#bruce dern

Happy 90th, Bruce Dern.

Bruce MacLeish Dern (born in Chicago, Illinois on June 4, 1936) is an American actor who studied at the Actors Studio, alongside esteemed acting coach Lee Strasberg when he dropped out of the University of Pennsylvania. After starring on Broadway, he had minor film roles before rising to prominence during the New Hollywood era. He mainly had supporting roles, but most were received with critical acclaim and acting awards, even an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the romantic war drama Coming Home (1978). His role of a lifetime, however, came when he was 77 years old, playing Woody Grant, an aging, booze-addled elderly man, in the Paramount road film Nebraska (2013), which earned him his second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Despite being in his late 80s, he continues to act and has multiple projects in various stages of production, garnering a number of awards, including a BAFTA Award and a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. His last one to date being Palm Royale (2024), an Apple TV+ period comedy-drama miniseries.

He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he continues to work in the entertainment industry at 89 years of age.

Ten Selected Works:

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) as James Bates

The Cowboys (1972) as Asa Watts

Silent Running (1972) as Freeman Lowell

The Great Gatsby (1974) as Tom Buchanan

Family Plot (1976) as George Lumley

Black Sunday (1977) as Michael Lander

Coming Home (1978) as Captain Bob Hyde

That Championship Season (1982) as George Sitkowski

Big Love (TV Series, 2006–2011) as Frank Harlow