Diana Bracho
Actor
December 12, 1944 (81 years)
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.
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
Filmography
| 2026 | Sisters: A Shared Love · as Antonia |
| 2026 | |
| 2025 | A Gift Called Love · as Catalina |
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | La Posada · as Leticia |
| 2023 | All the Silence · as Diana |
| 2023 | Happily Ever After · as Martina Rangel Vda. De Iturbide |
| 2022 | La Exorcista · as La Serpiente (voice) |
| 2022 | |
| 2021 | Keeping My Family Together · as Luz Rueda |
| 2019 | For Better, for Worse · as Elena |
| 2018 | A ti te quería encontrar · as Sofía |
| 2017 | Mi Marido Tiene Familia · as Blanca Gómez Beltrán De Córcega |
| 2017 | ¡Ay Güey! · as Sra. Beatriz Rothstein |
| 2016 | The Hotel of Secrets · as Teresa Alarcón |
| 2014 | Villa, itinerario de una pasión · as Señora Corral |
| 2013 | Loving You is All I Want · as Lucrecia Ugarte De Montesinos |
| 2011 | My Universe in Lowercase · as Josefina |
| 2011 | Rafaela · as Morelia Echaverria De De La Vega |
| 2010 | Martín al amanecer · as Lucía |
| 2009 | Cabeza de buda · as Tomás's Mother (voice) |
| 2008 | Divina confusión · as Julia |
| 2008 | 3:19 · as Lucía |
| 2008 | Killer Women (2008) · as Norma |
| 2008 | Fuego en la Sangre · as Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. De Elizondo |
| 2007 | Eros una vez María · as María, Madre De Tonatiuh |
| 2007 | Sexo y otros secretos · as Isadora |
| 2007 | Quemar las naves · as Catalina |
| 2007 | Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el · as J-Ok'elOn Plex |
| 2006 | Wounds of Love · as Bertha De Aragón |
| 2003 | Cuban Blood · as Beta |
| 2003 | Under your Skin · as Sara Ortiz Escalante De Murillo |
| 2002 | The Faces of the Moon · as Magdalena Hoyos |
| 2002 | Life Kills · as Reportera |
| 2001 | Y tu mamá también · as Silvia Allende De Iturbide |
| 2001 | The Right to Be Born · as Clemencia Rivera De Del Junco |
| 1999 | A Christmas Carol · as Queta |
| 1998 | The Other Conquest · as Doña Juana |
| 1998 | The Right to Love · as Ana Joaquina Velarde Joven |
| 1997 | Un baúl lleno de miedo · as Cristina De Estévez |
| 1996 | Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda · as Gina López |
| 1995 | Retrato de familia · as Irene Mariscal |
| 1995 | Alondra · as Alondra |
| 1994 | The Flight Of The Eagle · as Sara Pérez De Madero |
| 1992 | Serpientes y escaleras · as Adelaida |
| 1991 | Cadenas de amargura · as Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara |
| 1988 | El secreto de Romelia · as Dolores De Román |
| 1988 | Passion and Power · as Ana Laura Montesinos De Gómez-Luna |
| 1988 | |
| 1987 | |
| 1986 | Den of Wolves · as Leonora Navarro |
| 1986 | Redondo · as María Magdalena |
| 1986 | On Wings of Eagles · as Mrs. Dobuti |
| 1985 | Historias violentas · as Diana |
| 1985 | Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real · as Aurora |
| 1982 | Antonieta · as Juana |
| 1982 | Entre paréntesis · as Cast |
| 1981 | La leyenda del tambor · as Paula |
| 1981 | El infierno de todos tan temido · as Andrea |
| 1981 | Histoires extraordinaires · as Cast |
| 1980 | The Dogs of War · as Nun |
| 1980 | La tía Alejandra · as Lucia |
| 1976 | |
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| 1975 | Letters from Marusia · as Luisa |
| 1975 | El cumpleaños del perro · as Silvia Ballesteros |
| 1974 | El encuentro de un hombre solo · as Renata |
| 1974 | The Holy Inquisition · as Mariana De Carvajal |
| 1973 | The Castle of Purity · as Utopía |
| 1950 | Inmaculada · as Rosalía (niña) |
| 1949 | Felipe de Jesús · as Rosalia (niña) |
| 2023 | María La Diva Eterna · as Self |
| 2022 | The Show: Chronicle of a Murder · as Self / Leonora Navarro (archive Footage) |
| 1997 | Conversing with Cristina Pacheco · as Diana Bracho |