Diana Bracho
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Film
Y Tu Mamá También
Silvia Allende de Iturbide
2001
Series
Burning for Revenge
Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo
2008
Series
Killer Women
Norma
2008
Series
Mi marido tiene familia
Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega
2017
Series
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Self
1997
Series
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Diana Bracho
1997
Series
The Marked Hour
1988
Film
The Dogs of War
Nun
1980
Series
Den of Wolves
Leonora Navarro
1986
Series
Capricho
Eugenia Montaño de Aranda
1993
Series
Bajo la misma piel
Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
2003
Series
Quiero Amarte
Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos
2013
Series
Regalo de amor
Catalina
2025
Series
Las Lunas del Auditorio
Self
2002
Series
Wounds of Love
Bertha de Aragón
2006
Series
Infierno en el paraíso
Dariana Valdivia
1999
Series
Hermanas, un amor compartido
2026
Series
Alondra
Alondra
1995
Series
Cadenas de amargura
Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara
1991
Series
Eternamente Amándonos
Martina Rangel de Iturbide
2023
Series
Rafaela
Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega
2011
Series
Pasión y poder
Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna
1988
Series
El derecho de nacer
Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
2001
Film
Violent Stories
Diana
1985
Series
Secrets at the Hotel
Teresa Alarcón
2016
Series
Retrato de familia
Irene Mariscal
1995
Film
My Universe in Lowercase
Josefina
2013
Film
The Exorcist
La Serpiente (voice)
2022
Series
Esperándote
Isabel
1985
Film
María Bonita
María Félix
2015
Film
Las Ladrilleras
2006
Series
Los miserables
Cosette
1974
Film
Round
María Magdalena
1986
Film
Eros una vez María
María, madre de Tonatiuh
2007
Series
El show: crónica de un asesinato
Self / Leonora Navarro (archive footage)
2023
Film
What a Father!
2022
Film
Cerulia
(Voice)
2017
Series
Léemelo
Self
2022
Film
Crónica íntima
1979
Film
Castle of Purity
Utopía
1973
Film
Inmaculada
Rosalía (Niña)
1950
Film
Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el
J-ok'el
2007
Film
El hombre del puente
1976
Series
Papá Soltero
1987
Film
Dreaming of Julia
Beta
2003
Film
Amorous Pancho Villa
Señora Corral
2013
Film
Letters from Marusia
Luisa
1975
Film
Everyone's Hell So Feared
Andrea
1981
Film
I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose
Dalia
1982
Film
All the Silence
Diana
2023
Film
Martin at Dawn
Lucía
2013
Film
Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
Self
2001
Film
Las Poquianchis
Adelina
1976
Film
La posada
Leticia
2023
Film
The Other Conquest
Doña Juana
1999
Film
For Better, For Worse
Elena
2019
Film
Life Kills
Reportera
2002
Film
El repartidor de pensamientos
1996
Film
Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
1986
Film
The Birthday of the Dog
Silvia Ballesteros
1975
Film
Felipe de Jesús
Rosalia (Niña)
1949
Film
Aunt Alejandra
Lucia
1980
Film
La leyenda del tambor
Paula
1981
Film
El héroe desconocido
Chela
1983
Film
Burn the Bridges
Catalina
2007
Film
Chin Chin el teporocho
1976
Film
Divine Confusion
Julia
2008
Film
Buddah's Head
Tomás's Mother (voice)
2009
Film
The Faces of the Moon
Magdalena Hoyos
2002
Film
Serpientes y escaleras
Adelaida
1992
Film
María: La Diva Eterna
Self
2023
Film
I Wanted to Find You
Sofía
2018
Film
La noche de las flores
2011
Film
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Gina López
1996
Film
De muerte natural
1996
Film
The Holy Inquisition
Mariana de Carvajal
1974
Film
3:19
Lucía
2008
Film
Las asesinas del panadero
1989
Film
Romelia's Secret
Dolores de Román
1988
Film
The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Renata
1974
Film
Max Dominó
1981
Film
Mundos cósmicos
2023
Film
La casa de Bernarda Alba
Amelia
1974