Bruce Dern
American actor (born 1936) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor[2] and the Silver Bear for Best Actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013).[3] He is also a BAFTA Award, two-time Genie Award, and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee.
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 Dern at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con | |
| Born | Bruce MacLeish Dern (1936-06-04) June 4, 1936 (age 87) |
| Education | New Trier High School[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania The Actors Studio |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1960–present |
| Spouses | Marie Dawn Pierce
(m. 1957; div. 1959)Andrea Beckett
(m. 1969) |
| Children | 2, including Laura Dern |
| Relatives | George Dern (grandfather) Andrew MacLeish (great-grandfather) Archibald MacLeish (granduncle) |
A member of The Actors Studio, he rose to prominence during the New Hollywood era, through roles in films such as They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971), The Cowboys, Silent Running, and The King of Marvin Gardens (all 1972). Other notable films include The Great Gatsby (1974), Posse (1975), Family Plot (1976), Black Sunday (1977), The Driver (1978), Tattoo (1981), That Championship Season (1982), Monster (2003), The Hateful Eight (2015), The Artist's Wife (2019) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He played Frank Harlow in the HBO series Big Love (2006–2011).
Dern is the father of actress Laura Dern, with his ex-wife, actress Diane Ladd.