Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton dies aged 79

Keaton was champion known for her roles successful Annie Hall, Reds and The Godfather films.

American histrion Diane Keaton, known for her Oscar-winning show successful 1977’s Annie Hall and her relation successful The Godfather films, has died astatine the property of 79.

Keaton died successful California and her loved ones person asked for privacy, a household spokesperson told People mag connected Saturday.

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Keaton, who appeared successful much than 60 films, stood retired successful Hollywood with a idiosyncratic benignant that favoured androgynous looks: suits, turtleneck sweaters and her trademark hats.

The histrion changeable to fame successful the 1970s with her relation arsenic Kay Adams, the woman and eventual woman of Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone successful The Godfather trilogy arsenic good arsenic her collaborations with manager Woody Allen.

Keaton often worked with Allen, portraying the titular quality successful Annie Hall, the charming woman of Allen’s comic Alvy Singer.

“It was an idealised mentation of me, let’s enactment it that way,” Keaton said astir the movie successful an interrogation with the United States TV web CBS News successful 2004.

The movie besides garnered Oscars for champion picture, champion manager and champion archetypal screenplay, cementing Keaton’s spot arsenic 1 of the industry’s apical actresses and an offbeat benignant icon arsenic well.

She made a full of 8 films with Allen, including 1979’s Manhattan.

Her star-making performances successful the 1970s were not a flash successful the cookware arsenic she would proceed to charm caller generations for decades, acknowledgment successful portion to a longstanding collaboration with filmmaker Nancy Meyers, with whom she made 4 films.

A BAFTA and Golden Globe winner, Keaton scored Oscar nominations 3 different times for champion histrion for Reds, Marvin’s Room and Something’s Gotta Give.

Her galore beloved films included The First Wives Club, Father of the Bride, The Family Stone and the Book Club movies.

Born Diane Hall successful Los Angeles connected January 5, 1946, Keaton was romantically progressive with Allen, Pacino and Warren Beatty (her Reds costar), but she ne'er married.

“I deliberation I was truly acrophobic of men and besides precise attracted to highly talented radical that were dazzling,” she told Elle mag successful 2015. “I don’t deliberation that makes for a bully matrimony with a idiosyncratic similar me, idiosyncratic who conscionable didn’t set well.”

Keaton is survived by her 2 children, Dexter and Duke, whom she adopted successful her 50s.