Khaberni - American actress Diane Ladd, who was nominated three times for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, has died at the age of 89. Actress Laura Dern, who is Ladd's daughter from her previous husband, actor Bruce Dern, said on Monday that her mother passed away at her home in California.
Ladd was famous for portraying strong, intelligent women with complex personalities, playing roles such as a brash waitress, a domineering mentally ill mother, and an eccentric housewife in the 1930s during her artistic career that spanned seven decades and began on the stage in the 1950s.
Diane Ladd Dead: 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' Actress Was 89
The tall blonde actress starred in films such as 'White Lightning' (1973), the crime drama 'Wild at Heart' (1990) by director David Lynch, the black comedy 'Citizen Ruth' (1996), and 'Dad and Them' (2001), as well as the series 'Enlightened' (2011) produced by HBO alongside her daughter. Often the two played mother and daughter roles.
Both Ladd and Dern were nominated for an Oscar for the 1991 drama 'Rambling Rose,' becoming the first and only mother-daughter duo nominated for the same film in the same year.
Dern said about her mother in a 2019 interview, "She is the greatest actress ever, you can't even use the word courageous to describe her because it's simply her nature, the way she shows up in life, she does not care what anyone thinks."
Wild at Heart' actress Diane Ladd dies at 89 | Reuters
In 2023, the mother and daughter published a joint memoir titled "Honey, Darling: A Mother and Daughter Talk About Life, Death, and Love," based on their conversations during their daily walks together following Ladd's diagnosis with lung disease, which doctors estimated left her with only months to live.
