The dissertation portrays the initial period of the artistic and emotional trajectory of actress Helena Ignez, from her childhood and youth, in the first half of the 20th century in Salvador, until the start of the 1970s in Rio de Janeiro, focusing on the character Angela Carne e Osso [Angela Flesh and Bone], the protagonist of the movie the A Mulher de Todos [Everyone s Woman] (1969). It adopts a narrative structured by micro-plateaux which interlace and are driven by the actress s voice in the first person, merged with the historical setting and theoretical reflection, centered on the concepts of war machine and body hypersensitivity. In this multiple and multifaceted construction, diffuse identity marks are seen, where life and character agencying aspects point to our desire for dialogue with contemporaneity. Going through her training at the drama school of the Federal University of Bahia, the artistic and emotional relationship with filmmaker Glauber Rocha, her activity as a professional actress in theater and movies, and her connection with the director Rogério Sganzerla, during the filming of O Bandido da Luz Vermelha [Red Light Bandit] (1968), the work ends with her role in the movie A Mulher de Todos, a cinematic experiment considered unique even today for its innovation in representing a deviant female. As an effect of this film, the dissertation touches on the seven feature films in which the actress played the leading role, shortly after and under the influence of A Mulher de Todos, in collaboration with Rogério Sganzerla and Júlio Bressane, in the fictional production company Belair (1970).