Friday, 11 May 2012

Diane Ladd

Diane Ladd Biography

Date of Birth
29 November 1932, Meridian, Mississippi, USA 
Birth Name
Rose Diane Ladnier 
Nickname
Laddie 
Height
5' 7" (1.70 m) 
Spouse
Robert Charles Hunter (14 February 1999 - present)
William A. Shea, Jr. (1969 - 1977) (divorced)
Bruce Dern (1960 - 1969) (divorced) 2 daughters
Trivia
Had two daughters by ex-husband Bruce Dern. Her first daughter, born in 1961, accidentally drowned at the age of 18 months, years before second daughter, Laura Dern, was born in 1967.
Distant cousin of playwright Tennessee Williams.
Daughter of Mary Lanier.
Was a chorus girl at NYC's Copacabana in the 1950s.
Appeared in the film Carnosaur (1993), the same year that her daughter, Laura Dern, appeared in another dinosaur film, Jurassic Park (1993).
Grandchildren: Ellery Walker & Jaya Harper.
She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress three times (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974); Wild at Heart (1990); and Rambling Rose (1991)). All three movies also starred her daughter Laura Dern.
Hers and her daughter's (Laura Dern) Oscar nominations for Rambling Rose (1991) mark the first time a mother and daughter ever received Oscar nominations for the same movie.
Played mother to real-life daughter Laura Dern 5 times: Citizen Ruth (1996), Daddy and Them (2001), Wild at Heart (1990), White Lightning (1973), and the t.v. series "Enlightened" (2011).
Played the original "Flo" - later made famous by Polly Holliday in the sitcom "Alice" (1976) - in the motion picture Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and then played Flo's replacement, Belle, on the sitcom.
Mother-in-law of musician Ben Harper.
Her ancestry includes French, Cherokee and English.
Has a master's degree in psychology and is a part-time nutrition counselor.
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974, Martin Scorsese)  
 Diane Ladd In "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
FAMOSOS Y FANTASMAS 02 DIANE LADD
Diane Ladd, Laura Dern And Bruce Dern Receive Stars On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame

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