Diane Keaton is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams 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 (1972). Her next two films for Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actress. Her fourth, Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Keaton took on different kinds of roles to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona. Keaton's films have earned a cumulative gross of over a billion dollars in North America. In addition to acting, she is also a photographer, real estate developer, and occasional singer.

Born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, Keaton is the oldest of four children. Her father Jack Hall (1921-1990) was a civil engineer, and her mother Dorothy Keaton (b. 1921) was a homemaker and amateur photographer. Her father came from an Irish American Catholic background, and her mother came from a Methodist family.

Keaton's most famous romance was with director Woody Allen for most of the 1970s.

Diane Keaton is mother of two children: a girl named Dexter (adopted 1996) and a boy named Duke (adopted 2001).

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