1. Laura Elena Harring is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 1985 and later began acting in television and film.
19 Facts About Laura Harring
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Laura Harring is best known for her lead role as Rita in the 2001 movie Mulholland Drive.
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Laura Harring played Carla Greco in General Hospital, Paula Stevens on Sunset Beach, and Rebecca "Becca" Doyle in The Shield.
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Laura Harring's mother, Maria Elena Martinez-Cairo, is a Mexican spiritual teacher, real estate investor, and former secretary.
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Laura Harring's father, Raymond Herring, was a Mexican developer and organic farmer of Austrian-German descent.
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Laura Harring lived the first ten years of her life in Guasave Sinaloa Mexico, before her family relocated to San Antonio, Texas.
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Laura Harring studied theatre at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, having trained in the Italian commedia dell'arte, as well as Latin dances, including the Argentine tango.
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Laura Harring eventually returned to the United States, settling down in El Paso, Texas, and began competing in beauty pageants.
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Laura Harring won Miss El Paso USA, Miss Texas USA, then Miss USA 1985, becoming the first Hispanic woman to do so.
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Laura Harring then spent the next year traveling through Asia, exploring Europe and working as a social worker in India.
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Laura Harring began acting in 1987, in the NBC television movie The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory.
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Laura Harring played Raul Julia's character's wife, having been cast by NBC producers after they saw her on the Miss USA broadcast and contacted her with the role.
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In 1990, Laura Harring was lead actress in the Columbia Pictures release The Forbidden Dance, in which she played the role of Nisa, a Brazilian princess.
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Laura Harring is best known for her performance in David Lynch's 2001 movie Mulholland Drive, opposite Naomi Watts and Justin Theroux.
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Laura Harring played both the characters of Rita and Camilla.
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In 2005, Laura 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, in which she plays an abused wife fleeing her husband.
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In 2006, Laura Harring joined the cast of FX's crime drama, The Shield, as defense attorney Rebecca Doyle, appearing in nine episodes of season five.
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Laura Harring was cast in the independent film The Loner directed by Daniel Grove.
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In 1987, Laura Harring married Count Carl-Eduard von Bismarck-Schonhausen, great-great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck.