Guide Membership’s Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen have provided their heartfelt tributes to Diane Keaton following information of their costar’s dying at 79.
“It’s arduous to imagine…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 additional info was initially supplied. Her household — which included two youngsters, daughter Dexter and son Duke — “requested for privateness” of their time of mourning.
In her tribute, Fonda remembered Keaton as a “spark of life and light-weight” who by no means took herself too significantly.
“[She was] always laughing at her personal foibles, being limitlessly inventive…in her performing, her wardrobe, her books, her associates, her properties, her library, her world view,” Fonda recalled. “Distinctive is what she was. And, although she didn’t understand it or wouldn’t admit it, man she was a fantastic actress!”
The pair labored collectively on the 2018 romantic comedy Guide Membership, together with fellow Hollywood legends Bergen and Steenburgen. The Invoice Holderman-directed comedy — which made greater than $100 million on the field workplace — forged the 4 actresses as associates who boost their love lives after studying erotic novel Fifty Shades of Gray of their ebook membership.
“This can be a enormous loss, each personally and for all of us,” Bergen, 79, instructed Individuals on Saturday. “Diane was a real artist — tremendously gifted and uniquely proficient in so many disciplines, but additionally modest and splendidly eccentric. I’ll miss her terribly.”
Steenburgen, 72, described Keaton as “magic[al]” in her personal assertion, as she appeared again on her costar’s unmatched place in Hollywood historical past.

Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Diane Keaton in Could 2018. Leon Bennett/Getty Photographs
“There was nobody, nor will there ever be, anybody like her,” Steenburgen mentioned on Saturday. “I liked her and felt blessed to be her good friend. My like to her household. What a surprise she was!!!”
Many different tributes poured in following the stunning information of Keaton’s dying, together with her First Wives Membership costar Bette Middler, who shared how “unbearably unhappy” it was to lose the “good, stunning, extraordinary” actress.
“She was hilarious, a whole authentic, and fully with out guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have anticipated from such a star,” Midler wrote through Instagram. “What you noticed was who she was…oh, la, lala!”
Ben Stiller referred to Keaton as “one of many biggest movie actors ever” through X, whereas Henry Winkler eulogized the Oscar winner as “a very proficient lady.”
“Once in a while an individual comes alongside that defies all definition,” Keaton’s Mrs. Soffel costar Matthew Modine wrote through X. “They’re an exquisite thriller. Generally they go digging inside themselves making an attempt to find one thing hidden inside — after which uncover one thing magical — which they maintain non-public. Diane was like that. All that and extra — all packaged behind her beautiful smile, razor sharp wit, and deliciously infectious chortle. Good velocity, sister.”
Keaton’s profession spanned practically 60 years, and noticed her win a Greatest Actress Oscar for 1977’s Annie Corridor. She later branched out as a author and filmmaker, along with persevering with to behave in standard comedies till shortly earlier than her dying. (Her ultimate movie position was the 2024 comedy Summer time Camp, wherein she starred with Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard.)