Leila Diniz
Birthday
1945/03/25
Day of death
1972/06/14 (27 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Also know as
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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 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 rol...Read more
Acting
(1967) A Public Opinion
as ---
(1997) Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
as Self
(1968) The Naked Man
as Mariana
(1972) Love, Carnival and Dreams
as Pirata
(1966) All the Women in the World
as Maria Alice
(1968) Edu, Coração de Ouro
as Tatiana
(1971) Mãos Vazias
as Ida
(1969) Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
as Dadá
(1976) Leila Para Sempre Diniz
as Self (archive footage)
(1971) O Donzelo
as Leila
(1967) Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
as Self (archive footage)
(2009) Domingos
as (archive footage)
(1968) A Madona de Cedro
as Marta
(1967) Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
as ---
(1970) The Alienist
as Eudóxia
(1969) Os Paqueras
as Ela mesma
(1968) Hunger for Love
as Ulla
(1967) O Mundo Alegre de Helô
as ---
(1978) Mulheres de Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1967) Dangerous Game
as Servant (segment "Divertimento")
(2021) Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
as Self (archive footage)
(1967) Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino
as Anastácia/Henriette/ Rose
(1965) Ilusões Perdidas
as ---
(1965) Paixão de Outono
as Maria Luísa