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Laura Harring
Harring at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Laura Elena Martínez Harring March 3, 1964 (1964-03-03) (age 45) Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
Spouse(s)	Carl-Eduard von Bismarck – (1987-1989)

Laura Elena Harring (born March 3, 1964) is a Mexican American actress and former Miss USA (1985). She starred as Rita/Camilla Rhodes in David Lynch's 2001 film Mulholland Drive. She also starred as Dehlia Draycott in the 2007 film Nancy Drew.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Early life

She was born Laura Elena Herring in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. Her mother, María Martínez, is a psychotherapist, real estate investor, and secretary, and her father Raymond Herring was a developer and organic farmer of German descent.¹² The two divorced in 1971. Harring lived the first ten years of her life in Mexico, before her family relocated to San Antonio, Texas. Caught by stray fire from a driveby shooting at age 12, Harring suffered a bullet wound to the head.³ At age 16, she convinced her family to let her study in Switzerland at one of the top schools, Aiglon College. She eventually returned to America, settling down in El Paso, Texas and entered the world of beauty pageants. She won the title of Miss El Paso USA, and soon after, Miss Texas USA. In 1985 she became the first Hispanic to win the Miss USA crown. She is the first of Texas Aces. She went on to make the top 10 at the Miss Universe 1985 pageant.

Harring spent the next year traveling through Asia, exploring Europe and working as a social worker in India. It was in Europe that she was introduced to the world of nobility and, in 1987, she married Count Carl-Eduard von Bismarck-Schönhausen. While she retains the title of Countess von Bismarck-Schönhausen, the couple divorced in 1989 but still remain friends. Harring studied theatre at the London Academy of Performing Arts and is skilled in the French style of Commedia dell'arte, as well as in most of the Latin dances, including the Argentine Tango.

Career

Harring had two recurring TV roles. During 1990-1991, she played Carla Greco on ABC's soap General Hospital, and during 1997, she played Paula Stevens on NBC's soap Sunset Beach.

She is best known for her performance in David Lynch's cult film Mulholland Drive (2001), opposite Naomi Watts and Justin Theroux. Harring went on to work two more times with Lynch - as an anthropomorphic rabbit in Rabbits (2002) and in a cameo appearance in Inland Empire (2006). In 2003, she starred in Mi Casa, Su Casa together with Barbara Eden of I Dream of Jeannie fame.

In 2004, she starred as John Travolta's spoiled wife in the movie adaptation of Marvel Comics's The Punisher. In 2006, she joined the cast of the FX Networks crime drama, The Shield. She has most recently starred in Mike Newell's adaptation of Gabriel García Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera (2007). Harring currently has two film projects in production, Bitter Grapes and Kluge, both due out in 2009.⁴

Filmography

• The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (TV) (1987)
• Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge (TV) (1988)
• Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989)
• The Forbidden Dance (1990)
• General Hospital (series) (1991)
• Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
• Rio Diablo (TV) (1993)
• Exit to Eden (1994)
• Empire (un-aired TV series) (1995)
• Sunset Beach (series) (1997)
• Black Scorpion II: Aftershock (1997)
• Hoover Park (1997)
• California ( TV series) (1997)
• Frasier (TV, 1 episode) (1998)
• Final Payback (1999)
• A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story (TV Movie) (2000)
• Little Nicky (2000)
• Black Scorpion (series) (2001)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• John Q (2002)
• Derailed (2002)
• Rabbits (2002)
• Willard (2003)
• Mi Casa, Su Casa (2003)
• The Poet (2003)
• The Punisher (2004)
• Return to Babylon (2004)
• All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005)
• The King (2005)
• Inland Empire (2006)
• Nancy Drew (2007)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
• The Caller (2008)

References

External links

• Laura Harring at the Internet Movie Database
• Laura Harring at Yahoo! Movies
• www.lauraharring.net

Preceded by Laura Shaw	Miss Texas USA 1985	Succeeded by Christy Fichtner
Preceded by Mai Shanley	Miss USA 1985	Succeeded by Christy Fichtner

v â€¢ d â€¢ e Miss Universe titleholders (1985) Miss Universe Deborah Carthy-Deu Miss USA Laura Martinez-Herring Miss Teen USA Kelly Hu

Persondata
NAME	Harring, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Harring, Laura Elena Martínez
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1964-3-3
PLACE OF BIRTH	Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH