Famous and talented Holuvid actress Diane Keaton left at the age of 79.
People magazine confirms that the legendary actress died in California. No further details have been reported so far, and her relatives have asked for discretion, a family spokesman said.
Keaton rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s with his role in the films “The Godfather” and with a number of cult collaborations with director Woody Allen. She won the Oscar for Best Actress for Annie Hall (1977). Her long career also includes hits such as “First Wife Club“, several projects with Nancy Myers and the Book Club franchise.
She was born in 1946 in Los Angeles as Dian Hall, the largest of four children. Her father was a civil engineer and her mother was a housewife.
“In her heart, she must have dreamed of being an artist – she sang, played the piano, was beautiful. She was my lawyer and defender,” Keaton told People in 2004.
He played in plays in high school, and after graduating in 1964 he studied Drama, but soon left college and moved to New York. He takes the artistic name Keaton by her mother’s maiden family because there was already a registered actress named Dian Hall.
In 1968, she was selected as a doubles in the Broadway musical “Hair”. She later admits that she then fought with a bulimia, which she describes as a “life in a lie.” It comes out of the disease thanks to therapy.
Her breakthrough comes with the play “Play It Again, Sam” (1969) by Alan, for which he received the nomination “Tony”. She made her movie debut with “Lovers and Other Strangers” (1970), and her real star moment came when Francis Ford Coppola invited her for the role of Kay Adams, Michael Corleone’s beloved in “The Godfather” (1972).
“I had no idea what it was, I hadn’t even read the book,” she admits years later.
The movie becomes a sensation and wins the Oscar for Best Picture. Keaton repeated his role in “Godfather II” (1974) and “Godfather III” (1990).
In parallel, he continued to work with Alan: “Play It Again, Sam” (1972), “Sleeper” (1973), “Love and Death” (1975). In 1977, the culmination came – Annie Hall, which brings her an Oscar and made her an icon of style with her characteristic men’s suits, vests and pants.
In the coming decades, he played in “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” (1977), “Reds” (1981), “Shoot the Moon” (1982), “The Little Drummer Girl” (1984). With Nancy Myers makes cult comedies: “Baby Boom” (1987), “The Father of the Bride” (1991) and his continuation, as well as “Your impossible yours” (2003), for which he receives a new nomination for “Oscar”. “Honestly, I love the bride’s father mostly-they were so moving,” she admits to Vulture in 2020.
Other memorable appearances are in “The First Wives Club” (1996), “The Family Stone”, “Because I Said So”, “Finding Dory”, the Book Club, “POMS”, and the HBO miniseries “The Young Pope”. In addition to the actress, Keaton is also the director – he is behind the documentary Heaven (1987), the movie Hanging Up (2000) and an episode of Twin Peaks.
In 2021, he appeared in Justin Bieber’s video Ghost, and on Instagram he regularly posted revelations about his life and career.
The actress never marries.
“I thought today – I am the only one in my generation of actresses who has been left alone throughout my life. I’m glad I didn’t marry. I’m a strange bird,” she told People in 2019. It was romantically linked to Alan, Al Pacino and Warren Beatty.
Keaton has two adopted children – daughter Dexter (1996) and son Duke (2001).
“Motherhood was not an insurmountable impulse, but rather a thought I had long been thinking. And I just dived,” she told Ladies’ Home Journal.
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