How Old Is Bruce Dern? Bruce Dern Birthday
Bruce Dern was born on June 4, 1936 and is 90 years old now.
Birthday: June 4, 1936
How Old - Age: 90
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Is Bruce Dern's father, John Henry Dern, dead or alive?
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Is Bruce Dern's mother, Jean MacLeish Dern, dead or alive?
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Bruce Dern's sister :
- Jean E. Dern Sigel
Bruce Dern's brother :
- John Dern Jr
Bruce Dern - Biography
Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor, often playing supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013). He also won the 1983 Silver Bear for Best Actor for That Championship Season, and the 2013 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Nebraska. His other film appearances include The Great Gatsby (1974), Family Plot (1976), Black Sunday (1977), and The Hateful Eight (2015).
Dern appeared in an uncredited role in Wild River as Jack Roper, who is so upset with his friend for hitting a woman that he punches himself. He played the sailor in a few flashbacks with Marnie's mother in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie. Dern played a murderous rustler in Clint Eastwood's Hang 'Em High and a gunfighter in Support Your Local Sheriff!. He also played cattle-thief Asa Watts, who murders John Wayne's character in The Cowboys (1972). Wayne warned Dern, "America will hate you for this." Dern replied, "Yeah, but they'll love me in Berkeley." Having played a series of villains, that same year he played against type as a sensitive ecologist in the science-fiction film Silent Running.
Dern was married to Marie Dawn Pierce from 1957 to 1959. He then married Diane Ladd in 1960. Their first daughter, Diane Elizabeth Dern (born November 29, 1960), died at eighteen months from head injuries after falling into a swimming pool on May 18, 1962. The couple's second daughter, Laura (born February 10, 1967), is also an actor. After his divorce from Ladd in 1969, Dern married Andrea Beckett.
