Diane Keaton Passes Away Aged 79
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Diane Keaton has passed away at age seventy-nine. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department told local reporters that they received a call for medical assistance on October 11th at Keaton’s address. She died a short time later.
Diane Keaton was born just four months after the end of World War II in California, to a civil engineer and a ‘Mrs. Los Angeles’ pageant winner. In high school, she starred in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire and never looked back. Less than a year after graduation, she moved to New York (a city that would become synonymous with her) to try and make it as an actress.
By 1968, she had worked her way up from a cabaret singer to Broadway, performing in Hair and Woody Allen’s Play It Again Sam. Her star quality was obvious, and she walked away with a Tony Award.
In 1972, Francis Ford Coppola was on the hunt for a ‘kooky’ actress for his New York mobster movie. Keaton reprised the role of Kay in all three Godfather movies, acting as a linchpin to the otherwise male-dominated cast.
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Keaton became close friends with Woody Allen after meeting at his Broadway show (Although the pair were briefly in a relationship), and she starred in his many odes to New York, such as Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Manhattan Murder Mystery. Annie Hall won Keaton a Best Actress Oscar, however the nominations came throughout her career. Diane Keaton was constantly reinventing herself and threw off the ditzy muse (But she did remain friends with the controversial director throughout her life) in favour of more varied parts. She had excellent comic timing, as well as an instinctive ability to raise the standard of everyone in the shot. This was probably why the nineties saw Keaton cast in a series of comedy ensemble pictures such as The Father of the Bride franchise and The First Wives Club.
In 2003, Diane Keaton would partner with Jack Nicholson and narrowly miss out on a second Oscar for her outstanding performance in Something’s Gotta Give. Diane Keaton continued to stay current as she aged, appearing as Justin Bieber’s grandmother in the Ghost music video and voicing Jenny in Pixar’s Finding Dory.
Keaton was a very private person, but in 2014, she had the courage to finally talk publicly about her battle with bulimia, an eating disorder that had heavily impacted her during her twenties.
“Because I talked. I spoke it out. I said my thoughts and feelings. And I feel like, once you do that, you own it. To keep secrets doesn't help you at all. I think I'm a sister to all the rest of the women — and men as well — who have had some kind of eating disorder. I'm a part of the team.”
Stars of stage and screen have been posting tributes on social media, including former co-stars Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Diane Keaton is survived by her two children, Dexter, 29, and Duke, 25.
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