Cast & creator
Diana Bracho
Best known for Burning for Revenge, Conversando con Cristina Pacheco, Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
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.
55
film credits
28
television credits
83
1949–2026 · acting roles
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (83)
Showing 83 of 83 credits
Burning for Revenge
Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo
2008
Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Self
1997Conversando con Cristina Pacheco
Diana Bracho
1997
Mi marido tiene familia
Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega
2017
Capricho
Eugenia Montaño de Aranda
1993
Killer Women
Norma
2008
Y Tu Mamá También
Silvia Allende de Iturbide
2001
The Marked Hour
1988
Alondra
Alondra
1995
Bajo la misma piel
Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
2003
Regalo de amor
Catalina
2025
Las Lunas del Auditorio
Self
2002
Cadenas de amargura
Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara
1991
Quiero Amarte
Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos
2013
Rafaela
Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega
2011
Wounds of Love
Bertha de Aragón
2006
Secrets at the Hotel
Teresa Alarcón
2016
El derecho de nacer
Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
2001
Hermanas, un amor compartido
2026
The Dogs of War
Nun
1980
Eternamente Amándonos
Martina Rangel de Iturbide
2023
Esperándote
Isabel
1985
Den of Wolves
Leonora Navarro
1986
Retrato de familia
Irene Mariscal
1995
What a Father!
2022
Infierno en el paraíso
Dariana Valdivia
1999
Pasión y poder
Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna
1988
The Exorcist
La Serpiente (voice)
2022
Los miserables
Cosette
1974
El show: crónica de un asesinato
Self / Leonora Navarro (archive footage)
2023
Léemelo
Self
2022
My Universe in Lowercase
Josefina
2013
Papá Soltero
1987
Violent Stories
Diana
1985
Castle of Purity
Utopía
1973
The Other Conquest
Doña Juana
1999
Eros una vez María
María, madre de Tonatiuh
2007
María Bonita
María Félix
2015
Round
María Magdalena
1986
Romelia's Secret
Dolores de Román
1988
All the Silence
Diana
2023
La leyenda del tambor
Paula
1981
Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'
Self
2001
Las Ladrilleras
2006
For Better, For Worse
Elena
2019
El hombre del puente
1976
Letters from Marusia
Luisa
1975
El repartidor de pensamientos
1996
Crónica íntima
1979
Dreaming of Julia
Beta
2003
The Faces of the Moon
Magdalena Hoyos
2002
Aunt Alejandra
Lucia
1980
Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman
Gina López
1996
The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Renata
1974
Everyone's Hell So Feared
Andrea
1981
Chin Chin el teporocho
1976
The Birthday of the Dog
Silvia Ballesteros
1975
I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose
Dalia
1982
Las asesinas del panadero
1989
La casa de Bernarda Alba
Amelia
1974
La posada
Leticia
2023
Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
1986
Amorous Pancho Villa
Señora Corral
2013
María: La Diva Eterna
Self
2023
I Wanted to Find You
Sofía
2018
Cerulia
(Voice)
2017
Buddah's Head
Tomás's Mother (voice)
2009
La noche de las flores
2011
Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el
J-ok'el
2007
Las Poquianchis
Adelina
1976
Martin at Dawn
Lucía
2013
Felipe de Jesús
Rosalia (Niña)
1949
Burn the Bridges
Catalina
2007
The Holy Inquisition
Mariana de Carvajal
1974
Life Kills
Reportera
2002
Divine Confusion
Julia
2008
Serpientes y escaleras
Adelaida
1992
Mundos cósmicos
2023
3:19
Lucía
2008
El héroe desconocido
Chela
1983
Inmaculada
Rosalía (Niña)
1950
De muerte natural
1996