Helena Ignez
Acting
- Born:
- 1939-05-23
- Place of birth:
- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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).
Known For
Filmography
Nem Tudo é Paz e Amor
Pioneiras do Cinema
América do Sol
A Film to Remind Us of Utopia
Garden of Silences
Eclipse
Fernando Coni Campos: Cada um Vive como Sonha
Cartas Para Rian
As Florestas da Noite
Helena! Cinema!
Primavera nos Dentes – A História do Secos & Molhados
Nosferatu
Gravidade
Message from Sergipe
Trópico de Leão
Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans
Deuses da Peste
A Última Vanguarda
If I'm Here It Is by Mystery
Nelson Carneiro: Knight of Democracy
Helena de Guaratiba
O Mel é Mais Doce Que o Sangue
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Joy Is the Acid Test
The Mother
The Welles Raft
Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú
Um Documentário Brasileiro
The Good Cinema
Subterrânea
Benjamim Zambraia e o Autopanóptico
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Mulher Oceano
Race Antenna
The Lady Who Died in the Trailer
Esse fim de semana vou me dedicar as paredes
Fogo Baixo, Alto Astral
Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso
Natureza Morta
Rio de Topless
Extracts
Notícias do Fim do Mundo
Flesh
Fakir
In Memoriam: O Roteiro do Gravador
A Mulher da Luz Própria
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Bring me the Head of Carmen M.
My Calendar Girl
O Desmonte do Monte
Antes do Fim
Inauditoo
All Paulos in the World - Paulo José
Febre
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Venus – Filly the Lesbian Little Fairy
O Cinema Foi à Feira
O País do Cinema
Ralé: The Lower Depths
Love Film Festival
The End of an Age
Estátua!
Paixão e Virtude
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
Ossos
Desculpa, Dona Madama
Ugly, Me?
Poder dos Afetos
Terno
Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade
A Balada do Provisório
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
Avacalha e se Esculhamba
Hotel Atlântico
Belair
A Vermelha Luz do Bandido
Embodiment of Evil
A Bela P...
Meu Mundo em Perigo
Helena Zero
Luz-Lux-Lúcia
A Miss e o Dinossauro
Retrato da Terra
The Sign of Chaos
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Abry
Reinvenção da Rua
B2
São Jerônimo
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Flying Geraldo
Scent of Gardenias
Tereza Batista
Oswaldianas
Perigo Negro
Anônimo e incomum
It's Not All True
Spray Jet
Mulheres de Cinema
A Man and His Cage
Um Intruso no Paraíso
Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
Baron Olavo, The Horrible
The Rowdy Family
No Way, Spider
Carnaval na Lama
Copacabana Mon Amour
Watch Out, Madame
The Monsters of Babaloo
The Woman of Everyone
Era Preciso Voltar
The Red Light Bandit
The Outsiders
Face to Face
O Engano
The Priest and the Girl
Grito da Terra
Assault on the Pay Train
A Grande Feira
O Pátio
Flesh
Lost Media