Diane Ladd Overview

DIANE LADD Birth Name: Rose Diane Lanier Birth Date: November 29, 1932 A native of Laurel, Mississippi, Ladd is a cousin of the famous playwright, Tennessee Williams. She graduated from high school at the age of 16, and attended a finishing school in the South. Turning down a scholarship to study law at L.S.U., she decided that the life of an actress was what she wanted. "My first play out of high school was Tom's [Williams] play Orpheus Descending," Ladd recalls... See All