"She was tagging along on summer break while her mother, Diane Ladd, filmed Martin Scorsese's 1974 romantic drama "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" when the legendary director gave Dern a front row seat to the action. "My greatest memory is watching a scene between my mom and Ellen Burstyn in a bathroom. Marty cracked the door open and shot through the door, and he let me kneel down and watch as they improvised,"
"In her over four-decade career, Dern, now 58, has played nearly every kind of role imaginable, from a "Star Wars" rebel leader (" Star Wars: The Last Jedi") to an Emmy-winning performance as an over-the-top CEO mom (" Big Little Lies"). In 2020, she landed the ultimate career milestone, winning an Oscar for playing fierce divorce lawyer Nora Fanshaw in Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story.""
At about six years old, Laura Dern watched her mother act on the set of Martin Scorsese's 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and felt drawn to the filmmaking process. She grew up the daughter of actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern and learned from observing parents and directors such as Scorsese and Hitchcock. She became David Lynch's muse as a teenager and worked on Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Twin Peaks: The Return. Steven Spielberg cast her as a paleobotanist in Jurassic Park. Over four decades she has played diverse roles, won Emmys, and earned an Oscar for Marriage Story.
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