Are Diane Keaton and Michael Keaton related?

Diane Keaton is an actress and director from the United States. She is not related to American actor Michael Keaton because her birth name is Diane Hall.

Diane Keaton changed her her surname to her mother’s maiden name because a Diane Hall was already a member of the Actors Guild.

Throughout her six-decade career, Diane Keaton has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.

To avoid being stereotyped as Annie Hall, Keaton starred in several dramatic films, including Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and Interiors (1978).

Diane Keaton was nominated for three more Academy Awards for her roles as activist Louise Bryant in Reds (1981), a leukemia patient in Marvin’s Room (1996), and a dramatist in Something’s Gotta Give (2003).

Diane Keaton has been called “one of the great American actresses from the heyday of the 1970s”, a style icon and a “treasure” with a personal and professional style that is “difficult to explicate and impossible to duplicate.”