Leila Diniz

Leila Roque Diniz 25 March 1945 14 June 1972 was a Brazilian television movie and theatre actress whose liberal ideas and attitudes about sex had raised the discontent of both the feminists and the Brazilian military government of the 1960s Born in a middleclass family and the daughter of a communist activist 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 telenovelas and various commercials In 1967 she also started to make movies She died on 14 June 1972 aged 27 at the peak of fame coming back from a movie festival in Australia where she won a Best Actress award for the movie Mãos Vazias Empty Hands in the Japan Airlines Flight 471 crash in India