Curiosidades

Daughter of Raul Cortez and Célia Helena.

Her husband is a plastic artist.

Lígia and Ulisses are parents of two girls: Vitória (1986) and Clara (1999).

She's an actress, a director and a writer of theater plays.

Lígia and her mother, actress Célia Helena, worked together in several theater plays.

Lígia does a lot of community work, specially in favelas.

In the play "Cheque ou Mate" (1997) Lígia worked with her father, actor Raul Cortez. They played father and daughter.

Lígia works in Casa do Teatro in São Paulo, a school for children and teenagers that want to learn to act. They have classes of music, theater, circus and dance. There she's a teacher and a children's director.

She also works in Teatro-Escola Célia Helena (named after her mother) in São Paulo. This school educates theater and TV actors.