Laura Dern’s Parents: Everything To Know About Her Hollywood Legacy Family

• Laura Dern is an Oscar-winning actress, known for movies similar ‘Jurassic Park.’
• Her parents are Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, who are some acclaimed actors.
• Bruce and Diane divorced successful 1969 and person some remarried.

Laura Dern is 1 of the astir celebrated actresses of each time. Aside from uncredited roles successful the aboriginal 70s, she began regularly acting successful 1980, and she’s appeared successful a wide-range of critically-acclaimed films and fashionable blockbusters, notably aboriginal hits like Blue Velvet in 1986 and Jurassic Park in 1993. Since then, she’s appeared successful galore much movies and adjacent won an Academy Award for her relation successful 2019’s Marriage Story.

While Laura, 55, has been a beloved prima for decades, she really has galore household members that person been successful the amusement manufacture successful assorted forms. Her parents Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd are some actors, and she besides has relatives who person been successful politics, precise palmy businesspeople, and writers. All 3 actors person stars connected the Hollywood Walk Of Fame adjacent by each other.  Laura, who herself is simply a mother of two, has spoken astir however blessed she was that her parents were some entertainers successful a 2014 interrogation with The Guardian. “My parents, Dianne Ladd and Bruce Dern, are truthful real; they’re truthful who they are. The 70s, erstwhile I was a child, was their clip of large success. But determination were nary cameras pursuing you done the marketplace oregon paparazzi astatine your school,” she said. “They wanted to play analyzable radical and they didn’t attraction astir thing else, similar the glam stuff.”

Laura, Bruce and Diane grin arsenic they person stars connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (Shutterstock)

The histrion often celebrates her parents and shows photos with them connected her Instagram profile. Find retired much astir some of Laura’s parents here!

Bruce Dern

Bruce and Laura locomotion the reddish carpet astatine the 2016 Governor’s Awards. (Shutterstock)

Laura’s dada was joined erstwhile earlier helium went retired with Diane. Bruce, 86, was concisely wed to Marie Dawn Pierce from 1957 to 1959, earlier marrying Diane successful 1960. The pair’s archetypal girl died astatine 18 months old. By the clip Laura was calved successful 1967, helium was an established actor, with roles successful a assortment of TV shows, similar Stoney Burke, where helium appeared successful 17 episodes. He had besides done immoderate movie work, including successful films like Wild River and Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte. 

Since the 60s, Bruce has appeared successful a wide array of movies wherever he’s been critically acclaimed, including 1974’s The Great Gatsby, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. His performances successful 1978’s Coming Home and 2013’s Nebraska earned him some Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. Bruce and Diana divorced successful 1969 and remarried Andrea Beckett that aforesaid year!

Laura has opened up astir getting person with her dada arsenic she’s gotten older. She revealed that erstwhile she was younger, she felt similar her dada was a spot unsure arsenic a genitor successful a 2013 interrogation with Marc Maron on the WTF podcast.  “I deliberation helium benignant of — arsenic you could ideate — didn’t truly cognize what to bash with a tiny person,” she explained. She besides joked astir however a playdate’s dada confronted her implicit a quality her dada played who killed John Wayne in a 2013 Vulture interview.

Awkward playdates aside, she did uncover what she learned from her dada successful that interview. “To enactment existent to what’s close for you. Stay existent to your ain voice, and don’t interest astir needing to beryllium liked oregon what anybody other thinks. Keep your eyes connected your ain paper,” she said of what she picked up connected arsenic an actress.

Diane Ladd

Laura and Diane astatine the 2020 Academy Awards. (Shutterstock)

Like Bruce, Diane, 83, had besides established herself arsenic an histrion with a assortment of movie and TV roles successful the precocious 1950s and 60s earlier Laura was born. Over the years, Diane has appeared successful a fig of deed movies similar Chinatown (1974) and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989), and she’s received Oscar nominations for roles in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild Heart (1990), and Rambling Rose (1991).

While Diane has been unfastened astir however she initially discouraged Laura from pursuing a vocation successful acting, Laura’s archetypal 2 uncredited roles were successful her mom’s movies Alice and 1973’s White Lightning. Even though Laura spent tons of clip with her dada arsenic a kid, the histrion did explicate that her ma was the superior caregiver successful the WTF interview. “I definitely was raised by my ma and my grandma,” she said. After Diane and Bruce split, she remarried William Shea from 1969 to 1976 and Robert Hunter in 1999.

The mom-and-daughter brace co-starred successful the TV series Enlightened, which ran from 2011 to 2013. Laura said that immoderate radical didn’t recognize that they weren’t conscionable a parent and girl connected TV but successful existent beingness too. “I person had truthful galore radical travel up to me, not truly knowing we’re parent and daughter, and it’s astonishing that determination are radical who are fans of the amusement who don’t cognize and get specified a footwear retired of the relationship,” she said successful a CBS News interview.

Both actresses appeared successful a fig of antithetic projects together, including Rambling Rose, Wild At Heart, and Citizen Ruth. Similarly, Diane was ecstatic to get to enactment alongside her girl connected the show. “To enactment with idiosyncratic you emotion is simply a large thing,” she told CBS News.

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