Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton dies at 79
Legendary actress Diane Keatin has di£d aged 79.
She di£d in California on Saturday, Oct. 11.
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) confirmed that they responded to Keaton’s home at 8:08 a.m. local time and transported a 79-year-old woman to a local hospital.
Keaton rose to fame in the 1970s thanks to her role in The Godfather films and her collaborations with director Woody Allen.
She won an Oscar for Best Actress for 1977’s Annie Hall. Her long career included movies like The First Wives Club, multiple collaborations with director Nancy Meyers and the Book Club franchise.
In 2021 Keaton starred in Justin Bieber’s music video “Ghost.” She also was a prolific Instagram user, posting updates on her life, reflections on her career and friendships and praising those she loved.
The actress was born in Los Angeles in 1946 as Diane Hall, and was the oldest of four children.
Her father was a civil engineer, while her mom stayed at home.
Keaton believed her mother dreamed of something bigger.
“Secretly in her heart of hearts she probably wanted to be an entertainer of some kind,” the actress told People in 2004. “She sang. She played the piano. She was beautiful. She was my advocate.”
The actress took her mother’s maiden name, Keaton, for her professional name, because there was already a Diane Hall registered with Actors’ Equity.
Besides being a legendaey actress, Keaton was also known for shunning societal expectations.
Keaton never married and she chose not to have biological kids.
“Today I was thinking, I’m the only one in my generation of actresses who has been a single woman all her life,” she explained to People in 2019. “I’m really glad I didn’t get married. I’m an oddball. I remember in high school, this guy came up to me and said, ‘One day you’re going to make a good wife.’ And I thought, ‘I don’t want to be a wife. No.’”
She was romantically linked to Allen, Pacino and Warren Beatty over the years.
Keaton had two children, daughter Dexter and son Duke, whom she adopted in 1996 and 2001, respectively.
“Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist, it was more like a thought I’d been thinking for a very long time. So I plunged in,” she told Ladies’ Home Journal in 2008.
Keaton is survived by her children.
