Laura Dern
Laura Dern is a three-time Academy Award® nominee who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, as well as a Screen Actor’s Guild award and BAFTA award for her performance in Noah Baumbach’s film Marriage Story. She is also an Emmy® and Golden Globe® winner who has touched audiences and critics alike with her moving and heartfelt performances.
Most recently, Dern can be seen in the Noah Baumbach project Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney. She will next be seen opposite Will Arnett in Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? (Searchlight Pictures) and the limited series “Forever, Interrupted” with Margaret Qualley.
In 2024, Dern executive produced the new series “Palm Royale”, in which she also stars. She also starred in Lonely Planet (Netflix) opposite Liam Hemsworth. In 2023, she co-starred opposite Hugh Jackman in The Son, writer-director Florian Zeller’s follow-up to the BAFTA winning and Academy Award® nominated The Father. Additionally, in 2023, Dern executive produced with co-producer Reese Witherspoon on the Hulu television series “Tiny Beautiful Things”, starring Kathryn Hahn based on the book of the same title. She also reprised her iconic role as Ellie Sattler in Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion, one of the highest grossing films globally in 2022.
Previously, Dern was seen in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women, as well as reprised her role as Renata in the second season of “Big Little Lies,” which earned Dern an Emmy nomination.
In addition to her extensive film and television acting credits, Dern is prolific in her producing career. In 2017, she founded Jaywalker Pictures, a Los Angeles-based production company with producing partner Jayme Lemons. Jaywalker’s first successful entre into the world of documentaries was the Emmy® Award nominated “The Way I See It,” directed by Dawn Porter. Jaywalker Pictures also served as executive producers on the Academy Award® winning animated short film If Anything Happens I Love You in 2020.
Prior to forming Jaywalker Pictures, Dern and Lemons served as producers on the critically acclaimed series “Enlightened,” in which Dern starred and won an Emmy® and Golden Globe® for.
Some of Dern’s additional starring roles include Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, Wilson, Certain Women, Wild, 99 Homes, The Fault in Our Stars, The Master, Inland Empire, Lonely Hearts, Happy Endings, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, Novocaine, Focus, Citizen Ruth, Jurassic Park, A Perfect World, Rambling Rose (Academy Award® nomination), Smooth Talk, Mask, Blue Velvet,
Wild at Heart, Dr. T & the Women, October Sky, Mask, and Fat Man and Little Boy.
Dern’s starring roles in some of the most successful television shows including “Big Little Lies,” “The Tale,” “Enlightened,” Recount,” “Damaged Care,” “Within These Walls,” “Daddy and Them,” “The Baby Dance” and “Afterburn.” In 1997, Dern was nominated for an Emmy® Award and won an American Comedy Award for her guest-starring role in the controversial “puppy episode” of the comedy “Ellen.”
In 2010, in celebration of their family legacy in film and television, Dern, her mother Diane Ladd and father Bruce Dern were awarded with the first ever “Family Star Ceremony” on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Out of appreciation and respect for the extraordinary gifts the Dern family has brought to the big and small screen, the Hollywood Entertainment Museum honored
Bruce, Diane and Laura with the Hollywood Legacy Award.
From 2016 through 2020, Dern also served on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors representing the actors branch. Additionally, Dern has served on the Board of Trustees for The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures since 2019.
Laura Dern is conducting New York promotional activities / talk show rounds in support of her starring role in Is Thing This On? Dern and Arnett are joined in the cast by Academy Award® nominee Andra Day, Academy Award® nominee Ciarán Hinds and 2-time Tony Award® winner Christine Ebersole, along with Bradley Cooper. Emmy Award® winner Sean Hayes, Emmy Award® nominee Amy Sedaris, Jordan Jensen, Chloe Radcliffe, Reggie Conquest, Scott Icenogle, Blake Kane and Calvin Knegten round out the cast, along with two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback Peyton Manning. Written by Cooper, Arnett and Mark Chappell from a story by Arnett, Chappell and John Bishop, the film is produced by Cooper, Arnett, Weston Middleton and Kris Thykier. The comedy drama will hold an invite only NY Tastemaker screening this Wednesday, Dec. 10th before opening only in theaters on Dec. 19th.