American actress and Wild at Heart star Diane Ladd has died aged 89.

Laura Dern, Ladd's daughter who is also an actress, announced her mother's death on Monday.

Ladd was a triple Academy Award nominee for her supporting roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose.

She also starred in 1973 film White Lightning and HBO's Enlightened in 2011 with her daughter. Often, they played mother and daughter together.

For the 1991 drama Rambling Rose they were the first, and only, mother and daughter duo to receive Oscar nominations for the same film in the same year.

Image: Diane Ladd pictured with daughter Laura Dern, holding her award for Enlightened in 2012. Pic: Reuters

'She doesn't care what anybody thinks'

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