Diana Bracho
Date of birth: 1944-12-12
Place of birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Known for: Acting
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Biography
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.
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La Casa de Bernarda Alba
1974-10-25
María: La Diva Eterna
2023-04-06
Twenty years after her death, María Félix, a figure of Mexican cinema, is a model for free and indep
Castle of Purity
1973-05-10
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to p
Burn the Bridges
2007-04-05
Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. She is cared for by her daughte
Divine Confusion
2008-09-26
The Greek Olimpian Gods engage in the human life experience to its full intensity, for which they ch
Eros una vez María
2007-11-09
When Tonatiuh loses his beloved Maria, grief and obsession to be loved lead him to seek love in a va
What a Father!
2022-02-09
Pedro is a single man in his forties who likes to party, has no children and lives at night. Everyth
Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
1986-05-08
Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned without
3:19
2008-06-20
Max Dominó
1981-01-01
Mexican feature film
Crónica íntima
1979-01-01
Mexican feature film
Round
1986-08-16
Loosely based on the novel "Leakage, iron and fire" by Paco Ignacio Taibo I, "Redondo" is an amazing
My Universe in Lowercase
2013-11-08
Director Hatuey Viveros' beautiful film unfolds as a fascinating exploration of contemporary life in
Chin Chin el teporocho
1976-08-15
Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with
Martin at Dawn
2013-08-16
When Martin's car breaks down in the middle of the desert, he has no choice but to head off across t
All the Silence
2023-10-06
Miriam teaches sign language in the mornings and is part of a professional theater production in the
Las Poquianchis
1976-11-17
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial
Amorous Pancho Villa
2013-09-20
The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mour
Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el
2007-03-02
An unworldly and closed-minded American travels to a small village in exotic Chiapas, Mexico; at the
La noche de las flores
2011-09-23
The story of a wooing in which the stepdaughter, Elena, seduces her stepmother. A love story that is
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
1996-04-11
Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she s
Las asesinas del panadero
1989-01-01
Mexican feature film
Buddah's Head
2009-05-17
Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid bei
The Exorcist
2022-11-02
Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on
Dreaming of Julia
2003-10-24
The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.
The Birthday of the Dog
1975-09-10
Two men who kill their wives so they can be together. A tailor goes from having his dog as his best
De muerte natural
1996-08-09
Four women get mad at a bakery while they recall their lives at their neighborhood.
The Faces of the Moon
2002-05-17
The Faces of the Moon is the story of five women from five different countries (Argentina, Uruguay,
Romelia's Secret
1988-12-04
The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose
1982-07-30
Dalia and Daniel are a couple running away from the noise, the pollution and the social prejudice, s
Everyone's Hell So Feared
1981-09-09
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, l
Letters from Marusia
1975-12-26
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in C
Life Kills
2002-01-25
A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the cit
The Holy Inquisition
1974-06-06
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church
The Encounter of a Lonely Man
1974-10-23
Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl fr
Aunt Alejandra
1979-08-09
The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a fa
Y Tu Mamá También
2001-06-08
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or
El hombre del puente
1976-09-08
A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.
María Bonita
2015-10-01
The Mexican diva of cinema, María Felix, age 80, is staying as a guest at the home of a family in Ve
Serpientes y escaleras
1992-12-04
Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very close f
I Wanted to Find You
2018-06-29
Diego, just a few weeks away from his wedding to Julia, the perfect bride, is forced by his father t
For Better, For Worse
2019-03-15
Sebastian and Valeria are about to get married. Everything seems perfect but a woman tries to seduce
Violent Stories
1985-08-29
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
El héroe desconocido
1981-01-01
An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues in his
La leyenda del tambor
1981-09-17
In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains
Cerulia
2017-10-27
Cerulia comes back home to bid her final farewell, but her childhood memories and grandparents prese
Inmaculada
1950-09-15
A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she sit
Felipe de Jesús
1949-08-05
Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.
Mundos cósmicos
2023-12-31
Drugs won’t solve your problems, but they might help. At least that’s what Memo, a artist tortured b
La posada
2023-12-15
The Mendoza family gathers yearly for Posada. Diego's girlfriend Caro hosts this year. Secrets and c
Las Ladrilleras
2006-12-31
Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
2001-06-08
On-set documentary about the making of the film "Y tu mamá también."
The Dogs of War
1980-12-17
Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small Afri
El repartidor de pensamientos
1996-01-01
The Other Conquest
1999-04-01
The film is a drama about the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of Mexico told from the perspe