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The beloved Oscar-winning actress also starred in ‘Reds,’ ‘Father of the Bride,’ ‘The Homeless Club,’ and Woody Allen films

The winning actress Oscar, Diane Keatonknown for a prolific career in uplifting comedies, a quirky fashion sense and a fondness for drinking red wine with ice cubes, has died at age 79.

A family spokesperson confirmed the actress’ death in California to the magazine People; no other details were provided, and the family asked for privacy at this time.

Keatonborn and raised in Los Angeles, began her acting and singing career at Santa Ana High School, where she starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. After studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, Keaton was cast as a replacement for the role of Sheila in the original Broadway production of Hair in 1968. The following year, she starred in the comedy play Woody Allen, Play it Again, Samwhich earned him a nomination for Tony Award of Best Supporting Actress in a Play.

The actress went on to appear in several films, including Lovers and Other Strangerswhich marked his screen debut. Francis Ford Coppola noticed her performance in the film and cast her in his award-winning film Oscar 1972, The Godfatherlike Kay Adamsthe girlfriend and eventual wife of Michael Corleoneplayed by Al Pacino.

In 2023, Coppola finally explained what attracted him to Keatonanswering a question from the actress herself. “I chose you, because although you would play the most direct/classic wifethere was something else about you, deeper, funnier and very interesting,” he said, adding: “I was right“.

Keaton reprized the role in The Godfather Part IIbut moved away from the drama by beginning a regular collaboration with Woody Allen throughout the 1970s in films such as The Sleeper, War and Peace, Interiors, Manhattan and a film adaptation of Play It Again, Sam.

In 1977, Keaton embodied the eponymous, self-deprecating and tomboyish (with masculine features) in Neurotic Groom, Nervous Bride (Annie Hall), which Allen wrote freely based on it. The film was a box office success and earned Keaton the Oscar of Best Actress. She also won the BAFTAthe Golden Globe and several critics’ awards for the role.

“I think being an actor, in any case, makes you put yourself out there,” he said. Keaton the Rolling Stone that year about his work in Annie Hall.

Now, this seems more personal, but everything is personal. I’m in favor, and I also have my conflicts about it. I’m very involved in expressing myself. Hopefully I’m not a fool for doing this. Hopefully there is some merit to this. Even if it’s just fun, that’s okay.

In the 1980s, Keaton acted alongside Warren Beatty in Reds (film that earned him his second nomination for Oscar), starred alongside Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek in Crimes of the Heart and joined Albert Finney in The Winner.

In 1987, she directed and edited her first feature film, Heavena documentary that considered the possibility of life after death. In the same year, the actress starred Rosemary’s Babythe first of many collaborations with the writer Nancy Meyerswhose heartwarming romantic comedies became a fitting vehicle for the comedic talent of Keaton. Afterwards, Keaton worked with Meyers in The Father of the Bride, Someone has to give in (another indication to Oscar) and Because I Said Yes.

The Father of the Bridereleased in 1991, was a huge success, and Keaton came back like Nina Banks in Father of the Bride Part II in 1995. The actress established herself even more in the zeitgeist the following year, when she starred as a revenge-seeking divorcee in The Desquitadas Club. The critic Peter Traversfrom the Rolling Stonecalled Keaton and her co-stars, Goldie Hawn and Bette Midlerfrom “a comedy dream team”. The film also offered Keaton the opportunity to showcase their underrated vocal talents, as the cast performed “You Don’t Own Me”from Lesley Gorefor the end credits and soundtrack.

In the years that followed, Keaton became the sought-after actress for roles as family matriarchs and long-suffering wives, with memorable performances in A Lesson in Love, Welcome to the Family and Meeting with Love. She rarely worked on television, but played the famous aviator Amelia Earhart in Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight in 1994. This role earned him nominations for Emmys and to SAG Awards. Keaton had a preference for uplifting films, often leaning towards romantic comedies or films about girlfriends with an optimistic outlook. As an actress, Keaton brought a lively and charmingly clumsy sense of fun to his work.

“At the beginning of my career, I was so panicked – it was so overwhelming,” she once told Interview.

It was really scary, but I got over it. When I started making films with Woody [Allen]I was much more relaxed. It was fun because it was looser and comedy was part of it. I feel more comfortable with comedy. I love being clumsy, or falling in love and laughing, or touching someone’s face and enjoying it. I love the fun you have in a comedic film.

More recently, Keaton saw success with The Way They Wantan unexpected hit that featured her alongside Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen like four friends who read Fifty Shades of Gray in her monthly book club. The actresses reunited in 2023 to The Way They Want It: The Next Chapterreminding audiences — and Hollywood executives — that there is a market for films about women over 60. Keaton did extensive press for the sequel, often being described by journalists as lively, friendly, and more interested in asking them questions than talking about herself. The quartet came together for an inspiring anthem, “Anywhere With You”which Steenburgen said it was a tribute to her life-changing friendships with her co-stars.

She maintained a prolific filmography even into her early seventies, saying she wasn’t interested in disappearing just because she was getting older. “I’ve never understood the idea that you’re supposed to calm down as you get older,” he said. Keaton the AARP in 2012.

Slowing down is not something I identify with at all. The goal is to continue through thick and thin, through everything. Continue to express myself, particularly. Feel the world. Explore. Being with people. Take things far. Risk. Love. I just want to know more and see more. The best part is that I’m still here, and since the end is in sight, I value it all more.

Outside the cinema, Keaton was a passionate and curious photographer who captured images of old hotels in California for the Rolling Stone in the 1970s. The photographs were part of his first book, Reservationspublished in 1980. Keaton built a vast real estate portfolio and spent decades renovating properties, including the historic home Samuel-Novarro of Lloyd Wright. One of her famous clients was Madonnawho purchased a $6.5 million Beverly Hills mansion from Keaton in 2003.

She became a fashion icon self-styledinstantly recognizable for his menswear-inspired looks and clean, undyed hair. In 2023, she starred in a campaign for J.Crew for the brand’s fortieth anniversary, celebrating timeless style. In 2015, Keaton launched The Keatonan approachable red wine blend meant to be served over ice — just like she always drank it. “It’s not fancy,” she said of the wine. “But neither am I.”

Throughout his career, Keaton was the author of several other books, with her first memoir, Then Againarriving in 2011. She wrote Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Prettya collection of wisdom and advice, in 2014. In the book, Keaton reflected on modern beauty standards, pondering the social obsession with how things look.

“Why do we try to define it by categorizing it as absolute?” she wrote about beauty. “Why limit it in any way? Why is classic beauty the gold standard? Why is gold the gold standard? And what is ‘classic’? What is precious about gemstones? Why are diamonds a girl’s best friend? Don’t tell me what beauty is until I know it for myself.”

The vibrant personality of Keaton it was as memorable as his professional work. She was famously modest, even once telling the director Rob Reiner: “I don’t act, I am just who I am.” Although Keaton starred in dozens of films throughout her career, she refused to be pigeonholed or follow a prescribed path, as evidenced by her collaboration with Justin Bieber for your music video “Ghost” in 2021. In the clip directed by Colin Tilley, Keaton played a grandmother who is encouraged to date again after her husband’s death. “Am I dreaming???”, Keaton wrote about the video on his highly used page on Instagram. “What an honor it was to work with Justin Bieber and his incredible team.”

Keatonwhich was nominated for four Oscars in total, she was frequently acclaimed for her performances. She captivated her fellow actors and directors with her unique personality. In 2017, the American Film Institute (AFI) honored her with the Lifetime Achievement Award (Lifetime Achievement Award).

During the ceremony, Warren Beatty he was enthusiastic about his co-star and former flame, calling her “brilliant, beautiful, passionate, authentic”.

“If you are lucky enough to climb Dianeyou quickly realize the truth in that old axiom that character is plot,” he said Beatty. “Well, casting is character. Diane Keaton is a plot device. It is an unpredictable, mysterious, suspenseful, constantly surprising, sometimes comical, sometimes tragic, but always engaging plot. The woman is a story”.

This article was originally published by Rolling Stone USA, by Emily Zemler, on October 11, 2025, and can be seen here.

Source: Rollingstone

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