
Diana Bracho
Born: 1944-12-12
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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.
Known For

The Other Conquest

Violent Stories

Y Tu Mamá También

La leyenda del tambor

La posada

Las Poquianchis

Mundos cósmicos

The Exorcist

Life Kills

Letters from Marusia

Max Dominó

Burn the Bridges

What a Father!

María Bonita

Aunt Alejandra

Inmaculada

La casa de Bernarda Alba

Eros una vez María

The Dogs of War

The Faces of the Moon

Crónica íntima

I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose

De muerte natural

Castle of Purity

El repartidor de pensamientos

Dreaming of Julia

Amorous Pancho Villa

All the Silence

Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'

Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia

Martin at Dawn

Felipe de Jesús

Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el

Cerulia

María: La Diva Eterna

Las asesinas del panadero

Round

Buddah's Head

Divine Confusion

For Better, For Worse

3:19

El héroe desconocido

I Wanted to Find You

Serpientes y escaleras

The Holy Inquisition

La noche de las flores

My Universe in Lowercase

Las Ladrilleras

The Encounter of a Lonely Man

El hombre del puente

Romelia's Secret

Chin Chin el teporocho

Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman

Everyone's Hell So Feared
