Laura Dern Takes Break from 'White Lotus' Filming to Support Dad Bruce Dern's Documentary Premiere at Cannes Film Festival
Laura Dern and her children joined Bruce Dern for a rare family red carpet appearance at the documentary premiere.
- On Wednesday, Laura Dern and her children, Ellery and Jaya Harper, joined her father, Bruce Dern, at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of the Mike Mendez-directed documentary, "Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern."
- The documentary chronicles the 89-year-old actor's career and personal life, arriving during a difficult year following the November 2025 death of matriarch Diane Ladd. Collaborators Quentin Tarantino and Alexander Payne appear in the film.
- Named after his tendency to improvise lines, the film captures his storied Hollywood career. The actor defied the festival's strict dress code by pairing his black tuxedo with a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap.
- Beyond supporting her father, Dern is in town for professional commitments as the "Big Little Lies" star recently replaced Helena Bonham Carter in a critical role for the upcoming fourth season of "The White Lotus," currently filming in Cannes.
- This rare joint appearance highlights a resilient Hollywood dynasty, with three generations of the family gathering on the Croisette. The premiere offers a public moment of celebration for the actor after a year clouded by personal loss.
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Wikipedia / Canva Bruce Dern helped Tom Hanks run long distances for Forrest Gump. Giving Tips to Tom Hanks Credit: Wikimedia Commons The keen runner, now 89, was on hand to give tips to Tom, now 69, as the latter trained for the 1994 comedy-romance blockbuster, in which his titular character jogged five times across the USA. In the documentary Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 12, Bruce …
Laura Dern Takes Break from 'White Lotus' Filming to Support Dad Bruce Dern's Documentary Premiere at Cannes Film Festival
Backgrid Laura Dern is enjoying a family outing to support her father Bruce Dern! The Oscar-winning actress and her two kids joined Bruce at the premiere of his new documentary, Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern, during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday (May 20) in Cannes, France. Laura is actually working nearby right now, filming season four of The White Lotus in the south of France. She took a break from filming to be at the fe…
Laura Dern and father Bruce Dern make first red carpet appearance together since her mother Diane Ladd's death
Ladd and the elder Dern were married for 10 years in the 1960s, but remained close co-parents of their Oscar-winning daughter in the years that followed.Ladd, Bruce's ex and Laura's mother, died on Nov. 3, 2025, after a battle with interstitial lung disease.The Derns are stronger together.Laura Dern and her famous father, Bruce Dern, made their first joint red carpet appearance since the death of Dern's mother, Diane Ladd. Father and daughter st…
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