

After attending the University of Southern California for one semester and the University of California, Los Angeles, for just two days, Dern enrolled at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Institute to study method acting. The granddaughter of politician George Dern and daughter of actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, Laura Dern has played everything from willowy ingénues to drug-addicted washouts. Laura Elizabeth Dern was born on February 10, 1967, in Los Angeles, California. The actress has also received acclaim for her TV projects, garnering awards for her roles on HBO's Enlightened and Big Little Lies. Dern later took home her first Oscar win for her supporting role in Marriage Story. She appeared in films like Mask, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose, for which she received an Oscar nod, before winning over mainstream audiences in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jurassic Park. Being a pastel-parading goody two shoes has never looked badder.Born in 1967 in Los Angeles, California, Laura Dern followed parents Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd into the acting business. I can be dramatic or emotional or scared, but he needed Sandy, at her root, to be such a believer, so hopeful, such an optimist, and that really is my nature.” When Kyle MacLachlan’s similarly pristeen college student Jeffrey Beaumont returns home for the summer and discovers a severed ear lying in the grass, the pair join forces to discover its origins, unveiling a deranged criminal conspiracy along the way. “Not in a physical way, like, ‘She looks like a girl next door,’ but pure of heart, maybe.

At first glance, Dern’s Sandy is a model of squeaky clean suburban sweetness, with her predilection for pale pink and pretty floral dresses, but she’s also got a penchant for mystery solving, inherited from her detective father. “I know was looking for someone he believed was really pure,” Dern reveals in AnOther Magazine S/S20. AKA the film that launched Dern to fame, sparking her ongoing creative collaboration with David Lynch.
