1945-03-25 ( 80 years old ) in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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.
Movies
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021-10-28
Domingos
2009-01-01
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997-01-01
Mulheres de Cinema
1978-06-06
Leila Para Sempre Diniz
1976-07-23
Love, Carnival and Dreams
1972-02-11
O Donzelo
1971-02-01
Mãos Vazias
1971-01-01
The Alienist
1970-09-21
Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
1969-09-29
Os Paqueras
1969-01-01
Hunger for Love
1968-10-15
A Madona de Cedro
1968-05-21
The Naked Man
1968-03-04
Edu, Coração de Ouro
1968-01-22
Fantasia para Ator e TV
1968-01-01
Dangerous Game
1967-07-20
Divertimento
1967-07-20
Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
1967-05-26
O Mundo Alegre de Helô
1967-02-05
A Public Opinion
1967-01-01
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
1967-01-01
All the Women in the World
1966-02-02
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