Diane Ladd Net Worth

Diane Ladd's Quotes

• [on Jean Seberg during the making of Macho Callahan (1970)] She was terribly sensitive, almost like a little girl. We shot in a village outside Mexico City one day, and they set up tables for the cast and crew to eat. These skinny dogs wandered over, and Jean started to feed them off her plate. Someone snapped that you don't do that - not when there were people going hungry. Jean looked awfully hurt and didn't eat for two days after that. I personally considered her a great lady and a wonderful human being. A lady of sensitive, thought-out, careful choice and depth, and select caring.
• I was really upset and chagrined by the studios' greed and corruption of putting leading lady stars into my Oscar category of best supporting.

Interesting Facts about Diane Ladd

1. Had two daughters with ex-husband Bruce Dern. Her first daughter, Diane Elizabeth Dern was born on November 27, 1960, tragically died at the age of 17 1/2 months after accidentally falling into the family pool and hitting her head causing a massive brain hemorrhage, years before second daughter, Laura Dern, was born in 1967.
2. Her mother was of half German and half Norwegian ancestry. Her father, who was from a family with deep roots in the American South, had English, as well as distant French and Swiss, ancestry. She is a distant cousin of playwright Tennessee Williams.
3. Was a chorus girl at New York City's Copacabana in the 1950s.
4. Appeared in the film Carnosaur (1993), the same year that her daughter, Laura Dern, appeared in another dinosaur film, Jurassic Park (1993).
5. Has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress three times (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991)). All three movies also starred her daughter Laura Dern.
6. Has played mother to real-life daughter Laura Dern five times: White Lightning (1973), Wild at Heart (1990), Citizen Ruth (1996), Daddy and Them (2001) and the television series Enlightened (2011).
7. Former mother-in-law of musician Ben Harper.
8. A Ministerial Consultant with a certificate in Nutrition and a Masters in Esoteric Psychology.
9. (November 1, 2010) Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
10. Gave birth to her first child at age 25, a daughter Diane Elizabeth Dern on November 27, 1960. She died on May 18, 1962. Child's father was her ex-husband, Bruce Dern.
11. Gave birth to her second child at age 31, a daughter Laura Elizabeth Dern aka Laura Dern on February 10, 1967. Child's father is her ex-husband, Bruce Dern.
12. Became a grandmother for the first time at age 65 when her daughter Laura Dern gave birth to her son Ellery Walker Harper, with [now ex] husband Ben Harper, on August 10, 2001.
13. Became a grandmother for the second time at age 68 when her daughter Laura Dern gave birth to her daughter Jaya Harper, with [now ex] husband Ben Harper, on November 28, 2004.