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    Leila Diniz

    1945-03-25 (79 years old) in 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 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.

    Movies

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    Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar
    0 %|Oct 28, 2021
    Documentary
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    Domingos
    20 %|Jan 1, 2009
    Documentary
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    Mulheres de Cinema
    0 %|Jun 6, 1978
    Documentary, History
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    Leila Para Sempre Diniz
    40 %|Jul 23, 1976
    Documentary
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    Love, Carnival and Dreams
    20 %|Feb 11, 1972
    Comedy
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    O Donzelo
    0 %|Feb 1, 1971
    Comedy
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    Mãos Vazias
    43 %|Jan 1, 1971
    Drama
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    The Alienist
    53 %|Sep 21, 1970
    Comedy
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    Corisco, o Diabo Loiro
    0 %|Sep 29, 1969
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    Os Paqueras
    50 %|Jan 1, 1969
    Comedy
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    Hunger for Love
    52 %|Oct 15, 1968
    Drama
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    A Madona de Cedro
    60 %|May 21, 1968
    Drama
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    O Homem Nu
    62 %|Mar 4, 1968
    Comedy
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    Edu, Coração de Ouro
    0 %|Jan 22, 1968
    Comedy
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    Dangerous Game
    52 %|Jul 20, 1967
    Crime
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    Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto
    0 %|May 26, 1967
    Crime
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    O Mundo Alegre de Helô
    0 %|Feb 5, 1967
    Romance, Drama
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    Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
    77 %|Jan 1, 1967
    Documentary
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    A Public Opinion
    56 %|Jan 1, 1967
    Documentary
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    All the Women in the World
    68 %|Feb 2, 1966
    Comedy

    Series

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    Paixão de Outono
    0 %|Sep 14, 1965
    Drama, Soap
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    Ilusões Perdidas
    0 %|Apr 26, 1965
    Drama, Soap