Acting

25

Woman

25 Mar 1945

Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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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.

All the Women in the World

2 February 1966

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

1 January 1967

Dangerous Game

20 July 1967

Hunger for Love

15 October 1968

The Alienist

21 September 1970

A Public Opinion

1 January 1967

The Naked Man

4 March 1968

Os Paqueras

1 January 1969

Mãos Vazias

1 January 1971

Love, Carnival and Dreams

11 February 1972