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Leila Diniz

Leila Diniz

Actor · Born 1945-03-25 · Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. All the Women in the World (1966) — Maria Alice
  2. Dangerous Game (1967) — Servant (segment "Divertimento")
  3. The Alienist (1970) — Eudóxia
  4. Hunger for Love (1968) — Ulla
  5. Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo (1967) — Self (archive footage)
  6. A Public Opinion (1967)
  7. The Naked Man (1968) — Mariana
  8. Os Paqueras (1969) — Ela mesma
  9. Mãos Vazias (1971) — Ida
  10. Love, Carnival and Dreams (1972) — Pirata
  11. A Madona de Cedro (1968) — Marta
  12. Mulheres de Cinema (1978) — Self (archive footage)
  13. Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar (2021) — Self (archive footage)
  14. Edu, Coração de Ouro (1968) — Tatiana
  15. Corisco, o Diabo Loiro (1969) — Dadá
  16. Leila Para Sempre Diniz (1976) — Self (archive footage)
  17. O Donzelo (1971) — Leila
  18. Domingos (2009) — (archive footage)
  19. Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino (1967) — Anastácia / Henriette / Rose
  20. Ilusões Perdidas (1965)
  21. Paixão de Outono (1965) — Maria Luísa
  22. A Menina do Veleiro Azul (1969) — Ester
  23. Dez Vidas (1969) — Pompom (2ª versão)
  24. Os Acorrentados (1969) — Irmã Amparo de Fátima
  25. Eu Compro Essa Mulher (1966) — Úrsula
  26. E Nós, Aonde Vamos? (1970) — Sônia Monteiro
  27. O Direito dos Filhos (1968) — Ana Lúcia
  28. Vidas em Conflito (1969) — Débora
  29. Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional (1997) — Self
  30. Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto (1967)
  31. O Mundo Alegre de Helô (1967)
  32. Fantasia para Ator e TV (1968)
  33. Divertimento (1967)
  34. A Rainha Louca (1967) — Lorenza
  35. Um Rosto de Mulher (1965) — Laura
  36. O Sheik de Agadir (1966) — Madelon