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Who is Diane Keaton?

by Ratan Srivastava
Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton is indeed an actress from the United States. She has garnered several awards over her career, along with an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award. She is recognized for her eccentric attitude and dress flair.

Keaton began her acting career on Broadway, inside the original 1968 Broadway production of Hair. Her portrayal in Woody Allen’s humorous drama Play it Again, Sam earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress inside a Play the following year. She subsequently earned her cinematic debut inside the film Lovers and Other Strangers, in which she played a minor role. She sprang to fame as Kay Adams-Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), a role she returned in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1976).

Beginning with the film adaptation of Play It Again, Sam, the films with director and co-star Woody Allen influenced her career the most (1972). Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), her following two films with Allen, cemented her reputation as a humorous performer. Her fourth film, the romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977), earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

To avoid being stereotyped as Annie Hall, Keaton starred in several dramatic movies, including Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) as well as Allen’s Interiors (1978), and received three more Academy Award nominations for her performances as feminist activist Louise Bryant in Reds (1981), a woman with leukaemia in Marvin’s Room (1996), as well as a dramatist in Something’s Gotta Give (1998). (2003). Manhattan (1979), Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), and Father of the Bride Part II are some of Keaton’s other well-known movies.

Inside the original Broadway production of Hair, Keaton joined the “Tribe” as Sheila’s understudy in 1968. She achieved renown for refusing to disrobe there at end of Act I, when the cast performs naked, despite the fact that nudity with in play was voluntary for performers (those who did so were paid $50). She auditioned for a position in Woody Allen’s production of Play It Again, Sam after nine months of playing in Hair. She was almost passed up for the part because she was too tall (she is 2 inches (5 cm) taller than Allen). Her work in Play It Again, Sam earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Keaton made her cinematic debut the following year in Lovers and Other Strangers. She then appeared as a guest star on the television show Love.

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