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person_profile-Helena Ignez

Helena Ignez Age: 82

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Helena Ignez

Date of Birth:

May 23, 1942

Country of birth:

Salvador - Bahia - Brazil

Biography of

Helena Ignez

    Helena Ignez (born May 23, 1942) is a Brazilian actress and filmmaker.

    Helena was born in Salvador, Bahia and was attending her second year of law school when she fell in love with theater and decided to study the Dramatic Arts at the Federal University of Bahia. At the time, the Bahian theater scene was breaking with traditional Brazilian theater and experiencing strong influence from the young vanguard. She first appeared on the screen in Glauber Rocha's short film "Pátio".

    Helena acted in a few films associated with the Cinema Novo movement, such as "A Grande Feira" (1961), "Assalto ao Trem Pagador" (1962), and "O Padre e a Moça" (1966) before playing Janete Jane in O Bandido da Luz Vermelha by Rogério Sganzerla. After this film, she would perform in some most significant films in the Cinema Marginal movement, which directly opposed the critically acclaimed Cinema Novo -- the most remarkable being her role as Ângela Carne e "Osso in A Mulher de Todos" (1969).

    She also was a financial partner of Rogério Sganzerla and fellow Cinema Marginal filmmaker Júlio Bressane in the short-lived, although prolific, Belair production company. Between 1968 and 1970, Sganzerla and Ignez made almost a dozen films together and were also married and had two children -- one of which would become actress Djin Sganzerla.

    As a filmmaker, Ignez has directed 7 films, the most notable being "Luz das Trevas" (2010), a sequel to Sganzerla's debut feature "O Bandido da Luz Vermelha" (1968).

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Filmography of

Helena Ignez

Found 56 Movies in total

Trópico de Leão

Medéia ( Actor )

... 2025

Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans

Marina Consiglio ( Actor )

... 2025

... 2025

A Última Vanguarda

Self ( Actor )

... 2024

Joy Is the Acid Test

Jarda Ícone ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2023

... 2022

The Welles Raft

Herself ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2021

Subterrânea

Senhora Ônibus ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2020

... 2020

Mulher Oceano

Mulher Caminhando de Costas (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2020

Race Antenna

Self ( Actor )

... 2020

... 2020

A Mulher da Luz Própria

Herself ( Actor )

... 2019

Memórias do Grupo Opinião

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2019

My Calendar Girl

Palestrante (voz) ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2018

... 2018

... 2018

Inaudito

Voice ( Actor )

... 2017

Ralé: The Lower Depths

Sonia Silk ( Actor )

Writer

... 2016

Love Film Festival

Herself ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2014

... 2014

... 2014

Ugly, Me?

Jarda ( Actor )

Writer

... 2013

Belair

Actor

... 2009

Embodiment of Evil

Cabíria ( Actor )

... 2008

The Sign of Chaos

Guida ( Actor )

... 2003

... 1992

... 1986

A Man and His Cage

Aeromoça ( Actor )

... 1974

Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes

Archive Footage ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1970

... 1970

Copacabana Mon Amour

Sônia Silk ( Actor )

... 1970

... 1970

The Woman of Everyone

Ângela Carne e Osso ( Actor )

... 1969

The Red Light Bandit

Janete Jane ( Actor )

... 1968

... 1968

Face To Face

Luciana ( Actor )

... 1967

The Priest and the Girl

Mariana ( Actor )

... 1966

Grito da Terra

Mariá ( Actor )

... 1964

... 1962

A Grande Feira

Ely ( Actor )

... 1961