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Helena Rojo is a Actor Mexicaine born on 18 august 1944 at Mexico City (Mexique)

Helena Rojo

Helena Rojo
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Birth name María Elena Enríquez Ruiz
Nationality Mexique
Birth 18 august 1944 at Mexico City (Mexique)
Death 3 february 2024 (at 79 years)

Helena Rojo (born María Elena Enríquez Ruiz on August 18, 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress and model.

Biography

Born Mexico City, Mexico, she began her career as a model in the early-1960s. Toward the end of the decade, she studied drama with renowned Mexican directors Carlos Ancira and José Luis Ibáñez, making her film debut in 1968 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. 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.


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Filmography of Helena Rojo (12 films)

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Actress

The Great Adventure of Zorro, 1h22
Genres Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films, Zorro
Actors Rodolfo de Anda, Carlos López Moctezuma, Pedro Armendáriz (fils), Jorge Russek, Helena Rojo
Roles Helena
Rating63% 3.171013.171013.171013.171013.17101
The De La Vega's are a wealthy and prestigious family known throughout the territory. When the youngest son of Don Alejandro de La Vega (Monteczuma), Diego(Rodolfo de Anda), returns from his 4 year stay in Spain, he finds him hometown oppressed by the corrupt military forces. The farmers are being run out of their homes and their land is being used as military camps and/or sold off to pay for military supplies and wages, along with taking the poor villagers and using them as slaves.
The Great Adventure of Zorro, 1h30
Origin Mexique
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Personne sourde ou muette, Zorro
Actors Rodolfo de Anda, Helena Rojo, Pedro Armendáriz (fils), Carlos López Moctezuma, Jorge Russek
Roles Helena
Rating63% 3.171013.171013.171013.171013.17101
Le territoire est sous dictature militaire. Les fermiers voient leurs biens saisis et les villageois sont utilisés comme esclaves. Zorro est le seul à oser s'opposer à l'armée et il a juré de restaurer l'ordre et de libérer les opprimés. Cependant, pour la plupart, Zorro est un mythe.
Blacker Than the Night, 1h36
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Claudia Islas, Lucía Méndez, Susana Dosamantes, Helena Rojo, Pedro Armendáriz (fils), Julián Pastor
Roles Pilar
Rating66% 3.3492553.3492553.3492553.3492553.349255
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. Once the pet is mysteriously found dead, a series of bizarre murders begins.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God, 1h33
Directed by Werner Herzog
Origin German
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro, Peter Berling, Christian Brückner
Roles Inés de Atienza
Rating77% 3.897293.897293.897293.897293.89729
In 1560, several score of Spanish conquistadors, and a hundred Indian slaves, march down from the newly conquered Inca Empire in the Andes mountains into the jungles to the east, in search of the fabled country of El Dorado. Under the command of Gonzalo Pizarro (Alejandro Repullés), the men, clad in half armor, pull cannons down narrow mountainous paths and through dense, muddy jungle. On New Year's Eve, reaching the end of his supplies and unable to go on without more information, Pizarro orders a group of forty men to scout ahead by raft down river. If they do not return to the main party within one week with news of what lies beyond, they will be considered lost. Pizarro chooses Don Pedro de Ursúa (Ruy Guerra) as the commander of the expedition, Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) as his second-in-command, fat nobleman Don Fernando de Guzmán (Peter Berling) representing The Royal House of Spain and Brother Gaspar de Carvajal (Del Negro) to bring the word of God. Also accompanying the expedition, against Pizarro's better judgment, are Ursúa's mistress, Doña Inés (Helena Rojo) and Aguirre's teenage daughter, Florés (Cecilia Rivera, in her only film role).
Mirage
Mirage (1972)
, 1h22
Directed by Armando Robles Godoy
Origin Perou
Genres Drama
Actors Helena Rojo
Roles Rina
Rating69% 3.4959053.4959053.4959053.4959053.495905
A story about a young man who inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house. By searching through the rocks and sands for relics, he discovers the answers to the mystery, told in flashback. The film combines the boy's search with other socio-economic issues relevant to Peru in a confusing, but insightful manner.