Bruce Dern

About Bruce Dern

Bruce Dern is an American actor whose long career has made him one of the defining character performers of the New Hollywood era and a persistent presence in film and television for more than six decades. Born Bruce MacLeish Dern in Chicago in 1936, he grew up in an accomplished family with political, business, and literary connections; his grandfather George Dern was governor of Utah and U.S. Secretary of War, and…