Family, former co-stars, and sometimes both are paying their respects to the late Diane Ladd . Laura Dern, who remembered her “amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother” in a tribute below, starred alongside her mother in some of her most memorable roles, including Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Wild At Heart ; both were nominated for Academy Awards in their respective roles in Rambling Rose , making them the first mother-daughter actresses to be nominated for the same film. Bruce Dern, Ladd’s ex-husband, her Wild Angels co-star, and father to Laura, paid tribute to the “wonderful mother” Ladd was to their daughters. Below, the full statements from Ladd’s family as well as her co-stars from her more recent films, like Isle of Hope .
Laura Dern
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