Biography
Diane Hall Keaton (born Diane Hall; January 5, 1946 β 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 (104)
Summer Camp
2024
Arthur's Whisky
2024
Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams
2024
STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces
2024
Maybe I Do
2023
Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023
Mack & Rita
2022
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
2020
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
2020
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
2020
Poms
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Green Eggs and Ham
2019
Book Club
2018
Hampstead
2017
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901β1959
2016
Finding Dory
2016
The Young Pope
2016
Love the Coopers
2015
And So It Goes
2014
5 Flights Up
2014
I Am Divine
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Big Wedding
2013
Darling Companion
2012
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
Morning Glory
2010
Unforgettable
2010
Mad Money
2008
Smother
2008
Because I Said So
2007
Mama's Boy
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Surrender, Dorothy
2006
The Family Stone
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
The Colbert Report
2005
The Reichen Show
2005
Terminal Impact
2004
Something's Gotta Give
2003
On Thin Ice
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Plan B
2002
Crossed Over
2002
Town & Country
2001
Sister Mary Explains It All
2001
Hanging Up
2000
The Other Sister
1999
The Early Show
1999
Northern Lights
1998
The Only Thrill
1997
The View
1997
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
The First Wives Club
1996
Marvin's Room
1996
The Daily Show
1996
Father of the Bride Part II
1995
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994
Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993
Look Who's Talking Now!
1993
Intimate Portrait
1993
Running Mates
1992
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Father of the Bride
1991
The Godfather Part III
1990
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
The Lemon Sisters
1989
The Good Mother
1988
Baby Boom
1987
Radio Days
1987
Crimes of the Heart
1986
Mrs. Soffel
1984
The Little Drummer Girl
1984
Goldene Kamera
1984
Shoot the Moon
1982
Night of 100 Stars
1982
Reds
1981
The Wizard of Malta
1981
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
Manhattan
1979
Interiors
1978
Annie Hall
1977
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1977
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977
Harry and Walter Go to New York
1976
I Will, I Will...For Now
1976
Love and Death
1975
The Godfather Part II
1974
Sleeper
1973
Play It Again, Sam
1972
The Godfather
1972
Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
1971
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971
Lovers and Other Strangers
1970
Night Gallery
1970
Love, American Style
1969
Mannix
1967
The F.B.I.
1965
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Oscars
1953
Artist in Residence
English
EspaΓ±ol
Russian
