Leila Diniz

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.

Known For

A Menina do Veleiro Azul

Dez Vidas

O Sheik de Agadir

E Nós, Aonde Vamos?

Ilusões Perdidas

Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino

Paixão de Outono

Eu Compro Essa Mulher

All Movies (23)

• Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Domingos2009 · as (archive footage)
• Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional1997 · as Self
• Mulheres de Cinema1978 · as Self (archive footage)
• Leila Para Sempre Diniz1976 · as Self (archive footage)
• Love, Carnival and Dreams1972 · as Pirata
• O Donzelo1971 · as Leila
• Mãos Vazias1971 · as Ida
• The Alienist1970 · as Eudóxia
• Corisco, o Diabo Loiro1969 · as Dadá
• Os Paqueras1969 · as Ela mesma
• Hunger for Love1968 · as Ulla
• A Madona de Cedro1968 · as Marta
• The Naked Man1968 · as Mariana
• Edu, Coração de Ouro1968 · as Tatiana
• Fantasia para Ator e TV1968
• Dangerous Game1967 · as Servant (segment "Divertimento")
• Divertimento1967
• Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto1967
• Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo1967 · as Self (archive footage)
• O Mundo Alegre de Helô1967
• A Public Opinion1967
• All the Women in the World1966 · as Maria Alice

All TV Shows (13)

• E Nós, Aonde Vamos?1970 · as Sônia Monteiro
• Dez Vidas1969 · as Pompom (2ª versão)
• Os Acorrentados1969 · as Irmã Amparo de Fátima
• A Menina do Veleiro Azul1969 · as Ester
• Vidas em Conflito1969 · as Débora
• O Direito dos Filhos1968 · as Ana Lúcia
• Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino1967 · as Anastácia / Henriette / Rose
• A Rainha Louca1967 · as Lorenza
• O Sheik de Agadir1966 · as Madelon
• Eu Compro Essa Mulher1966 · as Úrsula
• Um Rosto de Mulher1965 · as Laura
• Paixão de Outono1965 · as Maria Luísa
• Ilusões Perdidas1965