Overview
- Dern announced on Monday that Ladd died in the morning at her Ojai, California, home, saying she was by her side.
- No cause of death has been provided, and there were no immediate details about memorial arrangements.
- Ladd received three Academy Award nominations for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose, and she won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe with additional Emmy nominations.
- She frequently collaborated with her daughter, and their Rambling Rose nominations marked the first mother–daughter pair recognized by the Academy for the same film in the same year.
- Born Rose Diane Ladner in Mississippi, she amassed more than 200 screen credits over six decades and was married to Bruce Dern before later marriages to William A. Shea Jr. and Robert Charles Hunter; her first daughter died in infancy.