (2019). Her performance as a divorce lawyer in Marriage Story won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with the corresponding BAFTA Award and Golden Globe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laura Dern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
119 movies · 40 shows
Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
2026·0.0
Is This Thing On?
2025·6.6
The Making of Jay Kelly
2025·5.8
Jay Kelly
2025·6.2
Caught Stealing
2025·6.8
Welcome to Lynchland
2025·6.5
Carole & Grey
2024·1.0
Lonely Planet
2024·6.1
OZI: Voice of the Forest
2024·6.1
2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2023·8.1
Common Ground
2023·6.1
The Endangered Generation?
2023·6.0
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023·8.3
The Son
2022·6.7
Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind
2022·7.4
Halftime
2022·6.8
Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World
2022·7.0
Jurassic World Dominion
2022·6.6
Sheryl
2022·6.4
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021·7.0
The Making of "Marriage Story"
2020·10.0
Crazy, Not Insane
2020·7.2
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020·3.2
Little Women
2019·7.8
Marriage Story
2019·7.7
Marriage Story: From the Pages to the Performances
2019·8.3
Trial by Fire
2019·7.0
J.T. LeRoy
2019·5.5
Cold Pursuit
2019·5.9
The Director and the Jedi
2018·7.2
The Force of Sound
2018·8.3
The Tale
2018·7.1
Downsizing
2017·5.4
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017·6.7
The Number of Completion
2017·5.5
A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth
2017·6.0
The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair
2017·7.1
Spielberg
2017·7.5
Bobbi Jene
2017·5.6
The Good Time Girls
2017·6.5
The Words That Built America
2017·6.0
The Black Ghiandola
2017·6.5
Wilson
2017·6.0
The Founder
2016·7.1
Blue Velvet Revisited
2016·6.9
Certain Women
2016·6.0
99 Homes
2015·6.8
Bravetown
2015·6.7
Wild
2014·7.0
When the Game Stands Tall
2014·6.7
The Fault in Our Stars
2014·7.6
9 Kisses
2014·5.5
Trespassing Bergman
2013·6.6
The Master
2012·7.1
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012·7.6
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
2011·7.0
Everything Must Go
2011·6.2
Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011·6.6
Return to Jurassic Park
2011·6.6
The Hill Chris Climbed: The Gridiron Heroes Story
2011·10.0
Little Fockers
2010·5.7
Tenderness
2009·5.2
The Monday Before Thanksgiving
2008·4.0
Recount
2008·6.8
Lynch (one)
2007·5.7
Lynch 2
2007·0.0
More Things That Happened
2007·6.2
Year of the Dog
2007·5.5
Inland Empire
2006·7.0
Lonely Hearts
2006·6.0
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
2005·6.6
Happy Endings
2005·5.6
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004·0.0
We Don't Live Here Anymore
2004·5.7
Widespread Panic: Panic In the Streets
2002·0.0
Searching for Debra Winger
2002·6.4
Damaged Care
2002·7.0
Goose
2002·0.0
Mysteries of Love
2002·7.1
I Am Sam
2001·7.6
Novocaine
2001·6.0
Daddy and Them
2001·5.4
Focus
2001·6.5
Within These Walls
2001·5.6
Jurassic Park III
2001·6.2
In the Small, Small Pond
2001·0.0
Dr. T & the Women
2000·4.9
A Season for Miracles
1999·7.0
October Sky
1999·7.7
The Baby Dance
1998·6.3
Bastard Out of Carolina
1996·7.1
Citizen Ruth
1996·6.6
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
1996·5.4
Down Came a Blackbird
1995·8.1
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995·7.3
A Perfect World
1993·7.5
Rabbit Ears - The Song of Sacajawea
1993·0.0
Jurassic Park
1993·8.0
Afterburn
1992·4.2
Rambling Rose
1991·6.2
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
1990·7.5
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
1990·6.0
Wild at Heart
1990·7.0
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1989·5.7
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989·6.2
Production Story: Fat Man and Little Boy
1989·0.0
Haunted Summer
1988·5.1
No Frank in Lumberton
1988·8.2
Blue Velvet
1986·7.6
Smooth Talk
1985·6.2
Mask
1985·7.3
The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
1984·5.0
Teachers
1984·5.7
Happy Endings
1983·8.0
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
1982·6.3
Foxes
1980·6.0
Suspiria
1977·7.5
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974·7.0
White Lightning
1973·6.2