🔗 Share this article Acclaimed Actress Diane Ladd, Celebrated For Her Performance in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Has Died at Age 89. This award-nominated actor Diane Ladd left us 89 years old. This actress, whose filmography spanned Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, left this world in her residence at her Ojai, California home. Her passing was announced via an announcement from her daughter, award-winning actress her daughter Laura Dern. Laura Dern, who starred with Diane Ladd in a number of films like Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose, described her as “my amazing hero as well as my precious gift being my mom”, writing that she was at her bedside when she passed. “She was the most wonderful daughter, mother, grandmother, performer, creative along with compassionate soul that only dreams could have seemingly created,” she stated. “We were blessed to have her. She is now with the angels.” Beginnings and Rise to Fame Ladd’s early career saw small roles in TV shows such as Perry Mason while the 1970s had her appearing alongside actor Jack Nicholson in the classic Chinatown. During that year, the year 1974, she appeared with actress Ellen Burstyn in the Martin Scorsese acclaimed dramatic comedy Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. The performance landed Ladd her first Oscar nomination as best supporting actress. Later Decades During the eighties, she starred in crime thriller the movie Black Widow plus comedy sequel Christmas Vacation and also took part in the show Alice, a sitcom based on her earlier movie. During the next ten years, she was given a further Oscar nomination for supporting actress Academy Award nomination for her role in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, a cult classic where she acted as the mom of her real-life daughter Laura Dern’s role. The following year she obtained an additional nod for her performance in the film Rambling Rose that also featured her daughter. “This was the picture that the late Princess Diana selected as her very favorite, and she flew us to London for a premiere and an event dedicated to us,” Ladd said regarding Rambling Rose. “She sat with us, grasping our hands, with tears, watching us perform.” The 1990s included parts in comedy The Cemetery Club bringing her back with her co-star Burstyn, the movie Primary Colors, a comedy about politics, featuring John Travolta and Alexander Payne’s Citizen Ruth where she played the mother of Dern again. That period also saw her score nominations for Emmy Awards for roles in the series Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, Grace Under Fire, a sitcom and Touched by an Angel. Partnerships with Her Daughter She continued to star alongside her daughter in comedy drama Daddy and Them, a movie, Lynch’s Inland Empire, a surreal film and White’s comedy-drama series Enlightened. She was also seen next to actress Sandra Bullock 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 included the series Ray Donovan and Young Sheldon, a comedy. Behind the Camera She also authored and directed the comedy film the movie Mrs Munck which starred her and former husband Bruce Dern. “Bruce is a great actor,” she mentioned. “It was a privilege to guide him in a film. Indeed, I am the sole female ever to direct her ex-husband. I make a joke: ‘I advise females, should you desire retribution, guide your former spouse.’ Though I’m just teasing.” Personal Life Ladd was also the third cousin of Tennessee Williams, who she referred to as “a great influence on my life”. In 2018, doctors misdiagnosed Ladd with a respiratory illness and advised she had just six months to live but made a full recovery when her daughter transferred her to a different hospital. “Should you harness your suffering and not let it back up like an injury, rather utilize it to investigate, to illuminate the way for personal and collective growth, then you are winning,” Ladd said.