Most Recent Role: Grandmother on ER
Alias Name(s): Diane Lad
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Meridian, Mississippi
Birthday: 11-29-1932
Birth Name: Rose Diane Lanier
Alias Name(s): Diane Lad
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Meridian, Mississippi
Birthday: 11-29-1932
Birth Name: Rose Diane Lanier
Nickname: Laddie
Former chorus girl at the Copacabana in the 1950s
Family:
Daughter of actress Mary Lanier
Mother of actress Laura Dern
Cousin of playwright Tennessee Williams
Married to:
Bruce Dern (1960-1969) (divorced) 2 daughters (1 deceased)
William A. Shea, Jr. (1969 - 1977) (divorced)
Robert Charles Hunter (14 February 1999 - present)
Most Recent Appearance
No Place to Hide
Thursday 27 April 2006 on NBC
Pratt departs for Africa with attitude to spare but makes his first contact with harsh reality before the plane lands. Abby senses something is not what is seems when she treats a 12-year-old and her grandmother (guest star Diane Ladd), then differs with Luka over the best course of action. A...
She played the mother to real-life daughter Laura Dern in four movies: Citizen Ruth (1996), Daddy and Them (2001), Wild at Heart (1990) and White Lightning (1973).
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Diane is the cousin of playwright Tennessee Williams
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She had two daughters by ex-husband Bruce Dern. Her first daughter, born in 1961, accidentally drowned at the age of 18 months, years before second daughter, Laura Dern, was born in 1967.
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Other Appearances
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Alice
Belle Dupree (1980-1981) |
Cold Lazarus
Martina Matilda Masdon |
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Shane
Amy Sloate |
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
Sally Druse |
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The Secret Storm
Kitty Styles #2 (1971-1972) |
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77 Sunset Strip
The Left Field Caper Helen Saunders |
Battle of the Network Stars
Special #9 CBS Team |
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Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
The Game with Glass Pieces Cissy |
Christy
Christy: A Change of Seasons Alice Henderson |
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Christy
Christy: Return to Cutter Gap Alice Henderson |
Christy
Christy: A New Beginning Alice Henderson |
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