Beautiful Jewish girl, daughter of Herodias and Philip. She becomes the stepdaughter of her uncle Antipas, when Herodias leaves her husband to stay with her brother-in-law. Talented dancer, sweet, naive, she is manipulated by her mother, who envies her beauty and youth. The wickedness of Herodias comes to the point of using Salome to get the head of John the Baptist, who reproves her publicly for adultery. After that, Salome opens her eyes, and sees who in fact is her mother.