Diane Ladd

 Diane Ladd has been nominated for three Academy Awards. In each of the films, her daughter Laura appeared as well.

In "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974), Laura can be seen in the final diner scene, she is the little blonde girl with glasses sitting at the end of the counter eating an ice cream cone. As Dern would recall years later, it was after the nineteenth take, and exactly that many cones consumed, that director Martin Scorsese informed Ladd that if her daughter could do that without throwing up, she had to be an actress.

Ladd and Dern's Oscar nominations for "Rambling Rose" (1991) mark the first time a mother and daughter ever received such an accolade for appearing in the same film. The only other time that a parent and child received acting nominations for the same film was when Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda were both nominated for "On Golden Pond" (1981).

The pair also appeared together in "Wild at Heart" (1990, below), in which Ladd earned her third nomination. Dern revealed in an interview that it was her mother's idea to offer her character a lollipop during the abortion scene after director David Lynch said they needed to add "something different" to the scene.

Happy Birthday, Diane Ladd!