E book Membership's Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen have supplied their heartfelt tributes to Diane Keaton following information of their costar's demise at 79.
“It's exhausting to consider…or settle for…that Diane has handed,” Fonda, 87, wrote by way of Instagram on Saturday, October 11.
Keaton's spokesperson confirmed to Folks on Saturday that the actress died, although no additional data was initially supplied. Her household — which included two youngsters, daughter Dexter and son Duke — “requested for privateness” of their time of mourning.
In her tribute, Fonda remembered Keaton as a “spark of life and lightweight” who by no means took herself too significantly.
“[She was] continually guffawing at her personal foibles, being limitlessly inventive…in her performing, her wardrobe, her books, her associates, her houses, her library, her world view,” Fonda recalled. “Distinctive is what she was. And, although she didn't comprehend it or wouldn't admit it, man she was a effective actress!”
The pair labored collectively on the 2018 romantic comedy E book Membership, together with fellow Hollywood legends Bergen and Steenburgen. The Invoice Holderman-directed comedy — which made greater than $100 million on the field workplace — solid the 4 actresses as associates who boost their love lives after studying erotic novel Fifty Shades of Gray of their ebook membership.
“This can be a large loss, each personally and for all of us,” Bergen, 79, informed People on Saturday. “Diane was a real artist — tremendously gifted and uniquely gifted in so many disciplines, but additionally modest and splendidly eccentric. I'll miss her terribly.”
Steenburgen, 72, described Keaton as “magic[al]” in her personal assertion, as she seemed again on her costar's unequalled place in Hollywood historical past.

Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Diane Keaton in Might 2018. Leon Bennett/Getty Pictures
“There was nobody, nor will there ever be, anybody like her,” Steenburgen mentioned on Saturday. “I beloved her and felt blessed to be her good friend. My like to her household. What a surprise she was!!!”
Many different tributes poured in following the stunning information of Keaton's demise, together with her First Wives Membership costar Bette Middler, who shared how “unbearably unhappy” it was to lose the “good, stunning, extraordinary” actress.
“She was hilarious, an entire authentic, and fully with out guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have anticipated from such a star,” Midler wrote by way of Instagram. “What you noticed was who she was…oh, la, lala!”
Ben Stiller referred to Keaton as “one of many best movie actors ever” by way of X, whereas Henry Winkler eulogized the Oscar winner as “an awfully gifted lady.”
“Now and again an individual comes alongside that defies all definition,” Keaton's Mrs. Soffel costar Matthew Modine wrote by way of X. “They're a beautiful thriller. Generally they go digging inside themselves making an attempt to find one thing hidden inside — after which uncover one thing magical — which they maintain personal. Diane was like that. All that and extra — all packaged behind her beautiful smile, razor sharp wit, and deliciously infectious snigger. Good velocity, sister.”
Keaton's profession spanned almost 60 years, and noticed her win a Finest Actress Oscar for 1977's Annie Corridor. She later branched out as a author and filmmaker, along with persevering with to behave in common comedies till shortly earlier than her demise. (Her closing movie function was the 2024 comedy Summer season Camp, through which she starred with Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard.)
