Diana Bracho

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.

Cast

La Casa de Bernarda Alba

(Amelia)

María: La Diva Eterna

(Self)

Castle of Purity

(Utopía)

Burn the Bridges

(Catalina)

Divine Confusion

(Julia)

Eros una vez María

(María, madre de Tonatiuh)

What a Father!

Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia

3:19

(Lucía)

Max Dominio

Crónica íntima

Round

(María Magdalena)

My Universe in Lowercase

(Josefina)

Chin-Chin el Teporocho

Martin at Dawn

(Lucía)

All the Silence

(Diana)

Las Poquianchis

(Adelina)

Amorous Pancho Villa

(Señora Corral)

Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el

(J-ok'el)

La noche de las flores

Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman

(Gina López)

Las asesinas del panadero

Buddah's Head

(Tomás's Mother (voice))

The Exorcist

(La Serpiente (voice))

Dreaming of Julia

(Beta)

The Birthday of the Dog

(Silvia Ballesteros)

De muerte natural

The Faces of the Moon

(Magdalena Hoyos)

Romelia's Secret

(Dolores de Román)

I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose

(Dalia)

Everyone's Hell so Feared

(Andrea)

Letters from Marusia

(Luisa)

Life Kills

(Reportera)

The Holy Inquisition

(Mariana de Carvajal)

The Encounter of a Lonely Man

(Renata)

Aunt Alejandra

(Lucia)

Y Tu Mamá También

(Silvia Allende de Iturbide)

El hombre del puente

María Bonita

(María Félix)

Serpientes y escaleras

(Adelaida)

I Wanted to Find You

For Better, For Worse

(Elena)

Violent Stories

(Diana)

El héroe desconocido

(Chela)

La leyenda del tambor

(Paula)

Cerulia

((Voice))

Inmaculada

(Rosalía (Niña))

Felipe de Jesús

(Rosalia (Niña))

The Marked Hour

Killer Women

(Norma)

Quiero Amarte

(Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos)

Den of Wolves

(Leonora Navarro)

Cadenas de amargura

(Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara)

Capricho

(Eugenia Montaño de Aranda)

Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

(Self)

Heridas de Amor

(Bertha de Aragón)

Rafaela

(Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega)

El derecho de nacer

(Clemencia Rivera de del Junco)

Léemelo

(Self)

Secrets at the Hotel

(Teresa Alarcón)

El show: crónica de un asesinato

(Self / Leonora Navarro (archive footage))

Alondra

(Alondra)

Bajo la misma piel

(Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo)

Mi marido tiene familia

(Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega)

Papá soltero

Pasión y poder

(Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna)

Burning for Revenge

(Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo)

Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

(Diana Bracho)

Las Lunas del Auditorio

(Self)

Eternamente Amándonos

(Martina Rangel Vda. de Iturbide)