Diana Bracho
Acting • Born 1944-12-12
Biography
Diana Bracho (born Diana Bracho Bordes on December 12, 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. Diana Bracho is the daughter of actor/director Julio Bracho, the niece of actress Andrea Palma and the aunt of actor Julio Bracho (named after his grandfather). She married Dr. Felipe Bracho, a university professor. They have a daughter, Andrea. She married, secondly, to Rafael Cortes, an artist, designer and painter. She made her film debut as a child actress in two of her father's films: San Felipe (1949) and Immaculate Conception(1950). She studied Philosophy and Letters in New York. She debuted professionally on stage in the play Israfel by Abelardo Rodríguez alongside Sergio Bustamante. Her television debut was in 1973. Diana Bracho won the Silver Ariel award twice, the first time in 1973. She won her second Silver Ariel for El infierno, de todos tan temído and was nominated for Best Actress for Letters from Marusia (1976) and Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996). On August 6, 2002 she was appointed president of theAcademia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. She has been involved in co-productions with countries such asThe Chess Player (France); Edmilson (Germany), The Dogs of War (Britain), The Aleph (Italy), The legend of the Drum (Spain), Antonieta (Spain) and On Wings of Eagles (United States). She starred in several television series and soap operas, notably as Leonora Navarro in the telenovela Cuna de lobos (1986), produced by Carlos Tellez. She also played the villainous Evangelina Vizcaíno in Cadenas de Amargura (1991), produced by Carlos Sotomayor. She is set to play the role of the black widow in the third season of Mujeres Asesinas. Though Diana was confirmed to star in Salvador Mejía's new telenovela: La tempestad, she rejected her participation.
Filmography
83 credits
La casa de Bernarda Alba
Movie • 1974
Amelia
María: La Diva Eterna
Movie • 2023
Self
Castle of Purity
Movie • 1973
Utopía
Burn the Bridges
Movie • 2007
Catalina
Divine Confusion
Movie • 2008
Julia
Eros una vez María
Movie • 2007
María, madre de Tonatiuh
What a Father!
Movie • 2022
Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
Movie • 1986
3:19
Movie • 2008
Lucía
Max Dominó
Movie • 1981
Crónica íntima
Movie • 1979
Round
Movie • 1986
María Magdalena
My Universe in Lowercase
Movie • 2013
Josefina
Chin Chin el teporocho
Movie • 1976
Martin at Dawn
Movie • 2013
Lucía
All the Silence
Movie • 2023
Diana
Las Poquianchis
Movie • 1976
Adelina
Amorous Pancho Villa
Movie • 2013
Señora Corral
Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el
Movie • 2007
J-ok'el
La noche de las flores
Movie • 2011
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Movie • 1996
Gina López
Las asesinas del panadero
Movie • 1989
Buddah's Head
Movie • 2009
Tomás's Mother (voice)
The Exorcist
Movie • 2022
La Serpiente (voice)
Dreaming of Julia
Movie • 2003
Beta
The Birthday of the Dog
Movie • 1975
Silvia Ballesteros
De muerte natural
Movie • 1996
The Faces of the Moon
Movie • 2002
Magdalena Hoyos
Romelia's Secret
Movie • 1988
Dolores de Román
I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose
Movie • 1982
Dalia
Everyone's Hell So Feared
Movie • 1981
Andrea
Letters from Marusia
Movie • 1975
Luisa
Life Kills
Movie • 2002
Reportera
The Holy Inquisition
Movie • 1974
Mariana de Carvajal
The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Movie • 1974
Renata
Aunt Alejandra
Movie • 1980
Lucia
Y Tu Mamá También
Movie • 2001
Silvia Allende de Iturbide
El hombre del puente
Movie • 1976
María Bonita
Movie • 2015
María Félix
Serpientes y escaleras
Movie • 1992
Adelaida
I Wanted to Find You
Movie • 2018
Sofía
For Better, For Worse
Movie • 2019
Elena
Violent Stories
Movie • 1985
Diana
El héroe desconocido
Movie • 1981
Chela
La leyenda del tambor
Movie • 1981
Paula
Cerulia
Movie • 2017
(Voice)
Inmaculada
Movie • 1950
Rosalía (Niña)
Felipe de Jesús
Movie • 1949
Rosalia (Niña)
Mundos cósmicos
Movie • 2023
La posada
Movie • 2023
Leticia
Las Ladrilleras
Movie • 2006
Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
Movie • 2001
Self
The Dogs of War
Movie • 1980
Nun
El repartidor de pensamientos
Movie • 1996
The Other Conquest
Movie • 1999
Doña Juana
The Marked Hour
TV • 1988
Killer Women
TV • 2008
Norma
Quiero Amarte
TV • 2013
Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos
Den of Wolves
TV • 1986
Leonora Navarro
Cadenas de amargura
TV • 1991
Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara
Capricho
TV • 1993
Eugenia Montaño de Aranda
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
TV • 1997
Self
Heridas de Amor
TV • 2006
Bertha de Aragón
Rafaela
TV • 2011
Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega
El derecho de nacer
TV • 2001
Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
Léemelo
TV • 2022
Self
Secrets at the Hotel
TV • 2016
Teresa Alarcón
El show: crónica de un asesinato
TV • 2023
Self / Leonora Navarro (archive footage)
Alondra
TV • 1995
Alondra
Bajo la misma piel
TV • 2003
Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
Mi marido tiene familia
TV • 2017
Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega
Papá Soltero
TV • 1987
Pasión y poder
TV • 1988
Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna
Burning for Revenge
TV • 2008
Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
TV • 1997
Diana Bracho
Las Lunas del Auditorio
TV • 2002
Self
Eternamente Amándonos
TV • 2023
Martina Rangel Vda. de Iturbide
Regalo De Amor
TV • 2025
Catalina
Infierno en el paraíso
TV • 1999
Dariana Valdivia
Hermanas, un amor compartido
TV • 2026
Retrato de familia
TV • 1995
Irene Mariscal
Esperándote
TV • 1985
Isabel
Los miserables
TV • 1974
Cosette