Diane Keaton (born
Diane Hall, January 5, 1946) is an American actress. She has received
various accolades throughout her career spanning over six decades, including an
Academy Award, a
British Academy Film Award, two
Golden Globe Awards. She was honored with the
Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 2007 and an
AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017.
Keaton's career began on stage when she appeared in the original 1968
Broadway production of the musical
Hair. The next year she was nominated for a
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play 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), before rising 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
Part II (1974) and
Part III (1990). She frequently collaborated with
Woody Allen, beginning with the film adaptation of
Play It Again, Sam (1972). Her next two films with him,
Sleeper (1973) and
Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor, while her fourth,
Annie Hall (1977), won her the
Academy Award for Best Actress.
To avoid being typecast as her
Annie Hall persona, Keaton appeared in several dramatic films, starring in
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and
Interiors (1978). She received three more Academy Award nominations for her roles as activist
Louise Bryant in
Reds (1981), a
leukemia patient in
Marvin's Room (1996), and a dramatist in
Something's Gotta Give (2003).