Diane Ladd Biography
Meridian, Mississippi born Diane Ladd is an actress, film director, producer and author. She is known to have appeared in over 120 film and television roles. Following her role in the 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
During her career, she went on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for Alice (1980–81). She also received Academy Award nominations for Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991).
Diane’s other film appearances include Chinatown (1974), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), Primary Colors (1998), 28 Days (2000), and American Cowslip (2008).
Diane Ladd Career
Diane joined the cast of the CBS soap opera known as The Secret Storm in 1971. On the long-running daytime serial, she was the second actress to play the role of Kitty Styles. Later she took 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. The film inspired the television series Alice, in which Flo was portrayed by Polly Holliday. Diane succeeded her as waitress Isabelle “Belle” Dupree after Holliday left the TV series.
In 1992 Diane appeared in the independent screwball comedy Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me. She played a flirty, aging Southern belle alongside her real mother, actress Mary Lanier.
Diane appeared in the episode “Guess Who’s Coming to Chow?” of the CBS comedy/western series Harts of the West in the role of the mother of co-star Harley Jane Kozak in 1993.
Diane in the television miniseries of Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital she played psychic Mrs. Druse in 2014. She released her first book, Spiraling Through The School of Life: A Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Discovery in April 2006. She co-starred in the Lifetime Television film Montana Sky in 2007.
Diane’s addition to her Academy Award nomination for lice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, she was also nominated again in the Best Actress. This was from her Supporting Role category for both Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose. For the two films, she starred alongside her daughter Laura Dern. Her mother received a nomination for Best Actress for Rambling Rose. The pair mother and daughter nominations for Diane and Dern in Rambling Rose marked the first time in Academy Awards history that such an event had occurred. The dual was also nominated for dual Golden Globe Awards in the same year.
Diane has also worked in theatre. In 1968 she made her Broadway debut in Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights. She starred in A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander in 1976, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.
Ladd, Laura Dern, and Bruce Dern received adjoining stars On November 1, 2010, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; this was the first time family members were given such consideration on the Walk. Diane’s star is the 2,421st. She currently stars in the Hallmark Channel series Chesapeake Shores.
Diane Ladd Age
Diane was born on November 29, 1935, in Meridian, Mississippi. She is 84 years old as of 2019.
Diane Ladd Family
Diane was born in Meridian, Mississippi as Rose Diane Ladner. She is the only child of Mary Bernadette (née Anderson; 1912–2002), a housewife and actress, and Preston Paul Ladner (1905–1982), a veterinarian who sold products for poultry and livestock. Ladd, playwright Tennessee Williams, and poet Sidney Lanier are related. She was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith of her mother.
Diane Ladd Husband
From 1960 to 1969, Diane was married to actor and one-time co-star Bruce Dern. They had two daughters; Diane Elizabeth Dern, who died at seventeen and a half months, and actress Laura Dern. The two co-starred in the films, Wild at Heart, Rambling Rose and Inland Empire, and in the HBO series Enlightened.
Currently, Ladd is married to Robert Charles Hunter.
Diane Ladd Children
Diane told Parade magazine grief over the drowning of their 18-month-old daughter eventually tore the couple apart.”We suffered the tragedy of our daughter’s death together and thought another child would help us, but we were so bruised,” she said. She says she had to struggle not to become overprotective of their second daughter, Laura Dern, who followed her parents’ footsteps into acting.
Diane Ladd Body Measurements
- Height: ft in'(Meters or cm):5′ 7″
- Weight: Pounds(lbs): Not Available
- Shoe Size: Not available
- Body Shape: Not Available
- Hair Colour: Blonde
Diane Ladd Net Worth
Diane has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
Diane Ladd Wild At Heart
Diane starred on Wild at Heart a 1990 comedy romantic-crime film written and directed by David Lynch. It also stars Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, and Isabella Rossellini. The film is based on Barry Gifford’s 1989 novel of the same name.
Diane Ladd Cheryl Ladd
Diane and Cheryl are not related. Cheryl Stoppelmoor her second name Ladd came from her husband while Diane Ladner shortened her real name.
Diane Ladd Movies
Movies From the Year 2000 To 2019
- 2019 – The Last Full Measure as Alice Pitsenbarger
- 2016 – Sophie and the Rising Sun as Ruth Jeffers
- 2016 – Amerigeddon as Betty
- 2016 – Boonville Redemption as Grandma Mary
- 2015 – I Dream Too Much as Vera
- 2015 – Joy as Mimi
- 2014 – Just Before I Go as Mamma
- 2013 – Grave Secrets as Emily Barnes
- 2008 – Jake’s Corner as Fran
- 2008 – American Cowslip as Roe
- 2006 – Come Early Morning as Nana
- 2006 – When I Find the Ocean as Edna
- 2006 – Inland Empire as Marilyn Levens
- 2005 – The World’s Fastest Indian as Ada
- 2003 – Charlie’s War as Jobie
- 2002 – Redemption of the Ghost as Aunt Helen
- 2002 – More than Puppy Love as Aunt Edna
- 2002 – The Virgin
- 2001 – Daddy and Them as Jewel
- 2001 – Rain as Audrey Turnquick
- 2000 – 28 Days as Bobbie Jean
- 2000 – The Law of Enclosures as Bea
Movies From the Year 1990 To 1999
- 1999 – Can’t Be Heaven as Nona Gina
- 1998 – Primary Colors as Mamma Stanton
- 1998 – Route 66
- 1997 – James Dean: Race with Destiny as Mama Pierangeli
- 1996 – Citizen Ruth as Ruth’s Mother
- 1996 – Ghosts of Mississippi as Grandma Caroline Moore
- 1995 – Mother as Olivia Hendrix
- 1995 – Mrs. Munck as Mrs. Munck
- 1995 – Raging Angels as Sister Kate
- 1993 – The Cemetery Club as Lucille Rubin
- 1993 – Carnosaur as Dr. Jane Tiptree
- 1993 – Father Hood as Rita
- 1992 – Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me as Lucille
- 1992 – Forever as Mabel Normand
- 1992 – Spies Inc. as Alice
- 1991 – A Kiss Before Dying as Mrs. Corliss
- 1991 – Rambling Rose as Mother
- 1990 – Wild at Heart as Marietta Fortune
Movies From the Year 1960 To 1989
- 1989 – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation as Nora
- 1987 – Black Widow as Etta
- 1987 – Plain Clothes as Jane Melway
- 1983 – Something Wicked This Way Comes as Mrs. Nightshade
- 1983 – Sweetwater as Lucy
- 1981 – All Night Long as Helen Dupler
- 1976 – Embryo as Martha Douglas
- 1974 – Chinatown as Ida Sessions
- 1974 – Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore as Flo
- 1973 – White Lightning as Maggie
- 1971 – The Steagle as Mrs. Forbes
- 1970 – The Rebel Rousers as Karen
- 1970 – Macho Callahan as Girl
- 1970 – WUSA as Barmaid at Railroad Station
- 1969 – The Reivers as Phoebe
- 1966 – The Wild Angels as Gaysh
- 1962 – 40 Pounds of Trouble as Bride on Honeymoon
- 1961 – Something Wild as Bit Part
- 1960 – Murder, Inc. as Showgirl
Diane Ladd Tv Shows
Tv Shows From the year 2001 To 2001
- 2016–present – Chesapeake Shores as Nell O’Brien
- 2016 – Ray Donovan as Motel Lady
- 2012 – Deadtime Stories as Barnsey
- 2011–2013 – Enlightened as Helen Jellicoe
- 2008 – Menace as Roszko’s Mother
- 2007 – Montana Sky as Bess
- 2006 – ER as Mrs. Pooler
- 2005 – Cold Case as Zelda Amatuzzi (2005)
- 2004 – Gracie’s Choice as Louella Lawson
- 2004 – Kingdom Hospital as Sally Druse
- 2003 – Aftermath as Mother
- 2002 – Living with the Dead as Regina Van Praagh
- 2002 – Damaged Care as Mary “Rhodie” Rhodes
- 2001 – Christy, Choices of the Heart as Alice Henderson
Tv Shows From the year 1990 To 2000
- 2000 – Best Actress – Herself
- 2000 – Sharing the Secret as Nina’s Mother
- 2000 – Strong Medicine as Annabelle Lee Stowe
- 2000 – Christy: Return to Cutter Gap as Alice Henderson
- 1998 – The Staircase as Sister Margaret
- 1997 – Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops 2 as Aunt Shelly Fein
- 1997 – Touched by an Angel as Carolyn Sellers
- 1997 – Get a Clue as Berthe Erica Crow
- 1996 – The Siege at Ruby Ridge as Irma Coulter
- 1996 – Cold Lazarus as Martina Masdon
- 1994 – Hush Little Baby as Edie
- 1994 – The Gift as Evie
- 1993 – L.A. Law as Celeste Bauman
- 1993 – Harts of the West as Alison’s Mom
- 1993 – Sisters as Belle Adderly
- 1993 – Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Charlotte Cooper
- 1992 – Middle Ages as Bebe Cooper
- 1991 – Shadow of a Doubt as Emma
- 1990 – Rock Hudson as Kay
- 1990 – In the Heat of the Night as Maybelle Cheseboro
- 1990 – The Lookalike as Mary Helen Needam
Tv Shows From the year 1971 To 1989
- 1989 – Father Dowling Mysteries as Arlene
- 1989 – Heartland as Marjorie
- 1988 – Bluegrass as Verna Howland
- 1987 – Celebration Family as Mrs. Heflin
- 1985 – Crime of Innocence as Rose Hayward
- 1984 – I Married a Centerfold as Jeanette Bryan
- 1983 – Grace Kelly as Margaret Kelly
- 1983 – Faerie Tale Theatre as Mother
- 1982 – Desperate Lives as Carol Cameron
- 1980–1985 – The Love Boat as Christa Johanson / Bernice Bronson / Ruby Gibson
- 1980–1981 – Alice as Belle Dupree
- 1980 – Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Lynette Jones
- 1979 – Willa as Mae
- 1978 – Black Beauty as Amelia Gordon
- 1978 – Thaddeus Rose and Eddie as Carlotta
- 1977 – The November Plan as Laura Taylor
- 1976 – City of Angels as Laura
- 1976 – Addie and the King of Hearts as Irene Davis
- 1975 – Movin’ On as Amy
- 1973 – The Devil’s Daughter as Alice Shaw
- 1971–1972 – The Secret Storm as Kitty Styles #2
Tv Shows From the year 1957 To 1969
- 1969 – Then Came Bronson as Valerie Faber
- 1968 – Ironside as Peggy Barnard
- 1967 – The Big Valley as Muriel Akely
- 1966 – Daniel Boone as Ronda Cameron
- 1966 – Shane as Amy Sloate
- 1964–1967 – Gunsmoke as Bonnie Mae Haley / Lulu / Elena Kerlin
- 1964 – The Fugitive as Stella
- 1964 – The Great Adventure as Annie Thompson
- 1964 – Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Cissy
- 1963 – Wide Country as Alma Prewitt
- 1963 – Armstrong Circle Theatre as Charlotte Cable
- 1963 – 77 Sunset Strip as Helen Saunders
- 1963 – Perry Mason as Miss Frances
- 1963 – Mr. Novak as Mrs. Otis
- 1963 – Hazel as Sharlene
- 1961 – The Detectives – Gloria Tyler
- 1959 – Deadline as Judy
- 1958–1959 – Naked City as Kathie Mills / Yankee Cretias
- 1958 – The Big Story as Vera
- 1958 – The Walter Winchell File as Lois
- 1957 – Decoy as Selma Richmond
Frequently Asked Questions About Diane Ladd
Who is Diane Ladd?
Ladd is an American actress, film director, producer and author.
How old is Diane Ladd?
Diane is 84 years old she was born on November 29, 1935.
How tall is Diane Ladd?
Diane stands at a height of 5′ 7″.
Is Diane Ladd married?
Currently Ladd is married to Robert Charles Hunter.
How much is Diane Ladd worth?
Diane has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
How much does Diane Ladd make?
Diane has not revealed her annual earnings.
Where does Diane Ladd live?
Diane resides in Ojai CA.
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Diane is still alive and in good health.
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Diane is an actress, film director, producer and author.