E book Membership’s Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen have provided their heartfelt tributes to Diane Keaton following information of their costar’s loss of life at 79.
“It’s onerous to consider…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 offered. Her household — which included two children, 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 critically.
“[She was] consistently laughing at her personal foibles, being limitlessly artistic…in her appearing, her wardrobe, her books, her associates, her houses, 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 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 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, advised People 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 seemed again on her costar’s unequalled place in Hollywood historical past.

Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Diane Keaton in Might 2018. Leon Bennett/Getty Pictures
“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 marvel she was!!!”
Many different tributes poured in following the surprising information of Keaton’s loss of life, together with her First Wives Membership costar Bette Middler, who shared how “unbearably sad” it was to lose the “sensible, stunning, extraordinary” actress.
“She was hilarious, an entire authentic, and utterly 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 best movie actors ever” through X, whereas Henry Winkler eulogized the Oscar winner as “an awfully gifted girl.”
“Sometimes an individual comes alongside that defies all definition,” Keaton’s Mrs. Soffel costar Matthew Modine wrote through X. “They’re a beautiful thriller. Typically they go digging inside themselves trying 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 attractive smile, razor sharp wit, and deliciously infectious snigger. Good pace, sister.”
Keaton’s profession spanned practically 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 fashionable comedies till shortly earlier than her loss of life. (Her closing movie position was the 2024 comedy Summer season Camp, by which she starred with Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard.)