Conversations with Laura Dern (2019)

A career retrospective with Laura Dern recorded on November 26th, 2019. Moderated by Stacy Wilson Hunt.

Two-time Academy Award nominee, Emmy and Golden Globe winner, Laura Dern has touched audiences and critics alike with her moving and heartfelt performances. In addition to her two Oscar nominations, Dern has won four Golden Globe Awards with seven nominations, as well as earned a Primetime Emmy Award and seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations.  On television, Dern was most recently seen as Renata in the second season of HBO’s "Big Little Lies," which aired on HBO this past summer. On the big screen, Dern starred alongside Kristen Stewart in Justin Kelly’s "JT LeRoy" and in Ed Zwick’s "Trial by Fire.” She can now be seen in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” for Netflix which was released in theaters November 6th, as well as Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” for Sony Pictures out December 25th.

Additional film credits include “Star Wars: Episode VIII” “Wilson,” “The Founder,” “Certain Woman,” “Wild” for which she earned her second Academy Award nomination,“99 Homes,” “The Fault in our Stars,” “The Master” “Everything Must Go” “Little Fockers,” “Year of the Dog” "Inland Empire.” Lonely Hearts,” “Happy Endings,” “We Don’t Live Here Anymore” “I Am Sam,” “Novocaine,” “Focus,” “Citizen Ruth,” “Jurassic Park,” “A Perfect World,” "A Perfect World," I "Rambling Rose," (Academy Award Nomination) "Smooth Talk" and “Mask.” "Blue Velvet" "Wild at Heart,"“Dr. T and the Women,” “October Sky,” "Mask," "Fat Man and Little Boy," "Haunted Summer," "Teachers," “Foxes” and "Ladies and Gentleman, The Fabulous Stains."

Her television credits include HBO’s “The Tale,” which earned Dern her seventh Emmy nomination, and in “Big Little Lies” which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe award for her role as Renata; “Enlightened.” “Recount,” “Damaged Care,” “Within These Walls,” "Daddy and Them,” "The Baby Dance," "Afterburn." “Fallen Angels, Down Came a Blackbird.” In 1997, Dern was nominated for an Emmy Award and won an American Comedy Award for her guest-starring role in the controversial ‘puppy episode’ of the ABC comedy, “Ellen.”

In addition to her extensive film and television credits, Dern has been prolific in her producing career. In 2017 she established Jaywalker Pictures, a Los Angeles-based production company founded with partner Jayme Lemons with emphasis on great storytelling in film and television. They have a first-look TV Deal with Platform One Media, in which they have an hour-long series “Mr. and Mrs. American Pie” in development. In addition to the first-look TV deal with Platform One Media, Jaywalker Pictures will produce “The Dolls” for HBO, a limited series in which Dern is set to star alongside Issa Rae. On the feature side, the projects in development include the films “Candy & Mel” and “The Dog of the South.” Jaywalker Pictures is represented by CAA.

Out of appreciation and respect for the extraordinary gift the Dern family has brought to the big and small screen, The Hollywood Entertainment Museum honored Bruce, Diane and Laura with the Hollywood Legacy Award. In 2010, in celebration of their family legacy in film and television, Dern, her mother, Diane Ladd, and father, Bruce Dern, were awarded with the first ever “Family Star Ceremony” on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 2016, she was also selected to serve on The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors.