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

• Hermanas, un amor compartido
• Regalo de amor — Catalina
• 2023All the Silence — Diana
• Eternamente Amándonos — Martina Rangel de Iturbide
• 2023La posada — Leticia
• 2023Mundos cósmicos
• 2022The Exorcist — La Serpiente (voice)
• 2022What a Father!
• 2019For Better, For Worse — Elena
• 2018I Wanted to Find You — Sofía
• 2017Cerulia — (Voice)
• Mi marido tiene familia — Blanca Gómez Beltrán de Córcega
• Secrets at the Hotel — Teresa Alarcón
• 2015María Bonita — María Félix
• 2013Amorous Pancho Villa — Señora Corral
• 2013Martin at Dawn — Lucía
• 2013My Universe in Lowercase — Josefina
• Quiero Amarte — Lucrecia Ugarte de Montesinos
• 2011La noche de las flores
• Rafaela — Morelia Echaverria de de La Vega
• 2009Buddah's Head — Tomás's Mother (voice)
• 20083:19 — Lucía
• Burning for Revenge — Doña Gabriela Acevedo Vda. de Elizondo
• 2008Divine Confusion — Julia
• Killer Women — Norma
• 2007Burn the Bridges — Catalina
• 2007Curse of the Weeping Woman: J-ok'el — J-ok'el
• 2007Eros una vez María — María, madre de Tonatiuh
• 2006Las Ladrilleras
• Wounds of Love — Bertha de Aragón
• Bajo la misma piel — Sara Ortiz Escalante de Murillo
• 2003Dreaming of Julia — Beta
• 2002Life Kills — Reportera
• 2002The Faces of the Moon — Magdalena Hoyos
• El derecho de nacer — Clemencia Rivera de del Junco
• 2001Y Tu Mamá También — Silvia Allende de Iturbide
• Infierno en el paraíso — Dariana Valdivia
• 1999The Other Conquest — Doña Juana
• Conversando con Cristina Pacheco — Self, Diana Bracho
• 1996Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman — Gina López
• 1996De muerte natural
• 1996El repartidor de pensamientos
• Alondra — Alondra
• Retrato de familia — Irene Mariscal
• Capricho — Eugenia Montaño de Aranda
• 1992Serpientes y escaleras — Adelaida
• Cadenas de amargura — Evangelina Vizcaíno Lara
• 1989Las asesinas del panadero
• Pasión y poder — Ana Laura Montesinos de Gómez-Luna
• 1988Romelia's Secret — Dolores de Román
• The Marked Hour
• Papá Soltero
• Den of Wolves — Leonora Navarro
• 1986Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia
• 1986Round — María Magdalena
• Esperándote — Isabel
• 1985Violent Stories — Diana
• 1983El héroe desconocido — Chela
• 1982I Don't Know For Sure, But I Suppose — Dalia
• 1981Everyone's Hell So Feared — Andrea
• 1981La leyenda del tambor — Paula
• 1981Max Dominó
• 1980Aunt Alejandra — Lucia
• 1980The Dogs of War — Nun
• 1979Crónica íntima
• 1976Chin Chin el teporocho
• 1976El hombre del puente
• 1976Las Poquianchis — Adelina
• 1975Letters from Marusia — Luisa
• 1975The Birthday of the Dog — Silvia Ballesteros
• 1974La casa de Bernarda Alba — Amelia
• Los miserables — Cosette
• 1974The Encounter of a Lonely Man — Renata
• 1974The Holy Inquisition — Mariana de Carvajal
• 1973Castle of Purity — Utopía
• 1950Inmaculada — Rosalía (Niña)
• 1949Felipe de Jesús — Rosalia (Niña)

Appearances as themselves (5)

• El show: crónica de un asesinato — Self / Leonora Navarro (archive footage)
• 2023María: La Diva Eterna — Self
• Léemelo — Self
• Las Lunas del Auditorio — Self
• 2001Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También' — Self