Diana Bracho
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Diana Bracho is a Mexican
film
, television
and stage
actress.
, the niece of actress Andrea Palma
and the mother 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. He died in march of 2011.
. 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 the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas
. She has been involved in co-productions with countries such as The 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 villanous Evangelina Vizcaíno in Cadenas de Amargura (1991), produced by Carlos Sotomayor. She is set to play the role of the black widows in the third season of Mujeres Asesinas.
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and stage
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
actress.
Early life
Diana Bracho is the daughter of actor/director Julio BrachoJulio Bracho
Julio Bracho Gavilán was a Mexican film director and screenwriter.Bracho was born as ninth of eleven children of Julio Bracho y Zuloaga and his wife Luz Pérez Gavilán...
, the niece of actress Andrea Palma
Andrea Palma (Actress)
Andrea Palma was a Mexican film actress. She was considered The First Diva of Mexican and Latin American Cinema after her role in the Mexican film La Mujer del Puerto.-Early life:...
and the mother 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. He died in march of 2011.
Career
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 BustamanteSergio Bustamante
Sergio Bustamante is a Mexican Artist and sculptor. Though born in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, Sergio Bustamante has lived in the Guadalajara area since early childhood...
. 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
Letters from Marusia
Letters from Marusia is a 1976 Mexican film directed by Chilean Miguel Littín. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Gian Maria Volonté...
(1976) and Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996). On August 6, 2002 she was appointed president of the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas
Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas
The Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas was founded on July 3, 1946 in Mexico City.-History:The following people were present before a notary public during the signing of the document:...
. She has been involved in co-productions with countries such as The Chess Player (France); Edmilson (Germany), The Dogs of War
The Dogs of War (film)
The Dogs of War is a 1980 war film based upon the novel The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth, directed by John Irvin. It stars Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger as part of a small, international unit of mercenary soldiers privately hired to depose President Kimba of a fictional "Republic of...
(Britain), The Aleph (Italy), The legend of the Drum (Spain), Antonieta
Antonieta
Antonieta is a 1982 film by Spanish director Carlos Saura, starring Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla. The film, a Mexican-Spanish French co production, was based on a novel by Andrés Henestrosa...
(Spain) and On Wings of Eagles
On Wings of Eagles
On Wings of Eagles is a 1983 thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett. Set against the background of the Iranian revolution, it tells the story of the rescue of Paul Chiapparone and Bill Gaylord from prison in Tehran by a team of Electronic Data Systems executives led by retired Col....
(United States).
She starred in several television series and soap operas, notably as Leonora Navarro in the telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
Cuna de lobos
Cuna de lobos
Cuna de lobos is a Mexican soap opera produced by Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas in 1986 to 1987. The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico...
(1986), produced by Carlos Tellez. She also played the villanous Evangelina Vizcaíno in Cadenas de Amargura (1991), produced by Carlos Sotomayor. She is set to play the role of the black widows in the third season of Mujeres Asesinas.
Movies
- Martín al amanecer (2009) - Lucía
- Divina Confusión (2008) - Julia
- Quemar Las NavesQuemar las NavesQuemar las Naves is a 2007 Mexican film directed by Francisco Franco-Alba, based on the script co-written by actress Maria Reneé. The film was shot in the Mexican state of Zacatecas and addresses issues such as incest and homosexuality...
(2007) - Catalina - J-ok'elJ-ok'elJ-ok'el is a Mexican thriller of 2007, directed by Benjamin Williams. Who deviated from the usual stories about spirits showing an ending where the good guy do not always win and many lit environments, in a narrative designed to surprise connoisseurs of the genre...
(2007) - J-ok'el - El Umbral (2003) - Mercedes
- Vivir mata (2002)
- Dreaming of JuliaDreaming of JuliaDreaming of Julia is a 2003 film directed by Juan Gerard. The debut film by the director, the story is based on Gerard's childhood life in Cuba...
(2001) - Beta - Y tu mamá tambiénY tu mamá tambiénY tu mamá también is a 2001 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and co-written by Cuarón and his brother Carlos. The film is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys taking a road trip with a woman in her late twenties; it stars Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García...
(2001) - Silvia Allende de Iturbide - Las Caras De La Luna - Magdalena Hoyos
- La otra conquista (1998) - Doña Juana
- Un baúl lleno de miedo (1997)
- Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1995) - Gina López
- Serpientes y escaleras (1992)
- El Secreto de Romelia (1988) - Dolores de Roman
- Yo no lo sé de cierto, lo supongo (1982)
- AntonietaAntonietaAntonieta is a 1982 film by Spanish director Carlos Saura, starring Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla. The film, a Mexican-Spanish French co production, was based on a novel by Andrés Henestrosa...
(1982) - Juana - Entre paréntesis (1982)
- El héroe desconocido (1981)
- La leyenda del tambor (1981)
- Max Domino (1981)
- The Dogs of WarThe Dogs of War (film)The Dogs of War is a 1980 war film based upon the novel The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth, directed by John Irvin. It stars Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger as part of a small, international unit of mercenary soldiers privately hired to depose President Kimba of a fictional "Republic of...
(1980) - Nun - El infierno de todos tan temido (1979)
- La Tía AlejandraLa Tía AlejandraLa Tía Alejandra is a Mexican horror film of 1979, starring by Isabela Corona.-Plot:Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.-Cast:* Isabela Corona...
(1979) - Lucía - Crónica íntima (1976)
- Las Poquianchis (1976) - Adelina
- Actas de Marusia (1975) - Luisa
- El hombre del puente (1975)
- El cumpleaños del perro (1974) - Silvia
- El encuentro de un hombre solo (1974) - Renata Castillo
- Los MiserablesLos MiserablesLos Miserables is a well-known Chilean punk rock band formed in the early 1990s shortly after the demise of the military regime of Augusto Pinochet. The band is known for its songs charged with strong left-wing political ideas and anti-establishment commentary...
(1974) - Cossette - El castillo de la pureza (1973) - Utopía
- El Santo Oficio (1972) - Mariana De Carvajal
- Inmaculada (1950) - Rosalia (niña)
- San Felipe de Jesús (1949)
Televisión
- Rafaela (telenovela)Rafaela (telenovela)Rafaela is a Mexican telenovela, based on the Venezuelan telenovela of the same name. From June 20, 2011 to August 5, 2011, Univision aired double episodes weekdays from 1pm to 3pm central, replacing Niña de mi Corazón...
(2011) - Morelia de la Vega - Mujeres Asesinas 3 (2010) - Las Blanco,Viudas - Norma Blanco
- Locas de amor (2009)
- Fuego en la sangreFuego en la sangreFuego en la sangre is a 1966 Argentine film....
(2008) - Gabriela Acevedo de Elizondo - S.O.S: Sexo y otros secretos (2007) - Isadora
- Heridas de AmorHeridas de AmorHeridas de Amor is a Mexican telenovela by Televisa. It is a remake of the telenovela Valeria y Maximiliano.-Plot:Miranda San Llorente is a decisive, hip, young woman who has both feet on the ground. She has it all: beauty, money and class. Her father, millionaire Gonzalo San Llorente, puts all...
(2006) - Bertha de Aragón - Bajo la misma pielBajo la misma pielBajo la misma piel, or Under the same skin, was a Mexican television series produced by Televisa starting in 2003. It is an original telenovela from Martha Carrillo and Cristina García...
(2003) - Sara Ortiz Escalante - El derecho de nacer (2001) - Clemencia Rivera del Junco
- Abrázame muy fuerteAbrázame Muy FuerteAbrázame muy fuerte is a Mexican telenovela that aired in 2000–2001, under the production of Salvador Mejia and with Aracely Arámbula and Fernando Colunga as the protagonists.-Plot:...
(2000) - Actuación Especial - Infierno en el paraíso (1999) - Dariana Valdivia
- El privilegio de amarEl Privilegio de AmarEl Privilegio de Amar is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from 27 July 1998 through 26 February 1999...
(1998) - Ana Joaquina Velarde (joven) - El vuelo del águila (1996) - Sara Madero
- AlondraAlondra (telenovela)Alondra is a Mexican telenovela shown in 1995, written by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and produced by Carla Estrada, starring with Ana Colchero and the late Beatriz Sheridan...
(1995) - Alondra (voz solamente) - Retrato de familiaRetrato de FamiliaRetrato de Familia is a 1976 Spanish film directed by Antonio Giménez-Rico. It stars Antonio Ferrandis, Amparo Soler Leal and Miguel Bosé, making his film debut. This is Giménez-Rico ’s best known film. The script was written by him, based on the novel Mi idolatrado hijo Sisi , by Miguel...
(1995) - Irene Mariscal - Capricho (1993) - Eugenia
- Cadenas de amargura (1991) - Evangelina Vizcaíno
- Pasión y poder (1988) - Laura Gómes Luna
- Cuna de lobosCuna de lobosCuna de lobos is a Mexican soap opera produced by Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas in 1986 to 1987. The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico...
(1986) - Leonora Navarro de Larios - On Wings of EaglesOn Wings of EaglesOn Wings of Eagles is a 1983 thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett. Set against the background of the Iranian revolution, it tells the story of the rescue of Paul Chiapparone and Bill Gaylord from prison in Tehran by a team of Electronic Data Systems executives led by retired Col....
(1986) - Mrs. Dobuti - Esperándote (1985) - Isabel
- Leona Vicario (1982) (1982) - Leona Vicario
- El amor llegó más tarde (1979) - Mrs. Dobuti
- Ángel Guerra (1979) - Lorenza
- Los miserablesLos MiserablesLos Miserables is a well-known Chilean punk rock band formed in the early 1990s shortly after the demise of the military regime of Augusto Pinochet. The band is known for its songs charged with strong left-wing political ideas and anti-establishment commentary...
(1973) - Cosette - Mi primer amor (1973) - Elena