Diane Ladd

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Diane Ladd

American actress

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Laura Dern
Family and early roles
…was born to noted actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern. Her parents divorced when she was a small child, and she was raised by her mother. Dern began her acting career with uncredited roles in movies that featured her mother (White Lightning [1973] and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore [1974]).…
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…was born to noted actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern. Her parents divorced when she was a small child, and she was raised by her mother. Dern began her acting career with uncredited roles in movies that featured her mother (White Lightning [1973] and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore [1974]).…
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Chinatown
Plot summary
…to be Evelyn Mulwray (Diane Ladd) hires Gittes to investigate her husband’s suspected infidelity. Gittes, jaded and accustomed to working on small-time cases, perks up when he recognizes the name of her husband, Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), as the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and…
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…to be Evelyn Mulwray (Diane Ladd) hires Gittes to investigate her husband’s suspected infidelity. Gittes, jaded and accustomed to working on small-time cases, perks up when he recognizes the name of her husband, Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), as the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and…
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