• Name: Laura Dern
  
• Birth Name: Laura Elizabeth Dern
  
• Height: 5' 10
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: February 10, 1967
  
• Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
  
• Profession: actress, director, writer
  
• Education: Lee Strasburg Institute
  
•   : UCLA in Los Angeles, California (dropped out after two days)
  
•   : University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California (attended for one semester)
  
• Relationship: Ben Harper (musician; together spring 2001), Billy Bob Thornton (actor; 1997-2000), Jeff Goldblum (actor; 1993-1996), Renny Harlin (director), Kyle MacLachlan (actor; 1985-1989), Treat Williams (actor; dated in 1984)
  
• Father: Bruce Dern (actor; born on June 4, 1936; married in 1960; divorced in 1967)
  
• Mother: Diane Ladd (actress; born on November 29, 1932)
  
• Grand Father: George Dern (politician; served as Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt)
  
• Grand Mother: Mary Lanier (actress; born on August 15, 1912 in Mobile, Alabama; died on May 23, 2002 in Ojai, California)
  
• Step Father: Andrea Beckett (married in 1969)
  
• Step Mother: Robert Hunter (married in February 1999)
  
• Claim to fame: as Lula in Wild at Heart (1990)
  

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• "To utilize the media to be who you really are is such a great gift - and then there are people who use it to discard others, which is sad for them."
• "I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I've never heard from him again." [on Billy Bob Thorton's marriage to Angelina Jolie]

• Sundance Film Festival: Tribute to Independent Vision Award (1999)
• Golden Globe Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role--Mini-Series or Television Movie, AFTERBURN (1992)
• Montréal World Film Festival: Best Actress, CITIZEN RUTH (1996) and RAMBLING ROSE (1991)
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: New Generation Award (1985)
• Golden Globe Awards: Miss Golden Globe (1982)

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