Overview
- Dern shared a black-and-white portrait and called Ladd “my hero” in a Nov. 29 Instagram post marking what would have been her mother’s 90th birthday.
- Ladd died in November at age 89 at her Ojai, California, home, with Dern beside her, according to the daughter’s statement.
- A death certificate obtained on Nov. 17 lists acute on chronic hypoxic respiratory failure, with longstanding interstitial lung disease and esophageal dysmotility contributing; records note she was cremated on Nov. 10.
- The actress earned three Academy Award nominations and amassed more than 300 film and TV credits, including Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart, and Rambling Rose.
- Recent remembrances highlight Ladd’s late-life closeness with Dern, captured in their 2023 joint memoir born from Ladd’s earlier lung illness; Bruce Dern also praised his former wife as a devoted mother.