--- name: "Rosaura Revueltas" canonical: "https://film.one/person/rosaura-revueltas" fi1m_id: "rosaura-revueltas" imdb_id: "nm0720955" tmdb_id: 968599 wikidata_id: "Q532055" roles: ["Actor"] born: "5 August 1910" died: "30 April 1996" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T06:59:32.332938+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Rosaura Revueltas ## Identity Rosaura Revueltas - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rosaura-revueltas - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** rosaura-revueltas - **IMDb ID:** nm0720955 - **TMDB ID:** 968599 - **Wikidata ID:** Q532055 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosaura_Revueltas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q532055, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720955/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/968599 Actor. Born 5 August 1910 in Ciudad Lerdo, Durango, Mexico. Died 30 April 1996. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 5 August 1910, Ciudad Lerdo, Durango, Mexico - **Died:** 30 April 1996 - **Also known as:** Росаура Ревуэльтас - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosaura_Revueltas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q532055, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720955/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/968599 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Salt of the Earth*](https://film.one/film/salt-of-the-earth.md) (76) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Rosaura Revueltas > Rosaura Revueltas makes anger held in check feel urgent. Her performance in *Salt of the Earth* gives a blunt, uneven drama someone worth caring about, and remains our reason to seek out her work. Esperanza Quintero holds back her anger because expressing it has a cost, and Rosaura Revueltas lets us feel the effort. In *Salt of the Earth* (1954), she plays a pregnant miner’s wife, giving the demand for respect a particular person’s urgency. We were moved by her restraint because it never made Esperanza’s anger seem less serious. Revueltas makes patience look like work, and we keep watching her even when the dialogue is doing too much explaining. She came to film after dance and stage work, taking supporting and character parts in Mexican cinema from the late 1940s into the early 1950s. Maternal roles recur: Mamá Juanita in *Un día de vida* (1950), the mother superior in *Muchachas de uniforme* (1951), a child’s mother in *El rebozo de Soledad* (1952). Esperanza gives that familiar authority room for dissatisfaction and demands of her own. A long gap in film work followed, before a limited return to the screen in 1976–1977. Her control also exposes a difficulty in Herbert J. Biberman’s *Salt of the Earth*. She was one of the few professional actors among a cast that included miners and their families, and Juan Chacón’s Ramon Quintero is less flexible beside her. That difference can make the acting uneven; the performers do not always seem equally at ease with what they have been asked to say. Revueltas’s patient attention is especially valuable here, keeping us interested in Esperanza when the writing risks reducing her to a point being made. Biberman takes women’s rights seriously, but his reliance on speeches remains a problem no performance can quite solve. Revueltas is persuasive because she makes the wish to be respected feel like an everyday need, rather than a line saved for an important scene. That is enough to make this uneven drama worth the evening. Start with *Salt of the Earth*, and give her quiet passages as much attention as the declarations. ## Biography Rosaura Revueltas was a Mexican actress. She played the lead role of Esperanza Quintero in the 1954 film *Salt of the Earth*, directed by Herbert J. Biberman. She studied acting and ballet in Mexico City and appeared in several Mexican films from the late 1940s onwards, including *Muchachas de uniforme* (1951). After *Salt of the Earth* she was blacklisted in both the United States and Mexico during the McCarthy era. Revueltas also worked as a dancer and author, and in later years taught dance and yoga. She received a Best Actress award for her performance in *Salt of the Earth* at the Académie du Cinéma in Paris and at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Salt of the Earth* (1954), Fi1m 76, as Esperanza Quintero — [page](https://film.one/film/salt-of-the-earth.md) ## Complete filmography (11) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Mina, viento de libertad* (1977), Actor - *Balún Canán* (1977), as La nana - *Lo mejor de Teresa* (1977), as Tía Licha - *Salt of the Earth* (1954), as Esperanza Quintero — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/salt-of-the-earth.md) - *Sombrero* (1953), as Tia Magdalena - *Soledad's Shawl* (1952), as Madre de niño operado - *El cuarto cerrado* (1952), as Regina (criada) - *Las Islas Marias* (1951), as Rosa Suárez vda. de Ortiz - *Girls in Uniform* (1951), as Mother Superior - *One Day of Life* (1950), as Mamá Juanita - *The Torch* (1950), as Faustina ## Gallery - ![Rosaura Revueltas](https://film.one/media/person/3872953/gallery-60973994fd49.jpg) Rosaura Revueltas — Published by the film's distributor, Independent Productions Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Salt_of_the_Earth_%281954_film_poster%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Rosaura Revueltas](https://film.one/media/person/3872953/gallery-6b2ad373b585.jpg) Rosaura Revueltas — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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