"Diane Ladd was part of a Hollywood aristocracy of character actors who from the golden period of the American New Wave onwards lent star quality to supporting roles. She brought an authentic, undiluted American screen-acting flavour to everything she was in, and ran hugely successful movie and TV careers in parallel for decades, playing waitresses, neighbours, moms, sirens and daughters, and ranging from comedy to drama."
"She was famously the mother of screen actor Laura Dern and wife of Bruce Dern, and repeatedly acted with Laura in a remarkable mother-daughter partnership in which the two women's closeness always shone through. You might compare it to Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, or Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher although Diane Ladd and Laura Dern were far more trouble-free and without that kind of angst."
Diane Ladd belonged to a Hollywood aristocracy of character actors emerging from the American New Wave, lending star quality to supporting roles. She brought an authentic American screen-acting flavour to every performance and sustained parallel, successful film and television careers for decades. She embodied a wide range of parts—waitresses, neighbours, mothers, sirens and daughters—across comedy and drama. She was the mother of Laura Dern and the wife of Bruce Dern, forming a repeated mother-daughter acting partnership with Dern that included an Oscar-nominated turn in Rambling Rose (1991) and collaborations in work by David Lynch, Alexander Payne and Mike White. She also had notable roles in Chinatown and as the brassy diner waitress in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, and acted alongside her own mother, Mary Lanier.
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