- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 25, 1945
- Place of Birth
- Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Died
- June 14, 1972
Leila Diniz
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
movieJá que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021 · Self (archive footage)
movieDomingos
2009 · (archive footage)
movieCelebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997 · Self
movieMulheres de Cinema
1978 · Self (archive footage), Thanks
movieLeila Para Sempre Diniz
1976 · Self (archive footage)
movieLove, Carnival and Dreams
1972 · Pirata
O Donzelo
movieO Donzelo
1971 · Leila
movieMãos Vazias
1971 · Ida
movieThe Alienist
1970 · Eudóxia
tvE Nós, Aonde Vamos?
1970 · Sônia Monteiro
movieA Cama ao Alcance de Todos
1969 · Continuity
movieCorisco, o Diabo Loiro
1969 · Dadá
tvDez Vidas
1969 · Pompom (2ª versão)
Os Acorrentados
tvOs Acorrentados
1969 · Irmã Amparo de Fátima
tvA Menina do Veleiro Azul
1969 · Ester
tvVidas em Conflito
1969 · Débora
movieOs Paqueras
1969 · Ela mesma
movieHunger for Love
1968 · Ulla
movieA Madona de Cedro
1968 · Marta
movieThe Naked Man
1968 · Mariana
O Direito dos Filhos
tvO Direito dos Filhos
1968 · Ana Lúcia
movieEdu, Coração de Ouro
1968 · Tatiana
Fantasia para Ator e TV
movieFantasia para Ator e TV
1968
movieDangerous Game
1967 · Servant (segment "Divertimento")
movieDivertimento
1967
tvAnastácia, a Mulher sem Destino
1967 · Anastácia / Henriette / Rose
movieMineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
1967
movieImprovised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
1967 · Self (archive footage)
tvA Rainha Louca
1967 · Lorenza
movieO Mundo Alegre de Helô
1967
movieA Public Opinion
1967
tvO Sheik de Agadir
1966 · Madelon
tvEu Compro Essa Mulher
1966 · Úrsula
movieAll the Women in the World
1966 · Maria Alice
tvUm Rosto de Mulher
1965 · Laura
tvPaixão de Outono
1965 · Maria Luísa
tvIlusões Perdidas
1965