Mia Farrow has reacted to Diane Keaton’s stunning loss of life following their sophisticated historical past.
“She was a fully fantastic actress — and a uncommon and interesting individual,” Farrow, 80, wrote about Keaton through Instagram on Saturday, October 11. “Ideas together with her kids and sisters. Relaxation in peace Diane.”
Keaton’s spokesperson introduced her loss of life at age 79 and requested for “privateness” on behalf of the Oscar winner’s household on Saturday, although no official particulars have been launched. (Keaton is survived by her two kids, daughter Dexter and son Duke, whom she adopted as a single mother nicely into her 50s.)
Farrow and Keaton have a protracted historical past by means of each their skilled and private relationships with actor-director Woody Allen.
Allen, 89, dated Keaton — in addition to her sisters Robin Keaton and Dory Keaton — within the Seventies. Diane went on to star in a number of of the filmmaker’s Seventies comedies and received a Finest Actress Oscar for her position in Allen’s 1977 film, Annie Corridor.
Their romantic relationship fizzled by the top of the 70s, although they remained shut mates and collaborators. Farrow turned Allen’s cinematic muse beginning with 1982’s A Midsummer Evening’s Intercourse Comedy and, consequently, they too had a protracted romantic relationship.
Throughout their 12 years collectively, Allen and Farrow adopted two kids, daughter Dylan and son Moses. The pair additionally had a organic son, Ronan.(Farrow has 11 different kids.)
Farrow cut up from Allen in 1992 after discovering his affair together with her adopted daughter, Quickly-Yi Previn. (Allen and Previn married in 1997 and share two kids.)

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in June 2017. Michael Kovac/Getty Photos for AFI
In the course of the couple’s highly-publicized custody battle in 1992, the previous couple’s daughter Dylan accused Allen of assaulting her when she was 7 years previous. Dylan repeated these accusations in a 2014 New York Instances op-ed and once more in HBO’s four-part 2021 docuseries, Allen v. Farrow. Allen has at all times strenuously denied any wrongdoing and was by no means criminally charged.
Keaton stood by Allen within the wake of the scandal, telling Extra journal in 2014 that Dylan’s accusations didn’t affect her friendship with the director.
“I’m Woody’s buddy and I’ve been Woody’s buddy for 45 years,” she stated on the time. “And nothing’s going to vary that.”
That very same yr, Keaton accepted the celebrated Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement on Allen’s behalf on the Golden Globes. (Allen has famously refused to attend Hollywood award reveals for the reason that Seventies.)
When Dylan’s accusations in opposition to Allen resurfaced within the wake of the #MeToo motion, Keaton tweeted in 2018 that she trusted the filmmaker. Keaton additionally shared a hyperlink to Allen’s 1992 “no holds barred” interview with 60 Minutes, the place he denied abusing his daughter.
“Woody Allen is my buddy and I proceed to imagine him. It could be of curiosity to try the 60 Minute interview from 1992 and see what you suppose,” she wrote through X (previously Twitter).
For her half, Mia informed The Hollywood Reporter that she by no means held something in opposition to actors, who selected to work with Allen after Dylan’s accusations had been made public.
“I utterly perceive if an actor decides to work with him,” she stated in September 2024. “I’m not one who’d say, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t.’”
Within the wake of Keaton’s loss of life, a lot of her former costars — together with forged members from Father of the Bride, E-book Membership and The First Wives Membership — paid tribute to her unimaginable Hollywood legacy.
Goldie Hawn wrote through Instagram on Saturday, “Diane, we aren’t able to lose you. You’ve left us with a path of fairy mud, full of particles of sunshine and recollections past creativeness. How do we are saying goodbye? What phrases can come to thoughts when your coronary heart is damaged? You by no means appreciated reward, so humble, however now you possibly can’t inform me to ‘shut up’ honey. There was, and shall be, nobody such as you.”
“It’s onerous to imagine…or settle for…that Diane has handed,” Jane Fonda acknowledged. “She was at all times a spark of life and light-weight, always guffawing at her personal foibles, being limitlessly inventive…in her appearing, her wardrobe, her books, her mates, her houses, her library, her world view. Distinctive is what she was. And, although she didn’t realize it or wouldn’t admit it, man she was a high quality actress!”
Keaton’s profession in Hollywood lasted almost 60 years, together with her ultimate film position being 2024’s comedy Summer season Camp.