E-book Membership’s Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen have supplied their heartfelt tributes to Diane Keaton following information of their costar’s dying at 79.
“It’s exhausting to imagine…or settle for…that Diane has handed,” Fonda, 87, wrote by way of Instagram on Saturday, October 11.
Keaton’s spokesperson confirmed to Folks on Saturday that the actress died, although no additional data was initially supplied. Her household — which included two kids, 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] consistently guffawing at her personal foibles, being limitlessly inventive…in her appearing, her wardrobe, her books, her mates, her houses, her library, her world view,” Fonda recalled. “Distinctive is what she was. And, although she didn’t comprehend it or wouldn’t admit it, man she was a wonderful actress!”
The pair labored collectively on the 2018 romantic comedy E-book Membership, together with fellow Hollywood legends Bergen and Steenburgen. The Invoice Holderman-directed comedy — which made greater than $100 million on the field workplace — solid the 4 actresses as mates who boost their love lives after studying erotic novel Fifty Shades of Gray of their guide membership.
“It is a large loss, each personally and for all of us,” Bergen, 79, informed Folks on Saturday. “Diane was a real artist — tremendously gifted and uniquely gifted 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 regarded again on her costar’s unequalled 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 beloved her and felt blessed to be her buddy. My like to her household. What a marvel 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, an entire unique, and fully with out guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have anticipated from such a star,” Midler wrote by way of Instagram. “What you noticed was who she was…oh, la, lala!”
Ben Stiller referred to Keaton as “one of many biggest movie actors ever” by way of X, whereas Henry Winkler eulogized the Oscar winner as “an awfully gifted girl.”
“From time to time an individual comes alongside that defies all definition,” Keaton’s Mrs. Soffel costar Matthew Modine wrote by way of X. “They’re a beautiful thriller. Generally they go digging inside themselves trying to find one thing hidden inside — after which uncover one thing magical — which they hold personal. Diane was like that. All that and extra — all packaged behind her beautiful smile, razor sharp wit, and deliciously infectious chortle. Good pace, sister.”
Keaton’s profession spanned almost 60 years, and noticed her win a Finest 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 remaining movie function was the 2024 comedy Summer season Camp, wherein she starred with Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard.)



