Leila Diniz

In thisPortuguese name,the first or maternalfamily nameisRoqueand the second or paternal family name isDiniz.

Leila Diniz
Diniz in 1971
Born	Leila Roque Diniz (1945-03-25)25 March 1945 Niterói,Rio de Janeiro,Brazil
Died	14 June 1972(1972-06-14)(aged 27) nearNew Delhi,India
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1962–1972
Spouses	Domingos de Oliveira ​ ​ (m.1962;sep.1965)​ Ruy Guerra ​ (m.1971)​
Children	1

Leila Roque Diniz(25 March 1945 – 14 June 1972) was a Brazilian television, film and stage actress, whose liberal ideas and attitudes about sex had raised the discontent of both thefeministsand theBrazilian military governmentof the 1960s.

She died on 14 June 1972, aged 27, at the peak of fame, in an aircraft accident nearNew Delhi,India.

Biography

Born in amiddle-classfamily and the daughter of acommunistactivist,Leila worked as akindergartenteacherat age 15. At age 17, she metmovie directorDomingos 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 severaltelenovelasand variouscommercials.In 1967, she also started to makemovies.

In 1969, she gave an interview to thesatiricalnewspaperO Pasquimduring which she said: "It's possible to love one person and go to bed with another. It has happened to me."Due to statements like that and the manyprofanities(albeit replaced with asterisks) that she said during the interview, the article angered the military, andAlfredo Buzaid,Minister of Justice of PresidentEmílio Garrastazu Médici's government, used it as a pretext to decreecensorshipto all newspapers and magazines in Brazil. The law was known as the "Leila Diniz decree" due to this incident.Diniz had her contract withTV Globoterminated under grounds of "moral problems," but in 1970 she was hired as a juror of TV hostFlávio Cavalcanti's show onTV Tupi(Cavalcanti, curiously, had a reputation as a "right-wing"man, yet he not only hired Diniz, but protected her and hid her in his country house when she was persecuted by the military repressive forces).

In 1971, Leila had a short participation as aburlesquestar. In the same year,she married movie directorRuy Guerra,father of her only daughter.She offended the conservative members of society by going to the beach inbikiniwhen six months pregnant, but expressed surprise at the reaction, saying that the doctor just had recommended the sun as beneficial to her pregnancy and her unborn child.

In 1972, coming back from amovie festivalinAustralia,where she won a Best Actress award for the movieMãos Vazias( "Empty Hands" ), she died in theJapan Air Lines Flight 471crash inIndia.

Filmography

• 1966:Todas as Mulheres do Mundo- Maria Alice
• 1967:Juego Peligroso- Servant (segment "Divertimento" )
• 1967:O Mundo Alegre de Helô- Luisinha
• 1967:Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto- Maria
• 1968:Edu, Coração de Ouro- Tatiana
• 1968:Hunger for Love- Ulla
• 1968:O Homem Nu- Mariana
• 1968:A Madona de Cedro- Marta
• 1969:Os Paqueras- herself
• 1969:Corisco, o Diabo Loiro- Dadá
• 1970:O Donzelo- herself (cameo)
• 1970:The Alienist- Eudóxia
• 1971:Mãos Vazias- Ida
• 1972:Amor, Carnaval e Sonhos
• 1977:O Dia Marcado- (final film role)

About her

• 1987:Leila Diniz(withLouise Cardoso)

External links

• Leila DinizatIMDb
• Leila Diniz(in Portuguese)
• A revolução pela alegriaArchived2012-02-23 at theWayback Machine(in Portuguese)
• Leila Diniz (1945-1972)(in Portuguese)