Revueltas, Rosaura

(1920-1996)

   a member of the famous "artistic" Revueltas family (her brothers included composer Silvestre, writer José, and painter Fermín), Rosaura Revueltas acted on the stage then appeared in some Mexican films of the late 1940s and early 1950s, like Las islas Marías (1950). She also worked in the independent U.S. film Salt of the Earth and was allegedly deported from the U.S. as a "subversive." She spent the next several decades in various endeavors, including teaching in Cuba and running a dance school in Mexico, returning to the screen in Mexico in the mid-1970s. She won the Best Supporting Actress Ariel for El rebozo de Soledad, and also received a Best Female Co-Star nomination for Un día de vida.