Kay Adams

Katherine Corleone (née Adams) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's The Godfather. She was portrayed by Diane Keaton in Francis Ford Coppola's trilogy of films based on the novel. Kay is a native of Hanover, New Hampshire, and the daughter and only child of a Baptist minister. She is the longtime girlfriend and eventual wife of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), the son of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), and the future don of the Corleone crime family. Kay went to Dartmouth College to study to be a teacher. She met Michael, also a student at Dartmouth, in 1945, and they fell in love. As a non-Italian, she is somewhat of an outsider from the beginning and symbolizes Michael's initial desire to live a more Americanized life. When she...