Laura Elena Harring,

Countess von Bismarck by MySimeon™

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Biography of Laura Elena Harring, Countess of Bismarck

Ever since astounding audiences and critics alike with her breakthrough performance in David Lynch's award winning "Mulholland Drive" for which she received an Alma Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, Laura Harring has been one of Hollywood¹s hott'st risieg stars.
The International Herald Tribune compared her to Ava Gardner and film critic, Roger Ebert likened her to Rita Hayworth.

Born in a small town in Mexico, Laura or "Laurita" as her family called her, grew up an extremely shy as well as a reclusive fragile young girl. Sick most of her childhood, Laura's mother found an alternative medical doctor that helped Laura get over the illness and this transformed her life forever. Laura who was taking adult dosages of medicine, abandoned them ambitiously to start dancing and imagine herself as an actress. On her journey to newfound health she jumped in feet first to an play an angel in the Christmas play ,"The Nativity Story". In her teens Laura went abroad to study at the prestigious boarding school, Aiglon College in Switzerland. It was here that Laura met the brother of her future husband of 2 years, before having an amicable separation to pursue her dream of becoming a talented and versatile actor. After graduation, pursuing her passion to travel, Laura took on the task of becoming a social worker in India, where she performed manual labor work, including building schools, planting trees and carrying heavy rocks to fix the extreme soil erosion problem, that hit the foothills of the Himalayas in the mid eighties.

Last June, Laura played the mystery in the Warner Brothers feature "Nancy Drew: The Mystery in Hollywood Hills" starring alongside Emma Roberts for director Andrew Fleming and producer Jerry Weintraub. Last November, she starred opposite Javier Bardem in New Line's "Love in the Time of Cholera" from the award winning novel written by Nobel Prize Winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and directed by Mike Newell.

A versatile actress who has played a great diversity of roles in her career, Harring's film credits include "John Q" with Denzel Washington, "The King" opposite William Hurt, and "The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory," opposite the legendary Raul Julia. Laura always held her own.
Last summer, she stole our hearts with the heartfelt and real performance of a suburban mom in the HBO feature "Walkout," directed by Edward James Olmos. It was based on the true story of the 60's injustice in the school system of East Los Angeles.

Harring was featured on Season 5 of FX¹s critically acclaimed hit series, "The Shield" as Becca Doyle, a defense attorney who willingly commits to pro bono cases for people she feels are redeemable. She played opposite Forrest Whittaker.

In his last film, David Lynch honored her femme fatale character from Mulholland Drive in "Inland Empire." Another dark and mysterious abstract film of the masterful director. Her last film opposite Frank Langella and Elliott Gould is called "The Caller" and Laura plays "The Sophisticated Lady" a classical jazz singer, which won this year's Tribeca Film Festival, "Made In New York Best Narrative Feature Film Award."

Laura was the first Latina to ever win the Miss USA crown. Her passions include Argentine tango dancing, world traveling and Commedia Dell' Arte. She resides in Los Angeles, California.

Interview

Please find hereafter some excerpts of the interview (December 2009). For the full interview, please send an e-mail to info@mysimeonforever.ch.

 

IPS: You are very much to young to be called a legend, but looking at your amazing career and the walls you have helped to break down (1st Latina ever to win Miss USA), we can only ask how did all this happen? How do you analyze your success?

LH: Thankyou. I try not to think of my life as a success or not. So this is a difficult question, I will do my best to answer it. I make the best effort to follow my intuition and make ....

IPS: Do you have still Dreams for the future?

LH: Yes, I love to dream. I dream of how I can make more meaningful films. Films that ....

IPS: Discovered by the Greeks thousands of years ago and further explored by the likes as Leonardo Da Vinci, the mathematical ratio for the Golden Rule is still nowadays a benchmark of Beauty. The passeport pictures, especially the so called “Police” picture, show how perfect your beauty is, even if there are no artifacts used or any retouching made. In your opinion, is Beauty a gift or a burden?

LH: Thankyou for your kinds word. Beauty is really an energy people see around you. When you are comfortable with ...

IPS: Can you tell us a bit more about the next movies which will hit the screens?

LH: Definitely, I have a dark comedy similar to "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Sideways" with a little tragedy and some comedy. The movie is called "Drool". I hope it will ...

IPS: For the Mike Newell’s movie “Love in the Time of Cholera”, you had to gain weight. Now, only a few monthes later, you are again slim and more beautiful as ever. Any secrets you would like to share?

LH: I finally found after so many years, that eating any kind of oil, no matter how great it is for ...

IPS: Are you more Dolce or Gabbana?

LH: I am a little bit ...

IPS: Wardrobe malfunction is a very hot topic since Ms Janet Jackson’s “accident”. It seems to help very much sell tabloids and other media of this kind. As a woman, what are your feelings on this subject?

LH: We don't have much control in life, though we think we do, which is a pretty funny. We think we are doing everything and somehow ...

Personal note from IPS:

The movie "Drool", in which Laura has a lead role, is currently in post-production. It already won an Award at the Slamdance Film Festival (Screenplay Competition Award) and should hit the screens by 2009. Laura is acting in the movie "The Caller" by Richard Ledes and has a lead role in her first Spanish speaking movie, a thriller called "Kluge" directed by award winning argentinian Director Luis Barone, which should begin in Argentinian theaters in 2009.

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