Diane Ladd Dies at 89

Diane Ladd, a three-time Academy Award nominee, died on Nov. 3 at age 89 at her home in Ojai, California, her daughter Laura Dern said, with Dern at her side. Ladd earned Oscar nominations for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose; she and Dern were the first mother and daughter nominated for the same film (Rambling Rose). Her seven-decade career, which began onstage in the 1950s, included notable film and television roles in White Lightning, Wild at Heart, Citizen Ruth, Daddy and Them, Inland Empire and the HBO series Enlightened. Ladd had spoken publicly about idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and co-wrote a memoir with Dern, Honey, Baby, Mine. Her husband of 26 years, Robert Charles Hunter, died in August at 77; no official cause of Ladd's death has been released.