Hollywood legend Diane Keaton has died at the age of 79 in California
BREAKING NEWS: Hollywood legend Diane Keaton has died at the age of 79 in California. She was known for so many amazing movies and roles, but fans will always love her as the titular Annie Hall — for which she won a well-deserved Oscar — Kay Adams-Corleone in the Godfather trilogy and Louise Bryant in Reds.
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She was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles on Jan. 5, 1946; Allen would later take her nickname and family name for the handle of her most famous character. During high school in Santa Ana, Calif., she was active in both music and theater (and in fact played Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”).
Her career kicked out in Broadway 1969 as Allen’s co-star in his comedy hit “Play It Again, Sam” (during which the performers became romantically involved), Keaton made an impression in Hollywood as Kay Adams, the tormented girlfriend and then spouse of mobster Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” (1972) and “The Godfather Part II” (1974).
After dropping out of college, she moved to New York to pursue acting as a professional using her mother’s maiden name. In 1968, she landed a role in the Broadway production of “Hair,” the “American tribal love-rock musical,” and attracted attention by declining to strip for the play’s notorious ensemble nude scene. She made her big-screen bow in “Lovers and Other Strangers” in 1970.
Keaton captured a second Oscar nomination for her performance as the early 20 th-century socialite-turned-radical Louise Bryant in “Reds” (1981), a sprawling political-historical drama directed and co-authored by her then-paramour Warren Beatty, who also starred as left-wing journalist John Reed.
Keaton went on to garner two more Oscar nods as best actress, as a leukemia-stricken woman coping with family upheaval, opposite Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio, in Jerry Zaks’ drama “Marvin’s Room” (1996) and as a playwright who becomes involved with an aging roué (Jack Nicholson) in Meyers’ rom-com “Something’s Gotta Give” (2003).
Keaton received a 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Woody Allen, who served as presenter, tweeted the fedora-wearing honoree’s timeless style, quipping, “She looks like the woman in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ who comes to take Blanche away.”
Keaton, who never married, is survived by her adopted daughter Dexter and son Duke.
