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.
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Films (24)
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Domingos
2009 · (archive footage)
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997 · Self
Mulheres de Cinema
1978 · Self (archive footage), Thanks
Leila Para Sempre Diniz
1976 · Self (archive footage)
Love, Carnival and Dreams
1972 · Pirata
O Donzelo
1971 · Leila
Mãos Vazias
1971 · Ida
The Alienist
1970 · Eudóxia
A Cama ao Alcance de Todos
1969 · Continuity
Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
1969 · Dadá
Os Paqueras
1969 · Ela mesma
Hunger for Love
1968 · Ulla
A Madona de Cedro
1968 · Marta
The Naked Man
1968 · Mariana
Edu, Coração de Ouro
1968 · Tatiana
Fantasia para Ator e TV
1968
Dangerous Game
1967 · Servant (segment "Divertimento")
Divertimento
1967
Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
1967
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
1967 · Self (archive footage)
O Mundo Alegre de Helô
1967
A Public Opinion
1967
All the Women in the World
1966 · Maria Alice
Séries (13)
E Nós, Aonde Vamos?
1970 · Sônia Monteiro
Dez Vidas
1969 · Pompom (2ª versão)
Os Acorrentados
1969 · Irmã Amparo de Fátima
A Menina do Veleiro Azul
1969 · Ester
Vidas em Conflito
1969 · Débora
O Direito dos Filhos
1968 · Ana Lúcia
Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino
1967 · Anastácia / Henriette / Rose
A Rainha Louca
1967 · Lorenza
O Sheik de Agadir
1966 · Madelon
Eu Compro Essa Mulher
1966 · Úrsula
Um Rosto de Mulher
1965 · Laura
Paixão de Outono
1965 · Maria Luísa
Ilusões Perdidas
1965