Leila Diniz

Known for ActingBorn 1945-03-25Died 1972-06-14Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Leila Roque Diniz (25 March 1945 – 14 June 1972) was a Brazilian television, movie and theatre actress, whose liberal ideas and attitudes about sex had raised the discontent of both the feminists and the Brazilian military government of the 1960s. Born in a middle-class family and the daughter of a communist activist, Leila worked as a kindergarten teacher at age 15. At age 17, she met movie director Domingos de Oliveira, with whom she lived until age 21. Between 1962 and 1964 she had minor roles on stage. In 1965, Diniz started working in television, where she made several telenovelas and various commercials. In 1967, she also started to make movies. She died on 14 June 1972, aged 27, at the peak of fame, coming back from a movie festival in Australia, where she won a Best Actress award for the movie Mãos Vazias ("Empty Hands"), in the Japan Airlines Flight 471 crash in India.Read more

Movies & web series

Mulheres de Cinema

O Donzelo

E Nós, Aonde Vamos?

Os Acorrentados

Vidas em Conflito

O Direito dos Filhos

A Cama ao Alcance de Todos

O Mundo Alegre de Helô

Paixão de Outono

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar

Corisco, o Diabo Loiro

A Menina do Veleiro Azul

Eu Compro Essa Mulher

A Madona de Cedro

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

Dez Vidas

Edu, Coração de Ouro

Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto

Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino

Ilusões Perdidas

All the Women in the World

A Public Opinion

Os Paqueras

The Alienist

The Naked Man

Dangerous Game

Hunger for Love

Mãos Vazias

Love, Carnival and Dreams

Leila Para Sempre Diniz

Domingos

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

Fantasia para Ator e TV

Divertimento

A Rainha Louca

O Sheik de Agadir

Um Rosto de Mulher