Multi-faceted performer, director and producer Diane Keaton got her start as a favorite actress – as well as off-screen girlfriend – of filmmaker Woody Allen, earning a Best Actress Academy Award for her breakout performance in “Annie Hall” (1977). Allen’s films established Keaton’s persona as an intelligent but self-effacing bundle of nerves whose comic talent lay in her offbeat characterizations, rather than punch-line deliveries. While generally remembered for comedies, including surprisingly successful middle-age offerings “The First Wives Club” (1996) and “Something’s Gotta Give” (2003),
Made Broadway debut in "Hair"; became known as the girl who would not remove her clothes in the finale
1969
Acted opposite Woody Allen (also directed) in the Broadway production of "Play It Again, Sam"; earned a Tony nomination
1970
Film acting debut in "Lovers and Other Strangers"
1971
Starred opposite Allen in the writer-director's "lost" 25-minute short "Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story"; film shelved by PBS in 1972 due to its controversal subject matter; discovered in 1997 at WNET in NYC
