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Critic's Corner Monday: '20/20' on 'The Bachelor'; 'Gossip Girl'

USA Today - Found Mar. 14, 2010
... guest Kevin Zegers), while Chuck learns more about the woman who may be his mom (Mulholland Drive's Laura Harring), in an outing directed by...

Posted on March 14, 2010, 8:45 am

Gossip Girl Season 3 Episode 14 Preview

dingoRUE - Found Mar. 12, 2010
Chuck (Ed Westwick) learns more about the woman (guest star Laura Harring) who may or may not be his mother.

Posted on March 12, 2010, 12:23 pm

'Gossip Girl': How we met Chuck's mother

Los Angeles Times - Found Mar. 16, 2010
... xoxo -- Enid Portuguez Photo: Laura Harring as Elizabeth Fisher and Ed Westwick as Chuck Bass in "Gossip Girl." Credit: The CW

Posted on March 16, 2010, 9:50 am

Girlwatcher - Adrianne Curry Twitpic - Alice Eve Topless Scene - ...

Playboy - Found Mar. 16, 2010
We keep seeing this?Salma Hayek, Laura Harring (she of the extended lesbian love scenes with Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive)?how is it...

Posted on March 16, 2010, 7:10 am

Gossip Girl Boss Promises a "Great," "Emotional" Story for Chuck and ...

E! Online - Found Mar. 2, 2010
... and Blair's main story when we come back will be solving the mystery of the lady at Bart's grave (Laura Harring)?who she is, where she came...
Gossip Girl Boss Promises a "Great," "Emotional" Story for Chuck and ... - EOnline.com
'Gossip Girl' will 'turn up the heat' - Digital Spy
'Chuck': Also starring Zachary Levi as Batman - Los Angeles Times
Let's gab about 'Chuck vs. the Fake Name' - Chicago Tribune
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Posted on March 2, 2010, 8:10 am

This Week's Rent: Big girls, sultry señoras and fab foxes move to ...

Cape Codder - Found Mar. 14, 2010
'Drool,? an indie comedy in which an abused wife (Laura Harring, of 'Mulholland Dr.? fame) kills her husband and takes his corpse and her...

Posted on March 14, 2010, 12:08 pm

This Week's Rent: Big girls, sultry señoras and fab foxes move to ...

Barnstable Register - Found Mar. 14, 2010
'Drool,? an indie comedy in which an abused wife (Laura Harring, of 'Mulholland Dr.? fame) kills her husband and takes his corpse and her...

Posted on March 14, 2010, 11:55 am

Gossip Girl episode recap: "The Hurt Locket"

PhillyBurbs.com - Found Mar. 8, 2010
... more important than being with you for this.' They both eventually find Elizabeth (who is played by Laura Harring) and confront her about the...

Posted on March 8, 2010, 12:40 pm

This Just In: TV Pilot Shatner My Dad Says Finds Lead

E! Online - Found Feb. 19, 2010
Girl promo stills for you, including a shot of Nate and Serena nearly kissing and a pic of Chuck confronting his maybe mama (Laura Harring).
This Just In: TV Pilot Shatner My Dad Says Finds Lead - EOnline.com
William Shatner lands a 'tweet' deal - CNN
Shatner Cast in 'Shit My Dad Says' - Hollywood
William Shatner in Shit My Dad Says - Hollywood Reporter
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Posted on February 19, 2010, 3:05 am

Parts are better than the whole of 'Drool'

Calendar Live - Found Jan. 22, 2010
The dutiful wife and mom, Anora (Laura Harring), lives in fear of her husband.
Parts are better than the whole of 'Drool' - Los Angeles Times
Reviews: Parts are better than the whole of 'Drool' - Calendar Live
Reviews: Parts are better than the whole of 'Drool' - Los Angeles Times
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Posted on January 22, 2010, 11:10 am

Laura Harring Biography

Laura Harring
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Laura Harring

Harring at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
Born Laura Elena Herring Martínez
March 3, 1964 (1964-03-03) (age 46)
Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
Other name(s) Laura Martinez Harring
Laura M. Herring
Laura Herring
Laura Elana Harring
Laura Elena Harring
Spouse(s) Carl-Eduard von Bismarck – (1987-1989)

Laura Harring (born Laura Elena Herring Martínez on 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.

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Early life

She was born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. Her mother, María Elena Cairo, is a psychotherapist, real estate investor, and secretary, and her father Raymond Herring was a developer and organic farmer of Austrian-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, and 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, great-great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck. 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 Italian style of Commedia dell'arte, as well as in most of the Latin dances, including the Argentine Tango.

Career

Harring had two recurring television 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.

Harring at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival

She is perhaps 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

In 2009/2010, Harring will appear as Evelyn Bass, but uses the alias Elizabeth (in the episode The Hurt Locket) on Gossip Girl.5

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1987 The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory Santa Anna's bride as Laura Martinez Harring
1988 Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge unknown
Beauty and the Beast Carmen 1 episode
1989 Alien Nation Female Newcomer 1 episode, as Laura M. Herring
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! Jerri as Laura Herring
1990 The Forbidden Dance Nisa as Laura Herring
General Hospital Carla Greco unknown episodes, 1990-1991
1991 Dead Women in Lingerie Marcia as Laura Herring
1992 Baywatch Princess Catherine Randenberg 1 episode, as Laura Herring
1993 Rio Diablo Maria Benjamin
Blossom Nurse 1 episode
1994 Exit to Eden unknown
1995 Empire Gabriella Cochrane un-aired TV series
Flipper Garcia 3 episodes, 1995-1996
1996 Baywatch Nights Charlotte 'Charlie' McBride 1 episode
Silk Stalkings Paula Houston / Yvette 2 episodes, 1996-1999
1997 Sunset Beach Paula Stevens
Black Scorpion II: Aftershock Babette
Hoover Park unknown
California Christina Guevara unknown episodes
1998 Frasier Rebecca Wendell 1 episode
2000 A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story Marisleysis Gonzalez as Laura Elena Harring
Little Nicky Mrs. Dunleavy
2000 Black Scorpion Ariana 1 episode
Final Payback Gina Carrillo
Mulholland Drive Rita as Laura Elena Harring
Feather Pimento Woman in Red
2002 John Q Gina Palumbo
Derailed Galina Konstantin
Rabbits Jane
2003 Willard Cathryn
The Poet Paula
SVU Joan Quentin 1 episode, as Laura Elana Harring
Mi Casa, Su Casa Catalina
2004 The Punisher Livia Saint
2005 All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos Martia
The King Twyla
2006 Inland Empire Jane Rabbit
Ghost Son Stacey
Walkout Francis Crisostomo
The Shield Rebecca Doyle 8 episodes
2007 My Neighbor's Keeper Kate Powell
Nancy Drew Dehlia Draycott as Laura Elena Harring
Love in the Time of Cholera Sara Noriega
2008 One Missed Call Beth's Mom uncredited
Return to Babylon Alla Nazimova
The Caller Eileen
Drool Anora
2009- Gossip Girl Evelyn Bass/Elizabeth 2 episodes
2010 Go Straight to Hell Marcella pre-production

References

  1. ^ Laura Harring Biography (1964-)
  2. ^ Laura Elena Harring Biography - Yahoo! Movies
  3. ^ Women We Love: Laura Elena Harring - Esquire
  4. ^ www.movietome.com/movie/365113/bitter-grapes/index.html Retrieved on 2009-04-08
  5. ^ [1]

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