Helena Rojo
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Helena Rojo is a leading Mexican
film
, theater and television
actress.
in the film El club de los suicidas. That same year, Helena also appeared in her second film, Los amigos. She continued working as a model and appearing in small film roles in the late 60's and early 70's.
In 1969, she signed an exclusivity contract with Productora Cinematográfica Marte. Later, she began expanding her acting career into television and theater. In 1974, her first television role was the lead in the telenovela Extraño en su pueblo. She was married to actor Juan Ferrara
for many years. Currently, she is married to Benjamín Fernández, who is not in the entertainment industry. She is the mother of three children: Leo, Patricia and Elena, all from her first marriage.
Helena's cinematic career lead her to work with the most important Mexican film directors of the 1970s and 80's, such as Felipe Cazals
, Arturo Ripstein
, Rafael Corkidi, Alberto Bojórquez, Marcela Fernández Violante and Jorge Fons
, among others.
She has worked with international talent, such as German
director Werner Herzog
and actor Klaus Kinski
with a role in the film Aguirre, the Wrath of God
(1972). She also appeared in the film Fox Trot (1976), directed by Arturo Ripstein and alongside actors Charlotte Rampling
, Peter O'Toole
and Max von Sydow
.
In 2006 she appeared on the American dramedy series Ugly Betty
, where she plays a mother who tries to steer her son away from the stepmother who has eyes for him on a 'faux' telenovela
that is watched on TV by the main character's
family.
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, theater and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
actress.
Biography
She began her career as a model in the early-1960s. Toward the end of the decade, she studied drama with renown Mexican directors Carlos Ancira and José Luis Ibáñez, making her film debut in 19681968 in film
The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.* November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.-Top grossing films :- Awards :...
in the film El club de los suicidas. That same year, Helena also appeared in her second film, Los amigos. She continued working as a model and appearing in small film roles in the late 60's and early 70's.
In 1969, she signed an exclusivity contract with Productora Cinematográfica Marte. Later, she began expanding her acting career into television and theater. In 1974, her first television role was the lead in the telenovela Extraño en su pueblo. She was married to actor Juan Ferrara
Juan Ferrara
Juan Ferrara is a famous Mexican telenovela and film actor,- Family :Juan is a son of the well known actress Ofelia Guilmáin and brother of Lucía Guilmáin y Esther Guilmáin. He was once married to the famous Mexican actress, Helena Rojo...
for many years. Currently, she is married to Benjamín Fernández, who is not in the entertainment industry. She is the mother of three children: Leo, Patricia and Elena, all from her first marriage.
Helena's cinematic career lead her to work with the most important Mexican film directors of the 1970s and 80's, such as Felipe Cazals
Felipe Cazals
Felipe Cazals is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer born in Guethary, France, but registered as born in Zapopan, Jalisco, where he lived his childhood, before being established with his family in Mexico City...
, Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...
, Rafael Corkidi, Alberto Bojórquez, Marcela Fernández Violante and Jorge Fons
Jorge Fons
Jorge Fons Pérez is a Mexican film director.He belongs to the first generation of film directors of the UNAM. His short film, Caridad , is still considered one of the best films in Mexican cinema...
, among others.
She has worked with international talent, such as German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
director Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
and actor Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski , was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God , Nosferatu the Vampyre , Woyzeck , Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde .-Early...
with a role in the film Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a 1972 West German adventure film written and directed by Werner Herzog. Klaus Kinski stars in the title role. The soundtrack was composed and performed by German progressive/Krautrock band Popol Vuh...
(1972). She also appeared in the film Fox Trot (1976), directed by Arturo Ripstein and alongside actors Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...
, Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most...
and Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow is a Swedish actor. He has also held French citizenship since 2002. He has starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more...
.
In 2006 she appeared on the American dramedy series Ugly Betty
Ugly Betty
Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which premiered on ABC on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series revolves around the character Betty Suarez and is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea...
, where she plays a mother who tries to steer her son away from the stepmother who has eyes for him on a 'faux' telenovela
Vidas de Fuego
Vidas de Fuego is a fictional show-within-a-show telenovela featured in the American dramedy series Ugly Betty. The series is watched by the Suarez family at home, mostly by the main character's father, Ignacio, and sister, Hilda...
that is watched on TV by the main character's
Betty Suarez
Beatriz "Betty" U. Suarez is a central fictional character and heroine of the American dramedy series Ugly Betty. She is portrayed by America Ferrera, who won a 2007 Golden Globe and 2007 SAG award for her portrayal of the character, as well as the Outstanding Actress in a Comedy award for the role...
family.
Movies
- Luces de la noche (1994) as Tina
- Guerrero negroGuerrero NegroGuerrero Negro is the largest town located in the municipality of Mulegé in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur . It had a population of 13,054 in the 2010 census. Guerrero Negro is served by Guerrero Negro Airport.- Whale Festival :...
(1993) as Eva - Los Años de Greta aka Greta's Years (1992) as Nora
- Una Luz en la escalera (1992) as Adriana Bernal
- Muerte ciega (1991) as Alisa
- Reto a la vida (1990) as Elena
- En el país de los pies ligeros (1983)
- Misterio (1980) as Silvia
- The Children of SanchezThe Children of SanchezThe Children of Sanchez is a 1961 book by American anthropologist Oscar Lewis about a Mexican family living in the Mexico City slum of Tepito, which he studied as part of his program to develop his concept of culture of poverty...
(1978) - La Sucesion (1978)
- La Gran Aventura Del ZorroLa Gran Aventura Del ZorroLa gran aventura del Zorro is a 1976 film starring Rodolfo de Anda in a Mexican version of Zorro, directed by Raúl de Anda and featuring such actors as Helena Rojo and Pedro Armendáriz, Jr.-Plot:...
(1976) as Elena - Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1976) as Greta
- La Casa del Sur (1976) as Elena
- Foxtrot akaThe Other Side of Paradise (1975) as Alexandra
- Más negro que la nocheMás negro que la nocheMás negro que la noche is a 1975 Mexican horror film, written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada.-Plot:The film is about four women that move to a creepy house, inherited by one of them from an old aunt; as a condition, they must take care of the aunt's pet, a black cat...
aka Blacker Than the Night (1975) as Pilar - Payo - un hombre contra el mundo (1974) as Lupe
- Los Perros de Dios'' (1973) as Laura
- Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes aka Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) as Inez
- Aquellos años (1972) as Carlota
- Espejismo aka Mirage (1972)
- Ángeles y querubines'' (1972) as Angela
- Victoria (1972)
- Los CachorrosLos CachorrosLos Cachorros is a 1973 Mexican film directed by Jorge Fons and written by Fons, Eduardo Lujan, José Emilio Pacheco based upon the novel The Cubs and Other Stories by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. More depressing than shocking, it tells the story of a group of friends that stand by each...
' (1971) as Tere - Una vez un hombre (1971)
- Fin de fiestaFin de fiestaA fin de fiesta is a short theatrical piece in the Spanish Golden Age tradition performed after the comedia in order to send the audience home in a festive mood. This was first performed in 1798....
aka End of the Party (1971) as Elena - Muñeca reina aka Queen Doll (1971) as Laura
- El Sabor de la venganza aka Eye for an Eye (1971) as Rina Pittman
- Siempre hay una primera vez (1969) as Isabel
- Los AmigosLos AmigosLos Amigos is a 1972 spaghetti western film starring Anthony Quinn and Franco Nero in 1972. The film is loosely based on the life of Deaf Smith, with direction of Paolo Cavara.-Plot:...
(1968) - El Club de los suicidas (1968)
Television
- BorderlineBorderlineBorderline or border line may refer to:*Border-In film:*Borderline , a film starring Paul Robeson*Borderline , a film noir starring Fred MacMurray*Borderline , a film starring Charles Bronson...
(2009/10)as Chanti - Catarsis (2010)...la Madre
- Locas de amorLocas de amorLocas de Amor was an Argentine series, produced by Pol-ka Producciones and transmitted originally from April to December 2004. It was written and adapted for television by Suzana Cardozo. It was directed by Luis Barone and Daniel Barone. It starred Leticia Brédice, Julieta Díaz and Soledad Villamil...
(2009) as Norma (Main Heroine) - Corazón SalvajeCorazón salvajeCorazón salvaje was a novel written by prolific Mexican writer Caridad Bravo Adams and published in 1957 after it had been adapted to the screen the previous year....
(2009) as Leonarda Montes de Oca de Vidal (Main Villain) - Cuidado con el AngelCuidado con el ángelCuidado Con El Ángel is a Telenovela distributed by Televisa. It stars Maite Perroni and William Levy. The telenovela, a production of Nathalie Lartilleux, premiered on June 9, 2008 and finished its broadcast March 6, 2009 and was greatly admired around the globe with millions of views worldwide...
(2008) as Cecilia de Velarde (Main Heroine) - Amor letra por letra(2008)as Fabiola (Villain)
- Amor sin MaquillajeAmor sin MaquillajeAmor sin Maquillaje ' is a mini novela that was shown in 2007. It is a production of Rosy Ocampo, who also produced La Fea Mas Bella. The stars are Sergio Goyri and Marlene Favela; and the novela marks the return of the famous actress Lucía Méndez to Televisa after a 17 year absence...
(2007) as Ines (Main Heroine) - Mundo de FierasMundo de FierasMundo de Fieras was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Venevisión. It was written by Ligia Lezama and directed by Gabriel Walfenzao. This telenovela lasted 239 episodes and it achieved a significant amount of success in Venezuela. It was distributed...
(2006/2007) as Miriam de Rivas del Castillo (Main Villain) - Ugly BettyUgly BettyUgly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which premiered on ABC on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series revolves around the character Betty Suarez and is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea...
(2006) cameo (Main Villain) - Peregrina (2005) as Sabina (Main Heroine)
- Inocente de TiInocente de TiInocente de Ti is a Miami-based 130 episode telenovela that first aired on the Univision network in 2005. It features Camila Sodi, Valentino Lanús, and Helena Rojo.-Plot:...
(2004) as Raquel/Rebeca Linares-Robles (Main Villain) - Amor realAmor realAmor real is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced and broadcast by Televisa in 2003. Amor Real is a historical telenovela set in the Mexican post-independence period of the mid-19th century. It also aired on Univision in the United States in 2004 and on REN TV in Russia...
(2003) as Doña Augusta Curiel de Penalver y Beristain (Main Heroine) - Abrázame muy fuerteAbrázame Muy FuerteAbrázame muy fuerte is a Mexican telenovela that aired in 2000–2001, under the production of Salvador Mejia and with Aracely Arámbula and Fernando Colunga as the protagonists.-Plot:...
(2000) as Damiana / Juliana Guillen (Villain/Heroine) - RamonaRamonaRamona is a 1884 United States historical novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. It is the story of a Scots-Native American orphan girl in Southern California, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely...
(2000) as Doña Ramona Gonzaga Viuda de Moreno (Main Heroine) - El privilegio de amarEl Privilegio de AmarEl Privilegio de Amar is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from 27 July 1998 through 26 February 1999...
(1998) as Luciana Duval (Main Heroine) - Gente bìenGente bienGente bien is a 1939 Argentine musical film directed by Manuel Romero. The tango film premiered in Buenos Aires on June 28, 1939 and the United States on October 8, 1939 and starred Hugo del Carril, Tito Lusiardo and Delia Garcés....
(1997) as Rebeca Balmori (Main Heroine) - Retrato de familiaRetrato de FamiliaRetrato de Familia is a 1976 Spanish film directed by Antonio Giménez-Rico. It stars Antonio Ferrandis, Amparo Soler Leal and Miguel Bosé, making his film debut. This is Giménez-Rico ’s best known film. The script was written by him, based on the novel Mi idolatrado hijo Sisi , by Miguel...
(1995) as Cecilia Mariscal Main Heroine) - Las secretas intenciones (1993) as Antonieta Alcantara
- La traiciónLa TraiciónLa Traición is a Colombian-American telenovela co-produced by United States-based Telemundo and RTI Colombia. Telemundo debuted this serial on January 29, 2008, replacing Madre Luna. This show is also known as Betrayed....
(1984) as Antonia Guerra - Extraños caminos del amor (1981) as Isabela
- La hora del silencio (1978) as Barbara
- La VenganzaLa venganzaLa venganza is a 1977 Mexican telenovela made by Televisa, produced by Valentin Pimstein and directed by Rafael Banquells, starring Helena Rojo and Enrique Lizalde. Writing credits belong to Ines Rodena , Maria Teresa Madero and Tere Medina...
(1977) as Maria Olivares/Alejandra Balmaseda - Mañana será otro diaManana Sera Otro DiaThe title "Manana Sera Otro Dia" is the name of a Mexican telenovela . It began in 1976, with principal actors Jacqueline Andere and Eduardo Fajardo...
(1976) as Paola - Extraño en su pueblo (1974)
Theater performances
- 10 el marido perfecto (10, The Perfect Husband)
- Lecciones para casadas (Lectures for Married Women)
- Se infiel y no mires con quien (Be Unfaithful with Whomever)
- Cena de Matrimonios (Dinner with Friends)
- Me enamoré de una bruja (I Married a Witch)
- La mujer del pelo rojo (The Redheaded Woman)
- Pecado en la isla de las cabras (Sin on the Isle of Goats)
- La Ronda de las Arpías (Song of the Harpies)
- Una oferta inmoral (Indecent Proposal)
- Yo miento, tú mientes, todos mentimos (I Lie, You Lie, We All Lie)
- Bajo Cero (Frozen)
Awards
- Won - 1972 Best Supporting Actress Ariel AwardAriel AwardThe Ariel is the Mexican Academy of Film Award. It has been awarded annually since 1947. The award recognizes excellence in motion picture making, such as acting, directing and screenwriting in Mexican cinema. It is considered the most prestigious award in the Mexican movie industry.- History :The...
from the Mexican Academy of Film, for her role in Fin de Fiesta. - Nominated - 1973 Best Actress Ariel AwardAriel AwardThe Ariel is the Mexican Academy of Film Award. It has been awarded annually since 1947. The award recognizes excellence in motion picture making, such as acting, directing and screenwriting in Mexican cinema. It is considered the most prestigious award in the Mexican movie industry.- History :The...
from the Mexican Academy of Film, for her role in Los Cachorros'. - Won - 1981 Best Actress Ariel AwardAriel AwardThe Ariel is the Mexican Academy of Film Award. It has been awarded annually since 1947. The award recognizes excellence in motion picture making, such as acting, directing and screenwriting in Mexican cinema. It is considered the most prestigious award in the Mexican movie industry.- History :The...
from the Mexican Academy of Film, for her role in Misterio. - Nominated - 1992 Best Actress Ariel AwardAriel AwardThe Ariel is the Mexican Academy of Film Award. It has been awarded annually since 1947. The award recognizes excellence in motion picture making, such as acting, directing and screenwriting in Mexican cinema. It is considered the most prestigious award in the Mexican movie industry.- History :The...
from the Mexican Academy of Film, for her role in Muerte Ciega.
External links
- Helena Rojo at IMDB
- Alma Latina: Mexican Telenovela Database
- The Mexican Film Resource Page at the Mexican Academy of FilmAcademia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias CinematográficasThe Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas was founded on July 3, 1946 in Mexico City.-History:The following people were present before a notary public during the signing of the document:...
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