Diane Keaton Dead at 79

Diane Keaton has died.

PEOPLE reports that the Oscar-winning actress passed away in California. She was 79.

According to a family spokesperson, Keaton’s loved ones have asked for privacy, but additional details have not been released. Born Diane Hall in Los Angeles in 1946, she was the oldest of four children. She was in plays in high school and pursued drama in college. However, she dropped out and moved to New York to try her hand in theater, taking her mother’s maiden name, Keaton, for her professional name since there was a Diane Hall registered with Actors’ Equity.

In 1968, she was the understudy for Sheila in Broadway’s Hair, and Keaton revealed to PEOPLE in 2017 that she struggled with bulimia during that time after the director told her she needed to lose weight. “Believe me, it had to do with an overabundant need for more,” she said. “Too much. It was a mental illness. I became a master at hiding. Hiding any evidence – how do you make sure no one knows? You live a lifestyle that is very strange. You’re living a lie.”

The following year, Keaton starred in Woody Allen’s Broadway show Play It Again, Sam, and she received a Tony nomination for it. While she made her film debut in 1970’s Lovers and Other Strangers, her big break came as Kay Adams in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather in 1972. She reprised the role in 174’s The Godfather Part II and 1990’s The Godfather Part III.

Keaton frequently collaborated with Allen, appearing in the film version of 1972’s Play It Again, Sam, 1973’s Sleeper, and 1975’s Love and Death. In 1977, she starred in Allen’s Annie Hall as the titular character, winning the Oscar for Best Actress. Additional collaborations with the director include 1978’s Interiors, 1979’s Manhattan, and 1993’s Manhattan Murder Mystery.

Her extensive filmography also includes Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Shoot the Moon, The Little Drummer Girl, Baby Boom, Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride Part II, Something’s Gotta Give, The First Wives Club, The Family Stone, Because I Said So, Finding Dory, and Poms. Television roles include the HBO miniseries The Young Pope and directing an episode of Twin Peaks, among others.

Although Diane Keaton never married, she was romantically linked to Allen, Al Pacino, and Warren Beatty. She adopted two children, her daughter Dexter in 1996 and her son Duke in 2001. “Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist, it was more like a thought,” she told Ladies’ Home Journal in 2008. “So I plunged in.” Keaton is survived by her children.