Overview

• Her death was confirmed to NBC News by her daughter, Dexter Keaton White, on Oct. 11.
• LAFD dispatch audio captured a call reporting a “person down” at her home, and paramedics transported her to a hospital where she was later pronounced dead.
• Officials have not released a cause of death, and a family spokesperson asked for privacy as they mourn.
• Friends described a sudden health decline in recent months, with Carole Bayer Sager recalling Keaton looked “very thin” during a visit weeks before her death.
• Colleagues and co-stars — from Jane Fonda, Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn to Steve Martin, Martin Short, Reese Witherspoon, Francis Ford Coppola and Robert De Niro, along with several on-screen “children” — shared tributes to her five-decade career; she is survived by her adopted children, Dexter and Duke.