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).

Filmography

• 2026The Invite — In Memory Of
• 2024Arthur's Whisky — Linda
• 2024Summer Camp — Nora, Producer
• 2023Book Club: The Next Chapter — Diane
• 2023Maybe I Do — Grace, Executive Producer
• 2022Mack & Rita — Rita, Producer
• 2020Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) — Nina
• 2020Love, Weddings & Other Disasters — Sara
• Green Eggs and Ham — Michellee (voice)
• 2019Poms — Martha, Executive Producer
• 2018Book Club — Diane
• 2017Hampstead — Emily Walters
• 2016Finding Dory — Jenny (voice)
• The Young Pope — Sister Mary
• 2015Love the Coopers — Charlotte Cooper, Executive Producer
• 20145 Flights Up — Ruth Carver
• 2014And So It Goes — Leah
• 2013The Big Wedding — Ellie Griffin
• 2012Darling Companion — Beth
• 2010Morning Glory — Colleen Peck
• 2008Mad Money — Bridget Cardigan
• 2008Smother — Marilyn Cooper, Executive Producer
• 2007Because I Said So — Daphne
• 2007Mama's Boy — Jan Mannus
• 2006Surrender, Dorothy — Natalie Swerdlow, Executive Producer
• The Colbert Report
• 2005The Family Stone — Sybil Stone
• 2004Terminal Impact — Narrator
• 2003Elephant — Executive Producer
• 2003On Thin Ice — Patsy McCartle, Executive Producer
• 2003Something's Gotta Give — Erica Barry
• 2002Crossed Over — Beverly Lowry, Co-Executive Producer
• 2002Plan B — Fran Varecchio
• Pasadena — Producer, Director
• 2001Sister Mary Explains It All — Sister Mary Ignatius
• 2001Town & Country — Ellie Stoddard
• 2000Hanging Up — Georgia Mozell, Director
• 1999The Other Sister — Elizabeth Tate
• 1998Northern Lights — Roberta Blumstein, Executive Producer
• 1997The Only Thrill — Carol Fritzsimmons
• The Wonderful World of Disney
• 1996Marvin's Room — Bessie Wakefield
• 1996The First Wives Club — Annie MacDuggan Paradis
• 1995Father of the Bride Part II — Nina Banks
• 1995Unstrung Heroes — Director
• 1994Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight — Amelia Earhart
• 1993Look Who's Talking Now! — Daphne (voice)
• 1993Manhattan Murder Mystery — Carol Lipton
• 1992Running Mates — Aggie Snow
• 1992The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 — Kay Adams-Corleone
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1991Father of the Bride — Nina Banks
• 1991Wildflower — Director
• 1990The Godfather Part III — Kay Adams
• Twin Peaks — Director
• 1989The Lemon Sisters — Eloise Hamer, Producer
• China Beach — Director
• 1988The Good Mother — Anna Dunlop
• 1987Baby Boom — J.C. Wiatt
• 1987Heaven — Director, Writer
• 1987Radio Days — New Year's Singer
• 1986Crimes of the Heart — Lenny Magrath
• 1984Mrs. Soffel — Kate Soffel
• 1984The Little Drummer Girl — Charlie
• 1982Shoot the Moon — Faith Dunlap
• 1981Reds — Louise Bryant
• 1981The Wizard of Malta — Narrator
• 1979Manhattan — Mary Wilkie
• 1978Interiors — Renata
• 1977Annie Hall — Annie Hall
• 1977Looking for Mr. Goodbar — Theresa
• Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television — Kay Adams-Corleone
• 1976Harry and Walter Go to New York — Lissa Chestnut
• 1976I Will, I Will...For Now — Katie Bingham
• 1975Love and Death — Sonja
• 1974The Godfather Part II — Kay Corleone
• 1973Sleeper — Luna Schlosser
• 1972Play It Again, Sam — Linda Christie
• 1972The Godfather — Kay Adams
• 1971Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story — Renata Wallinger
• 1970Lovers and Other Strangers — Joan Vecchio
• Night Gallery — Nurse Frances Nevins (segment "Room with a View")
• Love, American Style — Louise
• Mannix
• The F.B.I. — Diane Britt
• Artist in Residence — Toni Beckworth
• Constance — Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (27)

• STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces — Self - Actress
• 2024Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self - Guest
• 2014I Am Divine — Self (archive)
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary — Self
• 2010Unforgettable — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• The Reichen Show — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• The View — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• 1990The Godfather Family: A Look Inside — Self / Kay Adams
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
• 1980The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's — Self (archive footage)
• Film '72 — Self
• 1971The Godfather: Behind the Scenes — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self - Guest
• The Oscars — Self
• Monty and the Movies — Self (archive footage)