🔗 Share this article Acclaimed Actress Diane Ladd, Celebrated For Her Performance in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Passes Away at 89 Years Old. The award-nominated actress Diane Ladd, a Hollywood veteran left us 89 years old. The star, whose roles included Chinatown, passed away at home in Ojai, California. The news was revealed via an announcement from her daughter, Academy Award-winning star Laura Dern, her daughter. Laura Dern, who starred with her mom in various films such as Wild at Heart, described her as “my incredible hero as well as my precious gift as a mother”, writing that she was at her bedside when she passed. “She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, star, artist and compassionate soul that felt like a dream come true,” she wrote. “We were fortunate to know her. She is flying with her angels now.” Beginnings and Major Success Her initial acting years saw supporting roles on television series including Perry Mason and the 1970s saw her starring with Jack Nicholson in the classic Chinatown. In the same year, 1974, she shared the screen with actress Ellen Burstyn in Martin Scorsese’s praised film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. Her acting brought Ladd her initial Oscar nod in the supporting actress category. Later Decades During the eighties, she starred in the dramatic film Black Widow plus humorous film National Lampoon’s holiday comedy and also took part in Alice, a sitcom based on Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. In the following decade, she received a further Oscar nomination for supporting actress nomination for her role in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, a cult classic where she acted as the parent of her real-life daughter the character played by Dern. The next year she was awarded another nomination for her acting in Rambling Rose that also featured Dern. “This was the film that the late Princess Diana picked as her top choice, and she flew Laura and I to the UK for a royal premiere and a celebration in our honor,” Ladd shared about the film Rambling Rose. “And she sat between us, taking our hands, and crying, viewing our performance.” The 1990s featured performances in the comedy The Cemetery Club joining her again with Ellen Burstyn, Primary Colors, a political story, a satirical film, starring John Travolta and Alexander Payne’s Citizen Ruth where she acted as Laura Dern’s mom once more. The decade also saw her score TV award nominations for roles in Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, Grace Under Fire and Touched by an Angel. Collaborations with Daughter She kept appearing with her daughter in films blending humor and drama Daddy and Them, Lynch’s Inland Empire, a surreal film and White’s comedy-drama series Enlightened. She was also seen alongside Sandra Bullock, a star in 28 Days, a movie, Anthony Hopkins in The World’s Fastest Indian, a film and with Jennifer Lawrence in Joy, a biographical drama. Her later TV roles consisted of the series Ray Donovan and Young Sheldon. Behind the Camera She additionally penned and oversaw the comedy Mrs Munck, a film featuring her and ex-husband actor Bruce Dern. “Bruce is an excellent performer,” she mentioned. “It was a privilege to guide him in a film. Actually, I stand as the only woman ever who directed her former husband. I humorously say: ‘I say ladies, if you seek payback, guide your former spouse.’ However, I’m joking.” Personal Life Ladd was also the third cousin of playwright Tennessee Williams, who she called “a great influence throughout my life”. Back in 2018, doctors misdiagnosed Ladd with a pulmonary condition and informed she only had half a year left but made a full recovery when her daughter transferred her to a new hospital. “Should you harness your suffering and avoid letting it accumulate similar to a wound, instead apply it to investigate, to make the path clearer for you and those around, then you are winning,” Ladd remarked.