Diane Ladd, the Oscar-nominated actress best known for her work in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and David Lynch’s Wild at Heart , has died. She was 89.

Ladd’s daughter, Laura Dern , confirmed her mother’s death in a statement shared with Rolling Stone . An exact cause of death was not given.

“My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother passed with me beside her this morning at her home in Ojai, California,” Dern 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.”

Ladd enjoyed a prolific career on stage and screen. While she got her start as a teenager in the late Fifties, it wasn’t until 1974 th

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