Laura Dern turned the Cannes Film Festival into a family affair.
On Wednesday, May 20, the Big Little Lies actress stepped out at the famed festival with her father Bruce Dern, as well as her two kids.
The Jurassic Park star is a mom to son Ellery Walker, 24, and daughter Jaya, 21, both of whom she shares with ex-husband Ben Harper, to whom she was married from 2005 to 2013.
© Getty ImagesFor the special outing, attending the premiere of De Gaulle: Tilting Iron (La Bataille de Gaulle: L'âge de fer), a film about former President of France Charles de Gaulle and his journey through World War II, Laura wore a silver gown with an embellished mesh overlay, and had her blonde hair styled into tight curls with bangs.
Meanwhile her daughter wore a black-and-white, strapless columnal gown, and her father and son both wore black suits, Bruce, who will be 90 next month, accessorizing with a white Los Angeles Clippers cap.
Though Laura and her daughter have made other public appearances together earlier this year, this marks the first time Laura shares a public appearance with her father since the 2020 SAG Awards (now the Actor Awards), and it is the first time in over ten years that she makes a red carpet appearance with both her two kids and her father, the last time being the Academy Awards in February 2011.
© WireImageLaura, Bruce, Jaya and Ellery also celebrated a special screening of Dernsie, a documentary about Bruce's life and more than six decades working in Hollywood.
The documentary, which received a six-minute standing ovation, is directed by Mike Méndez and features appearances by Laura as well as Quentin Tarantino, Alexander Payne and Bruce himself, who revisits his career.
Laura and Bruce's outing also comes seven months following the death of the former's mom and the latter's ex-wife Diane Ladd, who passed away at 89 on November 3, 2025, from chronic hypoxic respiratory failure complicated by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
© WireImageDiane and Bruce, who were also parents to daughter Diane Elizabeth, who died from a drowning accident when she was 18 months in 1962, were married from 1960 to 1969, though they remained good friends after their divorce, and in 2010, along with their daughter, were honored with adjoining stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
© Getty ImagesLaura shared the news of her mother's death in a statement to the The Hollywood Reporter. "My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed with me beside her this morning, at her home in Ojai, Ca," she said at the time.
"She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created. We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now," she concluded.
