Diane Ladd

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).

Diane is the cousin of playwright Tennessee Williams

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.