Cast
Helena Ignez
Acting
Cast
Helena Ignez
Known for
Acting
Born
1939-05-23
From
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Also known as Helena Ignês, Helena Inês, Helena Inez
Biography
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).
★5.5
MOVIE2018
Antes do Fim
MOVIETBA
Lost Media
as A Colecionadora
★7.1
MOVIE2009
Hotel Atlântico
as Dona da Pousada
MOVIE2016
O Cinema Foi à Feira
as Ela mesma
★9.0
MOVIE1992
Oswaldianas
MOVIE2025
Nosferatu
★5.4
MOVIE2016
Ralé: The Lower Depths
as Sonia Silk
MOVIE2026
A Film to Remind Us of Utopia
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2021
Subterrânea
as Senhora Ônibus
★5.0
MOVIE2013
Ugly, Me?
as Jarda
★6.0
MOVIE2014
Estátua!
as Mãe (voz)
MOVIE2020
Rio de Topless
as Self
★5.3
MOVIE2008
Embodiment of Evil
as Cabíria
MOVIE2019
Extracts
MOVIE2024
A Última Vanguarda
as Self
★7.3
MOVIE1970
Copacabana Mon Amour
as Sônia Silk
MOVIE2019
Fakir
as Narrator
MOVIE2009
Belair
MOVIE2026
Eclipse
as Dona da Kitnet
★4.2
MOVIE2014
Paixão e Virtude
★2.0
MOVIE2018
My Calendar Girl
as Helena / Palestrante (voz)
★6.0
MOVIE1990
Anônimo e incomum
MOVIE2023
Helena de Guaratiba
as Helena
MOVIE2026
Helena! Cinema!
★8.0
MOVIE1962
Assault on the Pay Train
as Marta
★7.5
MOVIE1971
Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
as Multiple Characters (Archive Footage)
★7.6
MOVIE1968
The Red Light Bandit
as Janete Jane
★7.4
MOVIE2017
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
★7.0
MOVIE1999
São Jerônimo
as Marcela
MOVIE2020
Fogo Baixo, Alto Astral
MOVIE2026
Cartas Para Rian
as Nair de Tefé
★6.9
MOVIE1970
The Monsters of Babaloo
★5.5
MOVIE1967
Face to Face
as Luciana
MOVIE1997
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE2023
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
MOVIE2017
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
as Self
★8.4
MOVIE1961
A Grande Feira
as Ely
★7.8
MOVIE1969
The Woman of Everyone
as Ângela Carne e Osso
★5.0
MOVIE2005
A Miss e o Dinossauro
as Herself (archive footage) / (Voz em Off)
★6.8
MOVIE1959
O Pátio
as The woman
★9.7
MOVIE2025
Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans
as Dra. Marina Consiglio
MOVIE2019
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
as Self (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1970
Baron Olavo, The Horrible
as Isabel
★6.0
MOVIE1970
The Hullabaloo Family
as Prostituta
★8.0
MOVIE2019
A Mulher da Luz Própria
as Self
MOVIE2025
Trópico de Leão
as Medéia
★6.3
MOVIE2003
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE1986
It's Not All True
★3.0
MOVIE2017
Venus – Filly the Lesbian Little Fairy
as Narração
★6.0
MOVIE1970
No Way, Spider
MOVIE2009
A Vermelha Luz do Bandido
★5.8
MOVIE1974
A Man and His Cage
as Aeromoça
★5.0
MOVIE2020
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1970
Watch Out, Madame
MOVIE2025
Gravidade
MOVIE2024
If I'm Here It Is by Mystery
as Arlete
MOVIE2023
Nelson Carneiro: Knight of Democracy
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1968
The Outsiders
★7.0
MOVIE1966
The Priest and the Girl
as Mariana
★7.5
MOVIE2014
Love Film Festival
as Herself
MOVIE2022
The Welles Raft
as Herself
MOVIE2025
Message from Sergipe
MOVIE2020
Benjamim Zambraia e o Autopanóptico
as Mother
★2.3
MOVIE2012
A Balada do Provisório
as Provisório's Mother
MOVIE2019
Notícias do Fim do Mundo
MOVIE2014
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
as Self
★4.7
MOVIE2020
Natureza Morta
as Narradora 3
★7.5
MOVIE2014
The End of an Age
as (voz)
★6.2
MOVIE2017
Inaudito
as Voice
★8.0
MOVIE1970
Carnaval na Lama
★4.0
MOVIE2020
Mulher Oceano
as Mulher Caminhando de Costas (uncredited)
★5.2
MOVIE2012
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
★10.0
MOVIE2003
Abry
as Self
MOVIE2021
The Good Cinema
★2.3
MOVIE2014
Ossos
as Voz Off
MOVIETBA
Flesh
★3.5
MOVIE2012
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
★7.0
MOVIE2019
Flesh
as (voice)
MOVIE2013
Poder dos Afetos
as Ritual Xamânico
★8.2
MOVIE2022
The Mother
as Dulce
MOVIE2019
In Memoriam: O Roteiro do Gravador
★7.2
MOVIE2003
The Sign of Chaos
as Guida
★8.0
MOVIE2019
Bring me the Head of Carmen M.
as Diretora
MOVIE2013
Terno
as Mãe
★8.0
MOVIE2020
Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso
★6.6
MOVIE1992
Scent of Gardenias
as Bandida
MOVIE2023
Joy Is the Acid Test
as Jarda Ícone
MOVIE2020
Esse fim de semana vou me dedicar as paredes
★8.0
MOVIE2013
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
MOVIE2021
Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú
as Voiceover
MOVIE2006
Helena Zero
★6.0
MOVIE2020
The Lady Who Died in the Trailer
★6.0
MOVIE2001
B2
★9.0
MOVIE1964
Grito da Terra
as Mariá
MOVIE2025
Deuses da Peste
★8.2
MOVIE2020
Race Antenna
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1978
Mulheres de Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE2003
Reinvenção da Rua
as Herself
★9.0
MOVIE1967
O Engano
as Mulher do médico
★10.0
MOVIE2017
Febre
MOVIE2004
Retrato da Terra
as Ela mesma
★9.0
MOVIE1986
Spray Jet
as Bossy Lady
★5.0
MOVIE2018
O Desmonte do Monte
★6.0
MOVIE2023
O Mel é Mais Doce Que o Sangue
MOVIE2021
Um Documentário Brasileiro
as Self
MOVIE2010
Avacalha e se Esculhamba
MOVIE2008
A Bela P...
★7.0
MOVIE1973
Um Intruso no Paraíso
★5.7
MOVIE2007
Meu Mundo em Perigo
as Mãe de Ísis
★7.0
MOVIE1992
Perigo Negro
as Tiafa
MOVIE2013
Desculpa, Dona Madama
as Patroa
MOVIE2005
Luz-Lux-Lúcia
MOVIE1994