Diane Ladd, the Oscar-nominated "Wild at Heart" actress and mother of Laura Dern, died Monday. She was 89.

In a career spanning eight decades, Ladd was nominated for the best supporting actress Academy Award three times: in Martin Scorsese's "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," David Lynch's "Wild at Heart," and "Rambling Rose."

The news of Ladd's death was announced by Dern, Ladd's Oscar-winning actress daughter from her first marriage to Bruce Dern.

"My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother passed with me beside her this morning at her home in Ojai, California," Laura Dern wrote in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

Born in Mississippi in 1935, Southern belle Ladd appeared in many television and stage shows before Scorsese gave her a breakout role as a sassy waitress in 197

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