If you were to ask people to name a Diane Keaton role, two probably come to mind.
The first would undoubtedly be the eponymous character in Woody Allen's romcom 'Annie Hall' - a role that won her a Best Actress Oscar, BAFTA and a Golden Globe.
The second would be Kay, Michael Corleone's WASP wife who becomes increasingly repulsed by his ruthlessness in Francis Coppola's 'The Godfather's trilogy.
There were many other acclaimed dramatic roles in movies like Warren Beatty's 'Reds,' Alan Parker's 'Shoot The Moon' and Jerry Zaks' 'Marvin's Room'.
But she also enjoyed huge success in comedies over her carerr like Charles Shyer's 'Baby Boom,' his 'The Father of the Bride' movies, Hugh Wilson's 'First Wives Club' and Nancy Meyers' 'Something's Gotta Give' and her collaborations with Allen on seven other feature length movies.
The predominant image of Keaton, though, is as the stylish and eccentric Annie Hall opposite Allen in his 1977 Best Picture Oscar winning New York romcom.
Born in Los Angeles in 1946 to an Irish Catholic real estate broker and civil engineer father and a Free Methodist mother who won Homemaker of the Year, Keaton, whose real name was Diane Hall, was enamoured in her youth with the work of Katharine Hepburn.
Inspired by the Hollywood star's penchant for playing strong, independent women, Diane graduated in 1963 from Santa Ana Hugh School where she performed in singing and acting clubs and even starred as Blanche du Bois in a production of Tennessee Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire'.
Close to her paternal grandmother who was raised in Nebraska with 11 siblings and whose parents were born in Ireland, Keaton would tell the Irish Examiner in 2017 Grammie Hall was "very Irish and, boy was she a powerhouse."
"She was some woman and I was terrified of her when I was a kid but when I got older, I loved her sense of humour.
"She was the kind of Catholic that I didn't understand. She never believed in Heaven or Hell but she was a Catholic.
"I would say: 'Why?' and she would say: 'What else am I gonna be? That's what I grew up with'. I guess it was her social outlet, the Church."
After studying in Santa Ana College and embarking on an acting course at the Orange Coast College in California, Keaton dropped out to build a career in entertainment in Manhattan.
With another actress going by the name of Diane Hall, she changed her surname to her mother's maiden name Keaton and started to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York where she was trained in the Meisner technique - a different style from the Method which focuses on the collaborative environment created with other actors.
It is a technique she would rely on throughout her career, with Jack Nicholson later observing how she would approach movie scripts like a play - memorising lines before other cast members had even read their's.
Her first break in Broadway theatre was as an understudy for the part of Sheila in the original production of the musical 'Hair' and she attracted publicity for refusing to go naked during the show.
Auditioning in 1969 for a lead in Woody Allen's Broadway play 'Play It Again Sam,' she was almost overlooked for being taller than the comedian but she won the producers over.
Both stars hit it off and during the production, they started living together.
Keaton landed a Tony nomination for Best Lead Actress for her performance, turbo charging her career and helping her net her first screen role in Cy Howard's 1970 romcom 'Lovers and Other Strangers' Richard S Castellani, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon and Cloris Leachman.
With Sylvester Stallone also appearing as an extra, the film got enthusiastic reviews and picked up three Oscar nominations.
There were also guest roles in TV shows like ABC's anthology 'Love, American Style,' NBC's horror anthology 'Night Gallery,' ABC's police procedural 'The FBI' and the CBS detective series 'Mannix' with Mike Connors as well as a series of deodorant adverts.
Woody Allen directed her in the 1971 satirical short film 'Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story' with Louise Lasser which sent up President Richard Nixon's administration with a mockumentary about a Henry Kissinger style figure.
1972 saw Keaton land her biggest movie role to date as Kay Adams Corleone in Francis Coppola's star studded, Oscar winning 'The Godfather' with Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan, Robert Duvall and Talia Shire.
A huge box office success and critical hit, Coppola's Mafia movie became an instant classic with Keaton making her mark as the girlfriend and wife of Pacino's Mobster Michael Corleone and mother of his two children.
Basing her performance on the director's own wife, she earned decent reviews and would play Kay in the 1974 sequel 'The Godfather Part II' and 1990's 'The Godfather Part III' which showed the chasm that had opened up between her character and Pacino's.
Many audiences and critics were struck by the onscreen chemistry she had with Pacino and the two of them had an on and off romantic relationship that lasted two decades which began while making 'The Godfather, Part II' and ended after 'The Godfather Part III' wrapped and he rebuffed an ultimatum from her over marriage.
Keaton later told The Daily Telegraph in 2013 she was attracted to Pacino during the first movie, also telling People magazine four years later he was "charming, hilarious and a non stop talker".
"There was an aspect of him that was like a lost orphan - like this kind of idiot savant and oh, gorgeous," she recalled.
The same year as 'The Godfather,' Herbert Ross directed her and Allen in the movie of 'Play It Again Sam'.
Well received by critics and audiences, it was the first in a series of appearances in acclaimed comedies alongside Allen.
They followed it up with the 1973 dystopian sci-fi spoof 'Sleepers' where she played a 22nd Century artist called Luna Schlosser who Allen's 1970s cryogenically frozen health food store owner falls for after being revived in the future.
Directed by Allen, the irreverent, occasionally slapstick, sometimes satirical comedy, which famously featured a machine called the Orgasmatron and Keaton and Allen impersonating Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' earned rave reviews that compared it to the work of Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy and performed well at the box office.
After the release of the multi Oscar winning 'The Godfather Part II' a year earlier, Allen and Keaton paired up again for the smart 1975 Russian historical novel parody 'Love and Death's in which he played a cowardly war hero and she was cast as his cousin and love interest.
Also starring Harold Gould, Olga Georges-Picot and James Tollan who played Napoleon, the Allen directed film had the same sense of mischief as 'Sleeper' and was an even bigger hit with audiences and critics with Roger Ebert noting Keaton that she wasn't just a mere foil for the comedian but had a more rounded character that really showcased her flair for comedy.
Diane was cast opposite Elliot Gould in Norman Panama's 1976 20th Century Fox sex comedy 'I Will, I Will.. For Now' with Paul Sorvino and Victoria Principal in which they starred as a New York couple trying to save their troubled marriage for a second time.
Critics dismissed Panama's final movie as "tired" and "leaden" and it faded quickly at the box office.
That same year in Mark Rydell's period comedy 'Harry and Walter Go To New York,' she was cast as a newspaper woman alongside Elliott Gould, James Caan, Michael Caine, Lesley Ann Warren and Charles Durning in a caper about Vaudevillian performers who rob audience members.
Once again, the critics hated it and the movie flopped with Caan later renaming it 'Harry and Walter Go To The Toilet' because of its poor script.
Her comic reputation was restored, however, with Woody Allen's 'Annie Hall' with Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken and Paul Simon.
A bittersweet comedy about the romance between Allen's stand up comedian and her kooky girlfriend, the film had flourishes of Federico Fellini and landed her the Best Actress Oscar.
With her catchphrase "La Dee Da, La Dee Da," critics hailed it as Allen's most three dimensional movie up to that stage in his career and praised Keaton's flirty, kooky Mid Western persona.
After it scooped Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Actress, the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa even declared it as one of his favourite movies of all time.
There was also huge critical acclaim for her performance as a doomed schoolteacher dabbling in drugs and casual sex in Richard Brooks' drama 'Looking for Mister Goodbar' where her co-stars included Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Tom Berenger and Richard Gere.
A decent hit in cinemas, it still made its mark despite being released at the same time as George Lucas' 'Star Wars' which naturally eclipsed it at the box office.
Woody Allen directed her, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, Mary Beth Hurt and Sam Waterston in the Bergmanesque 1978 family drama 'Interiors' where Diane played a poet and wife of a struggling writer.
A respectable hit with audiences, it earned five Oscar nominations including Best Director for Allen, Best Actress for Page (who won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress) and Best Supporting Actress for Stapleton.
1979's 'Manhattan' saw Allen and Keaton rekindle the magic of 'Annie Hall' with another bittersweet romcom drama about the affair between a comedy writer and his best friend's mistress.
Also starring Michael Murphy, Meryl Streep and later rather controversially, Mariel Hemingway as the 42 year old writer's 17 year old girlfriend, the black and white movie began imperiously with gorgeous shots of New York street scenes to the sound of George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody In Blue'.
Critics lauded it - especially Keaton's performance - and it was a big hit with audiences, winning a BAFTA for Best Film where it picked up nine nominations including Best Actress for her performance.
Remarkably, it netted only two Oscar nominations for Hemingway in the Best Supporting Actress category and Allen and Marshall Brickman for Best Original Screenplay.
Warren Beatty cast her as the American journalist and political activist Louise Bryant in the superb 1981 epic political drama 'Reds' which saw the director play the reporter John Reed.
A star studded drama which also featured Jack Nicholson as the playwright Eugene O'Neill, Gene Hackman, Maureen Stapleton, Paul Sorvino, M Emmet Walsh and Edward Herrmann, it won three Oscars for Best Director, Vittorio Storaro's cinematography and Stapleton for Best Supporting Actress.
Diane picked up a Best Actress nomination, with Beatty and Nicholson getting Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor nods as well.
She also landed BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations.
During the filming of 'Reds,' Keaton had a romantic dalliance with Beatty.
However issues with the production put a strain on their relationship and it ended, although they remained friends.
In 1982, Keaton went behind the camera for the first time to direct a short 'What Does Dorrie Want?'
That same year, she earned a Golden Globe nomination and rave reviews for her performance as a wife in an unhappy marriage to Albert Finney's California based writer in English director Alan Parker's critically acclaimed drama 'Shoot The Moon' which also starred Karen Allen and Peter Weller.
There were mixed reviews, however, for the 1984 thriller 'The Little Drummer Girl' directed by George Roy Hill.
Adapted from a John Lewis Carre story, Diane played an American actress recruited by Mossad in the Israelis' war against the Palestinians, the film also starred Klaus Kinski, Yorgo Voyagis and Sami Frey, with David Suchet and Bill Nighy appearing in minor roles but it stumbled at the box office.
In the Australian director Gillian Armstrong's 1984 drama 'Mrs Soffel' she had the lead role of a Pittsburgh prison warden's wife in 1901 who aids the escape of two brothers convicted of armed robbery and murder.
Co-starring alongside Mel Gibson and Matthew Modine as the brothers, the film divided critics and didn't make much of a dent in the box office charts.
Another Australian Bruce Beresford directed Keaton in the 1986 black comedy drama 'Crimes of the Heart' in which she teamed up with Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek as three eccentric Mississippi sisters who reunite after one of them shoots her abusive husband.
With Sam Shepard and Tess Harper also in the cast, the film was lauded and performed respectably on release, with Spacek and Harper earning Best Actress and Supporting Actress nominations and screenwriter Beth Henley as well for her adaptation of her 1979 Pulitzer Prize winning play.
There was a cameo appearance in Woody Allen's delightfully nostalgic 1987 Fellini-esque comedy 'Radio Days' in which Keaton briefly showcased her singing voice with a gorgeous rendition of Cole Porter's 'You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To''.
That year she scored a commercial hit in Charles Shyer's 'Baby Boom,' playing an ambitious and hard working Manhattan management consultant who is given the responsibility for a 14 month baby girl after her cousin dies.
Co-written by Nancy Meyers with Shyer, the film with Harold Ramos, Sam Wanamaker, James Spader, Chris Noth and Sam Shepard wasn't popular with critics but fared well with audiences despite going up against 'Fatal Attraction' on its release.
Diane directed a documentary 'Heaven' which was also released that year and focused on people's thoughts of the afterlife.
Leonard Nimoy directed her and Liam Neeson in the drama 'The Good Mother' which touched on the tendency of warring couples to settle their disputes in the courts but also featured a disturbing storyline about a child's exposure to adult sexuality.
The film didn't trigger much enthusiasm aming audiences and critics.
In Joyce Chopra's 1990 comedy drama 'The Lemon Sisters,' she joined Carol Kane, Kathryn Gordy and Elliott Gould in a tale of three friends who perform the music of 1960s girl groups in bars in Atlantic City but it flopped critically and commercially.
After the commercial success of the third 'Godfather' film despite a rather tepid critical reception, Keaton returned to comedy joining Steve Martin, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams and a very young Kieran Culkin for Charles Shyer's 1991 remake of the Spencer Tracy vehicle 'The Father of the Bride'.
Playing Martin's wife, the film scripted by Nancy Meyers was a big hit and the same cast and creative team reunited in 1995 for 'The Father of the Bride, Part II' which was also performed well with cinemagoers.
Plans for a third installment never quite came to fruition, although during the COVID crisis in 2020, the cast reunited for a Meyers directed short in which the Banks family discussed the upcoming marriage of Culkin's character Matty on Zoom with Florence Pugh turning up as Martin and Keaton's youngest and Robert de Niro appearing too.
In 1991, Keaton also directed the Lifetime TV movie 'Wildflower' with Beau Bridges, Susan Blakely, Patricia Arquette and Reese Witherspoon - a well received rural poverty drama about 1930s attitudes to epilepsy and hearing disabilities.
She also directed an episode of David Lynch's quirky cult TV show 'Twin Peaks'.
A year later she was cast alongside Ed Harris in Michael Lindsay Hogg's HBO political comedy feature 'Running Mates' as the lover of a US Senator who comes under attack from opponents.
She popped up as the voice of a poodle called Daphne in Tom Ropelewski's irritating 1993 comedy sequel 'Look Who's Talking Now' with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley which also featured the voices of the basketball player Charles Barkley and Danny de Vito.
She also appeared in her first substantial Woody Allen role since 'Manhattan' in his Hitchcockian sleuth comedy 'Manhattan Murder Mystery' as the actor-directors wife, joining Alan Alda, Angelica Huston and Jerry Adler among the cast.
Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination for a film that was a hit with critics but which barely made its money back in cinemas.
The Canadian filmmaker Yves Simoneau directed Diane in TNT's 1994 feature length drama 'Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight' in which she played the famous aviator alongside Rutger Hauer, Bruce Dern and Paul Guilfoyle.
While reviews for Simoneau's small screen movie were mixed, Keaton did earn a Primetime Emmy nomination and a Screen Actors Guild nomination for her performance.
She was back in the director's chair for the 1995 coming of age comedy drama 'Unstrung Heroes' which saw Andie McDowell star as a terminally ill mother with ovarian cancer married to John Turturro's eccentric inventor.
With Maury Chaykin and 'Seinfeld' star Michael Richards also in the cast, it wS warmly received by critics who praised Keaton's direction of the film but was not the sort of movie that was going to set the box office alight.
After the success of 'The Father of the Bride, Part II,' she scored another big box office comedy success alongside Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler in Hugh Wilson's 'The First Wives Club' about divorcees getting revenge on ex-husbands who left them for younger women.
With Dan Hedaya, Stephen Collins and Victor Garber playing the former husbands and Sarah Jessica Parker, Elizabeth Berkley and Marcia Gay Harden as the younger women, the film with Maggie Smith, Timothy Olyphant, Bronson Pinchot, Philip Bosco and Rob Reiner in supporting roles received mixed reviews but struck a chord with audiences.
A sequel was long mooted with Keaton keen to do it but even with Netflix involved at one stage, it never came to pass.
Diane landed another Best Actress Academy Award nomination for playing a daughter looking after her elderly father in Florida 20 years after he suffered a stroke in Jerry Zaks' 'Marvin's Room' - a screen adaptation of Scott McPherson's acclaimed Broadway play.
The film boasted a heavyweight cast that included Meryl Streep as her sister, Leonardo DiCaprio as her troubled teenage nephew, Hume Cronyn as her elderly father and Robert de Niro as a local doctor and it netted her Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice Award nominations.
It also drew mostly enthusiastic notices while making a minor profit.
Also in 1996, she adopted a daughter and then a son give years later.
Keaton returned to TV in 1997, playing a chain smoking, childless widow charged with raising her late brother's nine year old son in the Linda Yellen directed Disney Channel comedy 'Northern Lights' with Joseph Cross, Maury Chaykin and Kathleen York.
Keaton paired up onscreen again with Sam Shepard for Peter Masterson's Texan 1997 romantic drama 'The Only Thrill' with Diane Lane, Robert Patrick and Tate Donovan.
Garry Marshall directed her in the 1999 romantic comedy drama 'The Other Sister' in which she played the snobby, overprotective mother of Juliette Lewis's young woman with an intellectual disability.
The movie with Tim Skerritt, Sarah Paulson and Giovanni Riblisi was critically mauled and made no impression in cinemas.
The following year she directed herself, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow and Walter Matthau in his last film role in the comedy drama 'Hanging Up' about three sisters who have a poor relationship with their elderly father.
Written by Nora and Delia Ephron, the film with Adam Arkin and Cloris Leachman, it tanked with critics but did find an audience, making a small profit.
She played against type as an authoritarian nun in Marshall Brickman's 2001 satirical dark comedy 'Sister Mary Explains It All' with Laura San Giacomo, Brian Benben on the Showtime Channel which drew criticism from The Catholic League.
That year she was reunited with Warren Beatty in English director Peter Chelsom's romcom 'Town and Country's with Goldie Hawn, Garry Shandling, Andie MacDowell, Nastassja Kinski, Josh Hartnett and Charlton Heston among their co-stars.
Playing Beatty's wife, the Buck Henry scripted movie about a philandering New York architect was one of Hollywood's biggest flops and was pummelled by the critics.
In Bobby Roth's 2002 CBS TV movie 'Crossed Over,' Diane played the American author and educator Beverly Lowry in a drama that depicted her encounters with Jennifer Jason Leigh's Death Row prisoner Karla Faye Tucker.
Keaton played a bumbling accountant working for Paul Sorvino's Mafia boss in Greg Yaitanes' 'Plan B' with Maury Chaykin, Bob Balaban and Jon Ventimiglia - another comedy misfire.
There was a long overdue box office hit with Nancy Meyers' 2003 romcom 'Something's Gotta Give' where she played a divorced Broadway playwright who finds love later in life with Jack Nicholson's ageing magazine magnate and playboy.
With Keanu Reeves, Amanda Peet, Jon Favreau, Paul Michael Glaser and Frances McDormand in supporting roles, audiences and critics adored the film which landed another Best Actress nomination for Diane and Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Screen Actors Guild statuettes.
Keaton executive produced Gus Van Sandt's Palme d'Or winning 'Elephant' about school shootings in the United Stated which was a remake of Alan Clarke's groundbreaking BBC film about the litany of violence in Northern Ireland's Troubles.
She was the widowed mother of two boys who turns to dealing drugs before becoming addicted to crystal meth in David Attwood's 2003 Lifetime channel TV movie 'On Thin Ice' with Lothaire Bluteau and Michael Rooker.
Thomas Bezucha directed her, Craig T Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Claire Danes, Luke Wilson, Dermot Mulroney and Rachel McAdams in the 2005 New England comedy drama 'The Family Stone' which did pretty well at the box office despite mixed reviews.
In Charles McDougall's 2006 CBS Sunday night movie 'Surrender, Dorothy,' she played a grieving mother trying to make sense of her late daughter's life in a drama that saw her co-star with Tom Everett Scott, Chris Pine and Alexa Davalos.
There was another poorly received romcom 'Because I Said So' that still made a modest profit in 2007 directed by Michael Lehman where she played an overbearing mum opposite Mandy Moore and Lauren Graham.
Mark Mothersbaugh directed her and Jon Heder in the comedy drama 'Mama's Boy' with Jeff Daniels, Anna Farris and Eli Wallach which vanished in cinemas after a critical pasting.
Her poor streak in comedies continued with Callie Khouri's crime comedy 'Hot Money's with Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson and Christopher McDonald:which bombed critically anc commercially.
Vince Di Maggio's 2008 comedy 'Smother' in which she was typecast as another overbearing mum also underwhelmed.
She had some success in Roger Michell's 2010 romcom 'Morning Glory' in which she played a veteran morning TV morning show host who has to put up with Harrison Ford's arrogant hack who resents being made her fellow anchor.
Also starring Rachel McAdams as an executive producer, the film drew mixed reviews but did not live up to box office expectations.
Keaton teamed up with Elliott Page, director Bill Condon and writer Cynthia Mort on a pilot for a HBO show about a Hollywood blogger called 'Tilda' in 2011 which never aired.
A bitter rift between Condon and Mort meant it was a messy production.
Lawrence Kasdan directed her in the 2012 comedy drama 'Darling Companion' as a woman married to Kevin Kline's self involved husband who stumbles across a dog and finds fulfilment.
A year later she joined an a star cast that included Robert de Niro, Robin Williams, Amanda Seyfried, Katherine Hiegl, Topher Grace and Susan Sarandon in Justin Zackham's woeful comedy 'The Big Wedding' - a remake of a Swiss French film.
Rob Reiner directed her in the underwhelming 2014 comedy 'And So It Goes' with Michael Douglas in which they played next door neighbours coming to terms with ageing.
There were mixed reviews as well for Richard Loncraine's comedy drama '5 Flights Up' in which she and Morgan Freeman played a couple living in a Brooklyn apartment in a film with Carrie Preston and Cynthia Nixon.
2015 saw her join John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Jake Lacy, Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Ed Helms and Anthony Mackie in Jessie Nelson's Festive ensemble comedy 'Love the Coopers' (called 'Christmas With The Coopers in the UK and Ireland) which performed decently at the box office despite critical decision for a movie whose narrator was a dog voiced by Steve Martin.
In 2016, Diane donned a nun's habit once again in the flamboyant Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's 10 part Vatican drama series 'The Young Pope' for HBO, Canal+ and Sky Atlantic with Jude Law, Cecile de France and James Cromwell.
Well received by critics but labelled anti-Catholic by supporters of the Church, she played Sister Mary, an American nun and mentor to Law's young Pontiff who he appoints as his personal secretary.
There was a voice role as the mother of Ellen De Generes' regal blue tang in Andrew Stanton's 2016 Disney Pixar 'Finding Dory' which was a huge hit, earning over $1 billion and featured Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Ed O'Neill, Ty Burrell, Idris Elba, Dominic West, Sigourney Weaver, Kate McKinnon and Bill Hader among the cast.
In 2017, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the AFI, presented by Woody Allen, delivering an unusual speech at the star studded gala by singing.
She also starred alongside Brendan Gleeson in the Joel Hopkins helmed comedy drama 'Hampstead' in whi h her character forged an unlikely friendship with a homeless man.
Featuring a cast that included James Norton, Lesley Manville, Jason Watkins and Simon Callow, critics felt the film was pretty mediocre despite Keaton and Gleeson's attempts to breathe life into it.
2016 saw her join forces with Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen for Bill Holderman's 'Book Club's about a group of four ageing friends who read the erotic publishing sensation 'Fifty Shades of Grey's their monthly book club.
Also starring Andy Garcia, Craig T Nelson and Don Johnson, the film was a commercial success despite mixed reviews and spawned a 2023 sequel, also made by Holderman, which saw the group travel to Italy post-COVID but it struggled to find an audience for its corny humour in post pandemic times.
She played a cancer victim who starts a cheerleading club in a retirement community in Zara Hayes' 2019 comedy 'Poms' with Pam Grier, Jackie Weaver and Rhea Perlman in another comedy that the critics hated and audiences largely ignored.
There was a recurring role between 2019-22 as the over-protective mother Michellee-Weebee-Am-I in the Netflix animated comedy series 'Green Eggs and Ham,' based on the Dr Seuss story, which also featured the vocal talents of Adam DeVine, Ilana Glazer and Michael Douglas and ran for two seasons.
In Dennis Dugan's 2020 romcom 'Love, and Other Disasters,' she joined Jeremy Irons in another lame comedy.
There was a Golden Raspberry Worst Actress nomination for her performance as a 70 year old version of Elizabeth Lail's character in the comedy 'Mack and Rita' in which a 39 year old wakes up 40 years older.
The critics also loathed Michael Jacobs' 2023 romcom 'Maybe I Do' where she joined Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Emma Roberts in another below par tale.
There was a role in a Stephen Cook son directed British comedy 'Arthur's Whisky's for Sky Cinema where she shared the screen with Lulu, Patricia Hodge, Bill Paterson, Adil Ray and David Harewood.
Her final screen role was in Castille Landon's comic movie 'Summer Camp's with Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Eugene Levy, Dennis Haysbert and Beverly D'Angelo.
Outside of acting, she wrote four books and also dabbled in photography and fashion while also campaigning for animal rights through her work with PETA.
But she remained a beloved actor - thanks to her performances in many classic movies.
Keayon's death after a brief period of illness sparked a firestorm of affectionate tributes from many of those who worked alongside her like Goldie Hawn, Steve Martin, Reese Witherspoon, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen, Bette Midler, Candice Bergen, Francis Coppola, Andy Garcia, Mandy Moore, Robert de Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Woody Allen was also reported to be in a state of shock.
But as Hollywood comes to terms with her passing, she will be remembered as a versatile actress with a golden singing voice who could charm audiences with a real twinkle in her eye.
(Diane Keaton passed away at the age of 79 on October 11, 2025)
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