Diane Keaton
Known For
Acting
Born
1946-01-05 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
2025-10-11
Biography
Diane Hall Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946 – October 11, 2025) was an American actress, director and producer. Known for her idiosyncratic personality and fashion style, she received various accolades throughout her career spanning over six decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and the AFI Life Achievement Award. Keaton began her career on stage appearing in the original 1968 Broadway production of the musical Hair. The next year, she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for her performance in Woody Allen's comic play Play it Again, Sam. She then made her screen debut in a small role in Lovers and Other Strangers (1970). She rose to prominence with her first major film role as Kay Adams-Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972), a role she reprised in its sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). The films that most shaped her career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with the film adaptation of Play It Again, Sam (1972). Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her fourth, the romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. To avoid being typecast as her Annie Hall persona, she appeared in several dramatic films, starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and Allen's Interiors (1978), and received three more Academy Award nominations for playing feminist activist Louise Bryant in Reds (1981), a woman with leukemia in Marvin's Room (1996), and a dramatist in Something's Gotta Give (2003). Her other popular films include Manhattan (1979), Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), The First Wives Club (1996), The Family Stone (2005), Morning Glory (2010), Finding Dory (2016) and Book Club (2018).
Most Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
The Daily Show
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Guest
The Godfather
as Kay Adams
The View
as Self
The Colbert Report
Mannix
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
The Godfather Part II
as Kay Corleone
Love, American Style
as Louise
Night Gallery
as Frances Nevins (segment "Room with a View")
The Oscars
as Self
Intimate Portrait
as Self
The F.B.I.
as Diane Britt
The Godfather Part III
as Kay Adams