Bruce Dern

Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) 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 (1978) 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).

Early life
Dern was born in Chicago, the son of Jean (née MacLeish) and John Dern, a utility chief and attorney. He grew up in Kenilworth, Illinois. His paternal grandfather, George, 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 II. His ancestry includes Dutch, English, German and Scottish. He attended The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) and the University of Pennsylvania. He starred in the Philadelphia premiere of Waiting for Godot.

Career
Dern made an uncredited role in Wild River (1960), as Jack Roper who is upset with his friend for hitting a woman that he punches himself. In 1964, he played the sailor seen in flashbacks with Marnie's mother for Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie in a short role and had a small crucial one in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Dern played a murderous rustler in Clint Eastwood's Hang 'Em High (1968) and a gunfighter in Support Your Local Sheriff!. He appeared in four films in 1972, including The Cowboys as Asa Watts, a serial killer of Wil Andersen. John Wayne warned Dern, "America will hate you for this." and he wryly replied, "Yeah, but they'll love me in Berkeley".

He played a psychotic Goodyear Blimp pilot who launches a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl in Black Sunday and Captain Bob Hyde in Coming Home, in which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1983, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival for That Championship Season. On May 26, 2013, he also won the Best Actor award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Alexander Payne's Nebraska, and was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actor.

Personal life
Dern married Marie Dawn Pierce in 1957, but divorced less than two years later. In 1960, Dern married Diane Ladd. Their first daughter, Diane Elizabeth Dern was born November 29, 1960 and died at eighteen months from head injuries, after falling into the swimming pool on May 18, 1962. Their second daughter, Laura is also an actress. Together, they were presented their stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 1, 2010.

After his divorce from Ladd in 1969, Dern married Andrea Beckett. He won a Legend Award at the inaugural Gold Coast International Film Festival on June 1, 2011.