
Actor
Diane Keaton
Born January 5, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USADied October 11, 202567 films
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.
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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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First watchThe Godfather19728.7as Kay AdamsSpanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his…View filmEssential films
Ranked by acclaim and reachFilmography
67 films as actor- TBAArtist in ResidenceToni Beckworth
- 2024Arthur's WhiskyLinda
- 2024Summer CampNora
- 2023Book Club: The Next ChapterDiane
- 2023Maybe I DoGrace
- 2022Mack & RitaRita
- 2020Love, Weddings & Other DisastersSara
- 2020Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)Nina
- 2019PomsMartha
- 2018Book ClubDiane
- 2017HampsteadEmily Walters
- 2016Finding DoryJenny (voice)
- 2015Love the CoopersCharlotte Cooper
- 2014And So It GoesLeah
- 20145 Flights UpRuth Carver
- 2013The Big WeddingEllie Griffin
- 2012Darling CompanionBeth
- 2010Morning GloryColleen Peck
- 2008SmotherMarilyn Cooper
- 2008Mad MoneyBridget Cardigan
- 2007Mama's BoyJan Mannus
- 2007Because I Said SoDaphne
- 2006Surrender, DorothyNatalie Swerdlow
- 2005The Family StoneSybil Stone
- 2004Terminal ImpactNarrator
- 2003Something's Gotta GiveErica Barry
- 2003On Thin IcePatsy McCartle
- 2002Plan BFran Varecchio
- 2002Crossed OverBeverly Lowry
- 2001Sister Mary Explains It AllSister Mary Ignatius
- 2001Town & CountryEllie Stoddard
- 2000Hanging UpGeorgia Mozell
- 1999The Other SisterElizabeth Tate
- 1998Northern LightsRoberta Blumstein
- 1997The Only ThrillCarol Fritzsimmons
- 1996Marvin's RoomBessie Wakefield
- 1996The First Wives ClubAnnie MacDuggan Paradis
- 1995Father of the Bride Part IINina Banks
- 1994Amelia Earhart: The Final FlightAmelia Earhart
- 1993Look Who's Talking Now!Daphne (voice)
- 1993Manhattan Murder MysteryCarol Lipton
- 1992The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980Kay Adams-Corleone
- 1992Running MatesAggie Snow
- 1991Father of the BrideNina Banks
- 1990The Godfather Part IIIKay Adams
- 1989The Lemon SistersEloise Hamer
- 1988The Good MotherAnna Dunlop
- 1987Baby BoomJ.C. Wiatt
- 1987Radio DaysNew Year's Singer
- 1986Crimes of the HeartLenny Magrath
- 1984Mrs. SoffelKate Soffel
- 1984The Little Drummer GirlCharlie
- 1982Shoot the MoonFaith Dunlap
- 1981RedsLouise Bryant
- 1979ManhattanMary Wilkie
- 1978InteriorsRenata
- 1977Looking for Mr. GoodbarTheresa
- 1977Annie HallAnnie Hall
- 1976Harry and Walter Go to New YorkLissa Chestnut
- 1976I Will, I Will...For NowKatie Bingham
- 1975Love and DeathSonja
- 1974The Godfather Part IIKay Corleone
- 1973SleeperLuna Schlosser
- 1972Play It Again, SamLinda Christie
- 1972The GodfatherKay Adams
- 1971Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger StoryRenata Wallinger
- 1970Lovers and Other StrangersJoan Vecchio







