
Leila Diniz
- Date of Birth: 1945-03-25
- Date of Death: 1972-06-14
- Place of Birth: Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biography
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 an... 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.

Mãos Vazias
Drama • 1971 January

Leila Para Sempre Diniz
Documentary • 1976 July

Love, Carnival and Dreams
Comedy • 1972 February

Domingos
Documentary • 2009 January

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Documentary • 2021 October

Divertimento
Drama, Comedy • 1967 July

Paixão de Outono
Drama, Soap • 1965 September

Edu, Coração de Ouro
Comedy • 1968 January

Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
Western, Adventure • 1969 September

Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino
Drama • 1967 June