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Diane Keaton, who won an Oscar for the Woody Allen film \u201cAnnie Hall\u201d in 1977, has died at the age of 79, according to several media reports.<\/p>\n
Details of her death are not available at this time, a family spokesperson told PEOPLE<\/a>, which was the first to report her death. Her loved ones have asked for privacy.<\/p>\n Keaton rose to fame in the 1970s, appearing in \u201cThe Godfather\u201d movies and collaborating with Allen. The two co-starred in his 1969 Broadway comedy hit \u201cPlay It Again, Sam.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to her \u201cAnnie Hall\u201d win, Keaton was Oscar-nominated for best actress for \u201cReds,\u201d \u201cSomething\u2019s Gotta Give\u201d and \u201cMarvin\u2019s Room.\u201d Her other notable roles included \u201cFather of the Bride\u201d and \u201cBaby Boom,\u201d according to Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n Keaton\u2019s more recent film roles included \u201cBook Club\u201d and its sequel, \u201cPoms.\u201d \u201cSummer Camp,\u201d co-starring with Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard in 2024, was her last role.<\/p>\n Keaton, n\u00e9e Hall, was born in Los Angeles and was the oldest of four children, according to PEOPLE. Her father worked as a civil engineer, and her mother was a homemaker.<\/p>\n Keaton told People she thought her mother dreamed of something bigger.<\/p>\n \u201cSecretly in her heart of hearts she probably wanted to be an entertainer of some kind,\u201d the actress told PEOPLE in 2004. \u201cShe sang. She played the piano. She was beautiful. She was my advocate.\u201d<\/p>\n Her mother won the title of \u2018Mrs. Los Angeles\u2019 in a pageant for homemakers.<\/p>\n Inspired by her mother, Keaton studied drama at Santa Ana College, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. She performed in stock company productions while in college. She moved to New York City and studied under Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse.<\/p>\n She changed her last name to Keaton because another actress already had the same name, according to The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n Keaton adopted two children when she was in her 50s, according to PEOPLE, daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25. She raised them on her own.<\/p>\n Read the original article on MassLive<\/a>. Add MassLive<\/a> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Diane Keaton, who won an Oscar for the Woody Allen film \u201cAnnie Hall\u201d in 1977, has died at the age of 79, according to several media reports. Details of her death are not available at this time, a family spokesperson told PEOPLE, which was the first to report her death. Her loved ones have asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2085071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[392226,392216,347940,354222],"class_list":["post-2085070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-annie-hall","tag-diane-keaton","tag-kathy-bates","tag-woody-allen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Acclaimed-actress-Diane-Keaton-dead-at-79-cause-not-disclosed.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085072,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085070\/revisions\/2085072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}