Laura Dern trivia: 60 amazing facts about the famous actress!

Laura Dern is an American actress with multiple roles in movies and TV series. She is also the recipient of numerous accolades!

So let’s find out some trivia and facts about her career and life!

1. Her full name is Laura Elizabeth Dern
2. She was born on February 10, 1967
3. She is an American actress
4. She is the recipient of numerous accolades
5. Including four Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award
6. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards
7. Her parents were also actors
8. They are Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd
9. Laura Dern began a full-time acting career in the 1980s
10. With roles in the dramas Foxes (1980) and Mask (1985)
11. She went on to collaborate with David Lynch in several films
12. These include Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) and Inland Empire (2006)
13. As well as the television revival of Twin Peaks (2017)
14. Laura Dern received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing the titular orphan in Rambling Rose (1991)
15. And won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for the 1992 film Afterburn
16. She received international recognition with her role in the adventure film Jurassic Park (1993)
17. In 1997, Dern guest-starred in the “Puppy Episode” of the sitcom Ellen
18. In this episode Ellen DeGeneres publicly came out
19. Laura Dern, also, starred in films as Citizen Ruth (1997), October Sky (1999), and I Am Sam (2001)
20. Dern won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for portraying Katherine Harris in the television film Recount (2008)
21. And the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series for her role as Amy Jellicoe in the HBO series Enlightened (2011-2013)
22. Dern continued to take on supporting roles in several successful films
23. Including The Master (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
24. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the biopic Wild (2014)
25. Laura Dern won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
26. And received another Golden Globe
27. For her role as Renata Klein in the HBO series Big Little Lies
28. Dern is an activist for raising awareness about toxic substances that can affect children’s health
29. She is also a supporter of various charities
30. And an activist for Down syndrome awareness
31. Dern was born in Los Angeles, California
32. She is the great-granddaughter of former Utah governor and Secretary of War, George Dern
33. Dern was conceived while her parents were filming The Wild Angels
34. The poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish was her great-great-uncle
35. Her parents divorced when she was two years old
36. Dern was largely brought up by her mother and grandmother
37. She was raised Roman Catholic.
38. She studied ballet at the age of five
39. But quit at age ten once she developed scoliosis
40. Dern is an activist and supporter of various charities, such as Healthy Child Healthy World
41. She advocated for Down syndrome awareness in a cover story for Ability Magazine
42. During the 66th Golden Globe Awards, on January 11, 2009, Dern expressed support for the incoming administration of Barack Obama
43. During her acceptance speech for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for her work on the film Recount
44. In 2018, she brought activist Mónica Ramírez to the 75th Golden Globe Awards as a guest
45. Dern began dating musician Ben Harper
46. They met at one of his concerts in fall 2000
47. Harper and Dern married on December 23, 2005, at their home in Los Angeles
48. They have two children together
49. Their son, Ellery Walker, was born on August 21, 2001
50. Their daughter, Jaya, was born in November 28, 2004
51. Through this marriage, Dern also became a stepmother to Harper’s children from his first marriage
52. His son Charles and daughter Harris
53. In October 2010, Harper filed for divorce from Dern
54. Citing irreconcilable differences
55. They briefly reconciled and attended the 2012 Golden Globe Awards together
56. But Dern reactivated the divorce by filing a legal response in July 2012
57. The divorce was finalized in September 2013
58. Dern has also had romances with Kyle MacLachlan, Nicolas Cage, Baron Davis, Renny Harlin, Jeff Goldblum, and Billy Bob Thornton
59. On October 18, 2017, Dern appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and revealed that she had been sexually assaulted at age 14
60. This happened in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal