Diane Keaton
- Acting
- January 5, 1946 · Los Angeles, California, USA
- October 11, 2025
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).
Known for
Filmography
- The Invite · In Memory Of
- Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams · Self
- Arthur's Whisky · Linda
- Summer Camp · Nora, Producer
- STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces · Self
- Book Club: The Next Chapter · Diane
- Maybe I Do · Grace, Executive producer
- Mack & Rita · Rita, Producer
- Love, Weddings & Other Disasters · Sara
- Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) · Nina
- Green Eggs and Ham · Michellee (Voice)
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- Poms · Martha, Executive producer
- Book Club · Diane
- Hampstead · Emily Walters
- The Young Pope · Sister Mary
- Finding Dory · Jenny (Voice)
- Love the Coopers · Charlotte Cooper, Executive producer
- And So It Goes · Leah
- 5 Flights Up · Ruth Carver
- I Am Divine · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- The Big Wedding · Ellie Griffin
- Darling Companion · Beth
- Woody Allen: A Documentary · Self
- Morning Glory · Colleen Peck
- Unforgettable · Self
- Smother · Marilyn Cooper, Executive producer
- Mad Money · Bridget Cardigan
- Mama's Boy · Jan Mannus
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- Because I Said So · Daphne
- Surrender, Dorothy · Natalie Swerdlow, Executive producer
- The Family Stone · Sybil Stone
- The Reichen Show · Self
- The Colbert Report
- Nos Bastidores de Hollywood · Self
- Terminal Impact · Narrator
- Something's Gotta Give · Erica Barry
- On Thin Ice · Patsy McCartle, Executive producer
- Elephant · Executive producer
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show · Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- Plan B · Fran Varecchio
- Crossed Over · Beverly Lowry, Co-Executive Producer
- Pasadena · Producer, Director
- Sister Mary Explains It All · Sister Mary Ignatius
- Town & Country · Ellie Stoddard
- Hanging Up · Georgia Mozell, Director
- The Early Show · Self
- The Other Sister · Elizabeth Tate
- Northern Lights · Roberta Blumstein, Executive producer
- The Wonderful World of Disney
- The View · Self
- The Only Thrill · Carol Fritzsimmons
- Marvin's Room · Bessie Wakefield
- The First Wives Club · Annie MacDuggan Paradis
- The Daily Show · Self
- Father of the Bride Part II · Nina Banks
- Unstrung Heroes · Director
- Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight · Amelia Earhart
- Intimate Portrait · Self
- Look Who's Talking Now! · Daphne (Voice)
- Manhattan Murder Mystery · Carol Lipton
- The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 · Kay Adams-Corleone
- Running Mates · Aggie Snow
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Father of the Bride · Nina Banks
- Wildflower · Director
- The Godfather Part III · Kay Adams
- The Godfather Family: A Look Inside · Self / Kay Adams
- Twin Peaks · Director
- The Lemon Sisters · Eloise Hamer, Producer
- The Good Mother · Anna Dunlop
- China Beach · Director
- Baby Boom · J.C. Wiatt
- Heaven · Director, Writer
- Radio Days · New Year's Singer
- Crimes of the Heart · Lenny Magrath
- Mrs. Soffel · Kate Soffel