She was a three-time Oscar contender playing strikingly different characters, in one case starring alongside her daughter and ...

She had Oscar-nominated roles in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," "Wild at Heart" and "Rambling Rose." Her daughter Laura Dern followed her into acting.

Diane Ladd, a prolific actor nominated for multiple Oscars for portraying a spectrum of humanity that encompassed the tartly profane, the violently unstable and the quietly noble, has died at her home ...