Diane Ladd, 3-time Oscar nominee and 'Wild at Heart' actress, dies at 89

Diane Ladd in 2016. (File photo/AP)

Veteran Hollywood actress Diane Ladd, known for her Oscar-nominated performances in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart, and Rambling Rose, has died at 89.

Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, confirmed her death on Monday, according to a report by BBC.

“She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created,” Dern wrote. “We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.”

Dern, who starred with her mother in a number of films including Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose, called her “my amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother”, writing that she was at her bedside as she died. However, Dern did not share Ladd's cause of death.

Ladd's career on stage and screen spanned decades. Her big break in film came as a waitress in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore in 1974, which landed her an Oscar nomination.

She went on to appear in dozens of films after that, including as recently as 2022, when she played a grandmother in the coming-of-age film Gigi & Nate.

She was married to actor Bruce Dern from 1960 to 1969. The couple had two children, Oscar-winner Laura Dern and a baby girl, Diane Elizabeth Dern, who died in an accident in 1962, when she was 18 months old.