She has described her acting technique as, " only as good as the person you're acting with. She initially studied acting under the Meisner technique, an ensemble acting technique first evolved in the 1930s by Sanford Meisner, a New York stage actor/acting coach/director who had been a member of The Group Theater (1931–1940). Keaton began studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. 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.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.For a brief time, she also moonlighted at nightclubs with a singing act.She would later revisit her nightclub act in Annie Hall (1977) and a cameo in Radio Days (1987). 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.
Keaton is a 1963 graduate of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California. Los Angeles" pageant for homemakers Keaton has said that the theatricality of the event inspired her first impulse to be an actress, and led to her wanting to work on stage.She has also credited Katharine Hepburn, whom she admires for playing strong and independent women, as one of her inspirations.
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Keaton was born as Diane Hall on Januin Los Angeles, California.Her mother, Dorothy Deanne (née Keaton 1921–2008), was a homemaker and amateur photographer her father, John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall (1921–1990), was a real estate broker and civil engineer.Her father, from Nebraska, came from an Irish-American Catholic background, and her mother, originally from Kansas, came from a Methodist family, and had English, German, and more distant Austrian, ancestry.Keaton was raised a Free Methodist by her mother.Her mother won the "Mrs. Keaton's films have earned a cumulative gross of over US$1.1 billion in North America.In addition to acting, she is also a photographer, real estate developer, author, and occasional singer. Some of her popular later films include Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), The First Wives Club (1996), Something's Gotta Give (2003) and The Family Stone (2005). Goodbar (1977) and received Academy Award nominations for Reds (1981) and Marvin's Room (1996). She became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in Looking for Mr. Keaton subsequently expanded her range to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona. Her fourth, Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone 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 in 1972. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Keaton subsequently expanded her range to avoid becomi Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall, January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter.
Description: Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall, January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter.