Apuesta por un Amor was a Mexican soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 starring Patricia Manterola

Patricia Manterola

Patricia Manterola is a Mexican singer, actress, model, and fashion designer born in Mexico City.-Background:...

 and Juan Soler

Juan Soler

Juan Soler Valls Quiroga is an Argentine actor and former rugby player and model. He is married to Argentine actress Magdalena "Maki" Moguilevsky with whom he has two daughters.-Personal life:...

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Plot

Julia Montaño is the daughter of Don Julio Montaño, a wealthy landowner in the Yucatán Peninsula. She's a beautiful, strong-willed and sometimes arrogant young woman, who flouts her father's will and the customs of their small town by spending her days herding cattle and overseeing the management of her father's ranch. She has two siblings - Álvaro, a dissipated young man who spends the majority of his time chasing girls and getting drunk, and Soledad, a beautiful and ingenuous young girl who falls in love with Gabriel Durán, the handsome gamester who moves to San Gaspar after winning the hacienda of Don Ignacio (Don Julio's closest friend) in a poker game. Don Ignacio's son, Francisco, has been in love with Julia, but after discovering that he has become involved with the town harlot, Eva, spurns him for Gabriel. Things seem to go well for Julia and Gabriel until her father, after a series of complicated illnesses, must take charge of her father's estate.

Cast

• Juan Soler
  Juan Soler
  Juan Soler Valls Quiroga is an Argentine actor and former rugby player and model. He is married to Argentine actress Magdalena "Maki" Moguilevsky with whom he has two daughters.-Personal life:...
  
   as Gabriel Durán - Main hero
• Patricia Manterola
  Patricia Manterola
  Patricia Manterola is a Mexican singer, actress, model, and fashion designer born in Mexico City.-Background:...
  
   as Julia Montaño - Main heroine
• Eric del Castillo
  Eric del Castillo
  Eric del Castillo is a well-known Mexican actor.He is the father of Kate del Castillo. Del Castillo is famous in Mexico as a star in telenovelas and many motion pictures....
  
   as Chepe Estrada - Friend of Julio and Julia
• Roberto Palazuelos
  Roberto Palazuelos
  Roberto Palazuelos Badeaux , better known as Roberto Palazuelos, is a Mexican actor best known for his work in telenovelas.-Biography:...
  
   as Francisco Andrade - In love with Julia
• Mónika Sánchez as Eva Flores - In love with Gabriel
• Jorge Vargas
  Jorge Vargas
  Jorge Vargas may refer to:*Jorge B. Vargas , Filipino lawyer and youth advocate*Jorge Vargas González, Chilean politician, mayor of Pichilemu 1997-2007*Jorge Alberto Vargas, Ecuadorian football player*Jorge Francisco Vargas, Chilean footballer...
  
   as Julio Montaño - Father of Soledad, Julia and Alvaro
• Dacia González as Nana Clara García - Nanny of Julia, Alvaro and Soledad
• Roberto Ballesteros as Justo Hernández
• Socorro Bonilla as Lázara Jiménez - Witch of San Gaspar
• Tony Bravo as Camilo Beltrán
• Arsenio Campos as Ignacio Andrade - Father of Francisco
• Maleni Morales as Esther Andrade - Mother of Francisco, villain
• Alfonso Iturralde as Prof. Homero Preciado
• Roberto D'Amico as Padre Jesús
• Jaime Lozano
  Jaime Lozano
  Jaime Arturo Lozano Espín is a Mexican football player currently playing for Morelia in the Mexican First Division. In Tigres, he played in the midfielder position with the number 21. However, at Cruz Azul he was employed as more of a defensive wingback...
  
   as Braulio Serrano
• Justo Martínez as Macario Trujillo
• Héctor Sáez as Cayetano Cruz
• Fernando Robles
  Fernando Robles
  Fernando Augusto Colaço Leal Robles or Fernando Robles was a Portuguese Second Lieutenant who participated in initial counterinsurgency operations against insurgent União dos Povos de Angola guerrillas operating in northern Angola during 1961, at the onset of the Portuguese Colonial...
  
   as Marcial - Friend of Gabriel
• Alejandro Rábago as Lorenzo Pedraza
• Fabián Robles
  Fabián Robles
  Fabián Robles is a Mexican actor.He began his career in 1994 to participate in the soap opera El vuelo del agulia...
  
   as Álvaro Montaño - Brother of Soledad and Julia, villain
• José María Torre
  José María Torre
  José María Torre is a Mexican actor and fashion designer who started his career at the age of five doing television commercials. He is the brother of actresses Fátima and Andrea Torre...
  
   as Luis Pedraza - Boyfriend of Matilde
• Francesca Guillén as Matilde Cruz - Girlfriend of Luis
• Julio Mannino
  Julio Mannino
  Julio Giovanni Mannino Pichardo is a Mexican actor, born in Toluca, Mexico.His parents are Giulio Mannino Bruno and Alicia Pichardo Martinez, his father is Italian...
  
   as Leandro Pedraza
• Lorena Enríquez
  Lorena Enríquez
  Lorena Enríquez is Mexican actress and hostess. She recently featured in the Mexican soap opera Un Gancho al Corazón.- Theater :*La Sirenita Role: Ariel.*Blanca Nieves y los 7 enanos Role: Blanca Nieves....
  
   as Soledad Montaño - Sister of Julia and Alvaro, obsessed with Gabriel
• Juan Ángel Esparza as Samuel Cruz
• Benjamín Rivero as Ramón Cabrera
• Alejandra Ávalos as Casandra Fragoso - Wife of Julio, in love with Gabriel, villain

Awards

Year	Ceremony	Category	Nominee	Result
2005	TVyNovelas Awards	Best Telenovela	Apuesta por un amor
		Best Lead Actress	Patricia Manterola
		Best Lead Actor	Juan Soler
		Best Female Villain	Mónika Sánchez
		Best Male Villain	Fabian Robles
		Best Supporting Actress	Dacia González
		Best Supporting Actor	Eric del Castillo
		Best Song for a Telenovela	Luis Miguel
		Best Direction	Alfredo Gurrola