Diana Bracho
Actor
Born December 12, 1944 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Diana Bracho (born Diana Bracho Bordes on December 12, 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. Diana Bracho is the daughter of actor/director Julio Bracho, the niece of actress Andrea Palma and the aunt of actor Julio Bracho (named after his grandfather). She married Dr. Felipe Bracho, a university professor. They have a daughter, Andrea. She married, secondly, to Rafael Cortes, an artist, designer and painter. She made her film debut as a child actress in two of her father's films: San Felipe (1949) and Immaculate Conception(1950). She studied Philosophy and Letters in New York. She debuted professionally on stage in the play Israfel by Abelardo Rodríguez alongside Sergio Bustamante. Her television debut was in 1973. Diana Bracho won the Silver Ariel award twice, the first time in 1973. She won her second Silver Ariel for El infierno, de todos tan temído and was nominated for Best Actress for Letters from Marusia (1976) and Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996). On August 6, 2002 she was appointed president of theAcademia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. She has been involved in co-productions with countries such asThe Chess Player (France); Edmilson (Germany), The Dogs of War (Britain), The Aleph (Italy), The legend of the Drum (Spain), Antonieta (Spain) and On Wings of Eagles (United States). She starred in several television series and soap operas, notably as Leonora Navarro in the telenovela Cuna de lobos (1986), produced by Carlos Tellez. She also played the villainous Evangelina Vizcaíno in Cadenas de Amargura (1991), produced by Carlos Sotomayor. She is set to play the role of the black widow in the third season of Mujeres Asesinas. Though Diana was confirmed to star in Salvador Mejía's new telenovela: La tempestad, she rejected her participation.
Filmography
Hermanas, un amor compartido
Regalo de amor
Catalina
Mundos cósmicos
La posada
Leticia
All the Silence
Diana
El show: crónica de un asesinato
Self / Leonora Navarro (archive footage)
María: La Diva Eterna
Self
Eternamente Amándonos
Martina Rangel de Iturbide
The Exorcist
La Serpiente (voice)
Léemelo
Self
What a Father!
For Better, For Worse
Elena
I Wanted to Find You
Sofía
Cerulia
(Voice)
Mi marido tiene familia
Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega
Secrets at the Hotel
Teresa Alarcón
María Bonita
María Félix
My Universe in Lowercase
Josefina
Quiero Amarte
Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos
Amorous Pancho Villa
Señora Corral
Martin at Dawn
Lucía
La noche de las flores
Rafaela
Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega
Buddah's Head
Tomás's Mother (voice)
Divine Confusion
Julia
3:19
Lucía
Killer Women
Norma
Burning for Revenge
Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo
Eros una vez María
María, madre de Tonatiuh
Burn the Bridges
Catalina
Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el
J-ok'el
Las Ladrilleras
Wounds of Love
Bertha de Aragón
Dreaming of Julia
Beta
Bajo la misma piel
Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
Las Lunas del Auditorio
Self
The Faces of the Moon
Magdalena Hoyos
Life Kills
Reportera
Y Tu Mamá También
Silvia Allende de Iturbide
Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
Self
El derecho de nacer
Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
Infierno en el paraíso
Dariana Valdivia
The Other Conquest
Doña Juana
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Self
De muerte natural
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Gina López
El repartidor de pensamientos
Retrato de familia
Irene Mariscal
Alondra
Alondra
Capricho
Eugenia Montaño de Aranda
Serpientes y escaleras
Adelaida
Cadenas de amargura
Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara
Las asesinas del panadero
Romelia's Secret
Dolores de Román
Pasión y poder
Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna
The Marked Hour
Papá Soltero
Den of Wolves
Leonora Navarro
Round
María Magdalena
Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
Esperándote
Isabel
Violent Stories
Diana
El héroe desconocido
Chela
I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose
Dalia
La leyenda del tambor
Paula
Everyone's Hell So Feared
Andrea
Max Dominó
The Dogs of War
Nun
Aunt Alejandra
Lucia
Crónica íntima
Las Poquianchis
Adelina
El hombre del puente
Chin Chin el teporocho
Letters from Marusia
Luisa
The Birthday of the Dog
Silvia Ballesteros
La casa de Bernarda Alba
Amelia
The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Renata
The Holy Inquisition
Mariana de Carvajal
Los miserables
Cosette
Castle of Purity
Utopía
Inmaculada
Rosalía (Niña)
Felipe de Jesús
Rosalia (Niña)