Mia Farrow has reacted to Diane Keaton's surprising demise following their sophisticated historical past.
“She was a completely great actress — and a uncommon and engaging individual,” Farrow, 80, wrote about Keaton through Instagram on Saturday, October 11. “Ideas along with her youngsters and sisters. Relaxation in peace Diane.”
Keaton's spokesperson introduced her demise at age 79 and requested for “privateness” on behalf of the Oscar winner's household on Saturday, although no official particulars have been launched. (Keaton is survived by her two youngsters, daughter Dexter and son Duke, whom she adopted as a single mother effectively into her 50s.)
Farrow and Keaton have an extended historical past by way of each their skilled and private relationships with actor-director Woody Allen.
Allen, 89, dated Keaton — in addition to her sisters Robin Keaton and Dory Keaton — within the Seventies. Diane went on to star in a number of of the filmmaker's Seventies comedies and received a Greatest Actress Oscar for her position in Allen's 1977 film, Annie Corridor.
Their romantic relationship fizzled by the top of the 70s, although they remained shut associates and collaborators. Farrow grew to become Allen's cinematic muse beginning with 1982's A Midsummer Evening's Intercourse Comedy and, in consequence, they too had an extended romantic relationship.
Throughout their 12 years collectively, Allen and Farrow adopted two youngsters, daughter Dylan and son Moses. The pair additionally had a organic son, Ronan.(Farrow has 11 different youngsters.)
Farrow cut up from Allen in 1992 after discovering his affair along with her adopted daughter, Quickly-Yi Previn. (Allen and Previn married in 1997 and share two youngsters.)
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in June 2017. Michael Kovac/Getty Pictures for AFI
Through the couple's highly-publicized custody battle in 1992, the previous couple's daughter Dylan accused Allen of assaulting her when she was 7 years outdated. Dylan repeated these accusations in a 2014 New York Instances op-ed and once more in HBO's four-part 2021 docuseries, Allen v. Farrow. Allen has all the time strenuously denied any wrongdoing and was by no means criminally charged.
Keaton stood by Allen within the wake of the scandal, telling Extra journal in 2014 that Dylan's accusations didn't influence her friendship with the director.
“I'm Woody's pal and I've been Woody's pal for 45 years,” she mentioned on the time. “And nothing's going to alter that.”
That very same 12 months, Keaton accepted the distinguished Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement on Allen's behalf on the Golden Globes. (Allen has famously refused to attend Hollywood award exhibits for the reason that Seventies.)
Guide Membership's Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen have provided their heartfelt tributes to Diane Keaton following information of their costar's demise at 79. “It's laborious to consider…or settle for…that Diane has handed,” Fonda, 87, wrote through Instagram on Saturday, October 11. Keaton's spokesperson confirmed to Individuals on Saturday that the actress died, although no […]
When Dylan's accusations towards Allen resurfaced within the wake of the #MeToo motion, Keaton tweeted in 2018 that she trusted the filmmaker. Keaton additionally shared a hyperlink to Allen's 1992 “no holds barred” interview with 60 Minutes, the place he denied abusing his daughter.
“Woody Allen is my pal and I proceed to consider him. It could be of curiosity to check out the 60 Minute interview from 1992 and see what you assume,” she wrote through X (previously Twitter).
For her half, Mia instructed The Hollywood Reporter that she by no means held something towards actors, who selected to work with Allen after Dylan's accusations had been made public.
Diane Keaton famously by no means married throughout her acclaimed Hollywood profession, although she has been linked to numerous well-known faces. Keaton, who died in October 2025 on the age of 79, had lengthy been candid about her choice to not stroll down the aisle. “It goes again to my mom, as a result of, for me, most […]
“I fully perceive if an actor decides to work with him,” she mentioned in September 2024. “I'm not one who'd say, ‘Oh, they shouldn't.'”
Within the wake of Keaton's demise, lots of her former costars — together with forged members from Father of the Bride, Guide Membership and The First Wives Membership — paid tribute to her unimaginable Hollywood legacy.
Goldie Hawn wrote through Instagram on Saturday, “Diane, we aren't able to lose you. You've left us with a path of fairy mud, full of particles of sunshine and reminiscences past creativeness. How do we are saying goodbye? What phrases can come to thoughts when your coronary heart is damaged? You by no means appreciated reward, so humble, however now you possibly can't inform me to ‘shut up' honey. There was, and shall be, nobody such as you.”
“It's laborious to consider…or settle for…that Diane has handed,” Jane Fonda acknowledged. “She was all the time a spark of life and lightweight, consistently laughing at her personal foibles, being limitlessly artistic…in her performing, her wardrobe, her books, her associates, her properties, her library, her world view. Distinctive is what she was. And, although she didn't comprehend it or wouldn't admit it, man she was a superb actress!”
Keaton's profession in Hollywood lasted practically 60 years, along with her last film position being 2024's comedy Summer time Camp.
