Laura Harring

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Laura Elena (née Martez-Herring; March 3, 1964) commonly known as Laura Harring, is a Mexican-American actress.

Harring became the first Hispanic woman to be crowned Miss USA in 1985.

She began her acting career in television and film later this year.

Rita and Camilla Rhodes appear in the 2001 postmodern neo-noir film Mulholland Drive, she is best known for her dual roles as Rita and Camilla Rhodes.

She is also known for her appearances in other films, including The Forbidden Dance (1990), John Q (2002), Willard (2004), The King (2004), and Love in the Time of Cholera (2005).

Early life

Harring was born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, on March 3, 1964. Mara Elena Martnez-Cairo, her mother, is a spiritual scholar, real estate investor, and former secretary. Raymond Herring, her father, was a wealthy and organic farmer of Austrian-German descent. In 1971, the two were divorced. Harring spent the first ten years of her life in Mexico before her family and her family emigrated to San Antonio, Texas. Harring was shot and killed by a.45 bullet when she was struck by stray fire from a driveby shot at age 12. At the age of 16, she convinced her family to allow her to study in Aiglon College in Switzerland. She returned to the United States, settling in El Paso, Texas, and entering the world of beauty pageants. Miss El Paso USA won the title and Miss Texas USA followed shortly, and Miss Texas USA followed her shortly to win Miss America 1985. Harring spent the next year traveling around Asia, exploring Europe, and working as a social worker in India.

Personal life

Harring married Count Carl-Eduard von Bismarck-Schönhausen, the great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck, in 1987. Despite the fact that the couple wed in 1989 divorced, she retains the name Countess von Bismarck-Schönhausen.

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Career

Harring studied theatre at the London Academy of Performing Arts, having trained in the Italian commedia dell'arte, as well as Latin dances, including the Argentine tango. She began her acting career in the film Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! Harring played the supporting role of Jerri, a flight attendant and the girlfriend of the brother of one of the protagonists, Chris, who joins them for family dinner at their grandmother's house. In television, she portrayed Raúl Juliá's character's wife in the NBC television movie The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987). She was cast by NBC producers after they saw her on the Miss USA broadcast and contacted her with the role.

In 1990, Harring was lead actress in the Columbia Pictures release The Forbidden Dance, where she played the role of Nisa—a Brazilian princess who travels to Los Angeles to stop a corporation from demolishing her family home. That same year, she began recurring role on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital, as Carla Greco. The next few years, she had supporting roles in films - Exit to Eden (1994), and Black Scorpion II: Aftershock (1997). In 1997, she played the role of Paula Stevens in the NBC soap opera Sunset Beach. After leaving the show, she guest-starred on Frasier in the episode "Dial M for Martin", and appeared in the comedy film Little Nicky.

Harring is most well known for her performance in David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive (2001), opposite Naomi Watts and Justin Theroux. She played both the characters of Rita (an amnesiac who names herself after Rita Hayworth when seeing the name on a poster for the movie Gilda) and Camilla. In response to her performance and the choice of her for the role, film critic Roger Ebert wrote, "Not many actresses would be bold enough to name themselves after Rita Hayworth, but Harring does, because she can. Slinky and voluptuous in clinging gowns, all she has to do is stand there and she's the first good argument in 55 years for a Gilda remake." Comparisons were also made between Harring and Ava Gardner by the International Herald Tribune. In 2002, she was awarded the American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film for her performance. Harring went on to work twice more with Lynch—as an anthropomorphic rabbit in the limited series Rabbits (2002) and in a cameo appearance in Inland Empire (2006).

In 2002, she appeared in John Q, and was female lead opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in Derailed. In 2003, she starred in Mi Casa, Su Casa together with Barbara Eden. In 2004, she was the spoiled wife of antagonist Mr. Saint (John Travolta), Livia Saint in the movie adaptation of Marvel Comics's The Punisher. In 2005, Harring starred in the independent film The King, and later had roles in Nancy Drew, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Caller, and Drool, where she plays an abused wife fleeing her husband.

In 2006, Harring joined the cast of FX's crime drama, The Shield, as defense attorney Rebecca Doyle, appearing in nine episodes of season five. In the role, she is hired by lead character Vic Mackey to protect his team of corrupt police officers against an Internal Affairs investigation. From 2009 to 2010, she also had a recurring role as Evelyn Bass/Elizabeth Fisher in The CW series Gossip Girl. In the show, she plays a woman posing as the long-lost mother of the character Chuck Bass, before her deceit is discovered by the other characters. She also guest-starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2003, Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2010, and NCIS: Los Angeles in 2012 and 2016. Harring was also cast in the independent film The Loner directed by Daniel Grove. In 2016 she was cast in the English-language remake of the film Inside, and in Legendary's first digital film The Thinning, alongside Logan Paul and Peyton List.

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