Diana Bracho

Diana Bracho
Diana Bracho
	Bracho in 2018
Born	Diana Guadalupe Bracho y Bordes Mangel; December 12, 1944 (age 76); 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 Guadalupe Bracho y Bordes Mangel, in Mexico City, Mexico, 12 December 1944) 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[]

Bracho in 2015

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 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 (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[]

Diana Bracho

Films[]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1949	Philip of Jesus	Child Rosalia	Uncredited
1950	Immaculate	Child Rosalia
1973	The Castle of Purity	Utopía
1974	El santo oficio	Mariana de Carvajal
1974		Renata Castillo
1975		Silvia Ballesteros
1976	Actas de Marusia	Luisa
1976		La Muchacha
1976	Las Poquianchis	Adelina
1977	No More, No Less	Unknown role
1979	La tía Alejandra	Lucía
1980	The Dogs of War	Nun
1981		Andrea
1981		Paula
1981		Chela
1982	Antonieta	Juana	Uncredited
1982		Dalia
1986		María Magdalena
1988		Dolores de Román
1992		Adelaida
1996	Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda	Gina López
1997	Un baúl lleno de miedo	Cristina de Estévez
1998		Sarah Narro
1998	The Other Conquest	Doña Juana
2001	Y tu mamá también	Silvia Allende de Iturbide
2002		Diana	Short film
2002		Reportera
2002	Las caras de la luna	Magdalena Hoyos
2003		Mercedes	Short film
2003	Dreaming of Julia	Beta
2007	J-ok'el	J-ok'el
2007		María, madre de Tonatiuh
2007	Quemar las Naves	Catalina
2008		Lucía
2008		Julia
2009		Tomás's mother	Voice role
2010		Lucía
2011	Mi universo en minúsculas	Josefina
2015		María Félix
2015		Sra Corral

Television performances[]

Diana Bracho

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1973	Mi primer amor	Elena
1973	Los miserables	Cosette
1974	La casa de Bernarda Alba	Amelia	Television film
1979	El amor llego mas tarde	Mrs. Dobuti
1979		Lorenza
1981		Luisa
1981	Histoires extraordinaires	Unknown role	"Le joueur d'échecs de Maelzel" (Season 1, Episode 1)
1982	Leona Vicario	Leona Vicario
1985	Esperándote	Isabel
1986	On Wings of Eagles	Mrs. Dobuti	"Part II" (Season 1, Episode 2)
1986	Cuna de lobos	Leonora Navarro Castillejos de Larios
1988	Pasión y poder	Ana Laura Gómez Luna
1991	Cadenas de amargura	Evangelina Vizcaíno
1993	Capricho	Eugenia
1994	El vuelo del águila	Sara Pérez de Madero
1995	Mujer, casos de la vida real	Aurora	"Quién soy yo?" (Season 11, Episode 3)
1995	Alondra	Alondra
1995–96	Retrato de familia	Alondra
1998–99	El privilegio de amar	Young Ana Joaquina Velarde
1999	Infierno en el paraíso	Dariana Valdivia
2001	El derecho de nacer	Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
2003	Bajo la misma piel	Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
2006	Heridas de amor	Bertha de Aragón
2007	Sexo y otros secretos	Isadora	4 episodes
2008	Fuego en la sangre	Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo	Main Antagonist
2010	Locas de amor	Regina
2010	Mujeres asesinas	Norma Blanco	"Las Blanco, viudas" (Season 3, Episode 4)
2011	Rafaela	Morelia	Main Antagonist
2013–14	Quiero amarte	Lucrecia	Main Antagonist
2016	El hotel de los secretos	Teresa de Alarcón	Main Antagonist
2017–2019	Mi marido tiene familia	Blanca Gómez de Córcega	Co-Protagonist
2021	¿Qué le pasa a mi familia?	Luz Torres Mendoza	Protagonist

Awards and nominations[]

Year	Awards	Category	Telenovela	Result
1987	Premios TVyNovelas	Best Lead Actress	Cuna de lobos	Won
1992		Best Lead Actress	Cadenas de amargura
1994		Best Female Antagonist	Capricho
2007		Best First Actress	Heridas de Amor	Nominated
2009		Best Female Antagonist	Fuego en la sangre	Won

References[]

External links[]

[1] Entre Ximena y Silvia protagónico "La Tempestad": Mejía. Con Maxine Woodside Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Diana Bracho no estará en La tempestad

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1983–1999	Silvia Pinal (1983) Christian Bach (1984) Susana Alexander (1985) Angélica Aragón (1986) Diana Bracho (1987) Verónica Castro (1988) Christian Bach (1989) María Sorté (1990) Verónica Castro (1991) Diana Bracho (1992) María Sorté (1993) Edith González (1994) Rebecca Jones (1995) Lucero (1996) Daniela Castro (1997) Angélica Aragón (1998) Helena Rojo (1999)
2000–2019	Leticia Calderón (2000) Lucero (2001) Adela Noriega (2002) Yadhira Carrillo (2003) Adela Noriega (2004) Bárbara Mori (2005) Lucero (2006) Angélica Vale (2007) Angélica Rivera (2008) Blanca Guerra (2009) Itatí Cantoral (2010) Angelique Boyer (2011) Sandra Echeverría (2012) Victoria Ruffo (2013) Erika Buenfil (2014) Adriana Louvier (2015) Maite Perroni (2016) Angelique Boyer (2017) Maite Perroni (2018) Angelique Boyer (2019)
2020–present	Sandra Echeverría (2020)

show v t TVyNovelas Award for Best Antagonist Actress
1983–1999	Sylvia Pasquel (1983) Rocío Banquells (1984) Rebecca Rambal (1985) Rebecca Jones (1986) María Rubio (1987) Laura Zapata (1988) Margarita Sanz (1989) Susana Dosamantes (1990) July Furlong (1991) Cynthia Klitbo (1992) Laura Zapata (1993) Diana Bracho (1994) María Rubio (1995) Itatí Cantoral (1996) Chantal Andere (1997) Eugenia Cauduro (1998) Cynthia Klitbo (1999)
2000–2019	Mónika Sánchez (2000) Nailea Norvind (2001) Itatí Cantoral (2002) Sasha Montenegro (2003) Angélica Rivera (2004) Helena Rojo (2005) Daniela Romo (2006) Edith González (2007) Chantal Andere (2008) Diana Bracho (2009) Leticia Calderón (2010) Rocío Banquells (2011) Daniela Romo (2012) Leticia Calderón (2013) Marjorie de Sousa (2014) Daniela Castro (2015) Laura Carmine (2016) Azela Robinson (2017) Daniela Castro (2018) Claudia Martín (2019)
2020–present	Sandra Echeverría (2020)

Diana Bracho
Bracho in 2018
Born	Diana Guadalupe Bracho y Bordes Mangel (1944-12-12) December 12, 1944 (age 76) 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)