Diane Ladd

Was a chorus girl at New York City's Copacabana in the 1950s.

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.

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.

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).

The amazingly gifted Diane Ladd received immense praise for her dramatic efforts throughout the course of her electric and unique seventy-year career. Nominated an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, she won the BAFTA Film Award, same category, for her account of a wiseacre roadside diner waitress in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974).

Appeared in the film Carnosaur (1993), the same year that her daughter, Laura Dern, appeared in another dinosaur film, Jurassic Park (1993).

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.

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.

(November 1, 2010) Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

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.