Diane Keaton's cause of death revealed by family

The household of Hollywood prima Diane Keaton person revealed that the Oscar-winning histrion died of pneumonia.

Keaton, known for her roles successful The Godfather and Father Of The Bride, died connected 11 October astatine the property of 79.

In a connection issued to US media, Keaton's household said: "The Keaton household are precise grateful for the bonzer messages of emotion and enactment they person received these past fewer days connected behalf of their beloved Diane.

"She loved her animals and she was steadfast successful her enactment of the unhoused community, truthful immoderate donations successful her representation to a section nutrient slope oregon an carnal structure would beryllium a fantastic and much-appreciated tribute to her."

Keaton, who won an Oscar for her rubric relation successful Woody Allen's 1977 deed Annie Hall, ne'er married. She adopted her daughter, Dexter, successful 1996, and a son, Duke, 4 years later.

What is pneumonia?

Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs, which is usually caused by an infection, and tin pb to superior unwellness for radical implicit 65, on with those who person a bosom oregon lung condition, according to the NHS.

Keaton had a agelong and palmy vocation arsenic a movie histrion aft making her debut successful 1970 with Lovers And Other Strangers.

She made her large interruption successful 1972 aft playing Kay, the woman and past woman of Al Pacino's Michael Corleone successful Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather - a relation which she reprised successful 1974's The Godfather Part II and 1990's The Godfather Part III.

'Brilliant, beautiful'

The unexpected quality of Keaton's decease was met with daze astir the world.

Her First Wives Club co-star Bette Midler wrote connected Instagram aft her death: "The brilliant, beautiful, bonzer Diane Keaton has died. I cannot archer you however unbearably bittersweet this makes me.

"She was hilarious, a implicit original, and wholly without guile, oregon immoderate of the competitiveness 1 would person expected from specified a star. What you saw was who she was ... oh, la, lala!"

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Fellow First Wives Club co-star Goldie Hawn said Keaton had near "a way of fairy dust, filled with particles of airy and memories beyond imagination".

"How bash we accidental goodbye? What words tin travel to caput erstwhile your bosom is broken? You ne'er liked praise, truthful humble, but present you can't archer maine to 'shut up' honey. There was, and volition be, nary 1 similar you," Hawn added successful a station connected Instagram.

She said: "You stole the hearts of the satellite and shared your genius with millions, making films that made america laughter and outcry successful ways lone you could."