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Diane Ladd, Three-Time Oscar Nominee, Dies at 89

The veteran actor was celebrated for a decades-long screen career featuring acclaimed collaborations with her daughter Laura Dern.

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Schauspieler-Familie Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd und Laura Dern
Die Oscar-nominierte Schauspielerin Diane Ladd ist tot. Sie starb im Alter von 89 Jahren in ihrem Haus in Ojai im US-Bundesstaat Kalifornien, wie Ladds Tochter Laura Dern gegenüber "The Hollywood Reporter" erklärte.

Overview

  • Laura Dern announced that her mother died Monday at home in Ojai, California, and said she was present at the time.
  • Across a career spanning film and television, Ladd earned Academy Award nominations for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991).
  • Ladd and Dern appeared together in Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose, with both receiving Oscar nominations for the latter, and later reunited on HBO’s Enlightened.
  • Bruce Dern, Ladd’s former husband, paid tribute in remarks to Us Weekly, praising her talent, her advocacy through SAG board service and her role as mother to Laura Dern.
  • In later years Ladd faced idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a diagnosis in 2018 that informed the pair’s 2023 conversational memoir Honey, Baby, Mine.