Sorry there is no Biography!



Had two daughters by ex-husband Bruce Dern. Her first daughter, born in 1961, accidentally drowned at the age of 18 months, years before second daughter, Laura Dern, was born in 1967. Daughter of Mary Lanier. Measurements: 34 1/2-22-34 (as a 1950s pin-up) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine). Grandchildren: Ellery Walker & Jaya Harper. Hers and her daughter's (Laura Dern) Oscar nominations for Rambling Rose (1991) mark the first time a mother and daughter ever received Oscar nominations for the same movie. Played the original "Flo" - later made famous by Polly Holliday in the sitcom "Alice" (1976) - in the motion picture Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and then played Flo's replacement, Belle, on the sitcom. Her ancestry includes French, Cherokee and English.