🔗 Share this article Oscar-Nominated Star Diane Ladd, Celebrated For Her Performance in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Has Died at 89 Years Old. This award-nominated actress the celebrated Diane Ladd has died 89 years old. The actor, with credits featured National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, died at her home in California’s Ojai. This announcement was shared through a message shared by her child, award-winning actress Laura Dern, her daughter. Laura Dern, who appeared with her mother in a number of films like Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose, referred to her as “my amazing hero plus my special gift of a mother”, stating that she was by her side as she died. “She was the greatest grandmother, mother, daughter, star, artist as well as compassionate soul that only dreams could have seemingly created,” she expressed. “We were fortunate to know her. She is flying with her angels now.” Early Career and Major Success Ladd’s early career featured supporting roles on television series such as Perry Mason while the seventies had her appearing with actor Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. That very year, the year 1974, she performed alongside Ellen Burstyn in Martin Scorsese’s celebrated dramatic comedy Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, a classic. Her role brought Ladd an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress. 1980s and Beyond Throughout the 1980s, she appeared in the thriller Black Widow, a suspense story and funny follow-up National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and appeared on the show Alice, a comedy program derived from Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. In the subsequent decade, she received an additional Oscar nomination for supporting actress Oscar nomination for her part in the David Lynch film the movie Wild at Heart where she acted as the mother of her real-life daughter the character played by Dern. A year later she was awarded an additional nod for her performance in the film Rambling Rose which included Laura Dern. “This movie that Princess Diana chose as her absolutely favorite, and she invited me and Laura to England for a special screening and a celebration in our honor,” Ladd shared of Rambling Rose. “She sat with us, holding both our hands, and crying, watching us perform.” The nineties included parts in humorous films Cemetery Club bringing her back with her co-star Burstyn, the movie Primary Colors, a satirical film, starring John Travolta and Payne’s the movie Citizen Ruth where she acted as Dern’s mother again. The decade also saw her score nominations for Emmy Awards for work in Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, Grace Under Fire and Touched by an Angel. Partnerships with Her Daughter She persisted in performing alongside her daughter in comedy drama Daddy and Them, a movie, Lynch’s the movie Inland Empire and Mike White’s dark comedy series Enlightened, a TV series. She additionally starred alongside Sandra Bullock in 28 Days, Sir Anthony Hopkins in that movie and Jennifer Lawrence in Joy. Her more recent television parts consisted of the series Ray Donovan and Young Sheldon. Filmmaking Ventures She additionally penned and helmed the humorous movie Mrs Munck, a film that included herself and former husband Bruce Dern, an actor. “Bruce is an excellent performer,” she noted. “It was a privilege to guide him in a movie. In fact, I am the sole female in history who directed her former husband. I make a joke: ‘I advise females, should you desire retribution, guide your former spouse.’ However, I’m joking.” Personal Connections She happened to be a relative of playwright Tennessee Williams, who she called “a major inspiration throughout my life”. Back in 2018, Ladd was misdiagnosed with lung disease and advised her life expectancy was six months but she regained full health once her daughter moved her to another medical facility. “If you can take your pain and avoid letting it accumulate like an injury, instead apply it to investigate, to illuminate the way for yourself and others, then you are triumphing,” Ladd expressed.