Overview
- Laura Dern announced on Nov. 3 that her mother died at 89 at her home in Ojai, California.
- A death certificate obtained by People on Nov. 17 identifies acute on chronic hypoxic respiratory failure and records her cremation on Nov. 10.
- The document notes an interstitial lung disease present for years and lists esophageal dysmotility as a significant contributing condition.
- Across six decades, Ladd earned three Oscar nominations for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart, and Rambling Rose, and with Dern became the first mother and daughter nominated for the same film or in the same year.
- She is survived by Laura Dern and grandchildren Ellery Walker and Jaya Harper; her husband since 1999, Robert Charles Hunter, died in July at 77.