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''Incapable of being bad, she's not only a natural actress, she's also the hardest-working actress I've ever known. She's brave and honest and doesn't need to have perfect hair and makeup in a waking-up scene. I love her.'' -- BILLY BOB THORNTON
 

 
Laura Dern
Laura Dern

Being the daughter of movie stars (Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd), Dern, 31, has fashioned an ironic career for herself, specializing in low-rent girls in trouble-like the oversexed young woman in "Rambling Rose" (which brought a Best Actress Oscar nomination) and the glue-sniffing abortion-debate pawn in "Citizen Ruth" (which should have brought her a nomination). She's outrageously provocative, but never a caricature.

DON'T MISS: "Wild at Heart" (1990), "Rambling Rose" (1991), "Citizen Ruth" (1996)

NEXT: The '50s period piece "October Sky" (March '99); "Daddy and Them," directed by Billy Bob Thornton (Fall '99)

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Photo Credit: Fitzroy Barrett