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.
Acting
Movie
All the Women in the World
as Maria Alice
1966
Movie
Dangerous Game
as Servant (segment "Divertimento")
1967
Movie
The Alienist
as Eudóxia
1970
Movie
Hunger for Love
as Ulla
1968
Movie
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
as Self (archive footage)
1967
Movie
A Public Opinion
1967
Movie
The Naked Man
as Mariana
1968
Movie
Os Paqueras
as Ela mesma
1969
Movie
Mãos Vazias
as Ida
1971
Movie
Love, Carnival and Dreams
as Pirata
1972
Movie
A Madona de Cedro
as Marta
1968
Movie
Mulheres de Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
1978
Movie
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Movie
Edu, Coração de Ouro
as Tatiana
1968
Movie
Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
as Dadá
1969
Movie
Leila Para Sempre Diniz
as Self (archive footage)
1976
Movie
O Donzelo
as Leila
1971
Movie
Domingos
as (archive footage)
2009
TV
Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino
as Anastácia / Henriette / Rose
1967
TV
Ilusões Perdidas
1965
TV
Paixão de Outono
as Maria Luísa
1965
TV
A Menina do Veleiro Azul
as Ester
1969
TV
Dez Vidas
as Pompom (2ª versão)
1969
TV
Os Acorrentados
as Irmã Amparo de Fátima
1969
