American actress, Diane Ladd lost her first daughter, Diane Elizabeth Dern when she was only 18 months. She died due to injuries sustained when she drowned in a swimming pool. She was born on November 29, 160, and died on May 18, 1962.
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Born on November 29, 1935, Ladd began her career when she made her Broadway debut in Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights in 1968. She also appeared in A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander.
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She joined the cast of the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm in 1971. She was the second actress to play the role of Kitty Styles on the long-running daytime serial.
Ladd later had a supporting role in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown in 1974. She bagged a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role as Flo in the film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. She received a Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 1, 2010. She also starred in the Hallmark Channel series Chesapeake Shores.
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