BREAKING: Beloved Actress Diane Keaton Has Died
on Oct 11, 2025
Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton died Saturday, October 11, at the age of 79.
Diane Keaton, the actress best known for her roles in Father of the Bride, Annie Hall, and First Wives Club, has died.
A family spokesperson shared the news of Keaton’s death with PEOPLE, but didn’t share any further details. The family is asking for privacy at this time.
About Diane Keaton
Keaton was born in Los Angeles in 1946 and made her theatrical debut as part of high school singing and acting clubs. She furthered her career after graduation with a nightclub act as a singer, as an acting school student, and eventually as an understudy on Broadway’s production of Hair.
Keaton earned a Tony nomination for her first Broadway leading role in Play It Again, Sam. She made her film debut the following year in Lovers and Other Strangers before landing her breakout role in The Godfather in 1972.
Numerous other roles followed, most of which were Woody Allen-directed dramas and mysteries. In 1977, Keaton won her first and only Academy Award for her role in Annie Hall.
Throughout the next three decades, Diane Keaton secured her title as one of the most versatile actresses in Hollywood.
In 1991, the actress starred in Father of the Bride alongside Steve Martin and Kimberly Williams Paisley. The years that followed found Keaton moving into directoral roles while still acting and engaging in other professional pursuits.
Over the course of her career, Diane Keaton earned four Academy Award nominatons resulting in one win, twelve Golden Globe Awards with two wins, Screen Actor’s Guild Award nods, Daytime Emmy nominations, and many more.
Diane Keaton never married. She was the mom of two children, a son and a daughter, whom she adopted in her 50s.
Hollywood Remembers Diane Keaton
Keaton’s Father of the Bride co-star, Kimberly Williams Paisley, paid tribute to the star with a statement posted across social media.
“Diane, working with you will always be one of the highlights of my life. You are one of a kind, and it was thrilling to be in your orbit for a time. Thank you for your kindness, your generosity, your talent, and above all, your laughter,” Williams Paisley wrote.
Bette Midler, who starred with Keaton in First Wives Club, expressed her sadness over her former co-star’s death.
“The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died. I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me. She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Academy Awards, eulogized the late actress, remembering her as “funny and fragile, bright and bruised.”
“Some actors play emotions. Diane Keaton lived inside them,” the Academy wrote in a post on social media. “Diane Keaton embodied the contradictions of being human: funny and fragile, bright and bruised, always achingly honest. For decades, she filled every frame with warmth, wit, and wonder. A Best Actress Oscar winner and four-time nominee, her presence shaped generations of storytelling. Her spirit will live forever on screen, and in the hearts of all who saw themselves in her.”
The statement captioned a clip of Keaton alongside Dermott Mulroney in the 2005 film, The Family Stone.
Some actors play emotions. Diane Keaton lived inside them.
— The Academy (@TheAcademy) October 11, 2025
Diane Keaton embodied the contradictions of being human: funny and fragile, bright and bruised, always achingly honest. For decades, she filled every frame with warmth, wit, and wonder. A Best Actress Oscar winner and… pic.twitter.com/BqjewFW4MO
