A stage-trained blonde character player, Diane Ladd first garnered attention in 1974 with her roles in "Chinatown" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore". In the former, she was a woman of mystery while in the latter she delivered a scene-stealing turn as the wisecracking waitress Flo, a role that earned her an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress. "Discovered" by actor John Carradine who cast her in a production of "Tobacco Road", the Mississippi native moved to NYC where she enrolled at The Actors Studio and supported herself as a model and dancer at the Copacabana. She landed her
