| Diane Keaton  AKA Diane Hall
Born: 5-Jan-1946
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Kay in The Godfather films Diane Keaton was raised in Los Angeles, and first appeared on stage in high school plays and summer stock productions, then studied drama at Santa Ana College before moving to New York. She worked and studied at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater. She learned her early mannerisms in the original Broadway production of Hair, in which Keaton played three small parts on opening night. Three months into the play's run, though, she stepped into the role of Sheila, belting out "Easy to Be Hard", "Good Morning Starshine", and "Let the Sunshine In" nightly.
Her next role was the female lead in Play It Again, Sam, co-starring the author, Woody Allen. It ran for more than a year, and Keaton was nominated for a Tony for her performance. Keaton made her film debut with a small role in Joseph Bologna's ensemble comedy, Lovers and Other Strangers. Her second film is better remembered: The Godfather, where Keaton played Al Pacino's paramour. She then starred with Allen in the film adaptation of Play It Again, Sam, beginning their long screen collaboration, and falling in love with him.
Together Allen & Keaton starred in several near-perfect comedies -- Love and Death, Manhattan, and Keaton's Oscar-winning turn in Annie Hall, Allen's autobiographical look at their love affair. They also co-starred in the merely delightful Sleeper, and Keaton, sans Allen, starred in Allen's first overtly serious film, Interiors. Their romance and collaboration ended after Manhattan in 1979, but Keaton was a major star in her own right by then, having been featured in several successful films without Allen's help, including The Godfather Part II with Pacino and Robert De Niro, Harry and Walter Go to New York with James Caan and Elliott Gould, and the dark and frightful Looking for Mr. Goodbar with Richard Gere.
She was Oscar-nominated for her luminescent performance in Warren Beatty's politically-charged masterpiece Reds, and was lauded for her work in Bruce Beresford's compelling saga of three sisters, Crimes of the Heart with Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek. Keaton's career probably peaked with the overwrought comedy Baby Boom and another well-received collaboration with Allen, Radio Days. After that, she starred in The Good Mother, a controversial and unpopular drama of romance and child abuse, and her career has never quite regained its early heights.
She has certainly not faded away, though, and she received additional Oscar nominations for Marvin's Room with Meryl Streep in 1996, and Something's Gotta Give with Jack Nicholson in 2003. Other late career high points include Coppola's The Godfather Part III, Father of the Bride with Steve Martin, and The First Wives Club with Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn.
In 1993, when Mia Farrow and Allen had a public spat over the appropriateness of his affair with Farrow's adopted daughter, Keaton co-starred in Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).
Father: Jack Hall (real estate broker)
Mother: Dorothy Keaton (homemaker)
Sister: Robin Hall (nurse)
Brother: Randall Hall (real estate agent)
Sister: Dorrie Hall
Boyfriend: Woody Allen (dated late-1960s)
Boyfriend: Al Pacino (dated early-1970s)
Boyfriend: Warren Beatty (dated late-1970s)
Daughter: Dexter Keaton (adopted, b. circa Jan-1996)
Son: Duke Keaton (adopted, b. Dec-2000)
Boyfriend: Keanu Reeves (actress, together 2005 according to Daily Mail)
High School: Santa Ana High School, Santa Ana, CA (1964)
University: Drama, Santa Ana College (dropped out)
University: Film and Television, University of Southern California (dropped out)
John Kerry for President
Endorsement of L'Oreal (2006)
Oscar for Best Actress 1978 for Annie Hall
Golden Globe 1978 for Annie Hall
Golden Globe 2004 for Something's Gotta Give
Risk Factors: Asthma
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Hanging Up (16-Feb-2000)
Unstrung Heroes (9-Sep-1995)
Wildflower (3-Dec-1991)
The Girl with the Crazy Brother (1990)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Mad Money (18-Jan-2008)
Because I Said So (2-Feb-2007)
The Family Stone (2-Dec-2005)
Something's Gotta Give (12-Dec-2003)
Plan B (14-Jun-2001)
Sister Mary Explains It All (27-May-2001)
Town & Country (27-Apr-2001)
Hanging Up (16-Feb-2000)
The Other Sister (26-Feb-1999)
The Only Thrill (1997)
Marvin's Room (18-Dec-1996)
The First Wives Club (20-Sep-1996)
Father of the Bride Part II (8-Dec-1995)
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (12-Jun-1994)
Look Who's Talking Now (05-Nov-1993) [VOICE]
Manhattan Murder Mystery (18-Aug-1993)
Father of the Bride (20-Dec-1991)
The Godfather: Part III (25-Dec-1990)
The Lemon Sisters (31-Aug-1990)
The Good Mother (4-Nov-1988)
Baby Boom (17-Sep-1987)
Radio Days (30-Jan-1987)
Crimes of the Heart (12-Dec-1986)
Mrs. Soffel (26-Dec-1984)
The Little Drummer Girl (19-Oct-1984)
Shoot the Moon (22-Jan-1982)
Reds (3-Dec-1981)
Manhattan (14-Mar-1979)
Interiors (2-Aug-1978)
Annie Hall (20-Apr-1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (7-Jan-1977)
Harry and Walter Go to New York (17-Jun-1976)
Love and Death (10-Jun-1975)
The Godfather: Part II (12-Dec-1974)
Sleeper (17-Dec-1973)
Play It Again, Sam (4-May-1972)
The Godfather (15-Mar-1972)
Lovers and Other Strangers (12-Aug-1970)
Author of books:
Clown Paintings (2002, art, paintings of clowns by celebrities, ed.)
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