Leila Diniz
Born: 1945-03-25 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: 1972-06-14
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2021
- Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Domingos as (archive footage)
1997
1978
- Mulheres de Cinema as Self (archive footage)
1976
- Leila Para Sempre Diniz as Self (archive footage)
1972
- Love, Carnival and Dreams as Pirata
1971
- O Donzelo as Leila
- Mãos Vazias as Ida
1970
- E Nós, Aonde Vamos? as Sônia Monteiro
- The Alienist as Eudóxia
1969
- Vidas em Conflito as Débora
- Os Acorrentados as Irmã Amparo de Fátima
- A Menina do Veleiro Azul as Ester
- Dez Vidas as Pompom (2ª versão)
- Os Paqueras as Ela mesma
- Corisco, o Diabo Loiro as Dadá
- A Cama ao Alcance de Todos ... (Continuity)
1968
- Edu, Coração de Ouro as Tatiana
- O Direito dos Filhos as Ana Lúcia
- A Madona de Cedro as Marta
- The Naked Man as Mariana
- Fantasia para Ator e TV
- Hunger for Love as Ulla
1967
- A Rainha Louca as Lorenza
- Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino as Anastácia / Henriette / Rose
- O Mundo Alegre de Helô
- A Public Opinion
- Divertimento
- Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo as Self (archive footage)
- Dangerous Game as Servant (segment "Divertimento")
- Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
1966
- Eu Compro Essa Mulher as Úrsula
- O Sheik de Agadir as Madelon
- All the Women in the World as Maria Alice
1965
- Ilusões Perdidas
- Um Rosto de Mulher as Laura
- Paixão de Outono as Maria Luísa