Leila Diniz
Acting • Born 1945-03-25 – Died 1972-06-14
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.
Filmography
34 credits
A Public Opinion
Movie • 1967
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Movie • 1997
Self
The Naked Man
Movie • 1968
Mariana
Love, Carnival and Dreams
Movie • 1972
Pirata
All the Women in the World
Movie • 1966
Maria Alice
Edu, Coração de Ouro
Movie • 1968
Tatiana
Mãos Vazias
Movie • 1971
Ida
Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
Movie • 1969
Dadá
Leila Para Sempre Diniz
Movie • 1976
Self (archive footage)
O Donzelo
Movie • 1971
Leila
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Movie • 1967
Self (archive footage)
Domingos
Movie • 2009
(archive footage)
A Madona de Cedro
Movie • 1968
Marta
Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
Movie • 1967
The Alienist
Movie • 1970
Eudóxia
Os Paqueras
Movie • 1969
Ela mesma
Hunger for Love
Movie • 1968
Ulla
O Mundo Alegre de Helô
Movie • 1967
Mulheres de Cinema
Movie • 1978
Self (archive footage)
Dangerous Game
Movie • 1967
Servant (segment "Divertimento")
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Fantasia para Ator e TV
Movie • 1968
Divertimento
Movie • 1967
Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino
TV • 1967
Anastácia / Henriette / Rose
Ilusões Perdidas
TV • 1965
Paixão de Outono
TV • 1965
Maria Luísa
A Menina do Veleiro Azul
TV • 1969
Ester
Dez Vidas
TV • 1969
Pompom (2ª versão)
Os Acorrentados
TV • 1969
Irmã Amparo de Fátima
Eu Compro Essa Mulher
TV • 1966
Úrsula
E Nós, Aonde Vamos?
TV • 1970
Sônia Monteiro
A Rainha Louca
TV • 1967
Lorenza
O Direito dos Filhos
TV • 1968
Ana Lúcia
Vidas em Conflito
TV • 1969
Débora