Diana Bracho

Diana Bracho is an actress who has worked in Mexican film and television. The daughter of director Julio Bracho, she had small roles in his films. She studied acting in England and landed her first major role in Arturo Ripstein's Castle of Purity (1973). She became famous for films such as Chin Chin El Teporocho, Las Poquianchis, El Santo Oficio, and La Tia Alejandra, the latter two also for Ripstein. In the early 1980s she moved to television, starring in Cuna de Lobos (1986) as a noble, suffering woman, which brought her awards. In 1991 she played her first villain, Aunt Evangelina in Cadenas De Amargura, and won every best actress award that year. She returned to film in 1992 with Serpientes y Escaleras. In 1995 she starred in Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996), winning a best actress award from Mexico's Association of National Theatre in 1994. She is considered one of Mexico's finest talents.