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 Two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern's tremendous career is made up of playing both modern day heroes and legendary villains. Through decades of lauded performances, Dern has acquired the reputation of being one of the most talented and prolific actors of his generation. Dern has several high profile independent projects appearing in the film arena, including the highly anticipated Chappaquiddick (2017), where he portrays Joe Kennedy, "The Peanut Butter Falcon" and "White Boy Rick" opposite Matthew McConaughey (Sony Pictures). He also stars with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in the Netflix film "Our Souls at Night" (Fall 2017). Dern's other 2017/2018 titles include "Class Rank," "Warning Shot," "Abilene," "The Lears," "American Dresser" and "Nostalgia."Bruce MacLeish Dern was born in 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, to Jean (MacLeish) and John Henry Dern, a utility chief and attorney. His grandfather, George Dern, was then FDR's Secretary of War.A celebrated stage actor, Dern was trained by famed director Elia Kazan at the legendary The Actor's Studio and made his film debut in Kazan's "Wild River" in 1960. In the 60's, Dern also found success as a distinguished television actor. He appeared regularly in contemporary Western TV series, as well as on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Mr. Hitchcock was such a fan of Dern's that he cast him in "Marnie" and "Family Plot" (Hitchcock's final film). Also during the '60s, Dern went on to work with director Roger Corman and appeared in several of his classic and decade defining films including "Wild Angels." He also received critical success during that time for films such as "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and "Drive, He Said." Dern goes down in history for his role as Long Hair in "The Cowboys," in which he became only one of three men to ever kill John Wayne on screen.Dern went on to star in such classic films like "The King of Marvin Gardens" with Jack Nicholson and Ellen Burstyn as well as playing Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby" (for which he received a Golden Globe nomination). It was his brilliant and powerful performance in Hal Ashby's "Coming Home" that earned him both an Academy Award and Golden Globe nomination.Dern has starred in over 100 films in his career, including: "Monster," "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte," "Silent Running," "Smile," "Middle Age Crazy," "That Championship Season," "Tattoo," "The 'Burbs," "The Haunting," "All the Pretty Horses," "Masked and Anonymous," "Down in the Valley," "Astronaut Farmer," "The Cake Eaters," "Black Sunday," "Madison," "Diggstown," "Twixt" and "Last Man Standing."In 2015, Dern reteamed with his "Django Unchained" director Quentin Tarantino in the ambitious & critically-acclaimed "The Hateful Eight." In 2013, Dern earned his second Academy Award nomination for his heralded role in Alexander Payne's "Nebraska." That role also garnered him a Best Actor Award from the Cannes Film Festival and the National Board of Review. He was also nominated for a BAFTA, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. Dern was also nominated for an Emmy in 2011 for his portrayal of polygamist patriarch Frank Harlow in HBO's hit drama "Big Love."Dern has received several Lifetime Achievement Awards from various film festivals. In 2010, Dern received the prestigious Hollywood Walk of Fame star along with his ex-wife Diane Ladd & daughter Laura Dern, the only family in history to receive their Stars in one ceremony.
Bio:
Two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern's tremendous career is made up of playing both modern day heroes and legendary villains. Through decades of lauded performances, Dern has acquired the reputation of being one of the most talented and prolific actors of his generation. Dern has several high profile independent projects appearing in the film arena, including the highly anticipated Chappaquiddick (2017), where he portrays Joe Kennedy, "The Peanut Butter Falcon" and "White Boy Rick" opposite Matthew McConaughey (Sony Pictures). He also stars with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in the Netflix film "Our Souls at Night" (Fall 2017). Dern's other 2017/2018 titles include "Class Rank," "Warning Shot," "Abilene," "The Lears," "American Dresser" and "Nostalgia."Bruce MacLeish Dern was born in 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, to Jean (MacLeish) and John Henry Dern, a utility chief and attorney. His grandfather, George Dern, was then FDR's Secretary of War.A celebrated stage actor, Dern was trained by famed director Elia Kazan at the legendary The Actor's Studio and made his film debut in Kazan's "Wild River" in 1960. In the 60's, Dern also found success as a distinguished television actor. He appeared regularly in contemporary Western TV series, as well as on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Mr. Hitchcock was such a fan of Dern's that he cast him in "Marnie" and "Family Plot" (Hitchcock's final film). Also during the '60s, Dern went on to work with director Roger Corman and appeared in several of his classic and decade defining films including "Wild Angels." He also received critical success during that time for films such as "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and "Drive, He Said." Dern goes down in history for his role as Long Hair in "The Cowboys," in which he became only one of three men to ever kill John Wayne on screen.Dern went on to star in such classic films like "The King of Marvin Gardens" with Jack Nicholson and Ellen Burstyn as well as playing Tom Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby" (for which he received a Golden Globe nomination). It was his brilliant and powerful performance in Hal Ashby's "Coming Home" that earned him both an Academy Award and Golden Globe nomination.Dern has starred in over 100 films in his career, including: "Monster," "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte," "Silent Running," "Smile," "Middle Age Crazy," "That Championship Season," "Tattoo," "The 'Burbs," "The Haunting," "All the Pretty Horses," "Masked and Anonymous," "Down in the Valley," "Astronaut Farmer," "The Cake Eaters," "Black Sunday," "Madison," "Diggstown," "Twixt" and "Last Man Standing."In 2015, Dern reteamed with his "Django Unchained" director Quentin Tarantino in the ambitious & critically-acclaimed "The Hateful Eight." In 2013, Dern earned his second Academy Award nomination for his heralded role in Alexander Payne's "Nebraska." That role also garnered him a Best Actor Award from the Cannes Film Festival and the National Board of Review. He was also nominated for a BAFTA, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. Dern was also nominated for an Emmy in 2011 for his portrayal of polygamist patriarch Frank Harlow in HBO's hit drama "Big Love."Dern has received several Lifetime Achievement Awards from various film festivals. In 2010, Dern received the prestigious Hollywood Walk of Fame star along with his ex-wife Diane Ladd & daughter Laura Dern, the only family in history to receive their Stars in one ceremony.
Tivia:
Eleanor Roosevelt was his babysitter.Had two daughters with Diane Ladd. His eldest daughter, Diane Dern, was born November 27, 1960, and accidentally drowned in California on May 18, 1962 at just shy of 18 months of age, years before his second child, Laura Dern, was born in 1967.Is one of the few actors to have killed John Wayne on screen (The Cowboys (1972)). He even received some death threats out of that.An avid runner and ultra-marathoner, having run many 50 mile races.Claims that he has never smoked outside of the movies, or drank alcohol or coffee, due to his commitment to marathon running.His grandfather, George Dern, was a Governor of Utah, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Secretary of War, including at the time of Bruce's birth. His father was a law partner with Adlai Stevenson and his brother in Chicago.Acted with three generations of actresses. He was in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Marnie (1964) in which Tippi Hedren played the title role. He acted with Hedren's real-life daughter Melanie Griffith in Smile (1975) and Mulholland Falls (1996). Then, he acted with Griffith's real-life daughter Dakota Johnson in the sleeper hit film The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019).Jack Nicholson coined the term "a dernsie" for unscripted improvisations; either dialogue or behavioral quirks; that Bruce would come up with while filming.Is one of two actors to appear in movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino (Rod Taylor is the other).Was a competitive middle distance runner at the University of Pennsylvania.Became a father for the second time at age 30 when his second [now ex] wife Diane Ladd gave birth to their daughter Laura Elizabeth Dern, aka Laura Dern on February 10, 1967.Has said that of all the characters' he played the one he enjoyed most was the detective in ' An Investigation of Murder'.Has appeared in five films with Jack Nicholson: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Psych-Out (1968), The Rebel Rousers (1970) Drive, He Said (1971) and The King of Marvin Gardens (1972).Became a grandfather for the second time at age 68 when his daughter Laura Dern gave birth to her daughter Jaya Harper, with [now ex] husband Ben Harper, on November 28, 2004.Alumnus of New Trier Township High School East, Winnetka, Illinois. Other New Trier graduates include Ralph Bellamy, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Hugh B. O'Brien, Ann-Margret, Penelope Milford, Virginia Madsen and Liz Phair.Seventeen years after daughter Laura Dern starred in Alexander Payne's first major film Citizen Ruth (1996), Bruce starred in Payne's Nebraska (2013) -- probably one of the few, if only, times in movie history that a father-daughter duo similarly starred in the same director's films, especially with the actress/daughter's performance preceding her actor/father's.He and his daughter Laura Dern have both appeared in films opposite Samuel L. Jackson. Bruce worked with him in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987), Django Unchained (2012), and The Hateful Eight (2015), while Laura appeared with him in Jurassic Park (1993).Great-nephew of poet Archibald Macleish.As of 2020, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Coming Home (1978), Django Unchained (2012), Nebraska (2013), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).Became a grandfather for the first time at age 65 when his daughter Laura Dern gave birth to her son Ellery Walker Harper, with [now ex] husband Ben Harper, on August 10, 2001.Has English, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and distant Dutch and Welsh, ancestry.Former father-in-law of (musician) Ben Harper.Became a father for the first time at age 25 when his second [now ex] wife Diane Ladd gave birth to their daughter Diane Elizabeth Dern in 1961.In his first western appearance, an episode of Wagon Train (1957) in 1963, he played a character who was shot and killed. His character was shot and killed in the western The Hateful Eight (2015) 52 years later.Is a supporter of the Chelsea Football Club.Born at 3:11am-CDT |
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Bruce Dern |
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Actor,Producer,Soundtrack (IMDB) |
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All World |
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Actor,Producer,Soundtrack |
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2024-07-01 03:04:33 |
| Height: |
6' 1' (1.85 m) |
| Biography: |
Two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern\'s tremendous career is made up of playing both modern day heroes and legendary villains. Through decades of lauded performances, Dern has acquired the reputation of being one of the most talented and prolific actors |
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Eleanor Roosevelt was his babysitter.Had two daughters with Diane Ladd. His eldest daughter, Diane Dern, was born November 27, 1960, and accidentally drowned in California on May 18, 1962 at just shy of 18 months of age, years before his second child, Laura Dern, was born in 1967.Is one of the few actors to have killed John Wayne on screen (The Cowboys (1972)). He even received some death threats out of that.An avid runner and ultra-marathoner, having run many 50 mile races.Claims that he has never smoked outside of the movies, or drank alcohol or coffee, due to his commitment to marathon running.His grandfather, George Dern, was a Governor of Utah, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Secretary of War, including at the time of Bruce's birth. His father was a law partner with Adlai Stevenson and his brother in Chicago.Acted with three generations of actresses. He was in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Marnie (1964) in which Tippi Hedren played the title role. He acted with Hedren's real-life daughter Melanie Griffith in Smile (1975) and Mulholland Falls (1996). Then, he acted with Griffith's real-life daughter Dakota Johnson in the sleeper hit film The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019).Jack Nicholson coined the term "a dernsie" for unscripted improvisations; either dialogue or behavioral quirks; that Bruce would come up with while filming.Is one of two actors to appear in movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino (Rod Taylor is the other).Was a competitive middle distance runner at the University of Pennsylvania.Became a father for the second time at age 30 when his second [now ex] wife Diane Ladd gave birth to their daughter Laura Elizabeth Dern, aka Laura Dern on February 10, 1967.Has said that of all the characters' he played the one he enjoyed most was the detective in ' An Investigation of Murder'.Has appeared in five films with Jack Nicholson: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Psych-Out (1968), The Rebel Rousers (1970) Drive, He Said (1971) and The King of Marvin Gardens (1972).Became a grandfather for the second time at age 68 when his daughter Laura Dern gave birth to her daughter Jaya Harper, with [now ex] husband Ben Harper, on November 28, 2004.Alumnus of New Trier Township High School East, Winnetka, Illinois. Other New Trier graduates include Ralph Bellamy, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Hugh B. O'Brien, Ann-Margret, Penelope Milford, Virginia Madsen and Liz Phair.Seventeen years after daughter Laura Dern starred in Alexander Payne's first major film Citizen Ruth (1996), Bruce starred in Payne's Nebraska (2013) -- probably one of the few, if only, times in movie history that a father-daughter duo similarly starred in the same director's films, especially with the actress/daughter's performance preceding her actor/father's.He and his daughter Laura Dern have both appeared in films opposite Samuel L. Jackson. Bruce worked with him in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987), Django Unchained (2012), and The Hateful Eight (2015), while Laura appeared with him in Jurassic Park (1993).Great-nephew of poet Archibald Macleish.As of 2020, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Coming Home (1978), Django Unchained (2012), Nebraska (2013), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).Became a grandfather for the first time at age 65 when his daughter Laura Dern gave birth to her son Ellery Walker Harper, with [now ex] husband Ben Harper, on August 10, 2001.Has English, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and distant Dutch and Welsh, ancestry.Former father-in-law of (musician) Ben Harper.Became a father for the first time at age 25 when his second [now ex] wife Diane Ladd gave birth to their daughter Diane Elizabeth Dern in 1961.In his first western appearance, an episode of Wagon Train (1957) in 1963, he played a character who was shot and killed. His character was shot and killed in the western The Hateful Eight (2015) 52 years later.Is a supporter of the Chelsea Football Club.Born at 3:11am-CDT |
| Trademarks: |
Often works with Roger Corman
Often works with Jack Nicholson
Often plays villainous or psychotic characters
Often appears in Western movies, usually as henchmen or murderers |
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Because I'm the only actor who ever killed John Wayne in a picture, producers have pegged me for a villain.
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I've played more psychotics and freaks and dopers than anyone.
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[on his fight scene with John Wayne] He walloped me bad.
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I never look back and say, "I wish I had played that role or this role". I never do that. You're only as good as your next film. I look forward; I always feel that you have to continue onward and upward, you can't look back. I became an actor because I felt I was interested in what makes human beings do what they do, particularly in times of crisis. That kind of acting is what I like to do.
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I'm only too proud to say that I've never had ANY discipline problems with Laura [Laura Dern, his daughter]. In fact, I never needed to lay a hand on her, because Diane [Diane Ladd, his former wife and Laura's mother] was so much better at keeping her in line than I was. |
| Job title: |
Actor,Producer,Soundtrack |
| Others works: |
(1959) Stage: Appeared in an off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending"
(1959) Appeared (as "Stuff") in "Sweet Bird of Youth" on Broadway. Drama. Written by Tennessee Williams. Incidental music |
| Spouse: |
Andrea Beckett (October 20, 1969 - present) Diane Ladd (1960 - September 18, 1969) (divorced, 2 children)Marie Dawn Pierce (September 7, 1957 - 1959) (divorced) |
| Children: |
Laura Dern |
| Parents: |
John Dern
Jean MacLeish |
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