Diana Bracho

Born: 1944-12-12

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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Y Tu Mamá También

as Silvia Allende de Iturbide
Released: 2001-06-08

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a...

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The Exorcist

as La Serpiente (voice)
Released: 2022-11-02

Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an...

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All the Silence

as Diana
Released: 2023-10-06

Miriam teaches sign language in the mornings and is part of a professional theater production in...

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Castle of Purity

as Utopía
Released: 1973-05-10

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order...

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Las Poquianchis

as Adelina
Released: 1976-11-17

During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine...

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What a Father!

as uncredited
Released: 2022-02-09

Pedro is a single man in his forties who likes to party, has no children and lives at night....

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Aunt Alejandra

as Lucia
Released: 1979-08-09

The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of...

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Serpientes y escaleras

as Adelaida
Released: 1992-12-04

Two young girls used to play Serpents and Ladders. One of them always won, but they are very...

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Letters from Marusia

as Luisa
Released: 1975-12-26

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town...

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I Wanted to Find You

as uncredited
Released: 2018-06-29

Diego, just a few weeks away from his wedding to Julia, the perfect bride, is forced by his...

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Everyone's Hell so Feared

as Andrea
Released: 1981-09-09

The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and...

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Dreaming of Julia

as Beta
Released: 2003-10-24

The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.

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Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia

as uncredited
Released: 1986-05-08

Based on the true story of boys from Brazilian jails taken to the state border and abandoned...

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Buddah's Head

as Tomás's Mother (voice)
Released: 2009-05-17

Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid...

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Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman

as Gina López
Released: 1996-04-11

Gina is a modern business woman in her late forties, she has a lover named Adrian, who she sees...

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Burn the Bridges

as Catalina
Released: 2007-04-05

Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. She is cared for by her...

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Amorous Pancho Villa

as Señora Corral
Released: 2013-09-20

The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into...

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La noche de las flores

as uncredited
Released: 2011-09-23

The story of a wooing in which the stepdaughter, Elena, seduces her stepmother. A love story...

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Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el

as J-ok'el
Released: 2007-03-02

An unworldly and closed-minded American travels to a small village in exotic Chiapas, Mexico; at...

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For Better, For Worse

as Elena
Released: 2019-03-15

Sebastian and Valeria are about to get married. Everything seems perfect but a woman tries to...

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Chin-Chin el Teporocho

as uncredited
Released: 1976-08-15

Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love...

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The Holy Inquisition

as Mariana de Carvajal
Released: 1974-06-06

A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic...

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Round

as María Magdalena
Released: 1986-08-16

Loosely based on the novel "Leakage, iron and fire" by Paco Ignacio Taibo I, "Redondo" is an...

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My Universe in Lowercase

as Josefina
Released: 2013-11-08

Director Hatuey Viveros' beautiful film unfolds as a fascinating exploration of contemporary...

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The Faces of the Moon

as Magdalena Hoyos
Released: 2002-05-17

The Faces of the Moon is the story of five women from five different countries (Argentina,...

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Divine Confusion

as Julia
Released: 2008-09-26

The Greek Olimpian Gods engage in the human life experience to its full intensity, for which...

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La leyenda del tambor

as Paula
Released: 1981-09-17

In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the...

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El héroe desconocido

as Chela
Released: 1981-01-01

An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues ​​in...

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Violent Stories

as Diana
Released: 1985-08-29

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

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The Birthday of the Dog

as Silvia Ballesteros
Released: 1975-09-10

Two couples. One of the husbands kills his wife. He is temporarily helped by the other couple....

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Martin at Dawn

as Lucía
Released: 2013-08-16

When Martin's car breaks down in the middle of the desert, he has no choice but to head off...

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Eros una vez María

as María, madre de Tonatiuh
Released: 2007-11-09

When Tonatiuh loses his beloved Maria, grief and obsession to be loved lead him to seek love in...

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Life Kills

as Reportera
Released: 2002-01-25

A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the...

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Romelia's Secret

as Dolores de Román
Released: 1988-12-04

The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.

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La Casa de Bernarda Alba

as Amelia
Released: 1974-10-25

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Inmaculada

as Rosalía (Niña)
Released: 1950-09-15

A single mother discovers her daughter getting ready to elope with an unworthy boyfriend, so she...

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3:19

as Lucía
Released: 2008-06-20

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The Encounter of a Lonely Man

as Renata
Released: 1974-10-23

Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a...

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Las asesinas del panadero

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-01

Mexican feature film

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María: La Diva Eterna

as Self
Released: 2023-04-06

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El hombre del puente

as uncredited
Released: 1976-09-08

A man without identity/citizenship papers is stuck in the no-man's-land between two countries.

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Felipe de Jesús

as Rosalia (Niña)
Released: 1949-08-05

Biography of the first Catholic Saint to be born in Mexico.

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Cerulia

as (Voice)
Released: 2017-10-27

Cerulia comes back home to bid her final farewell, but her childhood memories and grandparents...

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María Bonita

as María Félix
Released: 2015-10-01

The Mexican diva of cinema, María Felix, age 80, is staying as a guest at the home of a family...

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Mundos cósmicos

as uncredited
Released: 2023-12-31

Drugs won’t solve your problems, but they might help. At least that’s what Memo, a artist...

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Burning for Revenge

as Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo
First aired: 2008-01-21

Fuego en la sangre is a telenovela that began transmissions on January 21, 2008, through...

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Mi marido tiene familia

as Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega
First aired: 2017-06-05

Julieta is quite happy in her relationship with her live in boyfriend, Robert... and thrilled...

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Bajo la misma piel

as Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
First aired: 2003-09-15

Bajo la misma piel, or internationally known as Under your Skin, is a Mexican television series...

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Killer Women

as Norma
First aired: 2008-06-17

Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or...

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Quiero Amarte

as Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos
First aired: 2013-10-21

Karyme Lozano, Cristian de la Fuente and Adriana Louvier will star as the protagonists, while...

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Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

as Self
First aired: 1997-09-26

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Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

as Diana Bracho
First aired: 1997-09-26

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Den of Wolves

as Leonora Navarro
First aired: 1986-10-13

Cuna de lobos is a Mexican soap opera produced by Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las...

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Secrets at the Hotel

as Teresa Alarcón
First aired: 2016-01-25

The story of Secrets at the Hotel begins in 1908. Julio Olmedo and Isabel Alarcón travel on the...

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Heridas de Amor

as Bertha de Aragón
First aired: 2006-04-03

Heridas de Amor is a Mexican telenovela from Televisa. It is a remake of the telenovela Valeria...

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Capricho

as Eugenia Montaño de Aranda
First aired: 1993-01-11

Story about a woman that is unhappily married and with two daughters. She constantly reprimands...

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Rafaela

as Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega
First aired: 2011-01-31

Rafaela is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is based on the...

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Cadenas de amargura

as Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara
First aired: 1991-01-01

After her parents death, the little Cecilia is under the care of her aunts: Natalia and...

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El derecho de nacer

as Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
First aired: 2001-02-05

El Derecho de Nacer is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El...

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El show: crónica de un asesinato

as Self / Leonora Navarro (archive footage)
First aired: 2023-06-06

The murder of Paco Stanley, the most popular comedian on television in Mexico, unleashes a...

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Alondra

as Alondra
First aired: 1995-01-23

Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by...

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Léemelo

as Self
First aired: 2022-08-29

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Eternamente Amándonos

as Martina Rangel Vda. de Iturbide
First aired: 2023-02-27

Paula and Rogelio's whirlwind romance leads the two to get married in secret. When Paula arrives...

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Papá soltero

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-02-11

Papá soltero was a series on the Televisa network that began on February 11, 1987 and ended on...

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Las Lunas del Auditorio

as Self
First aired: 2002-09-04

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Pasión y poder

as Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna
First aired: 1988-08-08

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