Helena Rojo

Helena Rojo

Born: August 18, 1944
Died: February 3, 2024
in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Helena Rojo (Mexico City; August 18, 1944 - February 4, 2024), was a renowned Mexican film, television and theater actress. She enjoyed a successful career spanning several decades in Mexican cinema, television, and theater. Rojo gained recognition for her versatile and compelling performances in films like "Las Pirañas aman en Cuaresma" (1969) and TV series such as "Cuna de Lobos" (1986). She continues to be celebrated as one of Mexico's most distinguished actresses.

Movies for Helena Rojo...

A Deadly Invitation
Title: A Deadly Invitation
Character: Ms. Cristina
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
Eccentric millionaire Olivia sends her half sister Agatha, and a group of old acquaintances, a mysterious invitation for a weekend on her yacht, where they will discover the true motive behind this invitation: the celebration of… a murder?
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Title: The Heart Is Never Wrong
Character: Dora Ortega
Released: June 23, 2019
Type: TV
Love story between Aristóteles & Temo, who leave Oaxaca to start a new life together in Mexico City.
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Title: The Flight to Victory
Character: María Isabel vda. de la Peña
Released: July 10, 2017
Type: TV
Victoria is a free spirited girl from a humble background and an aspirant Sprinter. She was abandoned by her biological mother when she was a child. A woman named Chencha took her in and treated her as her own daughter. Victoria dreams to become a Champion at the Olympics and much determined to fight any obstacle that gets her way. Victoria also finds herself in between two men, Andres and Raul who are willing to fight for her love.
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Title: The Candidate
Character: Natalia de San Román
Released: November 21, 2016
Type: TV
Like many women, Regina struggles every day for the welfare of her family, having to cope from the worn relationship with her husband to the rebellion of her teenage son ... but in her case everything is in sight, because she is the wife of Head of Government of the city and, as if that were not enough, an honorable senator, who always tries to do what is best for her fellow men. In the world of politics, a world where men build power at any cost, is Regina, who strives to improve the reality of people and impose ideals over power.
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Title: Lying Heart
Character: Sara
Released: February 8, 2016
Type: TV
Mariela Salvatierra is an orphan and was only 11 when her grandfather Manuel died because of Demián Ferrer. Being left on her own, destiny pushed her to leave the country under the care of Leonardo Del Río. 15 years have passed since they left, but now Mariela and Leonardo have returned to face Demián Ferrer. Demián is a fairly powerful and unscrupulous business man who doesn’t even honor his own family. He disregards Santiago, his youngest son, and manipulates and deceives his oldest son, Alonso. This attitude affects Mariela too, since Alonso doesn’t dare to turn his back on his father, which tinges their relationship with love and hatred at once. To make things worse, Renata, a luscious and dishonest girl, moves in to the Ferrer’s home and becomes obsessed with Alonso, doing everything she can to separate him from Mariela and making her come closer to another man who is in love with her.
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Title: The Color of Passion
Character: Milagros Fuentes Vda. de Valdivia
Released: March 17, 2014
Type: TV
Rebeca murders her sister Adriana to end up with the man she loved, and becomes the step mother of her niece Lucía. Nora, Lucía's half sister and daughter of Rebeca, resents Lucía for the same reasons Rebeca hated Adriana, as history repeats itself.
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Title: Por ella soy Eva
Character: Eugenia Mistral de Caballero
Released: February 20, 2012
Type: TV
Por Ella Soy Eva is a Mexican soap opera produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa based on the Colombian soap opera En los tacones de Eva. Jaime Camil and Lucero starred as main protagonists, while Mariana Seoane and Marcelo Córdoba starred as the main antagonists. "The Best Telenovela of the Year 2013."
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Title: Triumph of Love
Character: Self
Released: October 25, 2010
Type: TV
A love story between a young girl wishing to become a professional model and a rich boy who works in a fashion house and falls in love with her.
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Borderline
Title: Borderline
Character: Shanti
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Sasha, a young woman from Mexico meets Damian, a man from Angola. They begin a relationship in Los Angeles, CA. She invites him to her hometown in northern Mexico for the weekend. This loveless romance quickly turns into a roaring silence when both try to tear down each other's walls.
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Amor letra por letra
Title: Amor letra por letra
Character: Fabiola
Released: August 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Work colleagues Hanna and Amanda are unexpectedly laid off. Since Amanda is leaving town, Hanna deposits both of their severance checks into her account. Unfortunately, Hanna screwed up and the money went somewhere it wasn’t intended – which puts her on a direct collision course with some eligible and not so eligible bachelors. Now, between her search for a new job and her hilarious forays into babysitting Amanda’s son, Hanna has to find and retrieve the loot in this hilarious misadventure that proves romance happens where and when you least expect it.
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Title: Don't Mess with an Angel
Character: Cecilia Santos de Velarde
Released: June 9, 2008
Type: TV
Cuidado Con El Ángel is a Telenovela distributed by Televisa starring Maite Perroni and William Levy. The telenovela, a production of Nathalie Lartilleux, premiered on June 9, 2008 and finished its broadcast March 6, 2009. It had millions of viewers worldwide, and broke records in America.
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Title: Love Without Makeup
Character: Inés Rivera
Released: September 17, 2007
Type: TV
Amor 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; It was a tribute to the 50 years of telenovelas in Mexico.
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Title: Love and Cruelty
Character: Miriam de Rivas del Castillo
Released: July 31, 2006
Type: TV
Mundo de Fieras is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejia Alejandre. It was first broadcast in Mexico on July 31, 2006, and in the United States on October 3, 2006. The telenovela starred Gaby Espino, César Évora, and Edith González as the villain Jocelyn.
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Title: Peregrina
Character: Sabina Huerta
Released: November 14, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Inocente de Ti
Character: Raquel/Rebeca
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: TV
Inocente 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.
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Title: Amor Real
Character: Augusta Curiel de Peñalver
Released: June 9, 2003
Type: TV
True love threatens to tear a family apart in this epic Mexican serial set in the 1800s. Rich and beautiful Matilde falls in love with Adolfo, but her mother, Augusta, disapproves of the relationship when she learns Adolfo is poor. Augusta forces her daughter to marry rich and handsome Manuel Fuentes Guerra, but Matilde plays with fire by continuing to be with Adolfo. Adela Noriega, Fernando Colunga, Helena Rojo and Chantal Andere star.
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Title: Las Lunas del Auditorio
Character: Herself
Released: September 4, 2002
Type: TV
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Title: Ramona
Character: Doña Ramona Gonzaga Viuda de Moreno
Released: April 3, 2000
Type: TV
Ramona is a Mexican telenovela, based on the 1884 novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson. It aired in 2000 on Televisa and was written by Lucy Orozco and Humberto Robles. This production featured Kate Del Castillo as Ramona and Eduardo Palomo as Alejandro.
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Title: El Privilegio de Amar X
Character: Luciana Hernández de Duval
Released: July 27, 1998
Type: TV
El 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. Starring Adela Noriega, René Strickler, Helena Rojo and Andrés García with the participation of leading actor Enrique Rocha and Cynthia Klitbo as the evil Tamara, who is the main villain. The telenovela tells the story of a fashion designer, Luciana, who begins searching for the daughter she abandoned years earlier, unaware the girl is none other than Cristina, a model in Luciana's fashion house who has fallen in love with Luciana's stepson. El Privilegio de Amar is a remake of the 1985 Venezuelan novela, Cristal. The program aired weeknights at 9pm for 31 weeks, for a total of 155 episodes. El Privilegio de Amar is the highest-rated television program in Mexico to date, it registered an average of 34.8 percent of TV audience. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 1999.
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Luces de la noche
Title: Luces de la noche
Character: Tina
Released: May 29, 1998
Type: Movie
On a whim, a retired gentleman decides to track down an old girlfriend from decades back.
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Guerrero Negro
Title: Guerrero Negro
Character: Eva
Released: June 10, 1994
Type: Movie
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Más allá del deseo
Title: Más allá del deseo
Character: Josefa
Released: December 25, 1992
Type: Movie
Sea creature who looks like a human girl takes the place of a couple's drowned daughter. She grows up into a beautiful woman who wears very little clothing, and she meets a young man and they fall in love. Then...
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Los años de Greta
Title: Los años de Greta
Character: Nina
Released: August 7, 1992
Type: Movie
Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.
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Muerte Ciega
Title: Muerte Ciega
Character: Alessa
Released: May 8, 1992
Type: Movie
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Motel of Death
Title: Motel of Death
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Murders take place in and around a hotel. Debuted on Mexican TV.
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Don't Panic
Title: Don't Panic
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: March 2, 1989
Type: Movie
On his 17th birthday, a boy named Michael has a surprise party thrown by his friends, where a session with a Ouija board accidentally unleashes a demon named Virgil, who possesses one of them to go on a killing spree. Michael, now plagued by violent nightmares and premonitions, sets out to try and stop the killings.
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Lovers, Partners & Spies
Title: Lovers, Partners & Spies
Character: Duchess
Released: August 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer.
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Reto a la vida
Title: Reto a la vida
Character: Elena Sandoval
Released: March 31, 1988
Type: Movie
Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he's released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a psychiatric hospital. Carlos starts working to cure his brother when he befriends a street kid and falls for social worker Elena.
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La víspera
Title: La víspera
Released: October 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Aging politicians who have faded from the public eye hold a cocktail party to celebrate one friend's appointment to the President's Cabinet. Illusions are indulged, illusions are shattered.
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In the Land of Light Feet
Title: In the Land of Light Feet
Released: August 10, 1982
Type: Movie
During his vacations, 12-year-old Manuel travels by train with his mother to the Sierra Tarahumara to spend a few days with his father, who works in the mountains with the indigenous people protecting nature. Manuel befriends Jesus, who takes him to his town and teaches him the customs of his own. Both children discover illegal loggers.
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Noche de juerga
Title: Noche de juerga
Released: May 27, 1981
Type: Movie
Spur-of-the-moment nightclub hookup leaves a straying husband framed for a murder.
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Mistery
Title: Mistery
Character: Silvia
Released: November 30, 1980
Type: Movie
A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.
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La Sucesión
Title: La Sucesión
Character: Mariana
Released: June 11, 1980
Type: Movie
Political intrigue drama which aired dimly, some of the most common vices Latin American government systems, at least hypothetically and not still be scenarios. Its characters have the dictator whose intentions are to inherit the power to his son, little interest in the issue. In a moment in which he is forced to decide who will succeed him, other characters see the opportunity to replace him in the supreme command of this country without a name.
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Crónica íntima
Title: Crónica íntima
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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The Children of Sanchez
Title: The Children of Sanchez
Released: June 16, 1978
Type: Movie
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
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The House in the South
Title: The House in the South
Released: June 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
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Foxtrot
Title: Foxtrot
Character: Alexandra
Released: March 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
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The Great Adventure of Zorro
Title: The Great Adventure of Zorro
Character: Helena
Released: February 12, 1976
Type: Movie
The De La Vega's are a wealthy and prestigious family known throughout the territory. When Diego, the youngest son of Don Alejandro de La Vega, 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. So Diego/Zorro has multiple face offs with the local military and swears to restore order and freedom to the oppressed.
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Blacker Than the Night
Title: Blacker Than the Night
Character: Pilar
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
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Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
Title: Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
Character: Greta
Released: May 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.
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Los perros de Dios
Title: Los perros de Dios
Released: September 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Fantasy-life of an upper-class girl overwhelmed with spiritual questions.
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Those Years
Title: Those Years
Character: Emperatriz Carlota
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
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The Cubs
Title: The Cubs
Character: Tere
Released: May 10, 1973
Type: Movie
After having his genitals brutally mutilated during childhood, a man must face prejudice and himself.
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Title: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Character: Inés de Atienza
Released: December 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
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El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo
Title: El Payo: Un Hombre Contra el Mundo
Character: Lupe Ramos
Released: December 28, 1972
Type: Movie
Series western, adaptation of a popular comic-book.
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Angels and Cherubs
Title: Angels and Cherubs
Character: Angela
Released: December 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A tragic celestial-western that explores Adam and Eve's paradise from a surreal point of view.
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Queen Doll
Title: Queen Doll
Character: Carmen
Released: November 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.
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Mirage
Title: Mirage
Character: Rina
Released: November 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A young man 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.
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Victoria
Title: Victoria
Released: June 8, 1972
Type: Movie
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End of the Party
Title: End of the Party
Character: Elena
Released: January 13, 1972
Type: Movie
A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.
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Una vez, un hombre...
Title: Una vez, un hombre...
Released: May 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Young factory worker becomes apprentice to an alchemist, and he ends up going to the moon to repair equipment belonging to The Three Fates.
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Eye for an Eye
Title: Eye for an Eye
Character: Rina Pittman
Released: April 29, 1971
Type: Movie
A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.
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Siempre hay una primera vez
Title: Siempre hay una primera vez
Character: Isabel (segment "Isabel")
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
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El cinico
Title: El cinico
Character: Woman at Party (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Traveling salesman's amoral/sometimes criminal behavior catches up with him after he settles in at his brother's vinyard.
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The Young Animals
Title: The Young Animals
Released: April 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.
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Los amigos
Title: Los amigos
Released: November 17, 1968
Type: Movie
Ambition, social climbing and insincerity shape the emotional climate among a circle of young professionals launching their careers.
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Title: El Conde: Amor y Honor
Character: Guadalupe de Gaitán
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV