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Diane Ladd | |
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 Ladd in 1975 | |
| Born | Rose Diane Ladner Laurel, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1956–present |
| Spouses | William Shea Jr.
(m. 1969; div. 1977)Robert Hunter (m. 1999) |
| Children | 2, including Laura Dern |
| Awards | Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| Website | dianeladd |
Diane Ladd (born Rose Diane Ladner) is an American actress. She has appeared in over 200 films and television shows. She received three Academy Award nominations for her roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990), and Rambling Rose (1991), the first of which won her a British Academy Film Award. She was also nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, winning one for her role in the sitcom Alice (1980–1981).
Ladd's other film appearances include Chinatown (1974), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), Primary Colors (1998), 28 Days (2000), and Joy (2015). She is the mother of actress Laura Dern, with her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern.
Personal life
Ladd was born Rose Diane Ladner, the only child of Mary Bernadette Ladner, (née Anderson), a housewife and actress, and Preston Paul Ladner, a veterinarian who sold products for poultry and livestock.[1][2][3][4] She was born in Laurel, Mississippi, while the family was visiting relatives for Thanksgiving, though they lived in Meridian, Mississippi.[1] Ladd is related to playwright Tennessee Williams[5] and poet Sidney Lanier.[6] Ladd was raised in her mother's Catholic faith.[7][8]
Ladd was married to actor and one-time co-star Bruce Dern from 1960 to 1969. They had two daughters, Diane Elizabeth, who died at age 18 months after a drowning accident, and Laura Elizabeth, who became an actress.[9][10] Ladd and Laura Dern co-starred in the films Wild at Heart, Rambling Rose, Citizen Ruth, and Inland Empire and in the HBO series Enlightened. The two also appeared together in White Lightning and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, although the very young Laura Dern was uncredited in both.
Ladd was previously married to William A. Shea Jr. from 1969 to 1977. She married her current husband, Robert Charles Hunter, in 1999.[9]
In 2018, Ladd was misdiagnosed with pneumonia and given 6 months to a year to live after she inhaled “poison spray” from the farms neighboring her home, constricting her esophagus.[11] Her daughter, Laura, transferred her to another hospital where she made a full recovery.[12]
Career
In 1971, Ladd joined the cast of the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm. She was the second actress to play the role of Kitty Styles on the long-running daytime serial. She later had a supporting role in Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role as Flo in the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. That film inspired the television series Alice, in which Flo was portrayed by Polly Holliday. When Holliday left the TV series, Ladd succeeded her as waitress Isabelle "Belle" Dupree.
She appeared in the independent screwball comedy Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me in 1992, where she played a flirty, aging Southern belle alongside her real mother, actress Mary Lanier.[13]
In 2004, Ladd played psychic Mrs. Druse in the television miniseries of Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital. In April 2006, Ladd released her first book, Spiraling Through The School of Life: A Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Discovery. In 2007, she co-starred in the Lifetime Television film Montana Sky.
In addition to her Academy Award nomination for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, she was also nominated (again in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category) for both Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose, both of which she starred alongside her daughter Laura Dern. Dern received a nomination for Best Actress for Rambling Rose. The dual mother and daughter nominations for Ladd and Dern in Rambling Rose marked the first time in Academy Awards history that such an event had occurred. They were also nominated for dual Golden Globe Awards in the same year.
Ladd has also worked in theatre. She made her Broadway debut in Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights in 1968. In 1976, she starred in A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.[14]
On November 1, 2010, Ladd, Laura Dern, and Bruce Dern received adjoining stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; this is the first time family members have been given such consideration on the Walk. Ladd's star is the 2,421st.
She starred in the Hallmark Channel series Chesapeake Shores.[15]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Murder, Inc. | Showgirl | Uncredited |
| 1961 | Something Wild | Bit Part | Uncredited |
| 1962 | 40 Pounds of Trouble | Young Bride on Honeymoon | Uncredited |
| 1966 | The Wild Angels | Gaysh | |
| 1969 | The Reivers | Phoebe | |
| 1970 | The Rebel Rousers | Karen | Shot in 1967 |
| 1970 | Macho Callahan | Girl | |
| 1970 | WUSA | Barmaid at Railroad Station | Uncredited |
| 1971 | The Steagle | Mrs. Forbes | |
| 1973 | White Lightning | Maggie | Credited as Diane Lad |
| 1974 | Chinatown | Ida Sessions | |
| 1974 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Flo | |
| 1976 | Embryo | Martha Douglas | |
| 1981 | All Night Long | Helen Dupler | |
| 1983 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Mrs. Nightshade | |
| 1983 | Sweetwater | Lucy | |
| 1987 | Black Widow | Etta | |
| 1987 | Plain Clothes | Jane Melway | |
| 1989 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Nora Griswold | |
| 1990 | Wild at Heart | Marietta Fortune | |
| 1991 | A Kiss Before Dying | Mrs. Corliss | |
| 1991 | Rambling Rose | Mother | |
| 1992 | Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me | Lucille | |
| 1992 | Forever | Mabel Normand | |
| 1992 | Spies Inc. | Alice | |
| 1993 | The Cemetery Club | Lucille Rubin | |
| 1993 | Carnosaur | Dr. Jane Tiptree | |
| 1993 | Father Hood | Rita | |
| 1995 | Mother | Olivia Hendrix | Also co-producer |
| 1995 | Mrs. Munck | Mrs. Munck | Also writer and director |
| 1995 | Raging Angels | Sister Kate | |
| 1996 | Citizen Ruth | Ruth's Mother | Uncredited |
| 1996 | Ghosts of Mississippi | Grandma Caroline Moore | |
| 1997 | James Dean: Race with Destiny | Mama Pierangeli | |
| 1998 | Primary Colors | Mamma Stanton | |
| 1998 | Route 66 | ||
| 1999 | Can't Be Heaven | Nona Gina | |
| 2000 | 28 Days | Bobbie Jean | |
| 2000 | The Law of Enclosures | Bea | |
| 2001 | Daddy and Them | Jewel | |
| 2001 | Rain | Audrey Turnquick | |
| 2002 | Redemption of the Ghost | Aunt Helen | |
| 2002 | More than Puppy Love | Aunt Edna | |
| 2002 | The Virgin | ||
| 2003 | Charlie's War | Jobie | |
| 2005 | The World's Fastest Indian | Ada | |
| 2006 | Come Early Morning | Nana | |
| 2006 | When I Find the Ocean | Edna | |
| 2006 | Inland Empire | Marilyn Levens | |
| 2008 | Jake's Corner | Fran | |
| 2008 | American Cowslip | Roe | |
| 2013 | Grave Secrets | Emily Barnes | |
| 2014 | Just Before I Go | Mamma | Uncredited |
| 2015 | I Dream Too Much | Vera | |
| 2015 | Joy | Mimi | |
| 2016 | Sophie and the Rising Sun | Ruth Jeffers | |
| 2016 | Amerigeddon | Betty | |
| 2016 | Boonville Redemption | Grandma Mary | |
| 2019 | The Last Full Measure | Alice Pitsenbarger | |
| 2020 | Charlie's Christmas Wish | Nana | |
| 2021 | Charming the Hearts of Men[16] | Alice Paul | Uncredited |
| 2022 | Gigi & Nate | Mama Blanche |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Decoy | Selma Richmond | Episode: "Two Days to Kill" |
| 1958 | The Big Story | Vera | Episode: "The Small of Death" |
| 1958 | The Walter Winchell File | Lois | Episode: "A Thing of Beauty: File #29" |
| 1958–1959 | Naked City | Kathie Mills / Yankee Cretias | 2 episodes |
| 1959 | Deadline | Judy | Episode: "Victor Reisel" |
| 1961 | The Detectives | Gloria Tyler | Episode: "Act of God" |
| 1963 | Wide Country | Alma Prewitt | Episode: "Step Over the Sky" |
| 1963 | Armstrong Circle Theatre | Charlotte Cable | Episode: "The Counterfeit League" |
| 1963 | 77 Sunset Strip | Helen Saunders | Episode: "The Left Field Caper" |
| 1963 | Perry Mason | Miss Frances | Episode: "The Case of the Shifty Shoebox" |
| 1963 | Mr. Novak | Mrs. Otis | Episode: "I Don't Even Live Here" |
| 1963 | Hazel | Sharlene | Episode: "George's 32nd Cousin" |
| 1964 | The Fugitive | Stella | Episode: "Come Watch Me Die" |
| 1964 | The Great Adventure | Annie Thompson | Episode: "Rodger Young" |
| 1964 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Cissy | Episode: "The Game with Glass Pieces" |
| 1964–1967 | Gunsmoke | Bonnie Mae Haley / Lulu / Elena Kerlin | 3 episodes |
| 1966 | Daniel Boone | Ronda Cameron | Episode: "Seminole Territory" |
| 1966 | Shane | Amy Sloate | Episode: "The Distant Bell" |
| 1967 | The Big Valley | Muriel Akely | Episode: "Boy into Man" |
| 1968 | Ironside | Peggy Barnard | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Diane_Ladd