Leila Diniz | |
|---|---|
 Diniz in 1971 | |
| Born | Leila Roque Diniz (1945-03-25)25 March 1945 |
| Died | 14 June 1972(1972-06-14) (aged 27) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1962–1972 |
| Spouses | |
| 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 thefeminists and theBrazilian military government of the 1960s.[1]
She died on 14 June 1972, aged 27, at the peak of fame, in an aircraft accident nearNew Delhi,India.
Born in amiddle-class family and the daughter of acommunist activist,[2] Leila worked as akindergartenteacher at 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 severaltelenovelas and variouscommercials. In 1967, she also started to makemovies.
In 1969, she gave an interview to thesatirical newspaperO Pasquim during which she said: "It's possible to love one person and go to bed with another. It has happened to me."[3] 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 decreecensorship to all newspapers and magazines in Brazil. The law was known as the "Leila Diniz decree" due to this incident.[4] Diniz had her contract withTV Globo terminated 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).[citation needed]
In 1971, Leila had a short participation as aburlesque star. In the same year,[citation needed] she married movie directorRuy Guerra, father of her only daughter.[5] She offended the conservative members of society by going to the beach inbikini when 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.[6][7]
In 1972, coming back from amovie festival inAustralia, where she won a Best Actress award for the movieMãos Vazias ("Empty Hands"), she died in theJapan Air Lines Flight 471 crash inIndia.
{{cite web}}:|archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
| Other | |
