"My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother passed with me beside her this morning at her home in Ojai, California,” Ladd's daughter, Oscar-winning actor Laura Dern, said in a statement.

Diane Ladd, a three-time Academy Award nominee and actor of rare timing and intensity whose roles ranged from the brash waitress in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" to the scheming parent in "Wild a...

"My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed with me beside her this morning at her home in Ojai, California," the statement read.