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Diane Keaton
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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. 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).
Notable films
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Chains
KinoChain journeys
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Growing Pains: Sequels That Leap Through Time
From a Parisian afternoon to a boxing ring, these sequels skip years ahead and find their characters changed, challenged, and achingly familiar. A journey throu...
6 films
When the Sequel Outshines the Original
From gritty crime epics to mind-bending sci-fi, these sequels didn't just continue stories, they redefined them. Here's a chain of films that prove the second (...
8 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
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Acted
Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023 · Diane
Mack & Rita
2022 · Rita
The Young Pope
2016 · Sister Mary
Finding Dory
2016 · Jenny (voice)
Love the Coopers
2015 · Charlotte Cooper
And So It Goes
2014 · Leah
The Big Wedding
2013 · Ellie Griffin
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 · Self
The Family Stone
2005 · Sybil Stone
The First Wives Club
1996 · Annie MacDuggan Paradis
Father of the Bride Part II
1995 · Nina Banks
Look Who's Talking Now!
1993 · Daphne (voice)
Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993 · Carol Lipton
Father of the Bride
1991 · Nina Banks
The Godfather Part III
1990 · Kay Adams
Baby Boom
1987 · J.C. Wiatt
Radio Days
1987 · New Year's Singer
Reds
1981 · Louise Bryant
Manhattan
1979 · Mary Wilkie
Interiors
1978 · Renata
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977 · Kay Adams-Corleone
Annie Hall
1977 · Annie Hall
Love and Death
1975 · Sonja
The Godfather Part II
1974 · Kay Corleone
Sleeper
1973 · Luna Schlosser
The Godfather
1972 · Kay Adams
