Diana Bracho

Diana Bracho
Born	Diana Bracho Bordes (1944-12-12) 12 December 1944 Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1949-1950, 1970-present
Spouse(s)	Felipe Bracho (?-?) (divorce) Rafael Cortés (?-2011) (his death)
Children	Andrea Bracho
Parent(s)	Julio Bracho (deceased) Diana Bordes Mangel (deceased)
Relatives	Andrea Palma (aunt) Marcela Bordes (cousin) Alexander de Bordes (first cousin) Julio Bracho (nephew) Dolores del Río (2nd degree family) Ramon Novarro (2nd degree family) Enrique Bordes Mangel (uncle, deceased)

Diana Bracho (born Diana Bracho Bordes, 12 December 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress.

Early life

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. He died in March 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 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 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 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,^[1] she rejected her participation.^[2]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Diana Bracho at the Internet Movie Database
• Diana Bracho official website
• Biografía de Diana Bracho (Spanish)