American actress and Wild at Heart star Diane Ladd has died aged 89.
Laura Dern, Ladd’s daughter who is also an actress, announced her mother’s death on Monday.
Ladd was a triple Academy Award nominee for her supporting roles in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose.
She also starred in 1973 film White Lightning and HBO’s Enlightened in 2011 with her daughter. Often, they played mother and daughter together.
For the 1991 drama Rambling Rose they were the first, and only, mother and daughter duo to receive Oscar nominations for the same film in the same year.
Diane Ladd pictured with daughter Laura Dern, holding her award for Enlightened in 2012. Pic: Reuters
‘She doesn’t care what anybody thinks’
Ms Dern, who starred in Jurassic Park, said of her mother in 2019: “She is just the greatest actress, ever. You don’t even use the word brave because she just shows up like that in life. She doesn’t care what anybody thinks.
“She leads with a boundarylessness.”
In 2023 they released a joint memoir together titled Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love.
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The book was based on their conversations together during daily walks after Ladd was given only months to live, after she was diagnosed with lung disease.
Ms Dern said at the time: “The more we talked and the deeper and more complicated subjects we shared, my mother got better and better and better.
“It’s been a great gift.”
Ladd was married three times and worked into her 80s.
