Diane Ladd, Oscar-nominated actress, dies at 89

Diane Ladd, a three-time Academy Award nominee whose six-decade career included more than 200 film and television appearances, died Monday at her home in Ojai, California. She was 89, her daughter, actor Laura Dern, said. No cause of death was immediately disclosed.

"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. She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created," Dern wrote. "We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now."

Ladd was nominated for Academy Awards for supporting performances in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991). She also received multiple Emmy nominations and Golden Globe recognition, and won a Golden Globe for her television work on the sitcom Alice. Her career spanned stage, television and film, and included roles in Chinatown, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Ghosts of Mississippi and Joy.

She was known for vivid character work, from the acerbic waitress Flo in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore to...