Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
21
Gender
Female
Birthday
March 25, 1945 ( 27 years old )
Place of Birth
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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.
Known For
A Opinião Pública
1967-01-01Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997-01-01O Homem Nu
1968-03-04Amor, Carnaval e Sonhos
1972-02-11Todas as Mulheres do Mundo
1966-02-02Edu, Coração de Ouro
1968-01-22Mãos Vazias
1971-01-01Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
1969-09-29Leila Para Sempre Diniz
1976-07-23O Donzelo
1971-02-01