# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-de-souza
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:46:05.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-de-souza"
name: "Ruth de Souza"
slug: "ruth-de-souza"
description: "Ruth Pinto de Souza was a Brazilian actress. She was born in Rio de Janeiro on May 12th, 1921 and died in Copacabana on July 28th, 2019. In 1945, she became the first Afro-Brazilian actress to perform at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro in the play O Imperador Jones. She was also the first Afro-Brazilian actress selected for the prize of best actress at an international film festival for her performance in Sinhá Moça at the Mostra of Venice in 1954."
tagline: "Actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_de_Souza_(1968).tif?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1921-05-12"
deathDate: "2019-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.272612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0211821/"
    handle:    "nm0211821"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_de_Souza"
    title: "Ruth de Souza"
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    title: "Ruth de Souza"
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    title: "Ռութ Դե Սոուզա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump