Bruce Dern

Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor. He frequently takes roles as a supporting character actor, often playing villains of unstable nature. He has appeared in over eighty films, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1982 Berlin Film Festival for That Championship Season and Best Actor at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Nebraska. His other film roles include They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), The Cowboys (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), Family Plot (1975), Black Sunday (1977) and The Hateful Eight (2015).

Early life

Dern was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Jean (née MacLeish) and John Dern, a utility chief and attorney. He grew up in Kenilworth, Illinois. His paternal grandfather, George Henry Dern, was a former Utah governor and Secretary of War (he was serving in the latter position during the time of Bruce's birth). Dern's maternal grandfather was a chairman of the Carson, Pirie and Scott stores, his maternal granduncle was poet Archibald MacLeish, and his maternal great-grandfather was Scottish-born businessman Andrew MacLeish. Dern's godfather was former Illinois governor and two-time presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson.

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Popular '80s star from famous acting dynasty is unrecognizable as he rides his motorcycle...can you ...

The Daily Mail 20 Apr 2025
Carradine's first role was a small part in 1972's The Cowboys, which starred John Wayne and Bruce Dern, and he followed that up with another small part in Martin Scorsese's 1973 classic gangster film Mean Streets.
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... rumble fading to a soft, tidal hiss.” As Fred ingratiates himself with higher-caliber clients — Bruce Dern chief among them — he swims with the current of the decade's most convention-breaking films.
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So, when you are casting a film, which I've now done a few times, your first thought when someone goes, "It's a crazy old man," you go, oh, Bruce Dern ... to understand, this is a Bruce Willis project."
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