13 Facts About Diane Ladd

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Diane Ladd was born on November 29,1935 and is an American actress.

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Diane Ladd has appeared in over 120 film and television roles.

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Diane Ladd went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for Alice, and to receive Academy Award nominations for Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose.

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Diane Ladd was born in Laurel, Mississippi, while the family was visiting relatives for Thanksgiving, though they lived in Meridian, Mississippi.

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Diane Ladd is related to playwright Tennessee Williams and poet Sidney Lanier.

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In 1971, Diane Ladd joined the cast of the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm.

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Diane Ladd was the second actress to play the role of Kitty Styles on the long-running daytime serial.

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Diane Ladd 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.

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When Holliday left the TV series, Diane Ladd succeeded her as waitress Isabelle "Belle" Dupree.

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Diane Ladd 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.

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In 2004, Diane Ladd played psychic Mrs Druse in the television miniseries of Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.

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Diane Ladd made her Broadway debut in Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights in 1968.

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Diane Ladd starred in the Hallmark Channel series Chesapeake Shores.