Hollywood actress Diane Ladd has died, aged 89.

Ladd, who is the mother of actress Laura Dern, appeared in films including Wild At Heart and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.

Dern confirmed the news to the Hollywood Reporter.

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

“She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created.”

Dern added, “We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.”

Ladd appeared in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, for which she received one of her three Academy Award nominations.

She won a Golden Globe for her role in Alice.

In 1960 she

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