1. Diane Ladd was born on Rose Diane Ladner; November 29,1935 and is an American actress.
18 Facts About Diane Ladd
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Diane Ladd has appeared in over 200 films and television shows.
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Diane Ladd received three Academy Award nominations for her roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart, and Rambling Rose, the first of which won her a British Academy Film Award.
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Diane Ladd was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, winning one for her role in the sitcom Alice.
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Diane Ladd is the mother of actress Laura Dern, with her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern.
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Diane Ladd was born in Laurel, Mississippi on November 29,1935, 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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Diane Ladd was married to actor and one-time co-star Bruce Dern from 1960 to 1969.
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Diane Ladd married her current husband, Robert Charles Hunter, in 1999.
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In 2018, Diane Ladd was misdiagnosed with pneumonia and given six months to a year to live after she inhaled "poison spray" from the farms neighboring her home, constricting her esophagus.
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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.