Diane Keaton
74 movies · 11 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 5, 1946
- Died
- Oct 11, 2025 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Also known as
- Diane Hall · Даєн Кітон · دایان کیتون · Diane Hall Keaton
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.
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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
Diane Keaton: movies and TV shows
Acting (76)
- Upcoming Artist in Residence
as Toni Beckworth
- 2024 Arthur's Whisky
as Linda
- 2024 Summer Camp
as Nora
- 2023 Book Club: The Next Chapter
as Diane
- 2023 Maybe I Do
as Grace
- 2022 Mack & Rita
as Rita
- 2020 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
as Sara
- 2020 Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish)
as Nina
- 2019
- 2019 Poms
as Martha
- 2018 Book Club
as Diane
- 2017 Hampstead
as Emily Walters
- 2016
- 2016 Finding Dory
as Jenny (voice)
- 2015 Love the Coopers
as Charlotte Cooper
- 2014 And So It Goes
as Leah
- 2014 5 Flights Up
as Ruth Carver
- 2013 The Big Wedding
as Ellie Griffin
- 2012 Darling Companion
as Beth
- 2010 Morning Glory
as Colleen Peck
- 2008 Smother
as Marilyn Cooper
- 2008 Mad Money
as Bridget Cardigan
- 2007 Mama's Boy
as Jan Mannus
- 2007 Because I Said So
as Daphne
- 2006 Surrender, Dorothy
as Natalie Swerdlow
- 2005 The Family Stone
as Sybil Stone
- 2004 Terminal Impact
as Narrator
- 2003 Something's Gotta Give
as Erica Barry
- 2003 On Thin Ice
as Patsy McCartle
- 2002 Plan B
as Fran Varecchio
- 2002 Crossed Over
as Beverly Lowry
- 2001 Sister Mary Explains It All
as Sister Mary Ignatius
- 2001 Town & Country
as Ellie Stoddard
- 2000 Hanging Up
as Georgia Mozell
- 1999 The Other Sister
as Elizabeth Tate
- 1998 Northern Lights
as Roberta Blumstein
- 1997
- 1997 The Only Thrill
as Carol Fritzsimmons
- 1996 Marvin's Room
as Bessie Wakefield
- 1996 The First Wives Club
as Annie MacDuggan Paradis
- 1995 Father of the Bride Part II
as Nina Banks
- 1994 Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
as Amelia Earhart
- 1993 Look Who's Talking Now!
as Daphne (voice)
- 1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery
as Carol Lipton
- 1992 The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Kay Adams-Corleone
- 1992 Running Mates
as Aggie Snow
- 1991 Father of the Bride
as Nina Banks
- 1990 The Godfather Part III
as Kay Adams
- 1989 The Lemon Sisters
as Eloise Hamer
- 1988 The Good Mother
as Anna Dunlop
- 1987 Baby Boom
as J.C. Wiatt
- 1987 Radio Days
as New Year's Singer
- 1986 Crimes of the Heart
as Lenny Magrath
- 1984 Mrs. Soffel
as Kate Soffel
- 1984 The Little Drummer Girl
as Charlie
- 1982 Shoot the Moon
as Faith Dunlap
- 1981 Reds
as Louise Bryant
- 1981 The Wizard of Malta
as Narrator
- 1979 Manhattan
as Mary Wilkie
- 1978 Interiors
as Renata
- 1977 Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television · TV
as Kay Adams-Corleone · 4 episodes
- 1977 Looking for Mr. Goodbar
as Theresa
- 1977 Annie Hall
as Annie Hall
- 1976 Harry and Walter Go to New York
as Lissa Chestnut
- 1976 I Will, I Will...For Now
as Katie Bingham
- 1975 Love and Death
as Sonja
- 1974 The Godfather Part II
as Kay Corleone
- 1973 Sleeper
as Luna Schlosser
- 1972 Play It Again, Sam
as Linda Christie
- 1972 The Godfather
as Kay Adams
- 1971 Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story
as Renata Wallinger
- 1970
- 1970 Lovers and Other Strangers
as Joan Vecchio
- 1969
- 1967
- 1965
Behind the camera (21)
- Upcoming Constance
Executive Producer
- 2026 The Invite
In Memory Of
- 2024 Summer Camp
Producer
- 2023 Maybe I Do
Executive Producer
- 2022 Mack & Rita
Producer
- 2019 Poms
Executive Producer
- 2015 Love the Coopers
Executive Producer
- 2008 Smother
Executive Producer
- 2006 Surrender, Dorothy
Executive Producer
- 2003 On Thin Ice
Executive Producer
- 2003 Elephant
Executive Producer
- 2002 Crossed Over
Co-Executive Producer
- 2001
- 2000 Hanging Up
Director
- 1998 Northern Lights
Executive Producer
- 1995 Unstrung Heroes
Director
- 1991 Wildflower
Director
- 1990
- 1989 The Lemon Sisters
Producer
- 1988
- 1987 Heaven
Director, Writer
Talk shows and appearances (29)
- Upcoming
- 2024
- 2024
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
1 episode
- 2014
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2011
- 2010
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
1 episode
- 2005 The Reichen Show
1 episode
- 2005 The Colbert Report
1 episode
- 2005
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
7 episodes
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
1 episode
- 1999 The Early Show
1 episode
- 1997 The View
2 episodes
- 1996 The Daily Show
1 episode
- 1993 Intimate Portrait
1 episode
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2 episodes
- 1990
- 1984 Goldene Kamera
1 episode
- 1982
- 1980
- 1971 Film '72
1 episode
- 1971
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
3 episodes
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
3 episodes
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
6 episodes