Diane Keaton Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Director , Executive Producer more
Birth name Diane Hall
American nationality
Birth January 5, 1946 (Los Angeles, California – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Diane Keaton studies drama at the University of California. Having left for New York in search of work, she found her first role on Broadway, in the musical comedy Hair . It was also on Broadway that in 1970 she met a young director named Woody Allen , who hired her to star in his play, Play it again, Sam . The same year, she took her first steps on the big screen in Nettle Honeymoon . Two years later, Woody Allen called on her again for the film adaptation of his play.

The same year, she gained attention thanks to Francis Ford Coppola ‘s film , The Godfather . With the character of Kay, Al Pacino ‘s companion , she embodies a certain purity in the mafia environment. She would reprise this role two years later in The Godfather, Part 2 , and in 1990 in The Godfather, Part 3 . She found her best roles in Woody Allen’s films, including the comedies Woody and the Robots (1973) and War and Love (1975). She escapes for the time of a film from the world of the New York filmmaker for the darker and more desperate one of In Search of Mr Goodbar (1977), where she meets Richard Gere .

However, the first real turning point in her career was called Annie Hall . Thanks to this Woody Allen film in which she plays an anguished lover, she won the Oscar and the British Award for best actress and became, against all expectations, a fashionable star, very different from the Hollywood canons. Before their breakup, they made two more films: Interiors (1978) and Manhattan (1979). “Emancipated” from the roles of unattractive young women, she played, under the direction of Warren Beatty , a more seductive character in Reds (1981), for which she was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.

The 80s were a less prosperous period for Diane Keaton. She appears in a few films, alternating dramas and comedies. The 90s saw her get involved in popular films like Father of the Bride (1991). However, she returned to success during her reunion with Woody Allen which took place in 1993 on the set of the comedy-drama Murder Mysterious in Manhattan which received a warm reception. In 1996, in a more serious register, she shared the spotlight with a still unknown beginner, Leonardo DiCaprio, in the film Simple Secrets . Far from the characters of hysterical bourgeois women, she plays a sick woman suffering from cancer.

In recent years, she has appeared mainly in comedies. We find her notably in 2004 in Anything Can Happen , a romantic comedy alongside Jack Nicholson or in Family Spirit (2005) with Sarah Jessica Parker and Rachel McAdams . She also meets the Canadian actress in Morning Glory in 2011 where she plays the presenter of a morning TV show who is not afraid of ridicule.

Alongside her acting career, Diane Keaton showed a desire to direct in 1987: she directed the documentary Heaven devoted to beliefs about the afterlife. In 1995, she directed a feature-length fiction film, Les Liens du souvenir , which brought together Andie MacDowell and John Turturro . In the year 2000, she even got a role alongside Meg Ryan in the comedy Hang Up! .