She was born into a show business family, but actress Jordan Ladd resisted the easy path to a thriving acting career, paving her own way in small-budgeted films before finding her niche in the works of popular genre filmmakers Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino. As the sadistic pleasures of Roth’s “Cabin Fever” (2003) and “Hostel: Part II” (2007) and Tarantino’s “Grindhouse” (2007) unfolded, Ladd had clearly taken up residence in projects far from the relatively sedate offerings from her famous clan – mother, Cheryl Ladd of “Charlie’s Angels” fame and grandfather, big screen tough guy, Alan Ladd.B
