Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton has never married although she has had several relationships. She got romantically associated with Woody Allen during the hit Broadway show ‘Play It Again, Sam’. Though the relationship lasted for a few years and she maintains that Woody Allen counts among her closest friends.

From 1979 she had a short-lived affair with Warren Beatty, her co-star from ‘Reds’.

She had a controversial on and off relationship with Al Pacino, her co-star of the ‘Godfather’ series, which finally came to an end after co-starring in ‘The Godfather Part III’.

She was born on January 5, 1946, as Diana Hall to John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall and Dorothy Deanne as their oldest among four children. Her father was a civil engineer and was also into real estate broking and her mother was a homemaker as well as an amateur photographer.

She was brought up as a Free Methodist in Santa Ana, California, where she attended the ‘Santa Ana High School’ and graduated from there in 1963. Her enthusiasm in extracurricular activities could be easily perceived from her participation in acting and singing clubs during her school days.

After graduation she joined the ‘Santa Ana College’ to study drama. She later joined the ‘Orange Coast College’ but dropped out after a short while to attend the full-time acting conservatory ‘Neighborhood Playhouse’ in New York. In between she altered her name to Diane Keaton adopting her mother’s maiden name Keaton after she joined the ‘Actors’ Equity Association’.

For a short while she performed at nightclubs as a singer. In 1968, she landed up a role in the Broadway rock musical ‘Hair’. She famously refused to strip in the role which though optional required actors to perform nude in the end of Act I.

In 1970, she performed in Woody Allen’s hit Broadway stage show ‘Play It Again, Sam’. She received a nomination for the ‘Tony Award’ for her performance in the play. In the same year she made her debut in big screen as Joan Vecchio in the comedy film ‘Lovers and Other Strangers’ and also performed as a guest artist in TV series namely ‘Love, American Style’ and ‘Night Gallery’.

In 1971, she essayed the character of Renata Wallinger in the short film ‘Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story’. She performed in single episodes of two television series ‘The F.B.I’ and ‘Mannix’ respectively.

Her first major role came in 1972 with Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Academy Awards’ winning film ‘The Godfather’ starring opposite Al Pacino. The film received both critical acclamation and met with box office success and charted at the top as the highest grossing film of 1972. It proved to be the breakthrough film of Keaton taking her career to the next level.

She made a remarkable comeback in the comedy genre with the Woody Allen films as Linda in the 1972 released ‘Play It Again, Sam’ and as Luna Schlosser in the 1973 released ‘Sleeper’. Both the films became successful furthering her career as a star.

Daine Keaton received the ‘Academy Awards’ in 1977 as the ‘Best Actress in a Leading Role’ for her outstanding performance in the film ‘Annie Hall’ among several other awards. In 1978 she bagged many other awards for her role in the film including the ‘BAFTA Award’ and ‘Golden Globe’.