EntertainmentPosted at: Oct 12 2025 5:00PM


Oscar-winning screen icon Diane Keaton, passes away at the age of 79

Los Angeles, Oct 12 (UNI) Legendary Hollywood actress and Academy Award winner Diane Keaton has died at 79, leaving behind an extraordinary cinematic legacy spanning over five decades.
Born in Los Angeles, Keaton's ascent to stardom began with her poignant performance as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972) and its sequels, a role that introduced her quiet intensity and emotional intelligence to global audiences. Yet it was her portrayal of the neurotic, effervescent titular character in Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) that immortalised her. This film earned her the Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Actress.
Throughout her more than five-decade career, Keaton starred in dozens of other films including The Family Stone, Because I Said So, And So It Goes, as well as a number of other Woody Allen films, like Play It Again, Sam, Sleeper, Love and Death and Manhattan.
Keaton made her film debut in the 1970 romantic comedy Lovers and Other Strangers. Her most recent film was the 2024 comedy Summer Camp where she starred alongside Eugene Levy and Kathy Bates.
Keaton also directed several films, the first of which was a 1987 documentary, Heaven, chronicling people's beliefs about the afterlife. Her 1995 film Unstrung Heroes - a comedy-drama starring Andie MacDowell, John Turturro and Michael Richards - was selected for Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard, which showcases unique stories by emerging directors.
Most recently, Keaton directed Hanging Up in 2000, a comedy-drama starring herself, Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow, reports BBC.
Both in her film roles and in her personal life, Keaton was known for her unique style, which often featured menswear and a wide-brimmed hat.
Keaton passed away in California on Saturday, a family spokesperson confirmed to PEOPLE magazine.
Tributes from across the entertainment world have poured in. First Wives Club co-star Bette Midler wrote on Instagram: "The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died. I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me."
"She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was ... oh, la, lala!"
Fellow First Wives Club co-star Goldie Hawn said Keaton left "a trail of fairy dust, filled with particles of light and memories beyond imagination".
Writing on Instagram, Hawn said: "How do we say goodbye? What words can come to mind when your heart is broken? You never liked praise, so humble, but now you can't tell me to 'shut up' honey. There was, and will be, no one like you."
Keaton received three additional Academy Award nominations, all for Best Actress, for Reds (1981), Marvin's Room (1996) and Something's Gotta Give (2013). Despite her immense fame, she remained remarkably grounded, never marrying and choosing instead to build a family through adoption, raising her two children, Dexter and Duke.
In her 2011 autobiography, titled Then Again, Keaton wrote: "I have assessed my happiness ratio and this is the result. I am totally content whenever the ones I love are happy about something little, big, insignificant, whatever.
"I just don't think anyone could possibly have the same wonderful, intense, compelling feelings that I have for this family of mine." UNI NST SS
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