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Leila Diniz

Leila Diniz

ActorCrewDirecting Mar 25 (died age 27) Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1965–2021 (56 year career)
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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…

Known For

All the Women in the World
Film

All the Women in the World

Maria Alice
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Film

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

Self (archive footage)
The Alienist
Film

The Alienist

Eudóxia
Dangerous Game
Film

Dangerous Game

Servant (segment "Divertimento")
A Public Opinion
Film

A Public Opinion

6.0 1967
Hunger for Love
Film

Hunger for Love

Ulla
Os Paqueras
Film

Os Paqueras

Ela mesma
The Naked Man
Film

The Naked Man

Mariana

Filmography