El Rostro de Analía
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El Rostro de Analía is a Spanish-language telenovela
produced by the American-based television network Telemundo
. It stars Elizabeth Gutiérrez
, Martin Karpan
, Maritza Rodríguez
and the special appearance of Gaby Espino
. Written by Venezuelan writer Humberto "Kiko" Olivieri, the story is loosely based on María, María which starred Alba Roversi and Mexican soap star Arturo Peniche
in Venezuela, and was also written by Olivieri. The novela is directed by David Posada and Danny Gaviria; with Jairo Arcila as General Producer and Aurelio Valcarcel Carrol as Executive Producer.
Although the novela was set in Los Angeles, Telemundo
filmed the serial in Miami, Fl. Through [sometimes not so] careful editing it was made to appear as Los Angeles. The network debuted it on October 20, 2008 at the 9 pm (8 pm central) timeslot. Telemundo added English subtitles as closed captions on CC3 starting in March. The telenovela has been one of Telemundo's most successful due to its distinct plot (which goes far beyond the average love story) and its incorporation of science fiction, something not typical in a Spanish soap opera. It is likely that the novela will be released on DVD
, as that seemed to be the case for Telemundo's most recent shows, with the exception of Pecados Ajenos
.
RTV Pink
started to air this telenovela on January 5, 2009 in Serbia
. TVN started to air the telenovela
on January 19, 2009 at the 8 pm timeslot. It debuted with the highest rating of a 2009 show in Panama. BTV started to air this telenovela on February 2, 2009 in Bulgaria
. On February 25, 2009 it also debuted at 8pm on Canal 7 in Guatemala.
From 31 August 2009, TV Puls
plans to issue El Rostro de Analia on their TV channel in Poland at 15:30. In Albania
, Top Channel
airs the telenovela from Monday to Friday at 18:30. The show is airing on TV Doma
in Slovakia
from January 4, 2010 from Monday to Thursday at 20.50 as Pravá tvár vášne (The true face of passion), in Romania from April 12, 2010 from Monday to Thursday at 21.30 as Cealalta fata a Analiei (The other face of Analia);from August 9 will be aired from Monday to Friday at 21.30. From 17 February 2010 RTL
Croatia airs this telenovela from Monday to Friday at 14:00 as Drugo lice (Other face).
It was Telemundo's most successful production in 2009, being the third most viewed serial worldwide that year.
It has been hugely successful being sold to 29 countries around the world including United States,Turkey Georgia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, Panama, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexic, Peru, Paraguay, Armenia, Venezuela, Moldavia and Czech Republic.
Elizabeth Gutiérrez
plays both Mariana and Analia, being the main protagonist. The male lead is portrayed by Martin Karpan
, while the main antagonists include Maritza Rodríguez
, Gabriel Porras
and Zully Montero
. Other major characters are brought to life by Karla Monroig
, Daniel Lugo
, Ximena Duque
, Pedro Moreno
and Alejandro Chaban
.
It was the best production of Telemundo
in 2009 and the fourth most broadcasted of all times.
) has been given the mission of apprehending one of the most cunning and lethal criminal master minds in the country, Ricky Montana (Gabriel Porras
). Ana Lucia (referred to as Analia by her fellow cops) goes undercover as a stripper and starts working at a night club where Ricky Montana has frequently been spotted. After many nights of watching her performances, Montana starts to fall for Analia and, little by little, lets her in on his mafia operations. The police's plan is working, and Agent Analia will soon have gathered enough evidence to bring Montana to jail. However, after spotting Analia with a cop at the club, Ricky Montana grows doubts about his beloved stripper and starts to question her identity. Fearing that Montana might have discovered that she is indeed a cop herself, Analia grows determined to prove to Montana her loyalty to him, but Ricky Montana comes up with a diabolical plan that will truly reveal Analia's identity to him: Montana asks Analia to murder Mariana Montiel (Gaby Espino
), a young and successful businesswoman who lives right there in Los Angeles. He knows that if Analia is indeed a cop, she will never agree to such a thing. Analia accepts the task.
Analia targets Mariana Montiel,who on her anniversary, unfortunately discovers that her husband, Daniel Montiel (Martin Karpan
), has been cheating on her all along with her cousin, Sara Andrade (Maritza Rodríguez
). Mariana cannot believe it and goes into a state of depression. She starts drinking heavily and leaves in Daniel's car the night of the anniversary party. Much to her surprise, she is stopped by an armed Analia, who forces herself into Mariana's car. Analia tells Mariana that she has been ordered to kill her and that her employer's most trusted men are following them to make sure that the job gets done. Analia also tells Mariana that she actually has no intention of hurting her, and that if she drives away at full speed, they will be able to lose Montana's men and hopefully fake the whole thing. But drunken Mariana has lost her will to live after discovering her husband's betrayal. She purposely drives the car off a cliff, where it falls hundreds of feet down into the road, explodes, and kills them both.
The explosion is witnessed by a mad scientist
named Dr. Armando Rivera (Daniel Lugo
), who was on his way home after a scholarly presentation on cell cloning. Dr. Rivera is able to retrieve Mariana's corpse from within the burning car, but Analia's body is nowhere to be found. Instead of calling an ambulance, Dr. Rivera takes Mariana to his laboratory where he intends to try out a new experiment that, if done properly, will bring Mariana back to life. The doctor is set on saving Mariana's life because his wife died in a similar fashion, and he was unable to do anything to save her. His operation is successful, but Mariana's body is still extremely burned, and thus, unrecognizable. His assistant, Roberto (Jorge Consejo), shows Dr. Rivera a purse he found close to the burning car. Assuming that it fell out of one of the car's windows during the fall and that it belongs to the woman the doctor had just resurrected, he shows him its contents. Inside the purse is a card that reads ‘ANALIA’ and a photograph of the cop. Dr. Rivera assumes this to be Mariana and sets out to reconstruct her face like that of Analia's. He and his assistant keep all this secret from the police in fear of going to jail for illegal experimentation on nonliving test subjects and unlicensed plastic surgical operations. Though it takes the doctor four years to make Mariana "as good as new," his work is so exceptionally well done that there is no physical trace of Mariana (now with the face of Analia) ever having experienced a car explosion. However, not everything turned out perfectly because, after much research on her part, an amnesiac Mariana—who believes herself to be Analia—realizes that if she is indeed who she thinks she is, going back to being an undercover cop and arresting Montana is the correct thing to do. Mariana is now forced to confront the dark and dangerous past of her "murderer." From this moment on, she will live a double life that unleashes a battle between love and, later on, her desire for vengeance.
Four years later,Mariana has fallen in love with none other than Daniel Montiel, but she does not realize he is in fact her husband—the same person who cheated on her with her cousin Sara. However, as their relationship develops, Daniel tells who he believes to be Analia of his life with his wife Mariana and the stupid mistake he made. It soon becomes evident that Mariana's cousin Sara had been the one who had pressured a weak Daniel into the affair
. Furthermore, when Daniel and "Analia" start going out, Mariana's daughter Adrianita grows fond of who she does not realize is her mother. Unfortunately, Mariana's ambitious mother Carmen (Zully Montero
) sees "Analia," unaware that she is indeed Mariana, as a threat to the family fortune, for if she marries Daniel, the Montiel inheritance might escape her greedy hands yet again.
Mariana, believing herself to be Analia, has now officially taken over the real Analia's mission, but nobody knows, not even herself, her true identity. "Retrained" (in reality, barely just trained for the first time) by the FBI, a new Mariana has her mind set on bringing down Montana and his operations. Mariana uses her sensuality to win Ricky Montana's heart, and the ignorant drug dealer once again falls for the woman who he believes to be the stripper Ana Lucia. But the story takes a twist when Mariana slowly starts to remember who she really is, that she is not Agent Analia, that she is not on a mission to bring down the drug trafficker Ricky Montana, and that her husband is actually the same man she is currently going out with. Coincidentally, at the same time, it is revealed that the real Analia is very much alive. Dr. Rivera had found her body a couple of days after the accident. He had taken her to his lab
and resurrected her the same way he had resurrected Mariana. He had also reconstructed her face with the same advanced technology
he had used during Mariana's surgery. (Obviously, this means that the doctor had found out about his mistake of putting Analia‘s face on Mariana, but he kept it a secret). The insane doctor Rivera had also fallen in love with Analia, and he kept her imprisoned in his lab all those years and conducted additional experiments on her. Now that Analia has escaped, she is determined on returning to her mission, which, unbeknownst to her, Mariana is currently working on.
Later, in an important subplot, we find out that Carmen isn’t Mariana's mother after all. Carmen, a former prostitute, married Mr. Andrade only for his money, and so Mr. Andrade looked for love in another woman. Olga (Elluz Peraza
) (the other woman) becomes pregnant with Mariana at one point, but decides not to tell Mr. Andrade. Carmen finds out, and since she is sterile
, she decides to steal baby Mariana at birth—a product of her husband and his affair. Now, years later, Olga has appeared and is looking for her adult daughter. Carmen tries to do everything in her power to prevent the truth from coming out, and after a few murders, she starts going insane and believes the spirits of the people she has killed are haunting her. These hallucinations drive Carmen to kill their maid and butler. She is sent to an asylum. She was spared from jail due to the fact that she was acting under a mental illness
.
At around the same time, the two Analias meet and the truth about Dr. Rivera and the operations becomes clear to them both. They have no choice but to work together and bring down Montana. But when Montana hears about there being two Analias, things start to get complicated. He kidnaps one of the Analias (Mariana) and holds her hostage until the real Analia arrives. Much to his surprise, the real Analia admits that the police hired a look-alike to "trick him." Montana is still not buying it and has new suspicions about his beloved stripper. When he asks Analia where she has been these four years, she tells him that she was arrested for killing Mariana Montiel and has been in jail ever since, but finally managed to escape. When Analia realizes that Montana still doesn’t believe her tale and that the other Analia (Mariana) is in danger, Analia gets violent and demands to know why Montana won’t believe her. Her rage assures Montana that she is indeed the real Analia and he is forced to assume that she is telling the truth.
Montana plans to dispose of the fake Analia that night, so the real Analia asks Dr. Rivera for help. (Dr. Rivera had managed to clone
Analia during the time he had held her prisoner. Agent Analia plans on switching Mariana—who is now unconscious due to Montana's drug injection—with a dead Analia clone, that way, since all three of them have the same face, Montana won’t be able to tell the difference and Mariana will hopefully be able to escape).
When Daniel finds out about his girlfriend's true identity and that she is actually his wife, he goes to save her, but Sara (who still has romantic interest in him) tags along, unaware of what Daniel is planning to do. Then, another secret comes out: Sara had been working with Montana all along. She was the one who had asked him to kill Mariana in the first place, so that when Mariana was out of the picture, she and Daniel could come out as a couple in public.
When Sara and Daniel arrive at Montana's, Montana assumes that Sara has betrayed him because she has shown up with the fake Analia's husband. He orders his men to burn Sara alive as punishment for her supposed treason, and Montana's henchmen are quick to follow directions. They lock the beautiful Sara in the trunk of a car and set it on fire. Unbeknownst to them however, Sara manages to escape before the car explodes, but she is badly burned and injured. Daniel also receives his punishment for trying to rescue his wife—he is beaten with a pipe by Montana's men and would have died from his injuries if it weren't for Analia and Mariana (who had just escaped from Montana's lair). Analia soon leaves after saving Daniel's life. She must return to Montana, who still believes her to be his lover. Dr. Rivera feels responsible for Daniel's attack, as it is his putting Analia's face on Mariana that started everything. The doctor comes to the conclusion that most hospitals would consider Daniel's condition mortal and would probably put him out of his pain with the practice of euthanasia
. In order to mend his many errors, he decides to treat Daniel and his injuries himself. But unfortunately, now that the story about Mariana and the operation Rivera performed on her is out, it reaches injured Sara's ears, and the villainess sets to kidnap Dr. Rivera's assistant (Roberto) so that the doctor would be forced to operate on her too and give her back her beauty.
Dr. Rivera has no choice but to accept, treat Sara's injuries, and reconstruct her face. The operation, which was incredibly similar to that of Mariana's and Analia's, is a success—just like Daniel's. Both Mariana's husband and Mariana's evil cousin are safe.
While that is happening, Carmen seduces the psychiatrist
that is treating her at the asylum. After the two have sex, Carmen convinces him to legally declare her as sane so that she could finally leave the asylum and be transferred to jail. The psychiatrist complies and the police go to the asylum to pick up Carmen, but she picks the lock to her handcuffs
, strangles the cop in charge of transporting her, and escapes.
Times passes and Analia finally finds the perfect opportunity to arrest Montana. He will soon be meeting some Mexican smugglers at a dock
outside of Los Angeles to receive the illegal merchandise. Analia plans on using the drugs Montana will be receiving as evidence for his trial. She will have to arrest him tonight. Montana, who now trusts Analia enough to let her come along, is unaware of what the undercover cop is planning on doing. When the smugglers arrive and meet up with Montana, Analia reveals herself to be a policewoman and tries to arrest the men, but Montana grows angry at her perceived betrayal and shoots randomly before making his escape. At the conclusion of the intense gun battle, Analia's backup arrest the Mexicans and Analia herself manages to trap Montana in an empty room of a nearby building. The two shoot at each other there and Montana manages to sneak up on Analia and knock her out momentarily. He attempts to rape
her, but she wakes up and takes his gun. Analia forces Montana to his knees and humiliates him, but when Montana starts to talk trash about Analia's dead ex (who he killed prior to the beginning of the novela—the reason why Analia agreed to the mission in the first place), Analia loses her cool and tries to kill Montana, but is stopped by her fellow cops. Montana is arrested, and so are his men.
Montana's trial is quick to follow, and after Montana repeatedly mocks Analia and assures her he will escape, Analia insults him and assaults him, only to be heard by the judge and seen by the security guards. Analia is removed from the Montana case for unprofessional behavior, but she sees no point in being a cop if she cannot make Montana pay, so she quits her job as a policewoman.
In the trial, all of Montana's men declare against him—even his own lawyer. Montana is found guilty and given a life sentence in prison. Days later, the families of Montana's men are mysteriously attacked and the police conclude that Montana somehow is exacting his revenge from his cell. They find a cell phone in his cell and start an investigation as to how he obtained it. The police assume that Analia is next, seeing how Montana was in love with her and she betrayed him. Their suspicions are proven to be true when Analia's mother and sister are kidnapped, but the two women are soon rescued and the men responsible imprisoned. While everyone worries about how powerful Montana might be, even from behind bars, nobody pays attention to Carmen's escape from the asylum. Carmen, now disguised as a poor old beggar, plots the kidnapping of her political niece, Mariana and Daniel's daughter Adrianita. She spreads rumors of her crossing the border to Mexico
and they reach the ears of the police, and when the police lessen security in L.A., stop the search for her in the United States and begin looking for her in Mexico
, Carmen gathers old friends to help her kidnap her niece.
Soon after Montana's trial, the police find out that one among them is actually working for Montana and had given him the cell phone, along with the addresses of his men's homes so that the attacks, kidnappings, and bombings can be scheduled. When they discover who the traitor is, they also discover that Montana is planning his escape from jail. Captain Lares looks for Analia and begs her to return because he knows she is the only one who can stop Montana. Analia agrees and the captain gives her license to kill.
When Montana cleverly escapes from jail in a garbage truck, Analia (along with Mariana, Daniel, and Mariana's brother) chase after him. The epic battle continues in a park and both Analia and Montana each sustain multiple injuries. When Analia shoots Montana in the face, Montana falls to the ground, but not before pulling the trigger one last time, shooting Analia in the heart and killing her.
Montana is taken to a hospital and Analia is taken to Dr. Rivera, who manages to resurrect her for a second time. However, even though Dr. Rivera has managed to help Analia multiple times, the science he practices is unlicensed and thus illegal. The police are forced to arrest him, but try to convince the judge of his innocence.
Now that Montana is out of the picture, Sara decides it is time to get her revenge on Mariana. She intended to take over Mariana's company, but realizes that she is aging at an extremely accelerated pace. Dr. Rivera tricked her during the operation and coated her new synthetic skin with a substance that caused her to age rapidly when exposed to sunlight. Sara, caring so much about her beauty, kidnaps Mariana and Daniel, in hopes of persuading Dr. Rivera to re-operate. While pointing the gun at Mariana, she forces Daniel to drive out of the city, but Daniel tells Sara to kill both of them right there in the car or to prepare to die herself, because he's willing to crash the car. Daniel speeds up the driving and Sara grows worried. Mariana takes advantage of this and takes the gun from her. She and Daniel get out of the car before Sara can stop them. Mariana's brother had called the police and some cops had managed to catch up with them. When Sara sees police vehicles coming to her, preferring death to prison, she drives the car off the road and falls off a cliff, exploding in the same way that Daniel's first car exploded the night Analia and Mariana met. Meanwhile, Carmen is planning to kidnap Adrianita with the help of another woman. She attacks a police officer and takes his gun. She almost kills Adriana but is caught and sent to an asylum. Tries to escape but is killed there by some of the patients. At the end of the story, Analia decides to get Mariana's original face and Mariana discovers that she is pregnant.
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
produced by the American-based television network Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
. It stars Elizabeth Gutiérrez
Elizabeth Gutierrez
Elizabeth Gutiérrez is a Mexican-American actress and model. She is best known for playing the leading roles in the telenovelas El Rostro de Analía and El Fantasma de Elena.-Background:...
, Martin Karpan
Martin Karpan
Carlos Martín Karpan is an Argentine actor, notable for playing a heartthrob in the telenovela El Cuerpo del Deseo.- Television :* El secretario - Félix Armando Segura...
, Maritza Rodríguez
Maritza Rodriguez
Maritza Rodríguez Gómez is a Colombian telenovela actress and model.-Career:Rodríguez is best known for her modeling and acting in several telenovelas. Besides acting, she is also an entreupurner and has her own line of beauty products.-Personal life:Rodríguez has three brothers and speaks English...
and the special appearance of Gaby Espino
Gaby Espino
María Gabriela "Gaby" Espino Rugero is a Venezuelan actress and model. She best known for her roles in telenovelas.-Biography:...
. Written by Venezuelan writer Humberto "Kiko" Olivieri, the story is loosely based on María, María which starred Alba Roversi and Mexican soap star Arturo Peniche
Arturo Peniche
Arturo Peniche is a famous Mexican telenovela actor who became popular in Latin America during the 1990s. He is the brother of actor Flavio Peniche, who appears in the telenovela La Traicion.-Biography:...
in Venezuela, and was also written by Olivieri. The novela is directed by David Posada and Danny Gaviria; with Jairo Arcila as General Producer and Aurelio Valcarcel Carrol as Executive Producer.
Although the novela was set in Los Angeles, Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
filmed the serial in Miami, Fl. Through [sometimes not so] careful editing it was made to appear as Los Angeles. The network debuted it on October 20, 2008 at the 9 pm (8 pm central) timeslot. Telemundo added English subtitles as closed captions on CC3 starting in March. The telenovela has been one of Telemundo's most successful due to its distinct plot (which goes far beyond the average love story) and its incorporation of science fiction, something not typical in a Spanish soap opera. It is likely that the novela will be released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
, as that seemed to be the case for Telemundo's most recent shows, with the exception of Pecados Ajenos
Pecados Ajenos
Pecados Ajenos is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This limited-run series was shot in Florida by Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is also known as A Chance to Love This telenovela was sold to 16 countries around the world.Pecados Ajenos...
.
RTV Pink
RTV Pink
RTV Pink or Radio-Television Pink is a popular, privately-owned, national TV network in Serbia. Pink is the leading commercial station in the Serbian television broadcast market. TV Pink has gained a strong reputation for its entertainment programming...
started to air this telenovela on January 5, 2009 in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
. TVN started to air the telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
on January 19, 2009 at the 8 pm timeslot. It debuted with the highest rating of a 2009 show in Panama. BTV started to air this telenovela on February 2, 2009 in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
. On February 25, 2009 it also debuted at 8pm on Canal 7 in Guatemala.
From 31 August 2009, TV Puls
TV Puls
TV Puls is a Polish commercial television channel, which was based on Telewizja Niepokalanów with the support of companies such as PKN Orlen, KGHM Polska Miedź, PZU Życie, Prokom and which started broadcasting in March 2001. Due to financial problems, ended broadcasting on April 1, 2003...
plans to issue El Rostro de Analia on their TV channel in Poland at 15:30. In Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
, Top Channel
Top Channel
Top Channel is a commercial television station with national frequency coverage in Tirana, Albania founded by media mogul Dritan Hoxha, and part of Top Media Group. Since September 2003, Top Channel became present on satellite broadcasting all over Europe through DigitAlb, and North America through...
airs the telenovela from Monday to Friday at 18:30. The show is airing on TV Doma
TV Doma
Television Doma is the first niche channel aimed at young, active women in Slovakia. The channel, which launched on August 31, 2009, is owned by Central European Media Enterprises and currently has a reach of approximately 92% of the country's 5.4 million people and broadcasts 24 hours per...
in Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
from January 4, 2010 from Monday to Thursday at 20.50 as Pravá tvár vášne (The true face of passion), in Romania from April 12, 2010 from Monday to Thursday at 21.30 as Cealalta fata a Analiei (The other face of Analia);from August 9 will be aired from Monday to Friday at 21.30. From 17 February 2010 RTL
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...
Croatia airs this telenovela from Monday to Friday at 14:00 as Drugo lice (Other face).
It was Telemundo's most successful production in 2009, being the third most viewed serial worldwide that year.
It has been hugely successful being sold to 29 countries around the world including United States,Turkey Georgia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, Panama, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexic, Peru, Paraguay, Armenia, Venezuela, Moldavia and Czech Republic.
Elizabeth Gutiérrez
Elizabeth Gutierrez
Elizabeth Gutiérrez is a Mexican-American actress and model. She is best known for playing the leading roles in the telenovelas El Rostro de Analía and El Fantasma de Elena.-Background:...
plays both Mariana and Analia, being the main protagonist. The male lead is portrayed by Martin Karpan
Martin Karpan
Carlos Martín Karpan is an Argentine actor, notable for playing a heartthrob in the telenovela El Cuerpo del Deseo.- Television :* El secretario - Félix Armando Segura...
, while the main antagonists include Maritza Rodríguez
Maritza Rodriguez
Maritza Rodríguez Gómez is a Colombian telenovela actress and model.-Career:Rodríguez is best known for her modeling and acting in several telenovelas. Besides acting, she is also an entreupurner and has her own line of beauty products.-Personal life:Rodríguez has three brothers and speaks English...
, Gabriel Porras
Gabriel Porras
Gabriel Porras is a Mexican actor. He began his acting career working for TV Azteca in telenovelas like "Tres Veces Sofia" along with Mexican diva Lucía Méndez and "El Tio Alberto"...
and Zully Montero
Zully Montero
Clara Zully Montero is a Cuban actress who has worked in television, film, and theatre. She is known for her acting skills and her beauty.-Biography:...
. Other major characters are brought to life by Karla Monroig
Karla Monroig
Karla Monroig is an actress, model and television host.-Early years:Karla Monroig was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, located on the southern coastal valley region of the island of Puerto Rico...
, Daniel Lugo
Daniel Lugo
Daniel Lugo born July 30, 1945, in Caguas, Puerto Rico. is a Puerto Rican actor.His has played several prominent parts in telenovelas such as Prisionera, La Hija del Mariachi, El Rostro de Analia, and most recently as Ali in El Clon.-Telenovelas:...
, Ximena Duque
Ximena Duque
Ximena Duque is a Colombian actress who rose to fame after appearing as a contestant on the second season of the Telemundo reality competition Protagonistas de Novela...
, Pedro Moreno
Pedro Moreno
Pedro Moreno . He was an insurgent in the Mexican War of Independence....
and Alejandro Chaban
Alejandro Chabán
Alejandro José Chabán Rodríguez is a Venezuelan actor and model who has performed in both English- and Spanish-language productions. He is a U.S. citizen....
.
It was the best production of Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
in 2009 and the fourth most broadcasted of all times.
Plot
The story begins in the city of Los Angeles in the year 2004, where secret agent Ana Lucia (Elizabeth GutiérrezElizabeth Gutierrez
Elizabeth Gutiérrez is a Mexican-American actress and model. She is best known for playing the leading roles in the telenovelas El Rostro de Analía and El Fantasma de Elena.-Background:...
) has been given the mission of apprehending one of the most cunning and lethal criminal master minds in the country, Ricky Montana (Gabriel Porras
Gabriel Porras
Gabriel Porras is a Mexican actor. He began his acting career working for TV Azteca in telenovelas like "Tres Veces Sofia" along with Mexican diva Lucía Méndez and "El Tio Alberto"...
). Ana Lucia (referred to as Analia by her fellow cops) goes undercover as a stripper and starts working at a night club where Ricky Montana has frequently been spotted. After many nights of watching her performances, Montana starts to fall for Analia and, little by little, lets her in on his mafia operations. The police's plan is working, and Agent Analia will soon have gathered enough evidence to bring Montana to jail. However, after spotting Analia with a cop at the club, Ricky Montana grows doubts about his beloved stripper and starts to question her identity. Fearing that Montana might have discovered that she is indeed a cop herself, Analia grows determined to prove to Montana her loyalty to him, but Ricky Montana comes up with a diabolical plan that will truly reveal Analia's identity to him: Montana asks Analia to murder Mariana Montiel (Gaby Espino
Gaby Espino
María Gabriela "Gaby" Espino Rugero is a Venezuelan actress and model. She best known for her roles in telenovelas.-Biography:...
), a young and successful businesswoman who lives right there in Los Angeles. He knows that if Analia is indeed a cop, she will never agree to such a thing. Analia accepts the task.
Analia targets Mariana Montiel,who on her anniversary, unfortunately discovers that her husband, Daniel Montiel (Martin Karpan
Martin Karpan
Carlos Martín Karpan is an Argentine actor, notable for playing a heartthrob in the telenovela El Cuerpo del Deseo.- Television :* El secretario - Félix Armando Segura...
), has been cheating on her all along with her cousin, Sara Andrade (Maritza Rodríguez
Maritza Rodriguez
Maritza Rodríguez Gómez is a Colombian telenovela actress and model.-Career:Rodríguez is best known for her modeling and acting in several telenovelas. Besides acting, she is also an entreupurner and has her own line of beauty products.-Personal life:Rodríguez has three brothers and speaks English...
). Mariana cannot believe it and goes into a state of depression. She starts drinking heavily and leaves in Daniel's car the night of the anniversary party. Much to her surprise, she is stopped by an armed Analia, who forces herself into Mariana's car. Analia tells Mariana that she has been ordered to kill her and that her employer's most trusted men are following them to make sure that the job gets done. Analia also tells Mariana that she actually has no intention of hurting her, and that if she drives away at full speed, they will be able to lose Montana's men and hopefully fake the whole thing. But drunken Mariana has lost her will to live after discovering her husband's betrayal. She purposely drives the car off a cliff, where it falls hundreds of feet down into the road, explodes, and kills them both.
The explosion is witnessed by a mad scientist
Mad scientist
A mad scientist is a stock character of popular fiction, specifically science fiction. The mad scientist may be villainous or antagonistic, benign or neutral, and whether insane, eccentric, or simply bumbling, mad scientists often work with fictional technology in order to forward their schemes, if...
named Dr. Armando Rivera (Daniel Lugo
Daniel Lugo
Daniel Lugo born July 30, 1945, in Caguas, Puerto Rico. is a Puerto Rican actor.His has played several prominent parts in telenovelas such as Prisionera, La Hija del Mariachi, El Rostro de Analia, and most recently as Ali in El Clon.-Telenovelas:...
), who was on his way home after a scholarly presentation on cell cloning. Dr. Rivera is able to retrieve Mariana's corpse from within the burning car, but Analia's body is nowhere to be found. Instead of calling an ambulance, Dr. Rivera takes Mariana to his laboratory where he intends to try out a new experiment that, if done properly, will bring Mariana back to life. The doctor is set on saving Mariana's life because his wife died in a similar fashion, and he was unable to do anything to save her. His operation is successful, but Mariana's body is still extremely burned, and thus, unrecognizable. His assistant, Roberto (Jorge Consejo), shows Dr. Rivera a purse he found close to the burning car. Assuming that it fell out of one of the car's windows during the fall and that it belongs to the woman the doctor had just resurrected, he shows him its contents. Inside the purse is a card that reads ‘ANALIA’ and a photograph of the cop. Dr. Rivera assumes this to be Mariana and sets out to reconstruct her face like that of Analia's. He and his assistant keep all this secret from the police in fear of going to jail for illegal experimentation on nonliving test subjects and unlicensed plastic surgical operations. Though it takes the doctor four years to make Mariana "as good as new," his work is so exceptionally well done that there is no physical trace of Mariana (now with the face of Analia) ever having experienced a car explosion. However, not everything turned out perfectly because, after much research on her part, an amnesiac Mariana—who believes herself to be Analia—realizes that if she is indeed who she thinks she is, going back to being an undercover cop and arresting Montana is the correct thing to do. Mariana is now forced to confront the dark and dangerous past of her "murderer." From this moment on, she will live a double life that unleashes a battle between love and, later on, her desire for vengeance.
Four years later,Mariana has fallen in love with none other than Daniel Montiel, but she does not realize he is in fact her husband—the same person who cheated on her with her cousin Sara. However, as their relationship develops, Daniel tells who he believes to be Analia of his life with his wife Mariana and the stupid mistake he made. It soon becomes evident that Mariana's cousin Sara had been the one who had pressured a weak Daniel into the affair
Affair
Affair may refer to professional, personal, or public business matters or to a particular business or private activity of a temporary duration, as in family affair, a private affair, or a romantic affair.-Political affair:...
. Furthermore, when Daniel and "Analia" start going out, Mariana's daughter Adrianita grows fond of who she does not realize is her mother. Unfortunately, Mariana's ambitious mother Carmen (Zully Montero
Zully Montero
Clara Zully Montero is a Cuban actress who has worked in television, film, and theatre. She is known for her acting skills and her beauty.-Biography:...
) sees "Analia," unaware that she is indeed Mariana, as a threat to the family fortune, for if she marries Daniel, the Montiel inheritance might escape her greedy hands yet again.
Mariana, believing herself to be Analia, has now officially taken over the real Analia's mission, but nobody knows, not even herself, her true identity. "Retrained" (in reality, barely just trained for the first time) by the FBI, a new Mariana has her mind set on bringing down Montana and his operations. Mariana uses her sensuality to win Ricky Montana's heart, and the ignorant drug dealer once again falls for the woman who he believes to be the stripper Ana Lucia. But the story takes a twist when Mariana slowly starts to remember who she really is, that she is not Agent Analia, that she is not on a mission to bring down the drug trafficker Ricky Montana, and that her husband is actually the same man she is currently going out with. Coincidentally, at the same time, it is revealed that the real Analia is very much alive. Dr. Rivera had found her body a couple of days after the accident. He had taken her to his lab
Laboratory
A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the processes or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laboratories...
and resurrected her the same way he had resurrected Mariana. He had also reconstructed her face with the same advanced technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
he had used during Mariana's surgery. (Obviously, this means that the doctor had found out about his mistake of putting Analia‘s face on Mariana, but he kept it a secret). The insane doctor Rivera had also fallen in love with Analia, and he kept her imprisoned in his lab all those years and conducted additional experiments on her. Now that Analia has escaped, she is determined on returning to her mission, which, unbeknownst to her, Mariana is currently working on.
Later, in an important subplot, we find out that Carmen isn’t Mariana's mother after all. Carmen, a former prostitute, married Mr. Andrade only for his money, and so Mr. Andrade looked for love in another woman. Olga (Elluz Peraza
Elluz Peraza
Elluz Coromoto Peraza González is a Venezuelan pageant titleholder and actress. Peraza was Miss Venezuela 1976, but she resigned on May 24, 1976, because she married two days after her coronation...
) (the other woman) becomes pregnant with Mariana at one point, but decides not to tell Mr. Andrade. Carmen finds out, and since she is sterile
Infertility
Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to conception. Infertility may also refer to the state of a woman who is unable to carry a pregnancy to full term...
, she decides to steal baby Mariana at birth—a product of her husband and his affair. Now, years later, Olga has appeared and is looking for her adult daughter. Carmen tries to do everything in her power to prevent the truth from coming out, and after a few murders, she starts going insane and believes the spirits of the people she has killed are haunting her. These hallucinations drive Carmen to kill their maid and butler. She is sent to an asylum. She was spared from jail due to the fact that she was acting under a mental illness
Mental illness
A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and which is not a part of normal development or culture. Such a disorder may consist of a combination of affective, behavioural,...
.
At around the same time, the two Analias meet and the truth about Dr. Rivera and the operations becomes clear to them both. They have no choice but to work together and bring down Montana. But when Montana hears about there being two Analias, things start to get complicated. He kidnaps one of the Analias (Mariana) and holds her hostage until the real Analia arrives. Much to his surprise, the real Analia admits that the police hired a look-alike to "trick him." Montana is still not buying it and has new suspicions about his beloved stripper. When he asks Analia where she has been these four years, she tells him that she was arrested for killing Mariana Montiel and has been in jail ever since, but finally managed to escape. When Analia realizes that Montana still doesn’t believe her tale and that the other Analia (Mariana) is in danger, Analia gets violent and demands to know why Montana won’t believe her. Her rage assures Montana that she is indeed the real Analia and he is forced to assume that she is telling the truth.
Montana plans to dispose of the fake Analia that night, so the real Analia asks Dr. Rivera for help. (Dr. Rivera had managed to clone
Cloning
Cloning in biology is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments , cells , or...
Analia during the time he had held her prisoner. Agent Analia plans on switching Mariana—who is now unconscious due to Montana's drug injection—with a dead Analia clone, that way, since all three of them have the same face, Montana won’t be able to tell the difference and Mariana will hopefully be able to escape).
When Daniel finds out about his girlfriend's true identity and that she is actually his wife, he goes to save her, but Sara (who still has romantic interest in him) tags along, unaware of what Daniel is planning to do. Then, another secret comes out: Sara had been working with Montana all along. She was the one who had asked him to kill Mariana in the first place, so that when Mariana was out of the picture, she and Daniel could come out as a couple in public.
When Sara and Daniel arrive at Montana's, Montana assumes that Sara has betrayed him because she has shown up with the fake Analia's husband. He orders his men to burn Sara alive as punishment for her supposed treason, and Montana's henchmen are quick to follow directions. They lock the beautiful Sara in the trunk of a car and set it on fire. Unbeknownst to them however, Sara manages to escape before the car explodes, but she is badly burned and injured. Daniel also receives his punishment for trying to rescue his wife—he is beaten with a pipe by Montana's men and would have died from his injuries if it weren't for Analia and Mariana (who had just escaped from Montana's lair). Analia soon leaves after saving Daniel's life. She must return to Montana, who still believes her to be his lover. Dr. Rivera feels responsible for Daniel's attack, as it is his putting Analia's face on Mariana that started everything. The doctor comes to the conclusion that most hospitals would consider Daniel's condition mortal and would probably put him out of his pain with the practice of euthanasia
Euthanasia
Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering....
. In order to mend his many errors, he decides to treat Daniel and his injuries himself. But unfortunately, now that the story about Mariana and the operation Rivera performed on her is out, it reaches injured Sara's ears, and the villainess sets to kidnap Dr. Rivera's assistant (Roberto) so that the doctor would be forced to operate on her too and give her back her beauty.
Dr. Rivera has no choice but to accept, treat Sara's injuries, and reconstruct her face. The operation, which was incredibly similar to that of Mariana's and Analia's, is a success—just like Daniel's. Both Mariana's husband and Mariana's evil cousin are safe.
While that is happening, Carmen seduces the psychiatrist
Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
that is treating her at the asylum. After the two have sex, Carmen convinces him to legally declare her as sane so that she could finally leave the asylum and be transferred to jail. The psychiatrist complies and the police go to the asylum to pick up Carmen, but she picks the lock to her handcuffs
Handcuffs
Handcuffs are restraint devices designed to secure an individual's wrists close together. They comprise two parts, linked together by a chain, a hinge, or rigid bar. Each half has a rotating arm which engages with a ratchet that prevents it from being opened once closed around a person's wrist...
, strangles the cop in charge of transporting her, and escapes.
Times passes and Analia finally finds the perfect opportunity to arrest Montana. He will soon be meeting some Mexican smugglers at a dock
Dock (maritime)
A dock is a human-made structure or group of structures involved in the handling of boats or ships, usually on or close to a shore.However, the exact meaning varies among different variants of the English language...
outside of Los Angeles to receive the illegal merchandise. Analia plans on using the drugs Montana will be receiving as evidence for his trial. She will have to arrest him tonight. Montana, who now trusts Analia enough to let her come along, is unaware of what the undercover cop is planning on doing. When the smugglers arrive and meet up with Montana, Analia reveals herself to be a policewoman and tries to arrest the men, but Montana grows angry at her perceived betrayal and shoots randomly before making his escape. At the conclusion of the intense gun battle, Analia's backup arrest the Mexicans and Analia herself manages to trap Montana in an empty room of a nearby building. The two shoot at each other there and Montana manages to sneak up on Analia and knock her out momentarily. He attempts to rape
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...
her, but she wakes up and takes his gun. Analia forces Montana to his knees and humiliates him, but when Montana starts to talk trash about Analia's dead ex (who he killed prior to the beginning of the novela—the reason why Analia agreed to the mission in the first place), Analia loses her cool and tries to kill Montana, but is stopped by her fellow cops. Montana is arrested, and so are his men.
Montana's trial is quick to follow, and after Montana repeatedly mocks Analia and assures her he will escape, Analia insults him and assaults him, only to be heard by the judge and seen by the security guards. Analia is removed from the Montana case for unprofessional behavior, but she sees no point in being a cop if she cannot make Montana pay, so she quits her job as a policewoman.
In the trial, all of Montana's men declare against him—even his own lawyer. Montana is found guilty and given a life sentence in prison. Days later, the families of Montana's men are mysteriously attacked and the police conclude that Montana somehow is exacting his revenge from his cell. They find a cell phone in his cell and start an investigation as to how he obtained it. The police assume that Analia is next, seeing how Montana was in love with her and she betrayed him. Their suspicions are proven to be true when Analia's mother and sister are kidnapped, but the two women are soon rescued and the men responsible imprisoned. While everyone worries about how powerful Montana might be, even from behind bars, nobody pays attention to Carmen's escape from the asylum. Carmen, now disguised as a poor old beggar, plots the kidnapping of her political niece, Mariana and Daniel's daughter Adrianita. She spreads rumors of her crossing the border to Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
and they reach the ears of the police, and when the police lessen security in L.A., stop the search for her in the United States and begin looking for her in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, Carmen gathers old friends to help her kidnap her niece.
Soon after Montana's trial, the police find out that one among them is actually working for Montana and had given him the cell phone, along with the addresses of his men's homes so that the attacks, kidnappings, and bombings can be scheduled. When they discover who the traitor is, they also discover that Montana is planning his escape from jail. Captain Lares looks for Analia and begs her to return because he knows she is the only one who can stop Montana. Analia agrees and the captain gives her license to kill.
When Montana cleverly escapes from jail in a garbage truck, Analia (along with Mariana, Daniel, and Mariana's brother) chase after him. The epic battle continues in a park and both Analia and Montana each sustain multiple injuries. When Analia shoots Montana in the face, Montana falls to the ground, but not before pulling the trigger one last time, shooting Analia in the heart and killing her.
Montana is taken to a hospital and Analia is taken to Dr. Rivera, who manages to resurrect her for a second time. However, even though Dr. Rivera has managed to help Analia multiple times, the science he practices is unlicensed and thus illegal. The police are forced to arrest him, but try to convince the judge of his innocence.
Now that Montana is out of the picture, Sara decides it is time to get her revenge on Mariana. She intended to take over Mariana's company, but realizes that she is aging at an extremely accelerated pace. Dr. Rivera tricked her during the operation and coated her new synthetic skin with a substance that caused her to age rapidly when exposed to sunlight. Sara, caring so much about her beauty, kidnaps Mariana and Daniel, in hopes of persuading Dr. Rivera to re-operate. While pointing the gun at Mariana, she forces Daniel to drive out of the city, but Daniel tells Sara to kill both of them right there in the car or to prepare to die herself, because he's willing to crash the car. Daniel speeds up the driving and Sara grows worried. Mariana takes advantage of this and takes the gun from her. She and Daniel get out of the car before Sara can stop them. Mariana's brother had called the police and some cops had managed to catch up with them. When Sara sees police vehicles coming to her, preferring death to prison, she drives the car off the road and falls off a cliff, exploding in the same way that Daniel's first car exploded the night Analia and Mariana met. Meanwhile, Carmen is planning to kidnap Adrianita with the help of another woman. She attacks a police officer and takes his gun. She almost kills Adriana but is caught and sent to an asylum. Tries to escape but is killed there by some of the patients. At the end of the story, Analia decides to get Mariana's original face and Mariana discovers that she is pregnant.
International release
- RTV PinkRTV PinkRTV Pink or Radio-Television Pink is a popular, privately-owned, national TV network in Serbia. Pink is the leading commercial station in the Serbian television broadcast market. TV Pink has gained a strong reputation for its entertainment programming...
started to air this telenovela on January 5, 2009 in SerbiaSerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
. - bTV started to air this telenovela on February 2, 2009 in BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
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started to air this telenovela on August 31, 2009 in Poland. - Acasa TV started to air this telenovela on April 12, 2010 in RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
. - RTL TelevizijaRTL TelevizijaRTL Televizija is a Croatian commercial broadcaster with national availability that has been broadcasting since April 30, 2004.RTL Televizija is 74% owned by the RTL Group....
started to air this telenovela on February 17, 2010 in CroatiaCroatiaCroatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
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. - Farsi 1 started to air this telenovela on October 2, 2010 in IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
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Main cast
| Actor | Character | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Gutiérrez Elizabeth Gutierrez Elizabeth Gutiérrez is a Mexican-American actress and model. She is best known for playing the leading roles in the telenovelas El Rostro de Analía and El Fantasma de Elena.-Background:... |
Mariana Montiel & Ana Lucía Moncada (Analia) |
Her memory is deleted and is forced to live behind the shadows of Analia's life
she manages to escape and takes again the mission of capturing Montana; ends up with Mariana's original face; appears in the novela after 100 episodes (first seen in episode 1 and believed dead in the next episodes) |
| Martin Karpan Martin Karpan Carlos Martín Karpan is an Argentine actor, notable for playing a heartthrob in the telenovela El Cuerpo del Deseo.- Television :* El secretario - Félix Armando Segura... |
Daniel Montiel | Main hero, Mariana's husband, Adriana's father; in love with Mariana and Ana,ex-lover of Sara |
| Maritza Rodríguez Maritza Rodriguez Maritza Rodríguez Gómez is a Colombian telenovela actress and model.-Career:Rodríguez is best known for her modeling and acting in several telenovelas. Besides acting, she is also an entreupurner and has her own line of beauty products.-Personal life:Rodríguez has three brothers and speaks English... |
Sara Andrad | Main villain. Cousin of Mariana, accomplice of Ricky, ex-lover of Daniel,hates Mariana and Ana; dies by falling of a cliff in a car |
| Gabriel Porras Gabriel Porras Gabriel Porras is a Mexican actor. He began his acting career working for TV Azteca in telenovelas like "Tres Veces Sofia" along with Mexican diva Lucía Méndez and "El Tio Alberto"... |
Ricardo Rivera "Ricky Montana" | Main villain. Drug trafficker, stepson of Armando, obsessed with Analía; ends in a jail paralyzed |
| Karla Monroig Karla Monroig Karla Monroig is an actress, model and television host.-Early years:Karla Monroig was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, located on the southern coastal valley region of the island of Puerto Rico... |
Isabel Martínez | Mariana's best friend, lawyer of the Andrade family, godmother of Adrianita, in love with Mauricio and Daniel Montiel |
| Zully Montero Zully Montero Clara Zully Montero is a Cuban actress who has worked in television, film, and theatre. She is known for her acting skills and her beauty.-Biography:... |
Carmen Rodriguez de Andrade "La Griega" | Main villain. Criminal, serial killer, Ernesto's wife, aunt of Sara; killed by some patients |
| Elluz Peraza Elluz Peraza Elluz Coromoto Peraza González is a Venezuelan pageant titleholder and actress. Peraza was Miss Venezuela 1976, but she resigned on May 24, 1976, because she married two days after her coronation... |
Olga Palacios | Mother of Miguel and Mariana, in love with Nelson Lares |
| Flavio Caballero Flavio Caballero Flavio Caballero is a well known Colombian actor. He is a native of Cartagena.-Biography:Flavio Caballero grew up with two childhood dreams: he wanted to become both a psychologist and an actor... |
Capitan Nelson Lares | Detective, in love with Olga |
| Flor Núñez | Agustina Moncada | Mother of Analia and Camila, Olga's friend |
| Daniel Lugo Daniel Lugo Daniel Lugo born July 30, 1945, in Caguas, Puerto Rico. is a Puerto Rican actor.His has played several prominent parts in telenovelas such as Prisionera, La Hija del Mariachi, El Rostro de Analia, and most recently as Ali in El Clon.-Telenovelas:... |
Dr. Armando Rivera | Scientist who accidentally put Analia's face on Mariana Montiel (saved both their lives two times), in love with Ana and Mariana, stepfather of Ricky |
| Manolo Coego | Celestino 'El Gordo' Morales Camacho | Villain. Ricky's lawyer; ends in a jail |
| Germán Barrios | Ernesto Andrade | Father of Mariana and Miguel, uncle of Sara,husband of Carmen |
| Jorge Consejo | Roberto Picano | Dr. Armando's assistant,in love with Chanicua |
| Andrés García Andrés García Andrés García is a Dominican-born Mexican actor. He is known throughout Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States.... Jr. |
Padre Benito Santoya | Priest |
| José Guillermo Cortines José Guillermo Cortines José Guillermo Cortines is a Dominican actor and singer who is involved in films, telenovelas, musical theatre and television. He currently lives in Miami and is better known for his role as Mauricio Montiel from the Telemundo's "El Rostro de Analía" and for his role of Osvaldo Guerra in the... |
Mauricio Montiel | Brother of Daniel,was in love with Mariana,in love with Isabel |
| Pedro Moreno | Cristobal Colon | Lieutenant who works with Analia, in love with Camila |
| Evelin Santos | Marlene | Lesbian, was in love with Camila, |
| Chela Arias | Yoya | Nanny of Adriana; killed by Carmen Andrade |
| Alvaro Ruiz | Nieves | Andrade Family chauffeur and Ernesto's close friend |
| Gustavo Franco Gustavo Franco Gustavo Franco is a Brazilian economist, born April 10, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro.-Career:Son of Maria Isabel Barbosa de Barroso Franco and Guilherme Arinos Lima Verde de Barroso Franco, who was a friend and assistant of President Getúlio Vargas, and also a member of the first board of Directors of... |
René Solaz | Villain. Gay assistant and uncle of Sara; ends in a jail |
| Víctor Corona | Alfonso Romero 'Chino' | Lupe's husband, Ricky's most loyal friend and follower, betrayed him; ends in a jail |
| Ana Gabriela Barboza | Vicky | Sara's secretary, Miguel's secretary and best friend, intelligent hacker, in love with Miguel |
| Alejandro Chabán Alejandro Chabán Alejandro José Chabán Rodríguez is a Venezuelan actor and model who has performed in both English- and Spanish-language productions. He is a U.S. citizen.... |
Miguel Palacios | Son of Olga and Ernesto, brother of Mariana. In love with Camilla, Chanicua and Vicky |
| Ximena Duque Ximena Duque Ximena Duque is a Colombian actress who rose to fame after appearing as a contestant on the second season of the Telemundo reality competition Protagonistas de Novela... |
Camila Moncada | Daughter of Augustina, sister of Analía,ex-wife of Miguel,in love with Crristobal,wife of Cristobal |
| Jacqueline Marquez | Chanicua Duarte | Gangster, daughter of Pamela, friend of Analía,was in love with Miguel,in love with Roberto |
| Angie Russian | Jasmine | Best friend of Camilla; betrays her by making love with Cristobal |
| Daniela Nieves | Adriana Montiel | Daughter of Mariana and Daniel |
| Gaby Espino Gaby Espino María Gabriela "Gaby" Espino Rugero is a Venezuelan actress and model. She best known for her roles in telenovelas.-Biography:... |
Mariana Andrade de Montiel & Ana Lucía "Analía" Moncada | Minor role; appears as Mariana with the original face in the first episode and as Analia with the final face in the last episode |
Release date
- Release dates and Ratings of U.S. premiere on TelemundoTelemundoTelemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
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| Air Date | Number | Episode Title | Rating | Duration |
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| 20.10.2008 | 001 | Traición mortal | N/A | 82 minutes |
| 21.10.2008 | 002 | Ojos que Deslumbran | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 22.10.2008 | 003 | Cruzar Caminos | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 23.10.2008 | 004 | Una Propuesta Tentadora | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 24.10.2008 | 005 | Encuentro Mágico | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 27.10.2008 | 006 | Regresar al pasado | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 28.10.2008 | 007 | Hechos Dolorosos | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 29.10.2008 | 008 | Cena de Encanto | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 30.10.2008 | 009 | Trago Amargo | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 31.10.2008 | 010 | Riesgo Vital | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 03.11.2008 | 011 | Víctima de Humillación | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 04.11.2008 | 012 | Juegos Peligrosos | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 05.11.2008 | 013 | Sueño de Pasión | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 06.11.2008 | 014 | Besos de miel | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 07.11.2008 | 015 | Huellas del pasado | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 10.11.2008 | 016 | Mujeres que arden | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 11.11.2008 | 017 | Pasión y Muerte | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 12.11.2008 | 018 | Ajuste de Cuentas | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 13.11.2008 | 019 | Amor en Agonía | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 14.11.2008 | 020 | Sombras del Pasado | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 17.11.2008 | 021 | Verdades que Duelen | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 18.11.2008 | 022 | Identidad Robada | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 19.11.2008 | 023 | Balas de Dolor | N/A | 42 minutes |
| 20.11.2008 | 024 | Seducción de Despecho | N/A | 42 minutes |