Laura Dern
Few actors of her generation have amassed as consistent, eclectic, and dazzling a body of work as two-time Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award winning actress, Laura Dern. Following a daylong celebration of her ongoing contribution to the history of screen acting, Dern joins us for an onstage discussion spanning her illustrious career, with a focus on her recent triumphs on the big and small screen (Certain Women, Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Big Little Lies, Twin Peaks: The Return).
Few actors of her generation have amassed as consistent, eclectic, and dazzling a body of work as two-time Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award winning actress, Laura Dern. Following a daylong celebration of her ongoing contribution to the history of screen acting, Dern joins us for an onstage discussion spanning her illustrious career, with a focus on her recent triumphs on the big and small screen (Certain Women, Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Big Little Lies, Twin Peaks: The Return).
Three Films Starring Laura Dern
Alexander Payne
1996|
USA|
106 minutes
This raucously entertaining satire from Alexander Payne stars Laura Dern as a paint-huffing pregnant woman who becomes the unwitting face of both sides in an abortion debate in the American Midwest.
David Lynch
1990|
USA|
124 minutes
This Palme d’Or–winning, aggressively absurd road movie is Lynch’s first all-out comedy, following Lula (Dern) and Sailor (Nicolas Cage) as they set out for California in a Ford Thunderbird, only to be detained in the Texas hellhole of Big Tuna.
Few actors of her generation have amassed as consistent, eclectic, and dazzling a body of work as two-time Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award winning actress, Laura Dern. From her early roles in movies by Peter Bogdanovich and Joyce Chopra to her work with Steven Spielberg, Kelly Reichardt, Alexander Payne, Clint Eastwood, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Robert Altman, to her enduring and revelatory partnership with David Lynch, Dern has never shied away from challenges—indeed, she has boldly sought them out in pursuit of cinematic art. Following a daylong celebration of her ongoing contribution to the history of screen acting, Dern joins us for an onstage discussion spanning her illustrious career, with a focus on her recent triumphs on the big and small screen (Certain Women, Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Big Little Lies, Twin Peaks: The Return).
