Diane Ladd

The amazingly gifted 'Diane Ladd' (qv) received immense praise for her dramatic efforts throughout the course of her electric and unique seventy-year career. Nominated an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, she won the BAFTA Film Award, same category, for her account of a wiseacre roadside diner waitress in _Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)_ (qv). She received additional Academy Award nominations for _Wild at Heart (1990)_ (qv), in which she delivered a spellbinding characterization of a diabolical mother sending her daughter into hedonistic rebellion, and for her performance as a loving and principled southern family woman in _Rambling Rose (1991)_ (qv). All of which she appeared alongside daughter-actress, 'Laura Dern' (qv). Diane's timeless offbeat charm and beauty reminiscent of a lamented Hollywood Golden Era actress gleam in the most understated roles and continue to make her a sought-after unconventional performer.::[email protected]