Diane Ladd, the prolific actress who turned Oscar-nominated roles in "Wild at Heart" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and who was the mother of Laura Dern, has died.

Diane Ladd, the Mississippi-born film actress who shaped her air of eccentricity and steely determination into wildly different characters over a career of more than six decades, died on Monday in Oj...

Ladd and Laura Dern achieved the rare feat of mother-and-daughter nominees for their work in “Rambling Rose” and they also were memorably paired in “Wild at Heart,” a personal favorite of Ladd’s and ...