Diane Ladd, Hollywood Legend and Oscar-Nominated Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Star, Dies at 89

Some tough news today: Diane Ladd has died at 89. One of those actors who could drop into a scene and instantly make it sharper, stranger, or warmer, depending on what the moment needed.

Her legacy, at a glance

• Academy Award-nominated for a career that stretched across decades
• Standout turns in Martin Scorsese's 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'
• Unforgettably fierce in David Lynch's 'Wild at Heart'
• Heartbreaking and humane in Martha Coolidge's 'Rambling Rose'

Ladd died this morning at her home in Ojai, California, with her daughter, Laura Dern, by her side. Dern shared a statement with The Hollywood Reporter.

'My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother passed with me beside her this morning at her home in Ojai, California,' she said. 'She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created. We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.'

It is a hard goodbye for an artist who never phoned it in and rarely did the expected. More as we learn it.