Diane Keaton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 5, 1946
- Died
- October 11, 2025 (aged 79)
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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).
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Filmography
Artist in Residence
Movie · as Toni Beckworth
Summer Camp
Movie · as Nora
Arthur's Whisky
Movie · as Linda
STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces
TV · as Self - Actress · 1 ep
Maybe I Do
Movie · as Grace
Book Club: The Next Chapter
Movie · as Diane
Mack & Rita
Movie · as Rita
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Movie · as Sara
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
Movie · as Nina
Poms
Movie · as Martha
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Green Eggs and Ham
TV · as Michellee (voice) · 23 eps
Book Club
Movie · as Diane
Hampstead
Movie · as Emily Walters
Finding Dory
Movie · as Jenny (voice)
The Young Pope
TV · as Sister Mary · 10 eps
Love the Coopers
Movie · as Charlotte Cooper
And So It Goes
Movie · as Leah
5 Flights Up
Movie · as Ruth Carver
I Am Divine
Movie · as Self (archive)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Big Wedding
Movie · as Ellie Griffin
Darling Companion
Movie · as Beth
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Movie · as Self
Morning Glory
Movie · as Colleen Peck
Mad Money
Movie · as Bridget Cardigan
Smother
Movie · as Marilyn Cooper
Because I Said So
Movie · as Daphne
Mama's Boy
Movie · as Jan Mannus
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Surrender, Dorothy
Movie · as Natalie Swerdlow
The Family Stone
Movie · as Sybil Stone
The Colbert Report
TV · 1 ep
The Reichen Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Something's Gotta Give
Movie · as Erica Barry
On Thin Ice
Movie · as Patsy McCartle
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV · as Self · 7 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Plan B
Movie · as Fran Varecchio
Crossed Over
Movie · as Beverly Lowry
Town & Country
Movie · as Ellie Stoddard
Sister Mary Explains It All
Movie · as Sister Mary Ignatius
Hanging Up
Movie · as Georgia Mozell
The Other Sister
Movie · as Elizabeth Tate
The Early Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Northern Lights
Movie · as Roberta Blumstein
The Only Thrill
Movie · as Carol Fritzsimmons
The View
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · 1 ep
The First Wives Club
Movie · as Annie MacDuggan Paradis
Marvin's Room
Movie · as Bessie Wakefield
The Daily Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Father of the Bride Part II
Movie · as Nina Banks
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
Movie · as Amelia Earhart
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Movie · as Carol Lipton
Look Who's Talking Now!
Movie · as Daphne (voice)
Intimate Portrait
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Running Mates
Movie · as Aggie Snow
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Movie · as Kay Adams-Corleone
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 2 eps
Father of the Bride
Movie · as Nina Banks
The Godfather Part III
Movie · as Kay Adams
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Movie · as Self / Kay Adams
The Lemon Sisters
Movie · as Eloise Hamer
The Good Mother
Movie · as Anna Dunlop
Baby Boom
Movie · as J.C. Wiatt
Radio Days
Movie · as New Year's Singer
Crimes of the Heart
Movie · as Lenny Magrath
Mrs. Soffel
Movie · as Kate Soffel
The Little Drummer Girl
Movie · as Charlie
Goldene Kamera
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Shoot the Moon
Movie · as Faith Dunlap
Reds
Movie · as Louise Bryant
Manhattan
Movie · as Mary Wilkie
Interiors
Movie · as Renata
Annie Hall
Movie · as Annie Hall
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Movie · as Theresa
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
TV · as Kay Adams-Corleone · 4 eps
Harry and Walter Go to New York
Movie · as Lissa Chestnut
I Will, I Will...For Now
Movie · as Katie Bingham
Love and Death
Movie · as Sonja
The Godfather Part II
Movie · as Kay Corleone
Sleeper
Movie · as Luna Schlosser
Play It Again, Sam
Movie · as Linda Christie
The Godfather
Movie · as Kay Adams
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
Movie · as Renata Wallinger
Film '72
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Lovers and Other Strangers
Movie · as Joan Vecchio
Night Gallery
TV · as Nurse Frances Nevins (segment "Room with a View") · 1 ep
Love, American Style
TV · as Louise · 1 ep
Mannix
TV · 1 ep
The F.B.I.
TV · as Diane Britt · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 6 eps