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Diana Bracho

Acting Born Dec 12, 1944 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico 24 credits

Biography

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.

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Known for

Burning for Revenge

as Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo

Killer Women

as Norma

Full filmography

  • Conversando con Cristina Pacheco (1997) as Self
  • Conversando con Cristina Pacheco (1997) as Diana Bracho
  • Burning for Revenge (2008) as Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo
  • Y Tu Mamá También (2001) as Silvia Allende de Iturbide
  • Killer Women (2008) as Norma
  • Mi marido tiene familia (2017) as Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega
  • Regalo De Amor (2025) as Catalina
  • Las Lunas del Auditorio (2002) as Self
  • Alondra (1995) as Alondra
  • Heridas de Amor (2006) as Bertha de Aragón
  • Bajo la misma piel (2003) as Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
  • The Marked Hour (1988)
  • Rafaela (2011) as Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega
  • Hermanas, un amor compartido (2026)
  • Esperándote (1985) as Isabel
  • Quiero Amarte (2013) as Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos
  • Cadenas de amargura (1991) as Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara
  • Secrets at the Hotel (2016) as Teresa Alarcón
  • Capricho (1993) as Eugenia Montaño de Aranda
  • Den of Wolves (1986) as Leonora Navarro
  • Eternamente Amándonos (2023) as Martina Rangel de Iturbide
  • The Dogs of War (1980) as Nun
  • El derecho de nacer (2001) as Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
  • Pasión y poder (1988) as Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna