Personal Info
Birth date
1944-12-12 (80 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Also known as
-Diana Bracho
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.
Filmography
Y Tu Mamá También
7.418
Overview:
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.Rafaela
NYR
Overview:
Rafaela is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is based on the Venezuelan telenovela of the same name produced in 1977. Scarlet Ortiz and Jorge Poza star as the main protagonists, while Chantal Andere, Diana Bracho and Arturo Carmona star as the main antagonists. Though Rafaela was nominated for best female antagonist, best first actor, and best first actress, it did not win any awards. Canal de las Estrellas originally broadcast Rafaela at 5pm MDT from January 31 to March 11, 2011. From March 14 to July 15, 2011, it was moved to 4PM MDT. From June 20 to August 5, 2011, Univision transmitted Rafaela weekdays at 1pm central for 2 hours, replacing Niña de mi Corazón. From August 8, 2011 to October 14, 2011, one episode was shown weekdays at 1pm central.Killer Women
7.6
Overview:
Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind.Life Kills
5
Overview:
A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning after, with their respective friends, they remember the encounter and slowly begin to realize how sincere and honest that relationship was. When the opportunity arises, both struggle to meet again on a day in which a sudden and unusual disorder reigns in Mexico City.Burning for Revenge
7.521
Overview:
Fuego en la sangre is a telenovela that began transmissions on January 21, 2008, through Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas network. Starring Adela Noriega, Eduardo Yáñez, Diana Bracho, and Guillermo García Cantú. It is the Mexican remake of the Colombian soap operas Las Aguas Mansas and Pasion de Gavilanes. The theme song called "Para Siempre" is sung by Vicente Fernández. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 2009.Quiero Amarte
7.107
Overview:
Karyme Lozano, Cristian de la Fuente and Adriana Louvier will star as the protagonists, while Diana Bracho, Flavio Medina and Salvador Zerboni will star as the antagonists, and with the stellar participations of Alejandra Barros, José Elías Moreno and Olivia Bucio.Mi marido tiene familia
7.759
Overview:
Julieta is quite happy in her relationship with her live in boyfriend, Robert... and thrilled that she won't have to deal with in-laws since Robert doesn't know his family. Things start going downhill for the couple when they rent an apartment from a very eccentric family dealing with a traumatic incident from their past.Buddah's Head
3.7
Overview:
Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid being robbed, the thief accidentally kills in self-defense , with the relic . His life starts to change , forcing him to confront this crime and discover the sheer banality of existence. Seeking redemption faced with the mother of the thief and asks forgiveness , learning to forgive yourselfLa posada
7.8
Overview:
The Mendoza family gathers yearly for Posada. Diego's girlfriend Caro hosts this year. Secrets and cultural clashes emerge, making Caro reconsider joining the Mendoza family.The Exorcist
6.228
Overview:
Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman in danger of dying. Just when she thinks her possession has ended, she discovers that the evil presence hasn't disappeared yet. The director of the award-winning Here Comes the Devil and Late Phases adds a new twist to possession movies in one of this year's Latin American horror surprises.Alondra
2
Overview:
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. This telenovela contains 78 episodes.Amorous Pancho Villa
5
Overview:
The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was held by his closest collaborators. Conspicuous among the mourners were the four women with whom Villa was having intimate relationships at the time of his death. Now that Villa is no longer around to mediate and keep them apart, tensions between the women grow and intensify, with unexpected consequences. An intimate and human portrait of the Centaur of the North.Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
5.2
Overview:
Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she sees once in a while just to have sex. They are both attracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa: he admires his power while she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian to write a book about Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers, and that Villa's revolution never included her, nor the rest of the female half of the human species. Can the love of a woman and a man survive machismo?Letters from Marusia
5.3
Overview:
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.Eternamente Amándonos
2
Overview:
Paula and Rogelio's whirlwind romance leads the two to get married in secret. When Paula arrives at Rogelio's family home, his controlling and manipulative mother Martina becomes obsessed with ruining Paula's life.La leyenda del tambor
6.1
Overview:
In June 1808, Napoleon's troops invade Spain. A boy named Isidro will beat his drum in the mountains of El Bruc, making the French army believe that thousands of armed men are waiting to confront them.Divine Confusion
6.8
Overview:
The Greek Olimpian Gods engage in the human life experience to its full intensity, for which they choose Mexico City's trendy night club: "Olimpus Dancing Club". Once living in the mortal's world, the naughty Eros (with help of a gang of ill-behaved gods), is responsible for unleashing a forbidden passion that disrupts the lives of the members of two families of not-so-simple mortals.The Dogs of War
5.782
Overview:
Mercenary soldiers Jamie and Drew are hired by a large corporation to liberate Zangaro, a small African nation, from an despot. Havoc ensues.Las Poquianchis
6.9
Overview:
During the mid-1970s, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground. The corpses are from murdered prostitutes. The suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis".Secrets at the Hotel
6.983
Overview:
The story of Secrets at the Hotel begins in 1908. Julio Olmedo and Isabel Alarcón travel on the same train to the Gran Hotel, property of the Alarcón family. Both of them ignore that their lives will take a new twist in that place, produced by love, treason, and the secrets hidden there.What a Father!
8.3
Overview:
Pedro is a single man in his forties who likes to party, has no children and lives at night. Everything changes when he meets Alin. She mentions to him that she is looking for her dad and that there is a high probability that it is him.El derecho de nacer
2
Overview:
El Derecho de Nacer is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from 5 February 2001 to 25 May 2001. A remake of the popular 1981 telenovela of the same name, it stars Kate del Castillo and Saúl Lisazo.Acting
2025Regalo De Amor (50 Episodes) as Catalina
2023Mundos cósmicos as Unknown
2023La posada as Leticia
2023All the Silence as Diana
2023El show: crónica de un asesinato (5 Episodes) as Self / Leonora Navarro (archive footage)
2023María: La Diva Eterna as Self
2023Eternamente Amándonos (120 Episodes) as Martina Rangel Vda. de Iturbide
2022The Exorcist as La Serpiente (voice)
2022Léemelo (1 Episode) as Self
2022What a Father! as Unknown
2019For Better, For Worse as Elena
2018I Wanted to Find You as Unknown
2017Cerulia as (Voice)
2017Mi marido tiene familia (269 Episodes) as Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega
2016Secrets at the Hotel (80 Episodes) as Teresa Alarcón
2015María Bonita as María Félix
2013My Universe in Lowercase as Josefina
2013Quiero Amarte (161 Episodes) as Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos
2013Amorous Pancho Villa as Señora Corral
2013Martin at Dawn as Lucía
2011La noche de las flores as Unknown
2011Rafaela (120 Episodes) as Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega
2009Buddah's Head as Tomás's Mother (voice)
2008Divine Confusion as Julia
20083:19 as Lucía
2008Killer Women (1 Episode) as Norma
2008Burning for Revenge (205 Episodes) as Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo
2007Eros una vez María as María, madre de Tonatiuh
2007Burn the Bridges as Catalina
2007Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el as J-ok'el
2006Las Ladrilleras as Unknown
2006Heridas de Amor (130 Episodes) as Bertha de Aragón
2003Dreaming of Julia as Beta
2003Bajo la misma piel (91 Episodes) as Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
2002Las Lunas del Auditorio (1 Episode) as Self
2002The Faces of the Moon as Magdalena Hoyos
2002Life Kills as Reportera
2001Y Tu Mamá También as Silvia Allende de Iturbide
2001Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También' as Self
2001El derecho de nacer (80 Episodes) as Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
1997Conversando con Cristina Pacheco (1, 1 Episode) as Self, Diana Bracho
1996De muerte natural as Unknown
1996Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman as Gina López
1995Alondra (40 Episodes) as Alondra
1993Capricho (115 Episodes) as Eugenia Montaño de Aranda
1992Serpientes y escaleras as Adelaida
1991Cadenas de amargura (80 Episodes) as Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara
1989Las asesinas del panadero as Unknown
1988Romelia's Secret as Dolores de Román
1988Pasión y poder (1 Episode) as Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna
1988The Marked Hour (11 Episodes) as Unknown
1987Papá Soltero (1 Episode) as Unknown
1986Den of Wolves (85 Episodes) as Leonora Navarro
1986Round as María Magdalena
1986Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia as Unknown
1985Violent Stories as Diana
1982I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose as Dalia
1981La leyenda del tambor as Paula
1981Everyone's Hell So Feared as Andrea
1981Max Dominó as Unknown
1981El héroe desconocido as Chela
1980The Dogs of War as Nun
1979Aunt Alejandra as Lucia
1979Crónica íntima as Unknown
1976Las Poquianchis as Adelina
1976El hombre del puente as Unknown
1976Chin Chin el teporocho as Unknown
1975Letters from Marusia as Luisa
1975The Birthday of the Dog as Silvia Ballesteros
1974La Casa de Bernarda Alba as Amelia
1974The Encounter of a Lonely Man as Renata
1974The Holy Inquisition as Mariana de Carvajal
1973Castle of Purity as Utopía
1950Inmaculada as Rosalía (Niña)
1949Felipe de Jesús as Rosalia (Niña)