Diane Keaton

‘Father of the Bride’ Actress Diane Keaton Passes Away at 79

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Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of 79. The actress, known for her roles in Father of the Bride, The First Wives Club, and many others, was also an Oscar winner. She won the Academy Award for her role in 1977’s Woody Allen film, Annie Hall. She also lent her voice to Pixar’s Finding Dory as Jenny. The news was reported by People, with no cause of death confirmed. Keaton’s family has asked for privacy.

Keaton was born in 1946 in Los Angeles. She was the oldest of four kids in her family. Her first film was Lovers and Other Strangers in 1970. Her big break came a few years later in The Godfather in 1972. In the film, she played Al Pacino’s girlfriend, Kay Adams. She would reprise this role in the subsequent films. She also appeared in several Woody Allen films. This included Interiors, Manhattan, and Manhattan Murder Mystery. She appeared in many other films throughout her career.

For Disney, Diane Keaton’s roles primarily came through Touchstone Pictures. Her first work with Touchstone was as Anna Dunlop in The Good Mother. She also appeared alongside Steve Martin as Nina Banks in Father of the Bride and Father of the Bride II. She also played Elizabeth Tate in The Other Sister and Roberta Blumstein in Northern Lights on the Disney Channel. She also lent her voice to Jenny, Dory’s mother, in Pixar’s Finding Dory in 2016.

Keaton never married but was linked romantically through the years to Woody Allen, Al Pacino, and Warren Beatty. She told People about her choice not to marry in an interview in 2019. She said, “Today I was thinking, I’m the only one in my generation of actresses who has been a single woman all her life,” she explained. “I’m really glad I didn’t get married. I’m an oddball. I remember in high school, this guy came up to me and said, ‘One day you’re going to make a good wife.’ And I thought, ‘I don’t want to be a wife. No.’”

While she never married, she did adopt two kids. She adopted her daughter Dexter in 1996 and son Duke in 2001. “Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist, it was more like a thought I’d been thinking for a very long time. So I plunged in,” she told Ladies’ Home Journal in 2008.

Keaton leaves behind her children and her friends, who were her chosen family.

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