Helena Rojo

Actress

August 18, 1944 (79 years)

† February 3, 2024

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Biography

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.

Filmography

7.1

La rosa de Guadalupe

Self--Presenter (voice)

Stories about people who get into problems who use the help of Virgin Mary and where a rose appears and their problems are solved.

7.5

Don't Mess with the Angel

Cecilia Santos de Velarde

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.

7.7

Triumph of Love

Self

Victoria's life is perfect. She is a famous designer, mother of two and the wife of an actor. But she suffers the absence of her daughter Maria, who was separated from her when she was a little girl.

7.6

The Color of Passion

Milagros Fuentes Vda. de Valdivia

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.

7.8

Amor Real

Augusta Curiel de Peñalver

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.

7.8

Por ella soy Eva

Eugenia Mistral de Caballero

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."

7.2

El Privilegio de Amar

Luciana Hernández de Duval

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.

7.3

Las Lunas del Auditorio

Self

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6.8

Love and Cruelty

Miriam de Rivas del Castillo

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.

5.7

Peregrina

Sabina Huerta

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6.5

Ramona

Doña Ramona Gonzaga Viuda de Moreno

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.

7.5

La traición

Antonia Guerra

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7.4

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Inés de Atienza

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.

6.8

Inocente de Ti

Raquel/Rebeca

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.

10.0

Extraño en su pueblo

Isaura

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7.4

Lying Heart

Sara

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.

8.1

El Conde: Amor y Honor

Guadalupe de Gaitán

A wrongful conviction changes the life of Alejandro Gaitán and separates him from the woman he loves, Mariana Zambrano. After 17 years in jail, he becomes a count with the help of another prisoner and seeks revenge on those who turned on him.

9.0

Extraños caminos del amor

Isabella

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7.3

The Flight to Victory

María Isabel vda. de la Peña

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.

8.2

María Félix La Doña

Señora Russek

The life story of María Félix, from her humble beginnings as one of fifteen children to her rise to fame and infamy as one of the most storied Mexican actresses of the 1940s and beyond.