news | March 30, 2026

What Laura Dern's Children Look Like Today

In February 2018, a sixteen-year-old Ellery Harper attended Calvin Klein's spring fashion show with mom Laura at his side. Renowned menswear designer Raf Simons had, according to WWD, initially asked Ellery to walk in the show, but Harper said his dad "had other plans." Dern confirmed that her ex-husband "wanted him to wait a little bit more."

The very next year, Ellery took to the catwalk for Calvin Klein's 2019 spring fashion show attired in head-to-toe Simons — a look that, according to W, subtly winked at the movie Jaws, and included a graduation cap. The outfit perhaps symbolized Ellery's rite-of-passage into the grown-up world of high fashion. Now Dern's lanky, chiseled son appears to have made his modeling dreams a reality: he's currently represented by the prestigious, New York-based model management company DNA.

Although he's set his professional pursuits on modeling, Ellery shares his father Ben Harper's passion for music. His Instagram demonstrates that his tastes span multiple genres, whether he's referencing Adele in the captions or informing his followers that he's been "playing a lot of Black Flag" lately.