srepac Posted March 18, 2007 Posted March 18, 2007 From Wikipedia Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) 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 has claimed that she is "tailor-made for comedy".[1] Keaton took on different kinds of roles to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona. She became an accomplished dramatic actress, starting in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and received Academy Award nominations for Reds (1981) and Marvin's Room (1996). Some of her popular later films include Father of the Bride (1991), The First Wives Club (1996), and Something's Gotta Give (2003). Keaton's films have earned a cumulative gross of over USD 1.1 billion in North America.[2] 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.[3] Her father came from an Irish American Catholic background, and her mother came from a Methodist family. Keaton was raised a Methodist by her mother. Her first ambition to become an actor came after seeing her mother win the "Mrs. Los Angeles" pageant for homemakers. Keaton claimed that the theatricality of the event inspired her to become a stage actor.[4] She has also credited Katharine Hepburn, whom she admires for playing strong and independent women, as one of her inspirations.[5] Keaton is a 1964 graduate of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California. During her time there she participated in singing and acting clubs at school, and starred as Blanche DuBois in a school production of A Streetcar Named Desire. After graduation she attended Santa Ana College, and later Orange Coast College as an acting student, but dropped out after a year to pursue an entertainment career in Manhattan.[6] Upon joining the Actors' Equity Association she adopted the surname of Keaton, her mother's maiden name, as there was already a registered Diane Hall.[7] For a brief time, she also moonlighted nightclubs with a singing act.[8] She would later revisit her nightclub act in Annie Hall (1977), and in a cameo in Radio Days (1987). Keaton began studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. She initially studied acting under the Meisner technique, an ensemble acting technique made popular in the 1920s by Sanford Meisner, a New York acting director. She has described her acting technique as, "[being] only as good as the person you're acting with ... As opposed to going it on my own and forging my path to create a wonderful performance without the help of anyone. I always need the help of everyone!"[8] According to her Reds co-star Warren Beatty, "She approaches a script sort of like a play in that she has the entire script memorized before you start doing the movie, which I don't know any other actors doing that."[9] In 1968, Keaton became an understudy on the original Broadway production of Hair.[10] She gained some notoriety for her refusal to disrobe in the portions of the musical when the entire cast performed nude, even though nudity in the production was optional for actors. (Those who performed nude received a $50 bonus.[11][4]) After acting in Hair for nine months, she auditioned for a part in Woody Allen's production of Play It Again, Sam. After nearly being passed over for being too tall (at 5 ft 8 in./1.73 m she is two inches/5 cm taller than Allen), she won the part Keaton is an advocate against plastic surgery. She told More magazine in 2004, "I'm stuck in this idea that I need to be authentic ... My face needs to look the way I feel."[5] Keaton is also active in campaigns with the Los Angeles Conservancy to save and restore historic buildings, particularly in the Los Angeles area.[8] Among the buildings she has been active in restoring include a former home of Frank Lloyd Wright.[22] Keaton had also been active in the failed campaign to save the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (a hotel featured in Reservations), the location of Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968. Since May 2005 she has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. Since summer 2006, Keaton has been the new face of L'Oreal. Quote
CarMELita Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 Thanks for starting the thread, sre!! Some pics I found will using google: I really liked that movie very much! Time Magazine Cover Vanity Fair Cover and Editorial pic More Magazine Cover and Editorial pics Home Journal Cover and Editorial pic Saga Cover Venice Cover American Film Cover Rollingstone Cover Ms Magazine Cover 1982 Telegraph Cover Us Magazine Cover 1978 Parade Cover from the movie Baby Boom with Woody Allen and some pics from her early years Quote
sanja Posted February 8, 2008 Posted February 8, 2008 Katie Holmes and Diane Keaton E Talk Mad money interview video CTV E Talk = 18 MB = 3:29 http://rapidshare.com/files/88953193/Katie...y_interview.wmv Quote
CarMELita Posted April 8, 2008 Posted April 8, 2008 Thank you, Sanja!! source: livejournal, banalust Quote
CarMELita Posted April 8, 2008 Posted April 8, 2008 Photo by Brigitte Lacombe source: flickr, agent lee Quote
Chocolate Posted April 26, 2009 Posted April 26, 2009 http://www.bellazon.com/main/index.php?s=&...t&p=1679292Vote for Diane in Age Actress Competition! Quote
Frederick Posted April 27, 2009 Posted April 27, 2009 Please post more young Diane, circa Play It Again, Sam. Anything post-Manhattan is irrelevant to me. Quote
Chocolate Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 http://www.bellazon.com/main/index.php?s=&...t&p=1694980Vote for Diane in Age Actress Competition, talent round 3! Quote
Nefertiti Posted April 8, 2010 Posted April 8, 2010 /monthly_04_2010/post-19430-0-1446057795-84803_thumb.jpg" data-fileid="3120397" alt="post-19430-0-1446057795-84803_thumb.jpg" data-ratio="74.45"> /monthly_04_2010/post-19430-0-1446057797-40345_thumb.jpg" data-fileid="3120468" alt="post-19430-0-1446057797-40345_thumb.jpg" data-ratio="73.34"> /monthly_04_2010/post-19430-0-1446057797-41867_thumb.jpg" data-fileid="3120469" alt="post-19430-0-1446057797-41867_thumb.jpg" data-ratio="70.56"> /monthly_04_2010/post-19430-0-1446057797-46077_thumb.jpg" data-fileid="3120470" alt="post-19430-0-1446057797-46077_thumb.jpg" data-ratio="67.35"> Quote
FashionDream Posted April 29, 2011 Posted April 29, 2011 amazing actress!! Wish we could hear and see more of her these days!!! Quote
brianwp Posted April 30, 2011 Posted April 30, 2011 Because she's 157 years old, and there's not that much demand for dead actresses. But I'm probably older than she is. So, sorry...yeah, she's availiable. So, call me. Professional, only. I have no experience, but plenty of life experience. 909-945-2094. Quote
Vogue Girl Posted March 26, 2021 Posted March 26, 2021 US Vogue November 2011 "The Big Picture" Photographer: Annie Leibovitz Sittings Editor: Kathryn Neale Hair: Peter Savic Makeup: Collier Strong Vogue Archive Quote
Vogue Girl Posted October 10, 2022 Posted October 10, 2022 US Vogue December 1977 "People Are Talking About... Everybody's Keaton" Photographer: Douglas Kirkland Vogue Archive Quote
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