All speed, swastikas and surf’s-up score, the moral-free movie by grindhouse auteur Roger Corman filled drive-ins across the US that year as the nation’s youth answered its countercultural howl. Her future parents, Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern, were burning rubber around Coachella as leathered-up bikers alongside Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra and a chapter of the Hells Angels. Laura Dern would have been the size of a poppy seed on the set of 1966 exploitation flick The Wild Angels, an orb of cells flashing to the sound of her mother’s heartbeat. With a 2020 Oscar nod and a Golden Globe for her acclaimed turn in Noah Baumbach’s searing Marriage Story, she is an actor at the height of her power. On-set even before birth, she has gone on to establish herself as one of the foremost actors of our era: she has worked with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Jonathan Demme, Paul Thomas Anderson, Clint Eastwood, Robert Altman and, of course, David Lynch, all enamoured by her extraordinary talent, famous wit and tumult of feeling both on-screen and off. She and her actor parents – Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd – have neighbouring stars on the Walk of Fame, the first family to be collectively embedded into that celebrated boulevard.

The term ‘Hollywood royalty’ may have been invented for Laura Dern.

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