Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 25, 1945
Died
Jun 14, 1972
Place of Birth
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Credits
37 titles
Leila Diniz
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Self (archive footage)
Domingos
(archive footage)
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Self
Mulheres de Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Leila Para Sempre Diniz
Self (archive footage)
Love, Carnival and Dreams
Pirata
O Donzelo
Leila
Mãos Vazias
Ida
The Alienist
Eudóxia
E Nós, Aonde Vamos?
Sônia Monteiro
A Cama ao Alcance de Todos
Continuity
Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
Dadá
Dez Vidas
Pompom (2ª versão)
Os Acorrentados
Irmã Amparo de Fátima
A Menina do Veleiro Azul
Ester
Vidas em Conflito
Débora
Os Paqueras
Ela mesma
Hunger for Love
Ulla
A Madona de Cedro
Marta
The Naked Man
Mariana
O Direito dos Filhos
Ana Lúcia
Edu, Coração de Ouro
Tatiana
Fantasia para Ator e TV
Divertimento
Dangerous Game
Servant (segment "Divertimento")
Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino
Anastácia / Henriette / Rose
Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Self (archive footage)
A Rainha Louca
Lorenza
O Mundo Alegre de Helô
A Public Opinion
O Sheik de Agadir
Madelon
Eu Compro Essa Mulher
Úrsula
All the Women in the World
Maria Alice
Um Rosto de Mulher
Laura
Paixão de Outono
Maria Luísa
Ilusões Perdidas