Laura Dern Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Laura Dern filmography covers 69 movie titles and 15 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Laura Dern movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• White Lightning (1973) as Sharon Anne (uncredited)
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) as Girl Eating Ice Cream Cone (uncredited)
• Foxes (1980) as Debbie
• Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) as Jessica McNeil
• Teachers (1984) as Diane
• Mask (1985) as Diana
• Smooth Talk (1985) as Connie Wyatt
• Blue Velvet (1986) as Sandy Williams
• Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) as Kathleen Robinson
• Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990) as Heartbroken Woman
• Wild at Heart (1990) as Lula
• Rambling Rose (1991) as Rose
• A Perfect World (1993) as Sally Gerber
• Jurassic Park (1993) as Ellie
• The Making of 'Jurassic Park' (1995) as Self / Ellie Sattler
• Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) as Narrator (voice)
• Citizen Ruth (1996) as Ruth Stoops
• A Season for Miracles (1999) as Berry Thompson
• October Sky (1999) as Miss Riley
• Dr. T & the Women (2000) as Peggy Travis
• Daddy and Them (2001) as Ruby Montgomery
• Focus (2001) as Gertrude 'Gert' Hart
• I Am Sam (2001) as Randy Carpenter
• Jurassic Park III (2001) as Ellie
• Novocaine (2001) as Jean Noble
• We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) as Terry Linden
• Happy Endings (2005) as Pam
• The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) as Dortha Schaefer
• Inland Empire (2006) as Nikki Grace / Susan Blue
• Lonely Hearts (2006) as Rene Fodie
• More Things That Happened (2007) as Susan Blue
• Year of the Dog (2007) as Bret
• Recount (2008) as Katherine Harris
• Tenderness (2009) as Teresa
• Little Fockers (2010) as Prudence
• Everything Must Go (2011) as Delilah
• Fight for Your Right Revisited (2011) as Cafe Patron
• Return to Jurassic Park (2011) as Self
• Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) as (archive footage)
• The Master (2012) as Helen Sullivan
• Trespassing Bergman (2013) as Self
• The Fault in Our Stars (2014) as Frannie Lancaster
• When the Game Stands Tall (2014) as Bev Ladouceur
• Wild (2014) as Bobbi Grey
• 99 Homes (2015) as Lynn Nash
• Bravetown (2015) as Annie
• Certain Women (2016) as Laura
• The Founder (2016) as Ethel Kroc
• Downsizing (2017) as Laura Lonowski
• Spielberg (2017) as Self
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) as Vice Admiral Holdo
• Wilson (2017) as Pippi
• The Director and the Jedi (2018) as Self
• The Tale (2018) as Jennifer
• Cold Pursuit (2019) as Grace Coxman
• J.T. LeRoy (2019) as Laura Albert
• Little Women (2019) as Marmee March
• Marriage Story (2019) as Nora Fanshaw
• Trial by Fire (2019) as Elizabeth Gilbert
• Crazy, Not Insane (2020) as Literary Voice of Dorothy Lewis (voice)
• Grizzly II: Revenge (2020) as Tina
• Halftime (2022) as Self
• Jurassic World Dominion (2022) as Ellie Sattler
• The Son (2022) as Kate
• Lonely Planet (2024) as Katherine Loewe
• OZI: Voice of the Forest (2024) as Seema
• Caught Stealing (2025) as Hank's Mom (uncredited)
• Is This Thing On? (2025) as Tess Novak
• Jay Kelly (2025) as Liz

Laura Dern television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Laura Dern; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Big Little Lies as Renata Klein
• Ellen as Susan
• Enlightened as Amy Jellicoe
• F is for Family as Sue Murphy (voice)
• Frasier as June (voice)
• King of the Hill as Katherine (voice); Serving Wench (voice)
• Nature as Narrator (voice)
• Palm Royale as Linda Shaw / Penelope Rollins
• The Larry Sanders Show as Laura Dern
• The Mindy Project as Dr. Ludmilla Trapezikov
• The Oscars as Self
• The West Wing as Tabatha Fortis
• The White Lotus as Abby (voice)
• Twin Peaks as Diane Evans
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Wendy Hebert

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Laura Dern's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.