Three-time Oscar-nominated actress Diane Ladd died at her home in Ojai, California, on the morning of November 3, 2025; her daughter and co-star Laura Dern confirmed in a statement to PEOPLE. She was 89. Her cause of death remains undisclosed at the time of writing.“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,” Laura stated on Monday.She continued, “She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created. We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.”Laura Dern was born to Diane Ladd and her first husband and veteran Hollywood actor Bruce Dern. The couple had been married for nine years. However, their elder daughter’s death at only 18 months later contributed to their divorce.Diane Ladd was married two times after that, to New York businessman William A. Shea Jr and ex-PepsiCo CEO, Robert Charles Hunter.Exploring what Diane Ladd said about her split with Bruce DernDiane Ladd first crossed paths with Bruce Dern in New York City while working on the same off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending. A few months after their first meeting, the pair walked down the aisle in 1960.“Bruce had already been married and divorced when he met me. He came to play Orpheus, and Orpheus descended. I married Bruce when I was very, very young,” Ladd once jokingly told the Los Angeles Times during an interview.In November of their wedding year, Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern welcomed their first child, Diane Elizabeth Dern. Unfortunately, when she was 18 months old, baby Diane died in a drowning accident in May 1962.“It tore us apart,” Diane once told PEOPLE of the tragedy.Later, in February 1967, the couple welcomed their second child, Laura Dern. However, their marriage had started to fall apart by then, which eventually ended in 1969.Speaking to Parade Magazine in 1992, Diane Ladd stated:“We suffered the tragedy of our daughter's death together and thought another child would help us, but we were so bruised.”The Rambling Rose actress shared how she had a difficult time trying not to be an overprotective single mother to Laura after her split with Bruce Dern.“I was terrified, being on my own with Laura. I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child. The result was that it worked the other way. I allowed her to be a free thinker, and that helped her become her own person,” Diane Ladd explained.Ladd and her ex-husband reunited two decades after their divorce while working on the film, Wild At Heart, also starring their daughter. Later, they also appeared on Mrs. Munck. During a 2001 interview with PEOPLE, Bruce spoke about taking years to mend his relationship with his ex-wife. He said:“As [Diane and I] both look back on it, we beat ourselves up a little bit and say, ‘What the hell was wrong with us that we just didn’t accept this and start this way right at the very beginning?’ But it took us a decade to get there.”The former couple, along with Laura Dern, also made history after becoming the only parents and child to be nominated in the Oscars for acting. The trio also became the first family to share adjoining stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, according to the LA Times.Premiere Of Netflix's "Marriage Story" - Red Carpet - Source: GettySpeaking about her parents while accepting her first Oscar in 2020, Laura stated, according to PEOPLE:“You know, some say ‘never meet your heroes,’ but I say if you’re really blessed, you get them as your parents. I share this with my acting heroes, my legends, Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern.”Diane Ladd was married to William A. Shea Jr from 1969 to 1977. They did not welcome any children. In February 1999, she married for the third time. She and Robert Charles Hunter were married for over 26 years until his death on July 31, 2025, at the age of 77.Ladd and Hunter remained close family friends to Bruce Dern and his third wife, Andrea Beckett, for the last two decades of their lives.Dern mourned his former wife's death via a statement. According to Variety, he called her a "tremendous actress" who lived a "good life."“Diane was a tremendous actress, and I feel like a bit of a ‘hidden treasure’ until she ran into David Lynch. When he cast her as Laura‘s mom in ‘Wild at Heart,’ it felt like the world then really understood her brilliance."Bruce added, "She was a great value as a decades-long board member of SAG, giving a real actress’ point of view... She saw everything the way it was. She was a great teammate to her fellow actors. She was funny, clever, and gracious."He ended by saying that he would be "forever grateful" to his now-late ex-wife for being a "wonderful mother to our incredible wunderkind daughter."