Jordan Ladd
Jordan Elizabeth Ladd (born January 14, 1975) is an American actress. The daughter of actress Cheryl Ladd and producer David Ladd, she initially worked with her mother in several made-for-television films, before appearing at nineteen in the direct-to-video erotic film Embrace of the Vampire (1994). She subsequently appeared in the drama Nowhere (1997) and the comedy Never Been Kissed (1999).
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Jordan Ladd

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- 14 January 1975
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Actress
- Nationality
- United States.
- Education
- Southern Methodist University.
- Languages
- English.
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Jordan Elizabeth Ladd (born January 14, 1975) is an American actress. The daughter of actress Cheryl Ladd and producer David Ladd, she initially worked with her mother in several made-for-television films, before appearing at nineteen in the direct-to-video erotic film Embrace of the Vampire (1994). She subsequently appeared in the drama Nowhere (1997) and the comedy Never Been Kissed (1999).
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Biography
Biography
Ladd became known as a scream queen, having appeared in several successful horror films, including Cabin Fever (2002), Club Dread (2004), Death Proof (2007), and Grace (2009). Ladd is also known for work with director David Lynch appearing in his films Darkened Room (2002) and Inland Empire (2006).

Actress Jordan Ladd at the premiere of Grindhouse, Austin, Texas.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 14 January 1975 • Birthplace — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1990–present • Mother — Cheryl Ladd • Father — David Ladd • Relatives — Alan Ladd (paternal grandfather) Sue Carol (paternal grandmother) Alan Ladd Jr. (paternal uncle)
Early life
Early life
Jordan Ladd was born on January 14, 1975, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actress Cheryl Ladd (Stoppelmoor), and producer and former actor David Ladd. Her paternal grandfather was Alan Ladd, an actor and film producer of English descent, and her paternal grandmother was Sue Carol (née Evelyn Lederer), a Hollywood talent agent and actress of Jewish descent. Ladd's maternal ancestry is German. Ladd's parents divorced in 1980. She has a stepsister, Lindsay Russell. She graduated from high school in 1993, managing to lead a normal life despite her family's fame; she once remarked: "When I was in high school I used to go to the clubs, and of course that's exciting [...] You want to drink before you can and get into places you can't. But once I started acting professionally, I really didn't want to do the Hollywood nightlife thing." She enrolled at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in 1992, but dropped out after a year of studies.
1990s
1990s
At the age of two, Ladd began appearing in commercials. Her first commercial was for Polaroid. She began acting in film and television while in school, working with her mother in made-for-television films such as The Girl Who Came Between Them (1990) and Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back (1993). After graduating from high school, she took up acting professionally. In 1994, she guest-starred in an episode of the NBC series Saved by the Bell: The New Class and made her big screen debut with a supporting appearance as a promiscuous college student opposite Alyssa Milano in the film Embrace of the Vampire. She spent the majority of the 1990s appearing in a variety of independent films, including Inside Out, Nowhere, and Stand-ins. In 1999, she appeared in Taking the Plunge, and also landed her first high-profile role alongside Drew Barrymore as a popular student who tortures an insecure copy editor in the teen comedy Never Been Kissed. The film was a commercial success, grossing US$84.5 million globally, and gave her an initial wide exposure with audiences.
2000s
2000s
Ladd appeared in The Specials (2000), a comedy about a group of superheroes on their day off; in the film she played a neurotic named Nightbird. By 2000, she also had starred as an actress who vying for an Academy Award in E! first original film Best Actress, and appeared in the critically acclaimed anthology film Boys Life 3. Ladd starred as a college graduate and the victim to a flesh-eating virus in the horror film Cabin Fever (2002), Eli Roth's directorial debut. Ladd described working on the film as "insane," as it began shooting just a month after 9/11. She remarked: "We shut down, we got up and running, and then we shut down again. We just hoped to finish the movie and hoped people would really understand and appreciate it. We had a blast doing it, even the tougher stuff. I'd rather work that way than on a big-budget fancy thing where you are completely separate from the process." It was with this film that she began work in the horror genre, as she had a "real education on that way of storytelling" with Roth and the film. Cabin Fever was largely praised by critics, and made US$30.5 million on a budget of US$1.5 million. That same year, she played a crying woman in David Lynch's Japanese-style horror short Darkened Room. In 2004, Ladd took on the role of a suspect in a recent string of murders on a vacationing island in the horror comedy Club Dread, and starred as a mental health facility nurse in the horror Madhouse. Her topless scene in Club Dread ranked 14th in Complex magazine's "15 Best Topless Moments In Mainstream Horror Movies". In 2005, she appeared opposite Anna Faris, Ryan Reynolds and Justin Long in the independent romantic comedy Waiting..., and in 2006, she briefly appeared in David Lynch's film Inland Empire. Quentin Tarantino cast her as a wild, partying Texan and the victim of a killer stuntman in Death Proof, his high-speed segment of the double–feature exploitation horror Grindhouse (2007), alongside Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, Zoë Bell, and Kurt Russell. The film flopped at the box office, but attracted significant media buzz and critical acclaim. Director Eli Roth, in his contribution to Grindhouse, worked again with Ladd in a fake promo called Thanksgiving, which she shot "on the fly over" in Prague, where Hostel: Part II was being filmed; in the horror sequel, she played the girlfriend of the sole survivor of the first film. In her next film, the horror Grace (2009), Ladd portrayed a woman, who after a car accident, decides to carry her unborn baby to term anyway. The film was screened on the film festival circuit in North America, to critical acclaim. John Anderson of Variety felt that Ladd played her role with "tongue planted firmly in cheek", in what he described as "a satirical creepfest that mines modern motherhood for all its latent terrors". In 2009, she also starred in the made-for-television film The Wishing Well, as a journalist from New York City who gets sent to a small town in Illinois to report on a legendary wishing well.
2010s
2010s
Ladd filmed a comedic short film entitled First Dates, exploring the dating scene of several single people. The production premiered at the AFI screening room in Los Angeles on January 8, 2011. She starred in the fantasy romance film Awaken (2012), which premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival, as a mysterious woman who changes the mundane life of a man. In 2012, she also appeared in the direct-to-DVD disaster film Air Collision, as a flight attendant, and in the thriller Murder on the 13th Floor, as a wife who discovers her husband is having an affair with the live-in nanny and decides to seek revenge. In 2015, Ladd guest-starred in an episode of the YouTube horror anthology series Scary Endings, directed by John Fitzpatrick. In 2016, she reunited with Fitzpatrick for the short thriller film Brentwood Strangler, in which she played a lonely woman goes on a blind date with a man who, unbeknownst to her, was replaced by an active and notorious serial killer, opposite Adam J. Yeend and Annika Marks. She was cast in her role, following an introduction from Skypemare actress Cerina Vincent, who Ladd worked with on Cabin Fever. The 19-minute production premiered on film festival circuits in North America and Australia, to a positive critical response. Gruesome Magazine found Ladd to be a "delight" as an "emotionally strong woman who lets her guard down and exposes her vulnerability". In 2017, Ladd starred in the made-for-television thriller Stage Fright, as an opera soprano facing a series of dangers, and in the independent drama Blue Line, as a woman who, along with her best friend, go on a crime spree to rob her abusive husband and escape her marriage.
Personal life
Personal life
Ladd married her longtime boyfriend, documentary film editor Conor O'Neill, in 2001. The couple divorced in July 2005.
Television
Television
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1978 — Charlie's Angels — young Kris Munroe — Episode: "Angel on my Mind" • 1990 — The — The Waitress — Movie • 1993 — Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back • 1994 — Love Street — Bordello Player — Episode: "Bordello" • Saved by the Bell: The New Class — Debbie — Episode: "The Return of Screech" • 1997 — Weapons of Mass Distraction — Letitia — Movie • Total Security — Fiona Richards — Episode: "One Wedding and a Funeral" • 1998 — Every Mother's Worst Fear — Martha Hoagland — Movie • 2000 — Best Actress — Amber Lyons • The — Janet Flanders • 2001 — Six Feet Under — Ginnie — Episode: "An Open Book" • 2005–2007 — Robot Chicken — Various Characters — 5 episodes • 2007 — It Was One Of Us — Avis Monroe — Movie • 2009 — The Wishing Well — Cynthia Tamerline • 2015 — Scary Endings — Grace — Episode: "Voyeur" • 2017 — Stage Fright — Sarah Conrad — Movie • 2018 — The Christmas Contract — Breonna Guidry — TV film
Film
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1994 — Embrace of the Vampire — Eliza • 1997 — Inside Out — Summer • Nowhere — Alyssa • Stand-ins — Monica • 1999 — Taking the Plunge • Never Been Kissed — Gibby Zerefski • 2000 — The — Shelly / Nightbird • Boys Life 3 — Summer — Short film • 2001 — Puzzled — Skye • 2002 — Crazy Little Thing — Dana — Also known as The Perfect You • Darkened Room — Girl 1 — Short film • Cabin Fever — Karen • 2004 — Club Dread — Penelope — Also known as Broken Lizard's Club Dread • Junked — Nikki • Madhouse — Sara • Dog Gone Love — Arianna • 2005 — Waiting... — Danielle • 2006 — Inland Empire — Terri • 2007 — Hostel: Part II — Stephanie • Death Proof — Shanna "Banana" — Part of the Grindhouse double feature • 2009 — Grace — Madeline Matheson • 2011 — First Dates — Joanna — Short film • 2012 — Awaken — Rachel Arai • Murder on the 13th Floor — Ariana Braxton • Air Collision — Lindsay Bates • 2016 — Brentwood Strangler — Maggie — Short film • 2017 — The Assault — Lindsay Walters • The Untold Story — Rebecca • 2019 — Satanic Panic — Kim Larson
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- 1.Rose, Mike. Today's famous birthdays list for January 14, 2023 includes celebrities Dave Grohl, Carl Weathers. The Plain Dealer. January 14, 2023.
- 2.Jordan Ladd. TV Guide.
- 3.Huffman, Kathy. Producer David Ladd confronts child abuse in 'When She was Bad.'. Mason Valley News. 28. November 23, 1979.
- 4.Ladd, Alan. Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
- 5.Sue Carol. Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 6.Shindler, Merrill. The Horsey Set Opens Its Ranks to Cheryl Ladd. Chicago Tribune. February 28, 1988.
- 7.Knutzen, Eirik. Cheryl Ladd enjoying life in Hawaii. The Morning Call. 184, 213. August 7, 1994.
- 8.Malkin, Marc. A Daughter of Hollywood Grinds On. E! Online. April 10, 2007.
- 9.Brady, James. In Step with Jordan Ladd. Parade. Lakeland Ledger. August 10, 2003.
- 10.Anglis, Jaclyn. Cheryl Ladd's Daughter Is All Grown Up and the Spitting Image of Her Mom. Woman's World. June 21, 2017.
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- 13.Tobias, Scott. Cabin Fever. Film. September 10, 2003.
- 14.14 Surprising Facts About Cabin Fever. Mental Floss. September 11, 2018.
- 15.Exclusive Interview: Jordan Ladd. January 14, 2016.
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- 18.The 15 Best Topless Moments In Mainstream Horror Movies. Complex.
- 19.Lynch, David. David Lynch: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. August 26, 2009. 9781604732368.
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- 21.Huver, Scott. 'Grindhouse' Grrls! Sydney Poitier, Jordan Ladd and Vanessa Ferlito Are the Dishy Dames of 'Death Proof'. Hollywood.com. April 5, 2007.
- 22.Grindhouse (2007) - Box Office Mojo. boxofficemojo.com.
- 23.Grindhouse. Rotten Tomatoes.
- 24.Interview: Jordan Ladd from "Grindhouse" - Movie Review / Film Essay. March 12, 2007.
- 25.The horror of baby pangs. Los Angeles Times. August 14, 2009.
- 26.Grossberg, Josh. Sundance Notebook: Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, more. E! Online. January 17, 2009.
- 27.Anderson, John. Grace. January 26, 2009.
- 28.Jordan Ladd And Jason London Star In Hallmark's "The Wishing Well". Icelebz.com. December 15, 2009.
- 29.Stock Photo - Erica Leerhsen 'First Date' premiere screening held at The American Film Institute (AFI) Screening Room Los Angeles, California - 08.01.11. Alamy.
- 30.Exclusive First Word, Poster & Images from John Fitzpatrick's Brentwood Strangler. DreadCentral.com. October 5, 2015.
- 31.Exclusive Interview: Jordan Ladd Talks Brentwood Strangler. WickedHorror.com. January 14, 2016.
- 32.Review: John Fitzpatrick's Brentwood Strangler. Horror Society. May 4, 2016.
- 33.Perry, Joseph. "Brentwood Strangler" (Shriekfest 2016): Death Goes on a Date in Masterly Short Thriller. November 5, 2016.
- 34.Blue Line Review. July 12, 2017.
- 35.Ladd, Jordan 1975-. Encyclopedia.com.
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