Diane Ladd, the Oscar-nominated actress who starred in film classics including Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Chinatown, has died at age 89, her daughter, actress Laura Dern, confirmed.

“My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed with me beside her this morning, at her home in Ojai, Ca.,” Dern said Monday in a statement shared with ABC News. “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,” Dern continued. “She is flying with her angels now.”

Ladd was Oscar nominated three times, the first for 1974’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, and the second and third times for the films Wild at Heart and Rambling Rose, released in 1990 and 1991, re

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