Diane Ladd

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.
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).
Has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress three times (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991)). All three movies also starred her daughter Laura 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.
Was a chorus girl at New York City's Copacabana in the 1950s.

[on Jean Seberg during the making of Macho Callahan (1970)] She was terribly sensitive, almost like a little girl. We shot in a village outside Mexico City one day, and they set up tables for the cast and crew to eat. These skinny dogs wandered over, and Jean started to feed them off her plate. Someone snapped that you don't do that - not when there were people going hungry. Jean looked awfully hurt and didn't eat for two days after that. I personally considered her a great lady and a wonderful human being. A lady of sensitive, thought-out, careful choice and depth, and select caring.
I was really upset and chagrined by the studios' greed and corruption of putting leading lady stars into my Oscar category of best supporting.
I'm not an actor. I'm a teacher. The screen or the stage is my blackboard, and so whatever I taught is what's in you. It's reflecting you, saint or sinner, male or female, child or old person. I'm reflecting parts of your soul, parts of who you are. The work is for you.