Helena Ignez
Acting
Helena Ignez (Salvador, May 23, 1939) 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).
Eclipse
Nosferatu
Gravidade
Message from Sergipe
Trópico de Leão
Medéia
Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans
Dra. Marina Consiglio
Deuses da Peste
A Última Vanguarda
Self
If I'm Here It Is by Mystery
Arlete
Nelson Carneiro: Knight of Democracy
Self
Helena de Guaratiba
Helena
O Mel é Mais Doce Que o Sangue
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Joy Is the Acid Test
Jarda Ícone
The Mother
Dulce
The Welles Raft
Herself
Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú
Voiceover
Um Documentário Brasileiro
Self
The Good Cinema
Subterrânea
Senhora Ônibus
Benjamim Zambraia e o Autopanóptico
Mother
Mulher Oceano
Mulher Caminhando de Costas (uncredited)
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Self
Race Antenna
Self
The Lady Who Died in the Trailer
Esse fim de semana vou me dedicar as paredes
Fogo Baixo, Alto Astral
Natureza Morta
Narradora 3
Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso
Rio de Topless
Self
Extracts
Flesh
(voice)
Fakir
Narrator
In Memoriam: O Roteiro do Gravador
A Mulher da Luz Própria
Self
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Self (archive footage)
Bring me the Head of Carmen M.
Diretora
My Calendar Girl
Helena / Palestrante (voz)
O Desmonte do Monte
Antes do Fim
Inaudito
Voice
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
Febre
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Self
Venus – Filly the Lesbian Little Fairy
Narração
O Cinema Foi à Feira
Ela mesma
Ralé: The Lower Depths
Sonia Silk
Love Film Festival
Herself
The End of an Age
(voz)
Estátua!
Mãe (voz)
Paixão e Virtude
Ossos
Voz Off
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
Self
Desculpa, Dona Madama
Patroa
Ugly, Me?
Jarda
Poder dos Afetos
Ritual Xamânico
Terno
Mãe
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
A Balada do Provisório
Provisório's Mother
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Avacalha e se Esculhamba
Hotel Atlântico
Dona da Pousada
Belair
A Vermelha Luz do Bandido
Embodiment of Evil
Cabíria
A Bela P...
Meu Mundo em Perigo
Mãe de Ísis
Helena Zero
Luz-Lux-Lúcia
A Miss e o Dinossauro
Herself (archive footage) / (Voz em Off)
Retrato da Terra
Ela mesma
The Sign of Chaos
Guida
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Self
Abry
Self
Reinvenção da Rua
Herself
B2
São Jerônimo
Marcela
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Self
Flying Geraldo
Scent of Gardenias
Bandida
Perigo Negro
Tiafa
Oswaldianas
Anônimo e incomum
It's Not All True
Spray Jet
Bossy Lady
Mulheres de Cinema
Self (archive footage)
A Man and His Cage
Aeromoça
Um Intruso no Paraíso
Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
Multiple Characters (Archive Footage)
The Hullabaloo Family
Prostituta
No Way, Spider
Carnaval na Lama
Copacabana Mon Amour
Sônia Silk
The Monsters of Babaloo
Watch Out, Madame
The Woman of Everyone
Ângela Carne e Osso
Baron Olavo, The Horrible
Isabel
The Red Light Bandit
Janete Jane
The Outsiders
Face to Face
Luciana
O Engano
Mulher do médico
The Priest and the Girl
Mariana
Grito da Terra
Mariá
Assault on the Pay Train
Marta
A Grande Feira
Ely
O Pátio
The woman