Person profile

Bruce Dern

35%Slightly wokeWoke score · lower is better0% personal • 35% work

Published titles: 7
Crew roles: 0
Cast roles: 7
Profile updated: October 5, 2026
TMDB person ID: 6905

Personal context

Summary

Bruce Dern is an American actor whose career spans more than six decades, with notable roles in The King of Marvin Gardens, Coming Home, Silent Running, Nebraska, and films by Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. He is known for intense, unconventional portrayals, often of villains and troubled or emotionally complex characters. In interviews, Dern has said that the political world he saw growing up put him off politics. No public statements on identity politics, DEI, or activism are on record.

Known Work

Published titles

Freaks
2019
as Mr. Snowcone
56%
QT8: The First Eight
2019
as Self
48%
The Mustang
2019
as Myles