ALBAWABA - Diane Keaton has passed away. She was 79 years old.
The famous actress passed away in California. There aren't any more details known right now, and her family, who spoke for the family, has asked for privacy.
During the 1970s, Diane Keaton became well-known for her part in The Godfather movies and her work with director Woody Allen. Anne Hall, which came out in 1977, won her an Oscar for Best Actress. During her long career, she worked on movies like "The First Wives Club," "The Book Club" series, and many projects with director Nancy Meyers.
She was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles in 1946. She was the oldest of four children. Her dad worked as a construction engineer, and her mom ran the household.
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Keaton thought her mom had bigger dreams, though. The actor said in 2004 that she thought her true calling was to be an entertainer of some kind. "She sang. "She played the piano. She looked lovely. She spoke up for me.
Keaton was in plays in high school, and after she graduated in 1964, she studied acting in college. She dropped out quickly, though, and went to New York to try to make it in the theater business. That name was already taken by an actress named Diane Hall, so she used her mother's given name, Keaton, as her stage name.
The Broadway show Hair used Keaton as Sheila's stand-in in 1968. Keaton told PEOPLE in 2017 that she suffered with bulimia during this time because the show's director told her she needed to lose weight. She didn't blame him for her illness, though. "Trust me, it was because I wanted more than I had." Far too much. "She was mentally ill," she said.
"I learned how to hide very well." What is your plan for ensuring the evidence remains confidential? You have a very strange way of life. She told him about her illness, "You're living a lie." Therapy helped her get better in the end, but her bulimia made it challenging for her to enjoy her time on Broadway.
Next, Keaton played the lead role in Allen's 1969 Broadway show Play It Again, Sam. She was nominated for a Tony for the part.
In 1970, she made her movie debut in Lovers and Other Strangers. But her big break came when Francis Ford Coppola cast her as Michael Corleone's girlfriend, Kay Adams, in The Godfather, which came out in 1972. The movie was based on Mario Puzo's best-selling book, but Keaton hadn't read it before her interview, so she wasn't very knowledgeable about the movie.
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"I got cast in The Godfather without even reading it. That was the nicest thing someone has ever done for me." "I had no idea what was going on," she told PEOPLE in 2022. "I was just going everywhere to try out." That was really cool for me. Thereafter, I had to read the book."
The movie was a giant hit, and it won Best Picture at the Oscars. Toy Story II, which came out in 1974 and won Best Picture, also did very well, and Keaton played the same part. She came back for the last movie, The Godfather Part III, which came out in 1990.
Diane Keaton also kept working with Allen. She was in the 1972 movie Play It Again, Sam, the 1973 movie Sleeper, and the 1975 movie Love and Death. Keaton had many fears, even though she was successful early on. She would never watch her movies. In 1975, she told PEOPLE, "I just don't like the way I look and sound."
In 1977, Keaton played the lead role in Allen's Annie Hall. She won the Oscar for Best Actress for the part. Annie's closet was full of menswear, vests, and structured pants, just like Keaton's. The movie made the actor a style icon for good. Many people thought that the movie was based on the friendship between Keaton and Allen. In 1977, she told The New York Times, "It's not true, but some parts of it are true."
Allen and Keaton would work together again in the movies Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979), and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). She also stood up for Allen when his niece Dylan Farrow said he abused her sexually. In 2014, she told The Guardian, "I love him."
Diane Keaton also played parts in the movies Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Reds (1981), Shoot the Moon (1982), and The Little Drummer Girl (1984). When she worked with Meyers for the first time, it was on the 1987 movie Baby Boom. They would work together again three more times: in Father of the Bride (1991), Father of the Bride Part II (1995), and Something's Gotta Give (2003), which earned Keaton another Oscar nomination. When asked by Vulture in 2020 which of these projects she loved the most, Keaton said, "You can think it's cheesy, but I love the Father of the Bride movies." They were so sweet.
Keaton later played parts in The Family Stone, Because I Said So, Finding Dory, Book Club (and its follow-up), and Poms. She made a rare TV appearance in the 2016 HBO miniseries The Young Pope, where she played the lead part. As a director, Keaton was responsible for the 1987 documentary Heaven, the 2000 movie Hanging Up, and an episode of Twin Peaks.
Keaton was in Justin Bieber's "Ghost" music video in 2021. She also used Instagram a lot, sharing information about her life, thinking about her job and friendships, and praising the people she cared about.
Keaton said in 2019 that she didn't know anything about her job and hadn't learned anything. I'm dumber now that I'm older. I would have been out of place if I hadn't acted."
Keaton never got married. "I was thinking today that I'm the only actress my age who has been single her whole life," she told PEOPLE in 2019. "I'm glad I didn't get married." I'm a strange one. In high school, someone told me, "One day you'll make a good wife." I told myself, "No, I would rather not be a wife."
She was in relationships with Allen, Pacino, and Warren Beatty all through her life. "Talent is so damn attractive," she told PEOPLE.
Diane Keaton had two kids, a daughter named Dexter and a boy named Duke. She adopted them in 1996 and 2001. "Becoming a mother wasn't an urge I couldn't fight; it was more like an idea I'd had for a long time." "So I dove right in," she told Ladies' Home Journal in 2008.
