Diane Ladd (Meridian, November 29, 1935) died at the age of 89 at her home in California.
Ex-wife of Bruce Dern and mother of the actress Laura Dernduring the course of her career she received three nominations for the Oscar as best supporting actress for Alice doesn’t live here anymore (1974), Wild heart (1990) e Rosa Scompiglio and her lovers (1991). He also won a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award and an Independent Spirit Award.
Cousin of Tennessee Williams and a woman from the Southern United States, she achieved stardom thanks to the role of the waitress Flo in Alice doesn’t live here anymore by Martin Scorsese, starring alongside the protagonist Ellen Burstyn.
She was then the dominating and emotionally fragile mother of Lula (Laura Dern) in Wild heart by David Lynch. And he again starred alongside his daughter in Pink Disruptiondirected by Martha Coolidge, where she played a Southern matriarch dealing with a sexually exuberant daughter.
“She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only a dream could have created,” her daughter wrote. “We were lucky to have her with us. Now she flies together with her angels.”
