{"id":116514,"date":"2025-11-04T00:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116514\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T00:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:26:06","slug":"oscar-nominated-actress-diane-ladd-dies-aged-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116514\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar-nominated actress Diane Ladd dies aged 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">Ladd appeared in more than 200 movies and TV shows during an acting career spanning over six decades and earned Oscar nominations in the Best Supporting Actress category for her work in Alice Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose \u2013 appearing alongside Laura in the latter two flicks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">Born in Mississippi in 1935, Ladd began acting at an early age and went on to earn her first official film credit in the 1966 biker movie The Wild Angels \u2013 in which she appeared alongside her husband Bruce Dern and the late Peter Fonda.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Diane Ladd earned three Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress. Photo \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Diane Ladd earned three Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">Reflecting on the film, Ladd told People in 2019: \u201cI remember when we were filming Wild Angels, my very first film, we were practically children back then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was a foggy night, and some bikers came up the mountain and threatened to tie Peter and another crew member to a generator&#8230; [but] Peter and Bruce Dern protected us and led us all to safety. His courage always shined through like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">After starring in Martin Scorsese\u2019s flick Alice Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore, Ladd went to appear in movies including Chinatown, Black Widow, Citizen Ruth, 28 Days and Joy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">Her TV credits include Naked City, Perry Mason, ER, Ray Donovan and Young Sheldon.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Laura Dern has announced the death of her mother, screen legend Diane Ladd, at 89. Photo \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Laura Dern has announced the death of her mother, screen legend Diane Ladd, at 89. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">She also  wrote several books \u2013 including 2023\u2019s Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) with her daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">Ladd was married to Dern\u2019s father, Bruce Dern, from 1960 to 1969. The couple\u2019s eldest daughter, Diane, died at 18 months in 1962 after a drowning accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">Ladd then tied the knot with businessman William A. Shea jnr before they divorced in 1977 and went on to marry her third husband, Robert Charles Hunter, who died in July this year at the age of 77, in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ladd appeared in more than 200 movies and TV shows during an acting career spanning over six decades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26475,6876,18919,57231,6179,7126,156,82733,111,139,69,82732],"class_list":["post-116514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-26475","tag-actress","tag-aged","tag-diane","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-entertainment","tag-ladd","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oscarnominated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}