🔗 Share this article Oscar-Nominated Star Diane Ladd, Celebrated For Her Role in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Dies at the Age of 89. The award-nominated actress the celebrated Diane Ladd left us 89 years old. The actress, whose credits included Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, left this world in her residence in Ojai, California. This announcement was shared in a statement from her offspring, Academy Award-winning star Laura Dern. Her daughter, who performed alongside her mother in a number of films like Wild at Heart, described her as “my incredible hero as well as my precious gift as a mother”, writing that she was by her side when she passed. “She was the most wonderful mother, daughter, grandmother, actress, artist and caring individual that seemed almost dreamlike,” she wrote. “We were lucky to have her. She is now with the angels.” Early Career and Major Success Ladd’s early career featured small roles in television programs like The Fugitive while the seventies had her appearing next to Jack Nicholson in the classic Chinatown. During that year, the year 1974, she performed alongside Ellen Burstyn in the Martin Scorsese praised comedy drama Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, a classic. Her acting landed Ladd an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress. Later Decades In the 1980s, she starred in crime thriller Black Widow plus funny follow-up National Lampoon’s holiday comedy while also joining the sitcom Alice, a comedy program based on Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. In the subsequent decade, she was given a further Oscar nomination for supporting actress Academy Award nomination for her role in Lynch’s Wild at Heart, a cult classic in which she portrayed the mother of her biological child Laura Dern’s role. A year later she received another nomination for her acting in Rambling Rose which also starred Laura Dern. “This was the picture that the late Princess Diana picked as her top choice, and she brought us to England for a special screening and an event dedicated to us,” Ladd recalled about the film Rambling Rose. “She sat with us, taking our hands, with tears, viewing our performance.” The nineties featured performances in comedy The Cemetery Club bringing her back with Burstyn, Primary Colors, a satirical film, starring John Travolta and Alexander Payne’s the movie Citizen Ruth in which she portrayed the mother of Dern another time. That period also earned her nominations for Emmy Awards for work in Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, Grace Under Fire plus Touched by an Angel. Collaborations with Daughter She persisted in performing alongside her daughter in films blending humor and drama Daddy and Them, a movie, the David Lynch project the movie Inland Empire and White’s dark comedy series the program Enlightened. She additionally starred with actress Sandra Bullock in 28 Days, a movie, Anthony Hopkins in The World’s Fastest Indian, a film plus Jennifer Lawrence in Joy, a biographical drama. Her later TV roles included Ray Donovan, a drama and Young Sheldon. Filmmaking Ventures Ladd also wrote and directed the humorous movie the movie Mrs Munck which starred Diane Ladd and previous spouse Bruce Dern. “Bruce is an excellent performer,” she noted. “I’m privileged to have directed him on a project. Indeed, I’m the only woman in history to helm a film with her ex. I make a joke: ‘I advise females, if you want revenge, guide your former spouse.’ Though I’m just teasing.” Personal Connections She was additionally a relative of Tennessee Williams, whom she described as “a major inspiration in my life”. During 2018, doctors misdiagnosed Ladd with a pulmonary condition and advised she had just six months to live yet she recovered completely once her daughter moved her to another medical facility. “If you can take your pain and not let it back up like an injury, instead use it to discover, to illuminate the way for personal and collective growth, then you are triumphing,” Ladd said.