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Leila Diniz
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 bo…
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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.
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2021
Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Domingos
Movie (archive footage)
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1997
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Movie Self
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1978
Mulheres de Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1976
Leila Para Sempre Diniz
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1972
Love, Carnival and Dreams
Movie Pirata
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1971
O Donzelo
Movie Leila
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1971
Mãos Vazias
Movie Ida
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1970
The Alienist
Movie Eudóxia
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1970
E Nós, Aonde Vamos?
TV show Sônia Monteiro
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1969
A Cama ao Alcance de Todos
Movie Continuity
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1969
Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
Movie Dadá
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1969
Dez Vidas
TV show Pompom (2ª versão)
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1969
Os Acorrentados
TV show Irmã Amparo de Fátima
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1969
A Menina do Veleiro Azul
TV show Ester
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1969
Vidas em Conflito
TV show Débora
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1969
Os Paqueras
Movie Ela mesma
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1968
Hunger for Love
Movie Ulla
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1968
A Madona de Cedro
Movie Marta
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1968
The Naked Man
Movie Mariana
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1968
O Direito dos Filhos
TV show Ana Lúcia
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1968
Edu, Coração de Ouro
Movie Tatiana
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1968
Fantasia para Ator e TV
Movie
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1967
Dangerous Game
Movie Servant (segment "Divertimento")
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1967
Divertimento
Movie
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1967
Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino
TV show Anastácia / Henriette / Rose
- 1967
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1967
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1967
A Rainha Louca
TV show Lorenza
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1967
O Mundo Alegre de Helô
Movie
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1967
A Public Opinion
Movie
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1966
O Sheik de Agadir
TV show Madelon
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1966
Eu Compro Essa Mulher
TV show Úrsula
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1966
All the Women in the World
Movie Maria Alice
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1965
Um Rosto de Mulher
TV show Laura
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1965
Paixão de Outono
TV show Maria Luísa
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1965
Ilusões Perdidas
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