American actress Diane Keaton, winner of the 1978 Oscar for her role in Annie Hall and known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, died in California at age 79, a family spokesman told the magazine on Saturday. People.
No additional details about the circumstances of his death were immediately released, the Journal reported.
Diane Keaton made her Hollywood debut in Nettle Honeymoonin 1970. His extensive filmography includes a role in Godfatherwhere she plays Al Pacino's wife, and the numerous successes of Woody Allen, whose friend she remained for a long time as a companion, muse and favorite actress.
His leading role is in a romantic comedy. Annie Hall New York director in 1978, she was awarded the Oscar for Best Actress. A film that she says changed her life.
Three more nominations will follow. RedsFilm Sorti EN 1981, Simple secrets (1996) and others. Anything can happen (2003).
My friend
Real name Diane Hall (Keaton is her mother's maiden name), her memoir, published in 2011, recounts her childhood in California, her arrival in New York at 19 to take theater classes, and her love stories with Warren Beatty and Al Pacino.
She also talks about single-handedly adopting her two children, as well as going through a period of bulimia.
“The whole group was smoking weed and I was eating vanilla ice cream,” she writes, detailing how she vomited after eating pounds of food.
In 1968, she met Woody Allen, who wrote to her: “I have decided to let your family make me rich. This is a great theme for a movie.”
From there will be born Annie Halla film made “without much effort” because “no one expected anything important,” she wrote in her memoirs.
Together they will appear in seven films by the New Yorker director, including Manhattan etc. Interiors.
At the height of the #MeToo movement in January 2018, the actress tweeted: “Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to trust him.”
Then the director again faced allegations of sexual abuse made in 1992 by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow. Charges against him were dropped after two separate investigations.
Diane Keaton continued to act well into her 70s, especially appearing in Book club in 2018, where she played the role in retirement, as in pumps in 2019.
In an interview with AFP on the occasion of the latter's release, Diane Keaton said that she was not thinking about old age or retirement.
“And if no one ever calls me again (to film), I have plenty of hobbies that keep me occupied to occupy my time,” she said.
Having never been married, she also stated that she does not regret anything, including in her personal life.
“I think I’m one of the rare single women my age who has made films without getting married, maybe I’m an anomaly?” the actress joked, before concluding: “I’m not unhappy!”
For her final film role, in 2024, Diane Keaton shared a poster Summer camp with Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard.
