Laura Dern
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and five Golden Globe Awards. Born to actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, Dern embarked on an acting career in the 1980s and rose to some prominence for her performances in Mask (1985) and David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) and Wild at Heart (1990). She received an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of the titular orphan in the drama film Rambling Rose (1991) and achieved international recognition for her role in Steven Spielberg's adventure film Jurassic Park (1993), a role that she reprised in the 2001 sequel Jurassic Park III. After winning two Golden Globe Awards for her performances as Katherine Harris in the television film Recount (2008) and Amy Jellicoe in the comedy-drama series Enlightened (2011–2013), Dern garnered her second Academy Award nomination for her work in the biopic Wild (2014). In 2017, she began starring as Renata Klein in the drama series Big Little Lies, winning a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award, and reunited with David Lynch for Twin Peaks: The Return. She has since played supporting roles in the films Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Marriage Story (2019), and Little Women (2019). Her performance in Marriage Story won her an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award, both for Best Supporting Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laura Dern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2025 · Is This Thing On? as Tess Novak
- 2025 · Jay Kelly as Liz
- 2025 · Caught Stealing as Hank's Mom (uncredited)
- 2024 · Lonely Planet as Katherine Loewe
- 2024 · Palm Royale as Linda Shaw / Penelope Rollins
- 2024 · OZI: Voice of the Forest as Seema
- 2022 · The Son as Kate
- 2022 · Halftime as Self
- 2022 · Jurassic World Dominion as Ellie Sattler
- 2021 · The White Lotus as Abby (voice)
- 2020 · Crazy, Not Insane as Literary Voice of Dorothy Lewis (voice)
- 2020 · Grizzly II: Revenge as Tina
- 2019 · Little Women as Marmee March
- 2019 · Marriage Story as Nora Fanshaw
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Trial by Fire as Elizabeth Gilbert
- 2019 · Cold Pursuit as Grace Coxman
- 2017 · Downsizing as Laura Lonowski
- 2017 · Star Wars: The Last Jedi as Vice Admiral Holdo
- 2017 · Spielberg as Self
- 2017 · The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
- 2017 · Big Little Lies as Renata Klein
- 2016 · The Founder as Ethel Kroc
- 2015 · F is for Family as Sue Murphy (voice)
- 2015 · 99 Homes as Lynn Nash
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
- 2015 · Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Wendy Hebert
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Wild as Bobbi Grey
- 2014 · When the Game Stands Tall as Bev Ladouceur
- 2014 · The Fault in Our Stars as Frannie Lancaster
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2013 · Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten as Tina (archive footage)
- 2013 · Drunk History as Nellie Bly
- 2012 · The Mindy Project as Dr. Ludmilla Trapezikov
- 2012 · The Master as Helen Sullivan
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2011 · Enlightened as Amy Jellicoe
- 2010 · Little Fockers as Prudence
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2007 · Year of the Dog as Bret
- 2006 · Inland Empire as Nikki Grace / Susan Blue
- 2006 · Lonely Hearts as Rene Fodie
- 2004 · We Don't Live Here Anymore as Terry Linden
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self - Guest
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self (uncredited)
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · Searching for Debra Winger as Self
- 2001 · I Am Sam as Randy Carpenter
- 2000 · Dr. T & the Women as Peggy Travis
- 1999 · The West Wing as Tabatha Fortis
- 1999 · October Sky as Miss Riley
- 1997 · King of the Hill as Katherine (voice)
- 1997 · King of the Hill as Serving Wench (voice)
- 1996 · Bastard Out of Carolina as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 · Ellen as Susan
- 1993 · A Perfect World as Sally Gerber
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self
- 1993 · Frasier as June (voice)
- 1993 · Fallen Angels as Annie Ainsley
- 1993 · Jurassic Park as Ellie
- 1992 · The Larry Sanders Show as Laura Dern
- 1991 · Rambling Rose as Rose
- 1990 · Wild at Heart as Lula
- 1990 · Twin Peaks as Diane Evans
- 1989 · Fat Man and Little Boy as Kathleen Robinson
- 1989 · Nightmare Classics as Rebecca Laymon
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1986 · Blue Velvet as Sandy Williams
- 1985 · Mask as Diana
- 1984 · Teachers as Diane
- 1982 · Nature as Narrator (voice)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self (uncredited)
- 1974 · Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Girl Eating Ice Cream Cone (uncredited)
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Berry Thompson
- 1949 · The Emmy Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Behind the Lines as Self
- 2025 · The Making of Jay Kelly as Self - Liz
- 2025 · Welcome to Lynchland as Self - Actor
- 2023 · Common Ground as Self
- 2023 · Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love as Self - Guest
- 2021 · A Night at the Academy Museum as Self
- 2020 · The Making of "Marriage Story" as Self
- 2019 · J.T. LeRoy as Laura Albert
- 2018 · The Director and the Jedi as Self
- 2018 · The Force of Sound as Vice-Admiral Holdo (archive footage)
- 2018 · The Tale as Jennifer
- 2017 · A Bloody Finger in Your Mouth as Self
- 2017 · The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair as Self
- 2017 · Bobbi Jene as Self
- 2017 · The Black Ghiandola as Doctor
- 2017 · Wilson as Pippi
- 2016 · Blue Velvet Revisited as Self
- 2016 · Certain Women as Laura
- 2015 · Bravetown as Annie
- 2013 · Trespassing Bergman as Self
- 2011 · Everything Must Go as Delilah
- 2011 · Fight for Your Right Revisited as Cafe Patron
- 2011 · Return to Jurassic Park as Self
- 2009 · Tenderness as Teresa
- 2008 · Recount as Katherine Harris
- 2005 · The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio as Dortha Schaefer
- 2005 · Happy Endings as Pam
- 2001 · Novocaine as Jean Noble
- 2001 · Daddy and Them as Ruby Montgomery
- 2001 · Focus as Gertrude 'Gert' Hart
- 1999 · A Season for Miracles as Berry Thompson
- 1998 · The Baby Dance as Wanda LeFauve
- 1996 · Citizen Ruth as Ruth Stoops
- 1996 · The Siege at Ruby Ridge as Vicki Weaver
- 1996 · The Siege at Ruby Ridge as Vicki Weaver
- 1995 · The Making of 'Jurassic Park' as Self / Ellie Sattler
- 1992 · Afterburn as Janet Harduvel
- 1985 · Smooth Talk as Connie Wyatt
- 1982 · Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains as Jessica McNeil
- 1980 · Foxes as Debbie
- 1973 · White Lightning as Sharon Anne (uncredited)
- Future · Just One Drink as
- Future · Forever, Interrupted as
- 2026 · Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern as
- 2025 · Saturday Night Live: 50th Anniversary Special as Self - Audience Member
- 2024 · Carole & Grey as Laura Dern
- 2023 · 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self
- 2023 · The Endangered Generation? as Self (voice)
- 2022 · Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind as Voice
- 2022 · Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World as Self
- 2022 · Sheryl as Self
- 2019 · Marriage Story: From the Pages to the Performances as Self
- 2017 · The Number of Completion as Self
- 2017 · The Good Time Girls as Clementine
- 2014 · 9 Kisses as Woman on Bench
- 2011 · Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage as Sandy Williams
- 2011 · The Hill Chris Climbed: The Gridiron Heroes Story as Self
- 2008 · The Monday Before Thanksgiving as Theresa
- 2007 · Lynch (one) as Self
- 2007 · More Things That Happened as Susan Blue
- 2007 · Lynch 2 as Self
- 2004 · Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart as
- 2002 · Widespread Panic: Panic In the Streets as Self
- 2002 · Damaged Care as Linda Peeno
- 2002 · Goose as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Mysteries of Love as Self
- 2001 · Within These Walls as Sister Pauline Quinn
- 2001 · Jurassic Park III as Ellie
- 2001 · In the Small, Small Pond as
- 1995 · Down Came a Blackbird as Helen McNulty
- 1993 · Rabbit Ears - The Song of Sacajawea as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch as Self
- 1990 · Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted as Heartbroken Woman
- 1989 · Production Story: Fat Man and Little Boy as Self
- 1988 · Haunted Summer as Claire Clairmont
- 1984 · The Three Wishes of Billy Grier as Crissy
- Future · Peaked as
- Future · Morning as Cathy
- 1989 · The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Rebecca Laymon
- Future · Monsanto as Dr Melinda Rogers
- 1988 · No Frank in Lumberton as Self
- 1983 · Happy Endings as Audrey Constantine
- Future · Little Women (2019) Behind-the-Scenes Greta Gerwig: Women Making Art as Self