Diane Ladd

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**Diane Ladd** (born **Rose Diane Ladner,** November 29, 1935) is an American actress, film director, producer, and author. She has appeared in over 120 film and television roles. For the 1974 film *Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore*, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for *Alice* (1980–81), and to receive Academy Award nominations for *Wild at Heart* (1990) and *Rambling Rose* (1991). Her other film appearances include *Chinatown* (1974), *National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation* (1989), *Ghosts of Mississippi* (1996), *Primary Colors* (1998), *28 Days* (2000), and *American Cowslip* (2008). Ladd is the mother of actress Laura Dern, with her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern.

## Personal life

Ladd was born Rose Diane Ladner, the only child of Mary Bernadette (née Anderson), a housewife and actress, and Preston Paul Ladner, a veterinarian who sold products for poultry and livestock. She was born in Laurel, Mississippi, while the family were visiting relatives for Thanksgiving, though they lived in Meridian, Mississippi. Ladd is related to playwright Tennessee Williams and poet Sidney Lanier. Ladd was raised in the Roman Catholic faith of her mother.

Ladd was married to actor and one-time co-star Bruce Dern from 1960 to 1969, and had two daughters; Diane Elizabeth Dern, who died at 18 months, and actress Laura Dern. Ladd and Laura Dern co-starred in the films, *Wild at Heart*, *Rambling Rose* and *Inland Empire*, and in the HBO series *Enlightened*.

Ladd is currently married to Robert Charles Hunter.

## Career

In 1971, Ladd joined the cast of the CBS soap opera, *The Secret Storm*. She was the second actress to play the role of Kitty Styles on the long-running daytime serial. She later had a supporting role in Roman Polanski's 1974 film *Chinatown*, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role as Flo in the film *Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore*. That film inspired the television series *Alice*, in which Flo was portrayed by Polly Holliday. When Holliday left the TV series, Ladd succeeded her as waitress Isabelle "Belle" Dupree.

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She appeared in the independent screwball comedy *Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me* in 1992, where she played a flirty, aging Southern belle alongside her real mother, actress Mary Lanier.

In 1993, Ladd appeared in the episode "Guess Who's Coming to Chow?" of the CBS comedy/western series *Harts of the West* in the role of the mother of co-star Harley Jane Kozak. The 15-episode program, set on a dude ranch in Nevada, starred Beau Bridges and Lloyd Bridges.

 File:Diane Ladd as Lucille.jpg  In 2004, Ladd played psychic Mrs. Druse in the television miniseries of Stephen King's *Kingdom Hospital*. In April 2006, Ladd released her first book, *Spiraling Through The School of Life: A Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Discovery*. In 2007, she co-starred in the Lifetime Television film *Montana Sky*.

In addition to her Academy Award nomination for *Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore*, she was also nominated (again in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category) for both *Wild at Heart* and *Rambling Rose*, both of which she starred alongside her daughter Laura Dern. Dern received a nomination for Best Actress for *Rambling Rose*. The dual mother and daughter nominations for Ladd and Dern in *Rambling Rose* marked the first time in Academy Awards history that such an event had occurred. They were also nominated for dual Golden Globe Awards in the same year.

Ladd has also worked in theatre. She made her Broadway debut in *Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights* in 1968. In 1976, she starred in *A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander*, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.

On November 1, 2010, Ladd, Laura Dern, and Bruce Dern received adjoining stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; this is the first time family members have been given such consideration on the Walk. Ladd's star is the 2,421st.

She currently stars in the Hallmark Channel series *Chesapeake Shores*.

## References

1. ↑ Year of birth as per the *California Divorce Index, 1966–1984*. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California at Ancestry.com
2. ↑ "UPI Almanac for Friday, Nov. 29, 2019", United Press International (November 29, 2019). "…actor Diane Ladd in 1935 (age 84)"
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4. ↑ Diane Ladd Yahoo! Movies bio Template:Webarchive. Movies.yahoo.com; retrieved July 31, 2011.
5. ↑ 05-31-02obituaries Template:Webarchive. Ojaivalleynews.com; retrieved July 31, 2011.
6. ↑ Profile Template:Webarchive, lifeafter50.coml accessed May 9, 2014.
7. ↑ ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' archives Template:Webarchive. Nl.newsbank.com (February 19, 1993); retrieved July 31, 2011.
8. ↑ RIDING THE CREST OF TWO WIDELY PRAISED PERFORM Template:Webarchive. Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA). September 20, 1991.
9. ↑ "Profile". http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200607/20060710\_hubbard.html. , pbs.org, July 10, 2006.
10. ↑ Hoge, Warren. (September 23, 1976) "Diane Ladd Savors 'Top of World'" Template:Webarchive, Select.nytimes.com; retrieved July 31, 2011.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Thomas, Kevin (July 30, 1993). "Romantic 'Hold Me, Thrill Me' a Breezy Minor Diversion".
12. ↑ Internet Broadway Database profile Template:Webarchive, Ibdb.com; retrieved July 31, 2011.
13. ↑ "Interview - Diane Ladd - Nell O'Brien - Chesapeake Shores | Hallmark Channel". http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/videos/interview-diane-ladd-nell-obrien-chesapeake-shores.

## External links

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* Diane Ladd profile at Allmovie.com; accessed May 9, 2014.
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* Diane Ladd biodata (with wrong year of birth), alicehyatt.com; accessed May 9, 2014.

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