Rojas, Raquel

(Janet Riesenfeld, aka Janet Alcoriza)

(1918-1998)

   the daughter of Viennese composer/conductor Hugo Riesenfeld, "Raquel Rojas" had acting roles in a number of Mexican films between 1938 (Café Concordia) and 1944. She then married Luis Alcoriza and began a second career as a prolific screenwriter under the name Janet Alcoriza, afterwards making only sporadic cameo appearances in films directed by her husband and their friend, Luis Buñuel.