Oscar-nominated actress Dianne Ladd, mother of Laura Dern, dies at 89

"We were blessed to have her," said her daughter, actress Laura Dern. The two acted together in many films and the HBO show Enlightened.

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Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, confirmed her death on Monday.

"My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed with me beside her this morning," Dern said in a statement, adding that her final moments were spent at home in California.

Dern, who starred with her mother in 1991's Rambling Rose, did not share Ladd's cause of death.

"She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created," Dern said. "We were blessed to have her."