Oscar-Winning Actress Diane Keaton Dead At 79

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Actress Diane Keaton, known for her Oscar winning performance in
nineteen seventy seven's Any Hall in her role in the
Godfather films, has died at age seventy nine. People Magazine
reported Saturday. No cause has been publicly disclosed. A source
told People Magazine that her health had declined very suddenly

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in recent months. Her death was confirmed by a family
spokesperson to multiple outlets, including People in the New York Times.
Keaton was a frequent collaborator of director Woody Allen, portraying
the titular character in Andy Hall, the charming girlfriend of
Allen's comic Alvi Singer. The film also garnered Oscars for

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Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, cementing Keaton's
place as one of the industry's top actresses. In an
offbeat style econ. As well, the actress made her mark
coz starring an eight dollan move from Playing Against Sam
nineteen seventy two to Manhattan nineteen seventy nine and Manhattan

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Murder Mystery nineteen ninety three. As a Hollywood sexual harassment
scandals detonated in late twenty seventeen, cascading from producer Harvey
Weinstein to heavyweight actors like Cavin Spacey. Old accusations of
child sex abuse against Allan by his adoptive daughter Dylan
Rey surfaced. Woody Allen is my friend and I continue

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to believe him, Keaton tweeted in January twenty eighteen. A
bethteen Golden Globe winner, Keaton scored OSCAR nominations three other
times for Best Actress for Red's Marvin's Room and Something's
Got to Give. In the Godfather films, she played Chaadams,
the girlfriend and eventual wife of Alpasino's Michael Corleone. Late

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in her career, Keaton starred in two movies about aging women,
book Club twenty eighteen, with its message that love has
no age, and Palms twenty nineteen. Palms is the story
of Martha, a terminally ill woman who moves to a
retirement community to die, but wins up forming a cheerleading
squad made up of female senior citizens. As for aging,

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Keaton said in a twenty nineteen interview with AFP that
life actually got easier. I think so, because what have
you got to lose. It's like, it's the truth, that's
what it is. You face it. We talk about it.
She said. Born Diane Hall in Los Angeles on January five,

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nineteen forty six, Keaton was romantically involved with Allan Paccino
and Warren Beatty, but never married. Most people in the
movies get married at some point and then they divorce.
But I've never even got married. I am a failure,
she joked in the twenty nineteen interview. Did she regret it.

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I don't think about it and a lot, but I'm
aware of the facts that am unusual in that regard,
and maybe I did miss out on something, but then
nobody can have everything right. She was widely recognized for
her unique, often and drogynous fashion, censened off beat charm.
Following the news, fellow actors and colleagues shared pributes celebrating

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Keaton's talent and influence. Bet Midler, her co star in
First Wives Club, praised Keaton was brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary. Ben
Stiller called her one of the greatest film actors ever
and an icon of style, humor, and comedy. Cynthia Nixon

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and Octavia Spencer also shared heartfelt messages about her impact
on their own careers. She is survived by her two
adopted children, Dexter and Duke