Diane Ladd, three-time Oscar nominee, dies aged 89

Diane Ladd (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Diane Ladd, the three-time Academy Award nominee whose roles ranged from the brash waitress in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore to the protective mother in Wild At Heart, has died at the age of 89.

Ladd’s death was announced on Monday by daughter Laura Dern, who issued a statement saying her mother and occasional co-star had died at her home in Ojai, California, with Dern at her side.