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Biography
Laura Elena Harring (née Herring Martínez, formerly Gräfin von Bismarck-Schönhausen; born March 3, 1964) is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 1985 and later began acting in television and film. She is best known for her lead role as Rita in the 2001 movie Mulholland Drive. Her other films include The Forbidden Dance (1990), John Q (2002), Willard (2003), The Punisher (2004), The King (2005), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Ghost Son (2007), The Caller (2008), Drool (2009), Sex Ed (2014), and Inside (2016). She also played Carla Greco in General Hospital (1990–1991), Paula Stevens on Sunset Beach (1997), and Rebecca "Becca" Doyle in The Shield (2006).
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Interesting facts
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At the age of 12, the future actress received a gunshot wound to the head – an unknown person opened fire on a live target from the window of a moving car.
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In 1985, Laura won the Miss USA competition.
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In her youth, Herring worked as a restaurant cashier in the Philippines, where she became a hostage of her boss, who fell in love with her and confiscated her passport. The problem was only resolved after Laura's mother intervened.
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Laura Harring was married from 1987 to 1989 to Count Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, the great-great-grandson of Germany's "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck.
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Full name is Laura Elena Harring Martinez.