Diane Keaton
Born: 1946-01-05 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: 2025-10-11
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2024
- Summer Camp as Nora
- Arthur's Whisky as Linda
- STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces as Self - Actress
2023
- Book Club: The Next Chapter as Diane
- Maybe I Do as Grace
2022
- Mack & Rita as Rita
2020
- Love, Weddings & Other Disasters as Sara
- Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) as Nina Banks
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- Green Eggs and Ham as Michellee (voice)
- Poms as Martha
2018
- Book Club as Diane
2017
- Hampstead as Emily Walters
2016
- Finding Dory as Jenny (voice)
- The Young Pope as Sister Mary
2015
- Love the Coopers as Charlotte Cooper
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- And So It Goes as Leah
- 5 Flights Up as Ruth Carver
2013
- The Big Wedding as Ellie Griffin
2012
- Darling Companion as Beth
2011
- Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
2010
- Morning Glory as Colleen Peck
- Unforgettable as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Because I Said So as Daphne
- Mama's Boy as Jan Mannus
2006
- Surrender, Dorothy as Natalie Swerdlow
2005
- The Colbert Report
- The Family Stone as Sybil Stone
- The Reichen Show as Self
- Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Terminal Impact as Narrator
2003
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Elephant ... (Executive Producer)
- Something's Gotta Give as Erica Barry
- On Thin Ice as Patsy McCartle
2002
- Crossed Over as Beverly Lowry
2001
- Town & Country as Ellie Stoddard
- Plan B as Fran Varecchio
- Sister Mary Explains It All as Sister Mary Ignatius
- Pasadena ... (Producer)
2000
- Hanging Up as Georgia Mozell
1999
- The Other Sister as Elizabeth Tate
- The Early Show as Self
1998
- Northern Lights as Roberta Blumstein
1997
- The View as Self
- The Wonderful World of Disney
- The Only Thrill as Carol Fritzsimmons
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- The First Wives Club as Annie MacDuggan Paradis
- Marvin's Room as Bessie Wakefield
1995
- Unstrung Heroes ... (Director)
- Father of the Bride Part II as Nina Banks
1994
- Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight as Amelia Earhart
1993
- Intimate Portrait as Self
- Manhattan Murder Mystery as Carol Lipton
- Look Who's Talking Now! as Daphne (voice)
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 as Kay Adams
- Running Mates as Aggie Snow
1991
- Father of the Bride as Nina Banks
- Wildflower ... (Director)
1990
- Twin Peaks ... (Director)
- The Godfather Part III as Kay Adams
- The Godfather Family: A Look Inside as Self / Kay Adams
1989
- The Lemon Sisters as Eloise Hamer
1988
- China Beach ... (Director)
- The Good Mother as Anna Dunlop
1987
- Heaven ... (Director)
- Radio Days as New Year's Singer
- Baby Boom as J.C. Wiatt
1986
- Crimes of the Heart as Lenny Magrath
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Mrs. Soffel as Kate Soffel
- The Little Drummer Girl as Charlie
1982
- Shoot the Moon as Faith Dunlap
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981
- The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 as Kay Adams-Corleone
- Reds as Louise Bryant
- The Wizard of Malta as Narrator
1980
- The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's as Self (archive footage)
1979
- Manhattan as Mary Wilkie
1978
- Interiors as Renata
1977
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar as Theresa
- Annie Hall as Annie Hall
- Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television as Kay Adams-Corleone
1976
- I Will, I Will...For Now as Katie Bingham
- Harry and Walter Go to New York as Lissa Chestnut
1975
- Love and Death as Sonja
1974
- The Godfather Part II as Kay Corleone
1973
- Sleeper as Luna Schlosser
1972
- The Godfather as Kay Adams
- Play It Again, Sam as Linda Christie
1971
- Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story as Renata Wallinger
- The Godfather: Behind the Scenes as Self
1970
- Night Gallery as Frances Nevins (segment "Room with a View")
- Lovers and Other Strangers as Joan Vecchio
1969
- Love, American Style as Louise
1967
1965
- The F.B.I. as Diane Britt
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self