Spouse
Ben Harper
(23 December 2005 - present) 2 children
Trivia
Born at 7:48am-PST
Daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd.
Once engaged to Billy Bob Thornton.
Once engaged to Jeff Goldblum for 2 years (1995-1997).
Her great-grandfather was governor of Utah.
Welcomed first child, son Ellery Walker, with boyfriend Ben Harper in Los Angeles. [21 August 2001]
Had an elder sister, born in 1961, who drowned at the age of 18 months, years before Laura was born.
Granddaughter of Mary Lanier
When she was cast in Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1981) at the age of 13, her mother Diane Ladd refused to let her go, feeling she was too young to leave home for a movie shoot. Laura sued for emancipation and won, but the movie wasn't a hit.
Announced engagment to Ben Harper in August 2004.
Second child, Jaya, a daughter, with boyfriend Ben Harper, born in Los Angeles on 28 November 2004. 
She said that her idols are Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Lucille Ball.
Hers and her mother's (Diane Ladd) Oscar nominations for Rambling Rose (1991) mark the first time a mother and daughter ever received Oscar nominations for the same movie.
Played daughter to real-life mother Diane Ladd in 4 movies: Citizen Ruth (1996), Daddy and Them (2001), Wild at Heart (1990) and White Lightning (1973).
Both she and her mother, Diane Ladd, starred in 2 dinosaur-themed movies in 1993. Dern starred as Ellie Sattler in the box office smash Jurassic Park, while Ladd starred in the failed indie film Carnosaur.
Has starred in two films titled "Happy Endings", one a television film in 1983 and the other an independent film in 2005.
Godmother is Shelley Winters.
Personal Quotes
"It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one."
"I get so protective of David [Lynch], like an older sister or something, which is so absurd. He's not waiting for us to get the movie because he doesn't think the cinema is about 'getting it'. I think he believes - which I've found very rare in filmmakers - in the intelligence of the audience, that they're intelligent enough to discover the film and what it means within themselves."
Salary
Mask (1985)
$2,000
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