Bruce Dern

Bruce Dern
Dern in 2015
Born	Bruce MacLeish Dern (1936-06-04) June 4, 1936 (age 87) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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)​ Diane Ladd ​ ​ (m. 1960; div. 1969)​ Andrea Beckett ​ ​ (m. 1969)​
Children	2, including Laura Dern
Relatives	George Dern (grandfather) Andrew MacLeish (great-grandfather) Archibald MacLeish (granduncle)

Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936)^[2][3] is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor^[4] 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).^[5] He is also a BAFTA Award, two-time Genie Award, and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee.

A member of the Actors Studio, he rose to prominence during the New Hollywood era through roles in films such as The Trip (1967), They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971), and The Cowboys (1972). Other notable films include The Laughing Policeman (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974), Posse (1975), Family Plot (1976), Black Sunday (1977), The Driver (1978), Tattoo (1981), That Championship Season (1982), The 'Burbs (1989), Last Man Standing (1996), Monster (2003), Down in the Valley (2005), Chappaquiddick (2017), and Emperor (2020). He played Frank Harlow in the HBO series Big Love (2006–2011).

He is the father of actress Laura Dern.