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{{short description|Brazilian actress}}
{{portuguese name|Roque|Diniz}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Leila Diniz
| image = Leila Diniz, 1971.tif
| alt =
| caption = Diniz in 1971
| birth_name = Leila Roque Diniz
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|03|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Niterói]], [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|06|14|1945|03|25|df=y}}
| death_place = near [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
| other_names =
| spouse(s) = {{marriage|Domingos de Oliveira |1962|1965|reason={{abbr|sep.|separated}}}}<br /> {{marriage|[[Ruy Guerra]]|1965}}
| years_active = 1962–1972
| known_for =
| occupation = Actress
}}

'''Leila Roque Diniz''' (25 March 1945 – 14 June 1972) was a Brazilian television, film and stage actress, whose liberal ideas and attitudes about sex had raised the discontent of both the [[feminism|feminists]] and the [[Brazilian military government]] of the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.netsaber.com.br/biografias/ver_biografia_c_297.html |title=Leila Diniz |publisher=Netsaber Biografias |access-date=23 March 2013}}</ref>

She died on 14 June 1972, aged 27, at the peak of fame, in the aircraft accident of [[Japan Airlines Flight 471]] near [[New Delhi]], [[India]].

== Biography ==
Born in a [[middle-class]] family and the daughter of a [[communism|communist]] activist,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://entretenimento.uol.com.br/ultnot/livros/trechos/2008/12/02/ult5747u34.jhtm |title=Leia trecho de "Perfis Brasileiros - Leila Diniz", Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos |date=December 2, 2008 |publisher=[[Universo Online|UOL]] |access-date=23 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706160902/http://entretenimento.uol.com.br/ultnot/livros/trechos/2008/12/02/ult5747u34.jhtm |archive-date=6 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Leila worked as a [[kindergarten]] [[teacher]] at age 15. At age 17, she met [[movie director]] [[Domingos de Oliveira]], with whom she lived until age 21. Between 1962 and 1964 she had minor roles on stage.

In 1965, Diniz started working in television, where she made several ''[[telenovela]]s'' and various [[Television advertisement|commercials]]. In 1967, she also started to make [[movie]]s.

In 1969, she gave an interview to the [[satire|satirical]] newspaper [[O Pasquim]] during which she said: "It's possible to love one person and go to bed with another. It has happened to me."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://entretenimento.uol.com.br/ultnot/livros/trechos/2008/12/02/ult5747u34.jhtm |title=Leia trecho de "Perfis Brasileiros - Leila Diniz", Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos |date=December 2, 2008 |publisher=[[Universo Online|UOL]] |access-date=23 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706160902/http://entretenimento.uol.com.br/ultnot/livros/trechos/2008/12/02/ult5747u34.jhtm |archive-date=6 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Due to statements like that and the many [[Profanity|profanities]] (albeit replaced with asterisks) that she said during the interview, the article angered the military, and [[Alfredo Buzaid]], Minister of Justice of President [[Emílio Garrastazu Médici]]'s government, used it as a pretext to decree [[censorship]] to all newspapers and magazines in Brazil. The law was known as the "Leila Diniz decree" due to this incident.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EMI132932-15228,00-A+CONSPIRACAO+FEMINISTA.html |title=A conspiração feminista |author=Laura Greenhalgh| date=March 4, 2002 |publisher=[[Editora Globo]] | work=[[Época (Brazilian magazine)|Época]] |access-date=24 November 2014}}</ref> Diniz had her contract with [[Rede Globo|TV Globo]] terminated under the excuse of "moral problems," but in 1970 she was hired as a juror of TV host [[Flávio Cavalcanti]]'s show on [[Rede Tupi|TV Tupi]] (Cavalcanti, curiously, had a reputation as a "[[right-wing]]" man, yet he not only hired Diniz, but protected her and hid her in his country house when she was persecuted by the military repressive forces).

In 1971, Leila had a short participation as a [[burlesque]] star. In the same year,{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} she married movie director [[Ruy Guerra]], father of her only daughter.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Leila Diniz - personalidades - Estadao.com.br - Acervo|url=http://acervo.estadao.com.br/noticias/personalidades,leila-diniz,718,0.htm|access-date=2021-03-22|website=Estadão - Acervo}}</ref> She offended the conservative members of society by going to the beach in [[bikini]] when six months pregnant, but expressed surprise at the reaction, saying that the doctor just had recommended the sun as beneficial to her pregnancy and her unborn child.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-03-25|title=Os 70 anos de Leila Diniz, símbolo da revolução feminina|url=https://blogs.ne10.uol.com.br/social1/2015/03/25/os-70-anos-de-leila-diniz-simbolo-da-revolucao-feminina/|access-date=2021-03-22|website=Blog Social 1|language=pt-BR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-12-16|title=Barrigão na praia, musas sexuais grávidas… as mulheres que quebraram tabus e fizeram história|url=https://glamurama.uol.com.br/barrigao-na-praia-musas-sexuais-gravidas-as-mulheres-que-quebraram-tabus-e-fizeram-historia/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-22|website=Glamurama|language=pt-BR}}</ref>

In 1972, coming back from a [[movie festival]] in [[Australia]], where she won a Best Actress award for the movie ''Mãos Vazias'' ("Empty Hands"), she died in the [[Japan Airlines Flight 471]] crash in [[India]].

== Filmography ==
*1966: ''[[Todas as Mulheres do Mundo (film)|Todas as Mulheres do Mundo]]'' - Maria Alice
*1967: ''Juego Peligroso'' - Servant (segment "Divertimento")
*1967: ''O Mundo Alegre de Helô'' - Luisinha
*1967: ''Mineirinho, Vivo ou Morto'' - Maria
*1968: ''Edu, Coração de Ouro'' - Tatiana
*1968: ''[[Hunger for Love]]'' - Ulla
*1968: ''O Homem Nu'' - Mariana
*1968: ''A Madona de Cedro'' - Marta
*1969: ''Os Paqueras'' - herself
*1969: ''Corisco, o Diabo Loiro'' - Dadá
*1970: ''O Donzelo'' - herself ([[cameo appearance|cameo]])
*1970: ''[[The Alienist (film)|The Alienist]]'' - Eudóxia
*1971: ''Mãos Vazias'' - Ida
*1972: ''Amor, Carnaval e Sonhos''
*1977: ''O Dia Marcado'' - (final film role)

=== About her ===
*1987: ''Leila Diniz'' (with [[Louise Cardoso]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epipoca.uol.com.br/filmes_detalhes.php?idf=11911 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-07-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.is/20070516081046/http://epipoca.uol.com.br/filmes_detalhes.php?idf=11911 |archive-date=2007-05-16 }}</ref>

== References ==
''This article incorporates information from the revision as of 24 November 2014 of the equivalent articles on the [[:pt:Main Page|Portuguese Wikipedia]].''

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== External links ==
* {{imdb name|id=0227735}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100804005157/http://www.adorocinemabrasileiro.com.br/personalidades/leila-diniz/leila-diniz.asp Leila Diniz] (in Portuguese)
* [http://www.terra.com.br/istoegente/100mulheres/comportamento/leila.htm A revolução pela alegria] (in Portuguese)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715175730/http://www.revistawave.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/01/leila-diniz-1945-1972/ Leila Diniz (1945-1972)] (in Portuguese)

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[[Category:1945 births]]
[[Category:1972 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Niterói]]
[[Category:Brazilian film actresses]]
[[Category:Brazilian stage actresses]]
[[Category:Brazilian telenovela actresses]]
[[Category:Brazilian educators]]
[[Category:20th-century Brazilian actresses]]
[[Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in India]]
[[Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1972]]

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