Diane Keaton

IMDB profile

Add to favorites

Edit page

Search at Amazon

Stats

Birth Name: Diane Hall

Age: 77, born 5 January 1946

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 7"

Lists

576 votes

What Did They Look Like? (152 items)
list by Danie

Published 14 years, 8 months ago

95 comments

286 votes

Famous people + cats (186 items)
list by Raquel

Published 13 years, 9 months ago

40 comments

170 votes

Bad Photoshop (16 items)
list by Dierdre

Published 12 years, 9 months ago

25 comments

138 votes

That 70's Girl (100 items)
list by Severin Severin

Published 10 years, 7 months ago

11 comments

123 votes

Female Directors (120 items)
list by coroner

Published 15 years, 2 months ago

53 comments

View all Diane Keaton lists

Diane Keaton Videos

Diane Keaton winning Best Actress Oscar® for "Annie Hall"

135 Views

Added 10 years ago

Beer Pong with Diane Keaton

82 Views

Added 9 years ago

View all Diane Keaton videos

Photos

16 votes

12 votes

10 votes

9 votes

View all Diane Keaton pictures

Description: Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall, January 5, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. Keaton began her career on stage and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with Play It Again, Sam in 1972. Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her fourth, Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Keaton subsequently expanded her rang Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall, January 5, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. Keaton began her career on stage and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with Play It Again, Sam in 1972. Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her fourth, Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Keaton subsequently expanded her range to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona. She became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and received Academy Award nominations for Reds (1981) and Marvin's Room (1996). Some of her popular later films include Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), The First Wives Club (1996), Something's Gotta Give (2003) and The Family Stone (2005). Keaton's films have earned a cumulative gross of over US$1.1 billion in North America. In addition to acting, she is also a photographer, real estate developer, author, and occasional singer.

Keaton was born as Diane Hall on January 5, 1946 in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Dorothy Deanne (née Keaton; 1921–2008), was a homemaker and amateur photographer; her father, John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall (1921–1990), was a real estate broker and civil engineer. Her father, from Nebraska, came from an Irish American Catholic background, and her mother, originally from Kansas, came from a Methodist family, and had English, German, and more distant Austrian, ancestry. Keaton was raised a Free Methodist by her mother. Her mother won the "Mrs. Los Angeles" pageant for homemakers; Keaton has said that the theatricality of the event inspired her first impulse to be an actress and led to her wanting to work on stage. She has also credited Katharine Hepburn, whom she admires for playing strong and independent women, as one of her inspirations.

Keaton is a 1963 graduate of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California. During her time there, she participated in singing and acting clubs at school, and starred as Blanche DuBois in a school production of A Streetcar Named Desire. After graduation, she attended Santa Ana College, and later Orange Coast College as an acting student, but dropped out after a year to pursue an entertainment career in Manhattan. Upon joining the Actors' Equity Association, she adopted the surname of Keaton, her mother's maiden name, as there was already a registered Diane Hall. For a brief time, she also moonlighted at nightclubs with a singing act. She would later revisit her nightclub act in Annie Hall (1977) and a cameo in Radio Days (1987).

Keaton began studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. She initially studied acting under the Meisner technique, an ensemble acting technique first evolved in the 1930s by Sanford Meisner, a New York stage actor/acting coach/director who had been a member of The Group Theater (1931–1940). She has described her acting technique as, "[being] only as good as the person you're acting with ... As opposed to going it on my own and forging my path to create a wonderful performance without the help of anyone. I always need the help of everyone!" According to her Reds co-star Warren Beatty, "She approaches a script sort of like a play in that she has the entire script memorized before you start doing the movie, which I don't know any other actors doing that."

In 1968, Keaton became a member of the "Tribe" and understudy to Sheila in the original Broadway production of Hair. She gained some notoriety for her refusal to disrobe at the end of Act I when the cast performs nude, even though nudity in the production was optional for actors (Those who performed nude received a $50 bonus).After acting in Hair for nine months, she auditioned for a part in Woody Allen's production of Play It Again, Sam. After nearly being passed over for being too tall (at 5 ft 8 in./1.73 m she is two inches/5 cm taller than Allen), she won the part. ... (more)

Tags: Actress (48), American (11), Born 1946 (8), Female (6), The Godfather (6), Feminist (5), Atheist (4), Director (4), Father Of The Bride (4), Oscar Winner (4), Average (3), Smile (3), Cute (3), Actor (3), Annie Hall (3), Brunette (3), Something's Gotta Give (3), Capricorn (2), Greatgreatgreat (2), Great Smile (2)

My tags:

Add tags

Movies

TV

TV directed by

Movies directed by

1. Hanging Up (2000)

Rating:

4.8

225 Watched

2. Unstrung Heroes (1995)

Rating:

5.5

16 Watched

3. Heaven (1987)

Rating:

7.7

3 Watched

Books

1. Then Again (2011)

Rating:

2 own

Movies written by

1. Heaven (1987)

Rating:

7.7

3 Watched

Update feed

ebern voted for an image 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Citroen2cv voted for 5 images 3 months, 4 weeks ago

A.M.A posted a image 4 months, 3 weeks ago

henrik4075 added this to a list 5 months, 2 weeks ago

My Favorite Performances of 2003 (Female) (25 person items)

" Erica Barry - Something's Gotta Give "I'm like the dumb girl that doesn't get it. I've never been the dumb girl before. It ain't so great." "

JROCK1772 posted 2 images 6 months ago

A.M.A posted a image 7 months, 2 weeks ago

A.M.A posted 4 images 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Leo added this to a list 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Actors with Most Razzie Nominations (144 person items)

Stehako added this to a list 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Top Ten Performances - Diane Keaton (11 movies items)

Look Left voted for an image 11 months ago

SA-512 posted a image 1 year ago

yellowhair voted for an image 1 year ago

L90 added this to a list 1 year, 2 months ago

Motherhood 2.0 ♥ (3001 person items)

"Diane Hall5 January 1946Keaton has 2 children:• Dexter Keaton (1995);• Duke Keaton (2000);"

UNICEF URGENCE voted for an image 1 year, 3 months ago

PARIS HILTON voted for 2 images 1 year, 4 months ago

Nusch added this to a list 1 year, 5 months ago

Vegan and Veg Celebrities (86 person items)

"Keaton has been a vegetarian for several years."

Quattroporte voted for an image 1 year, 5 months ago

Person 135059 posted a image 1 year, 8 months ago

Totoro added this to a list 1 year, 8 months ago

Academy Awards nominated performances I've seen (446 person items)

" 2004 - NOMINEE Best Actress in a Leading Role DIANE KEATON as Erica Barry in SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE 2003 | dir: Nancy Meyers 1997 - NOMINEE Best Actress in a Leading Role DIANE KEATON as Bessie in MARVIN'S ROOM 1996 | dir: Jerry Zaks 1978 - WINNER Best Actress in a Leading Role DIANE KEATON as Annie Hall in ANNIE HALL 1977 | dir: Woody Allen "