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Biography

Early life

Harring was born Laura Elena Martínez Harring in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. Her mother, María Martínez, is a Mexican psychotherapist, real estate investor, and secretary, and her father, Raymond Harring, is a farmer of German descent.^[1][2] The two divorced in 1971. Harring lived the first ten years of her life in Mexico, before her family relocated to San Antonio, Texas. At age 16 sixteen, she convinced her family to let her study in Switzerland at one of the top schools, Aiglon College. She eventually returned to America, settling down in El Paso, Texas and entered the world of beauty pageants. She won the title of Miss El Paso, and soon after, Miss Texas USA. In 1985 she became the first Hispanic to win the Miss USA crown. Location of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico Coordinates: , Country Mexico State Sinaloa Municipality Ahome Founded in 1893 Founded by Benjamin F. Jonhston Government  - Mayor Policarpo Infante Fierro PRI Elevation 10 m (32. ... Sinaloa is a state in northwestern Mexico. ... Psychotherapy is a set of techniques believed to cure or to help solve behavioral and other psychological problems in humans. ... Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ... For other uses, see Farmer (disambiguation). ... Nickname: Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: , Counties Bexar County Government  - Mayor Phil Hardberger Area  - City  412. ... Aiglon College is an influential British international boarding school in Switzerland. ... El Paso redirects here. ... A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition between people, based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. ... The Miss Texas USA competition is the pageant who selects the representative for the state Texas in the Miss USA pageant. ...  Countries where Spanish has official status. ...

Harring spent the next year traveling through Asia, exploring Europe and working as a social worker in India. It was in Europe that she was introduced to the world of nobility and, in 1987, she married Count Carl-Eduard von Bismarck-Schönhausen. While she retains the title of Countess von Bismark-Schönhausen, the couple divorced in 1989 but still remain friends. Harring studied theatre at the London Academy of Performing Arts and is skilled in the French style of Commedia dell'arte, as well as in most of the Latin dances, including the Argentine Tango. Carl-Eduard von Bismarck Count Carl-Eduard Calle von Bismarck (born February 16, 1961 in Zürich) is a German politician (CDU). ... Look up Count in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A count is a nobleman in most European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl, whose wife is still a countess (for lack of an Anglo-Saxon term). ... Karel Dujardins set his closely-observed scene of a traveling troupes makeshift stage against idealized ruins in the Roman Campagna: dated 1657 (Louvre Museum) Commedia dellarte (Italian: play of professional artists also interpreted as comedy of humors), also known as Extemporal Comedy, was a popular form of improvisational... The term Latin dances in the context of social and ballroom dances may be used in two meanings. ... A couple dances Argentine Tango. ...

Career

Harring is best known for her performance in David Lynch's cult film Mulholland Drive (2001), opposite Naomi Watts and Justin Theroux. Controversy arose when Lynch pixelized Harring's pubic area in a nocturnal nude scene on the DVD release of the film – one of very few instances of cinematic nudity by a countess. In 2003, she starred in Mi Casa, Su Casa together with Barbara Eden of I Dream of Jeannie fame. David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946, in Missoula, Montana) is an American filmmaker. ... Mulholland Drive (often abbreviated Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 Academy Award-nominated psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch. ... For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ... Naomi Ellen Watts (born September 28, 1968) is a British-Australian actress known for her roles in Mulholland Dr., the film remakes of The Ring and King Kong, as well as her Academy Award-nominated role in the film 21 Grams. ... Justin Theroux guest-starring on the HBO series Sex and the City Justin Theroux is an American actor. ... Pixelization is a video- and image-editing technique where an image, or part of it, is blurred by displaying part or all of it at a lower resolution. ... Nudity in film is the appearance in motion pictures of people without clothing. ... Look up Count in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A count is a nobleman in most European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl, whose wife is still a countess (for lack of an Anglo-Saxon term). ... Barbara Eden (born August 23, 1934 in Tucson, Arizona, USA) is an American film and television actress and singer who is best known for her starring role in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. ... For the Xbox Live pseudonym Major Nelson, see Larry Hryb. ...

In 2004, she starred as John Travolta's spoiled wife in the movie adaption of Marvel Comics's The Punisher. In 2006, she joined the cast of the FX Networks crime drama, The Shield. Her performance on the show earned her a "Jeer" from TV Guide. John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and singer. ... Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ... The Punisher is a 2004 movie, based on the Marvel Comics character, starring Thomas Jane as Frank Castle and John Travolta as Howard Saint, the gangster who orders the death of Castles entire family. ... FX (shorter for Fox Extended Networks) is the name of a number of related subscription TV channels owned by News Corporations Fox Entertainment Group. ... The Shield is an American police-drama television series shown on FX Networks in the U.S. and other networks internationally. ... TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ...

Filmography

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• Nancy Drew (2007)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
• Inland Empire (2006)
• The King (2005)
• All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005)
• Return to Babylon (2004)
• The Punisher (2004)
• The Poet (2003)
• Mi Casa, Su Casa (2003)
• Willard (2003)
• Rabbits (2002)
• Derailed (2002)
• John Q (2002)
• Mulholland Dr. (2001)
• Black Scorpion (series) (2001)
• Little Nicky (2000)
• A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story (TV) (2000)
• Final Payback (1999)
• Frasier (TV, 1 episode) (1998)
• California (series) (1997)
• Hoover Park (1997)
• Black Scorpion II: Aftershock (1997)
• Sunset Beach (series) (1997)
• Empire (series) (1995)
• Exit to Eden (1994)
• Rio Diablo (TV) (1993)
• Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
• General Hospital (series) (1991)
• The Forbidden Dance (1990)
• Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989)
• Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge (TV) (1988)
• The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (TV) (1987)

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References

External links

• Official webite
• Laura Harring at the Internet Movie Database
• Laura Harring at Yahoo! Movies