Laura Dern is the Oscar-winning actress who played palaeobotanist Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park, one of the 1993 film’s three leads alongside Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum. In this story, Dern’s iconic role is part of the film’s legacy the Warner family celebrates — a movie so loved, more than 30 years later, that it inspired a $4,000, 200-hour home transformation.
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