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person_profile-Leila Diniz

Leila Diniz Died at age: 27

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Leila Diniz

Date of Birth:

Mar 25, 1945

Country of birth:

Brazil

Died:

Jun 14, 1972

Biography of

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.

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Leila Diniz

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Filmography of

Leila Diniz

Found 12 Movies in total

... 2021

Domingos

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2009

... 1972

... 1971

The Alienist

Eudóxia ( Actor )

... 1970

Corisco, o Diabo Loiro

Dadá ( Actor )

... 1969

... 1968

... 1968

Dangerous Game

Servant (segment "Divertimento") ( Actor )

... 1967

... 1967

... 1967

All the Women in the World

Maria Alice ( Actor )

... 1966