Legendary Hollywood actress Diane Keaton has passed away in her home state of California. She was 79.

People Magazine confirmed her death on Saturday morning but added that further details of her passing are not presently available. The star’s family has asked for privacy at this time.

The Godfather and Annie Hall star is survived by her two children, son Duke and daughter Dexter. She was born in 1946 in Los Angeles as Diane Hall, to a civil engineer father and stay-at-home mother and was the oldest of four.

Having performed in high school theatrical productions, Keaton graduated in 1964 before studying drama at college, only to drop out and head to New York in a bid to find her own way into the city’s theater scene.

It was there she took her mother’s maiden name. In part to avoid be

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