Emma Roldán

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Emma Roldán (February 3, 1893 – August 29, 1978) was a Mexican character actress and costume designer. She became famous for playing sharp, domineering matrons in films and was nominated three times for the Silver Ariel Award. She acted in important Fernando de Fuentes movies, including El prisionero trece and El compadre Mendoza (in his Revolution Trilogy), and in Allá en el Rancho Grande, a big Mexican box-office hit.

Roldán was born in San Luis Potosí to hotel owners José María Roldán and Virginia Reyna, the second of four siblings. She met her future husband, Pedro Jesús Ojeda, at the Teatro de la Paz in San Luis Potosí, and they had two children: Emma Ojeda Roldán and Pedro Ojeda Roldán. The couple moved to Monterrey and toured the country, a life she disliked; they later divorced, and she returned to her parents’ home in San Luis Potosí. She died in Mexico City at the age of 85.