Who is Laura Harring?

Laura Harring is a Mexican-American actress. She is best known for her role as Rita in David Lynch’s Oscar-nominated film Mulholland Drive (2001).

In 1885, she became the first Latina woman crowned Miss USA.

She is also known for her roles in other films, including The Forbidden Dance (1990), John Q (2002), Willard (2003), The Punisher (2004), The King (2005), and Love in the Time of Cholera (2007).

Laura Harring: Bio, Age, Birth Facts, Family, and Childhood

Laura Harring was born as Laura Elena Martínez Herring on 3 March 1964, in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Her nationality is Mexican-American and she is of Austrian, German, and Mexican ethnicity.

Her mother, María Elena Martínez-Cairo, is a spiritual teacher, real estate investor, and secretary.

Harring’s father, Raymond Herring, was a developer and organic farmer of Austrian-German descent.

Her parents divorced in 1971. She lived the first ten years of her life in Mexico before her family relocated to San Antonio, Texas.