Laura Dern appeared on a recent episode of Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast (via People) and remembered being forced to drop out of UCLA film school after she ...

Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. The actress recalled this week that the University of California, Los Angeles, refused to grant her a leave of absence to film ...

At the start of her film career, Laura Dern took a big risk, quitting college to star in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. The Big Little Lies star recalled she learned she had landed the role of Sandy ...

She told the "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" podcast that her course leaders were unsupportive. Dern said the former head of UCLA's film department said it was "insane" to drop out for the film.

The actress left UCLA after just two days to star in the 1986 David Lynch thriller Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand ...

Laura Dern has revealed her university forced her to drop out after she secured a role in David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet. The Jurassic Park actor, 57, starred in the noir-horror as a police chief ...

Despite earning admission to the prestigious university at 17, Dern was only able to attend for two days. “I was 17, so excited to get into UCLA,” Dern said. “I was there for two days, and I had ...

Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. In 1986, David Lynch came bursting back into the world of ...

She wore bluuueeeee velvettttt – but she didn’t wear a cap and gown along with it. Laura Dern spent a whopping two days at UCLA before dropping out to play Sandy Williams in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.

Dern said her professors did not allow her to take a leave of absence to film David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet.' By Zoe G. Phillips Laura Dern gave up her college education for David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet.