Acting · Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Born March 25, 1945
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.
MovieJá que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieDomingos
2009
as (archive footage)
MovieCelebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
1997
as Self
MovieMulheres de Cinema
1978
as Self (archive footage)
MovieLeila Para Sempre Diniz
1976
as Self (archive footage)
MovieLove, Carnival and Dreams
1972
as Pirata
MovieO Donzelo
1971
as Leila
MovieMãos Vazias
1971
as Ida
MovieThe Alienist
1970
as Eudóxia
TVE Nós, Aonde Vamos?
1970
as Sônia Monteiro
MovieCorisco, o Diabo Loiro
1969
as Dadá
TVDez Vidas
1969
as Pompom (2ª versão)
Os Acorrentados
1969
as Irmã Amparo de Fátima
TVA Menina do Veleiro Azul
1969
as Ester
TVVidas em Conflito
1969
as Débora
MovieOs Paqueras
1969
as Ela mesma
MovieHunger for Love
1968
as Ulla
MovieA Madona de Cedro
1968
as Marta
MovieThe Naked Man
1968
as Mariana
O Direito dos Filhos
1968
as Ana Lúcia
MovieEdu, Coração de Ouro
1968
as Tatiana
Fantasia para Ator e TV
1968
MovieDangerous Game
1967
as Servant (segment "Divertimento")
MovieDivertimento
1967
TVAnastácia, a Mulher sem Destino
1967
as Anastácia / Henriette / Rose
MovieMineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
1967
MovieImprovised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
1967
as Self (archive footage)
TVA Rainha Louca
1967
as Lorenza
MovieO Mundo Alegre de Helô
1967
MovieA Public Opinion
1967
TVO Sheik de Agadir
1966
as Madelon
TVEu Compro Essa Mulher
1966
as Úrsula
MovieAll the Women in the World
1966
as Maria Alice
TVUm Rosto de Mulher
1965
as Laura
TVPaixão de Outono
1965
as Maria Luísa
TVIlusões Perdidas
1965
