--- name: "Laura Harring" canonical: "https://film.one/person/laura-harring" fi1m_id: "laura-harring" imdb_id: "nm0005009" tmdb_id: 15007 wikidata_id: "Q233536" roles: ["Actor"] born: "3 March 1964" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T22:42:58.587006+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Laura Harring ## Identity Laura Harring - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/laura-harring - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** laura-harring - **IMDb ID:** nm0005009 - **TMDB ID:** 15007 - **Wikidata ID:** Q233536 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Harring, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233536, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005009/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15007 Actor. Born 3 March 1964 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 3 March 1964, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico - **Also known as:** Laura Elena Harring, Laura Martinez Harring, 劳拉·哈灵, لورا هرینگ, Gräfin von Bismarck-Schönhausen - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Harring, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233536, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005009/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15007 ## Fi1m on Laura Harring > Laura Harring makes Rita's vulnerability convincing without explaining away her mystery. Her scenes with Naomi Watts in *Mulholland Drive* give us someone to care about through the uncertainty; that is the performance we recommend starting with. In *Mulholland Drive* (2001), Laura Harring makes Rita seem vulnerable without making her easy to read. Beside Naomi Watts's eager Betty, she allows their growing attachment to become something we care about even when the story resists explanation. We were moved by their tenderness because Harring makes Rita's vulnerability convincing even when we cannot explain her. The uncertainty never feels like a difficulty she has been asked to act out. We can stay interested in the woman without knowing how she fits into the story. The role was her breakthrough after television parts in *General Hospital* (1990–1991) and *Sunset Beach* (1997). Supporting work followed in *John Q* (2002) and *The Punisher* (2004), and she returned to David Lynch for *Inland Empire* (2006). It is a career whose central performance can overshadow the work around it, though we would not turn those supporting credits into a story of wasted talent. The more useful reservation concerns her frequent casting as glamorous, mysterious women: that description catches the appearance of Rita and misses much of what Harring contributes. Lynch asked her to imagine a dark cloud following her character, an instruction that fits the unease around Rita. Harring allows that uncertainty to coexist with the closeness between the women; Watts gives Betty's brightness the sense of someone working to stay hopeful. Neither performance requires us to understand everything before we become involved. The film is less persuasive when it wanders away from them into supporting-character detours, some of which try our patience. We wanted to get back to the women because their scenes together mattered, not because we expected them to explain what was happening elsewhere. Harring announced her retirement from acting in 2024, so the familiar wish for another part like Rita may be beside the point. We would rather return to the work than imagine the career she might have had. Choose *Mulholland Drive* for the relationship, and be prepared to wait through a few detours to get back to it. ## Biography Laura Harring is an American actress. She was born Laura Elena Martínez Herring on 3 March 1964 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. She won Miss USA in 1985, the first Hispanic woman to do so, and studied theatre at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after attending Aiglon College in Switzerland. Harring is known for her performance as Rita and Camilla Rhodes in David Lynch's *Mulholland Drive* (2001). She has appeared in films including *John Q* (2002), *The Punisher* (2004) and *Inland Empire* (2006), and in television series such as *General Hospital* (1990–1991), *Sunset Beach* (1997), *The Shield* (2002) and *Gossip Girl* (2007). She received an ALMA Award for her work in *Mulholland Drive*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, bfi.org.uk, anothermag.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Mulholland Drive* (2001), Fi1m 92, as Rita / Camilla Rhodes — [page](https://film.one/film/mulholland-drive.md) ## Complete filmography (53) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Father of the Bride* (2022), as Marcela Castillo - *The Thinning: New World Order* (2018), as Georgina Preston - *Taco Shop* (2018), as Mom - *The Thinning* (2016), as Georgina Preston - *The Loner* (2016), as Lola - *Inside* (2016), as Madeleine Sherman - *Sex Ed* (2014), as Lupe - *Chasing Life* (2014), series, as Olivia Ortiz - *Elwood* (2014), as Julie Jacobs - *Return to Babylon* (2013), as Alla Nazimova - *Roma nuda* (2011), as Pina - *Kluge* (2010), as Anne - *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), series, as Julia Feldman - *Drool* (2009), as Anora - *The Caller* (2008), as "The Sophisticated Lady" - *One Missed Call* (2008), as Beth's Mom (uncredited) - *Love in the Time of Cholera* (2007), as Sara Noriega - *Gossip Girl* (2007), series, as Elizabeth Fisher - *My Neighbor's Keeper* (2007), as Kate Powell - *Nancy Drew* (2007), as Dehlia Draycott - *Ghost Son* (2007), as Stacey - *Inland Empire* (2006), as Party Guest / Jane Rabbit - *The King* (2006), as Twyla - *Walkout* (2006), as Francis Crisostomo - *All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos* (2005), as Martia - *The Punisher* (2004), as Livia Saint - *The Poet* (2003), as Paula - *Loco Love* (2003), as Catalina - *Willard* (2003), as Cathryn - *Rabbits* (2002), as Jane - *Rabbits* (2002), series, as Jane - *Derailed* (2002), as Galina Konstantin - *The Shield* (2002), series, as Rebecca Doyle — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-shield.md) - *John Q* (2002), as Gina Palumbo - *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Marta Caldera - *Mulholland Drive* (2001), as Rita / Camilla Rhodes — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/mulholland-drive.md) - *Final Payback* (2001), as Gina Carrillo - *Little Nicky* (2000), as Mrs. Dunleavy - *A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story* (2000), as Marisleysis Gonzalez - *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Defense Attorney Joan Quentin - *Black Scorpion II: Aftershock* (1997), as Babette - *Sunset Beach* (1997), series, as Paula Stevens - *Baywatch Nights* (1995), series, as Charlie McBride - *Exit to Eden* (1994), as M.C. Kindra - *Frasier* (1993), series, as Rebecca Wendell — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md) - *Rio Diablo* (1993), as Maria Benjamin - *Dead Women in Lingerie* (1991), as Marcia Mendoza - *Blossom* (1990), series, Actor - *The Forbidden Dance* (1990), as Nisa - *Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!* (1989), as Jerri - *The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory* (1987), as Santa Anna's Bride - *Beauty and the Beast* (1987), series, as Carmen - *Manson Girls*, as Alice Rainer ## Gallery - ![Laura Harring photo (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/97136/gallery-9b881bd2fcf0.jpg) Laura Harring photo (2016) — Laura Harring, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Laura_Harring.jpg/1280px-Laura_Harring.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Laura Harring, Los Angeles, CA on August 27, 2011 - Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com](https://film.one/media/person/97136/gallery-ed37a35b586f.jpg) Laura Harring, Los Angeles, CA on August 27, 2011 - Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com — Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Laura_Harring_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Laura Harring](https://film.one/media/person/97136/gallery-4ab5e26b333b.jpg) Laura Harring — Laura Harring, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Laura_Harring_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Laura_Harring_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Laura Harring](https://film.one/media/person/97136/gallery-925fbf985755.jpg) Laura Harring — Image via TMDB - ![Laura Harring](https://film.one/media/person/97136/gallery-fe5f27673812.jpg) Laura Harring — Image via TMDB - ![Laura Harring](https://film.one/media/person/97136/gallery-be33a6a7e63d.jpg) Laura Harring — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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