Talk:Laura Harring

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This is one of the hottest women ever.

Amen to that. She puts the "X" in sexy. 64.241.230.3 16:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If she played David Caruso's wife who died of cancer in the CSI: Maimi series, this should be added to her bio. I can find no record of her but she certainly looks like the same actress. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.120.106.34 (talk) 05:35, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That was Alana de la Garza. She resembles Laura. Sharpvisuals (talk) 00:56, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that at some point she changed her name from "Herring" to "Harring". It would be interesting to know when and why she did this. Grover cleveland (talk) 09:09, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• When she was Miss USA she was still called Herring. Maybe after she went into the movies she changed her name, simimilar to David Walliams (who was called David Williams, but Equity does not allow two artists to have the same name, to avoid confusion). As far is I have been able to work out, she appeared in Baywatch, in 1992 (episode Princess of Tides), still called Laura Herring, but when she appeared in Rio Diablo (a TV movie from 1993) she is credited as Laura Harring. So it seems she changed her name around 1992-1993 (or somebody made a spelling mistake which stuck). JHvW 09:17, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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According to this article and this one too, all German royal and noble titles were abolished in 1919. If so, can it really be said that she "retains the title of Countess von Bismarck-Schönhausen"? Flashpanner (talk) 08:50, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Flashpanner - Even as countries abolish their monarchies/aristocracies, their descendants still live on and many notable people on Wikipedia still have noble or even royal infoboxes. There are still pretenders to the French throne... among others...

I guess we should tell editors on Countess and now Princess Olympia's page to give her a normal infobox since her countess title (by birth) and princess title (by marriage) are useless as Germany and France do not have a monarchy anymore.

As for Harring, the only source provided years ago claiming she still has her countess title out of courtesy is TV Guide[1], which does not provide a RS for this claim. A 2001 profile/interview from the Independent about Harring notes her divorce but does not seem to explicitly confirm that she can still call herself a "Countess". I've removed it for now. Clear Looking Glass (talk) 12:47, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are no titles of notability in Germany. Some people pretend they still have them and others play along with that pretense as a social courtesy. By German naming rules the old titles of nobility just become part of their surname and have no separate meaning. A person keeping their married surname after divorce is not uncommon. the "Gräfin" part of her old surname may translate as "countess" but generally we don't translate name components in foreign names and that is all that it is. The real question is if she kept her old married name as her current name because she liked it and the old noble status it implied. As for her calling herself "Countess" beyond it being a translation of part of her married legal name, that is solely her own decision that requires no approval from others, and the source says she does. Geraldo Perez (talk) 16:43, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]