Diana Bracho
Born: 1944-12-12 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Known For: Acting
Biography
Diana Bracho (born Diana Bracho Bordes on December 12, 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. Diana Bracho is the daughter of actor/director Julio Bracho, the niece of actress Andrea Palma and the aunt of actor Julio Bracho (named after his grandfather). She married Dr. Felipe Bracho, a university professor. They have a daughter, Andrea. She married, secondly, to Rafael Cortes, an artist, designer and painter. She made her film debut as a child actress in two of her father's films: San Felipe (1949) and Immaculate Conception(1950). She studied Philosophy and Letters in New York. She debuted professionally on stage in the play Israfel by Abelardo Rodríguez alongside Sergio Bustamante. Her television debut was in 1973. Diana Bracho won the Silver Ariel award twice, the first time in 1973. She won her second Silver Ariel for El infierno, de todos tan temído and was nominated for Best Actress for Letters from Marusia (1976) and Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996). On August 6, 2002 she was appointed president of theAcademia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. She has been involved in co-productions with countries such asThe Chess Player (France); Edmilson (Germany), The Dogs of War (Britain), The Aleph (Italy), The legend of the Drum (Spain), Antonieta (Spain) and On Wings of Eagles (United States). She starred in several television series and soap operas, notably as Leonora Navarro in the telenovela Cuna de lobos (1986), produced by Carlos Tellez. She also played the villainous Evangelina Vizcaíno in Cadenas de Amargura (1991), produced by Carlos Sotomayor. She is set to play the role of the black widow in the third season of Mujeres Asesinas. Though Diana was confirmed to star in Salvador Mejía's new telenovela: La tempestad, she rejected her participation.
Filmography
2025
- Regalo De Amor as Catalina
2023
- La posada as Leticia
- Mundos cósmicos
- All the Silence as Diana
- El show: crónica de un asesinato as Self / Leonora Navarro (archive footage)
- Eternamente Amándonos as Martina Rangel Vda. de Iturbide
- María: La Diva Eterna as Self
2022
- The Exorcist as La Serpiente (voice)
- What a Father!
- Léemelo as Self
2019
- For Better, For Worse as Elena
2018
2017
- Mi marido tiene familia as Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega
- Cerulia as (Voice)
2016
- Secrets at the Hotel as Teresa Alarcón
2015
- María Bonita as María Félix
2013
- Amorous Pancho Villa as Señora Corral
- Quiero Amarte as Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos
- Martin at Dawn as Lucía
- My Universe in Lowercase as Josefina
2011
- Rafaela as Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega
- La noche de las flores
2009
- Buddah's Head as Tomás's Mother (voice)
2008
- Burning for Revenge as Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo
- Killer Women as Norma
- 3:19 as Lucía
- Divine Confusion as Julia
2007
- Burn the Bridges as Catalina
- Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el as J-ok'el
- Eros una vez María as María, madre de Tonatiuh
2006
- Heridas de Amor as Bertha de Aragón
- Las Ladrilleras
2003
- Bajo la misma piel as Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
- Dreaming of Julia as Beta
2002
- Life Kills as Reportera
- The Faces of the Moon as Magdalena Hoyos
- Las Lunas del Auditorio as Self
2001
- Y Tu Mamá También as Silvia Allende de Iturbide
- El derecho de nacer as Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
- Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También' as Self
1999
- The Other Conquest as Doña Juana
1997
- Conversando con Cristina Pacheco as Self
1996
1995
- Alondra as Alondra
1993
- Capricho as Eugenia Montaño de Aranda
1992
- Serpientes y escaleras as Adelaida
1991
- Cadenas de amargura as Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara
1988
- The Marked Hour
- Romelia's Secret as Dolores de Román
- Pasión y poder as Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna
1987
1986
- Den of Wolves as Leonora Navarro
- Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
- Round as María Magdalena
1985
- Violent Stories as Diana
1982
- I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose as Dalia
1981
- Max Dominó
- La leyenda del tambor as Paula
- Everyone's Hell So Feared as Andrea
- El héroe desconocido as Chela
1980
- The Dogs of War as Nun
1979
- Aunt Alejandra as Lucia
- Crónica íntima
1976
1975
- Letters from Marusia as Luisa
- The Birthday of the Dog as Silvia Ballesteros
1974
- The Holy Inquisition as Mariana de Carvajal
- The Encounter of a Lonely Man as Renata
- La Casa de Bernarda Alba as Amelia
1973
- Castle of Purity as Utopía
1950
- Inmaculada as Rosalía (Niña)
1949
- Felipe de Jesús as Rosalia (Niña)