‘Wild At Heart,’ ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ Actress

Diane LaddOscar- and Emmy-nominated actress best known for her memorable roles in Martin Scorsese's films. Alice doesn't live here anymore and David Lynch Wild at heartdied this morning at her home in Ojai, according to her daughter, Laura Dernwho was at her bedside. Ladd was 89 years old.

Dern confirmed the news to Deadline and issued the following statement:

My amazing hero and my deep gift of motherhood, Diane Ladd, walked by my side this morning at her home in Ojai, California.

She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and sensitive spirit that seemingly only a dream could create.

We're lucky to have her

Now she flies with her angels.

Ladd's first film role was that of Roger Corman. Wild angels (1966), in which she starred with her first husband, Bruce Dern, as well as Nancy Sinatra and Peter Fonda. Ladd starred in many films, including Up All Night with Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman and Dennis Quaid, Chinatown by Roman Polanski, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore by Martin Scorsese, for which Diana received her first Oscar nomination for her memorable role as the waitress Flo – she lost to the great Ingrid Bergman (who doesn't get her liver chopped off) but won British Academy Film Award! She was seen every Christmas in the holiday movie “Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation.”

In the early 1980s, returning from the lead role on Broadway in Luanne Hampton Laverty Oberlander (part of the Texas Trilogy), for which Ms. Ladd received one of the three greatest reviews in Broadway history. CBS then persuaded her to join the cast of the television series Alice (based on the Scorsese film Alice Don't Do It All). Not wanting to play Flo again, CBS partnered with Diane to create the role of Mississippi-born singer-songwriter waitress Belle (Diane's choice!), for which she won a Golden Globe Award, winning over audiences on her first night with her stunning performance. 35,000,000 viewers per week and an incredible audience of 75,000,000 viewers per week! She and her father wrote many of the songs she performed live on the show.

Ladd's second Oscar nomination was for his role as Marietta in David Lynch's Wild at Heart, which won the Palme d'Or in France; Her third Oscar nomination was for Stray Rose, in which she starred alongside Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas and her daughter, actress Laura Dern. She and Laura made showbiz history as the first mother-daughter tandem to be nominated for an Oscar for the same film in the same year! Rambling Rose was chosen by the late Princess Diana as one of her favourites, and was given the royal premiere in London and a party to honor the actresses.

Diane has appeared in more than 300 films and television shows, including two TV series (Alice) and the fifteen-hour Stephen King miniseries The Royal Infirmary. She was recently seen in Lifetime's Montana Sky (Nora Roberts) and The World's Fastest Indian with Anthony Hopkins.

Ladd made her directorial and writing debut with Mrs. Munch (Viacom), starring Bruce Dern, Kelly Preston, the late Shelley Winters, and herself. The film received rave reviews, drawing comparisons to Woody Allen and Hal Ashby as a director, and was selected at ten international festivals, including co-opening the Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland. Mrs. Munch won three awards for best director.

Member of the acting, directing and dramaturgical divisions of the famous Actors Studio; and a member of the National Council of the Screen Actors Guild, holding a number of notable positions over the years. She is the founder and president of the ACT Arts and Culture Task Force, a philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing education and the arts in America.

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