Victoria is the title of a Spanish-language 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"...

 about a woman who falls in love with a dashing younger man, when her marriage collapses around her. It is produced by the United States-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....

 and RTI Colombia

RTI Colombia

RTI Colombia, also known as Radio Televisión Interamericana , is a Colombian television production company. It aired 14.5 per week of programming each week in 1993....

. This limited-run series debuted in the US on December 4, 2007, after La Esclava Isaura

A Escrava Isaura (2004 TV series)

A Escrava Isaura is a 2004 Brazilian telenovela based on A Escrava Isaura, an 1875 abolitionist romance novel by Bernardo Guimarães. The series tells the story of a coffee-plantation owner's passion for one of his slaves...

finished. Filmed in Bogotá, it stars Victoria Ruffo

Victoria Ruffo

Victoria Ruffo is a Mexican actress. Ruffo, the surname she uses professionally, is actually her maternal grandfather's surname.- Biography :...

, Mauricio Ochmann

Mauricio Ochmann

Mauricio Ochmann Siordia is a Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas. He also appeared in Kevin Costner's film Message in a Bottle, the TV series That's life and Latino Green. He appeared as Fabián Duque in Telemundo's Dame Chocolate...

, 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:...

, Géraldine Bazán

Géraldine Bazán

Rosalba Géraldine Bazán Ortíz is a Mexican actress, singer, and anchorwoman currently living in Miami. She's part of Women Fair, Amigos for Kids activities, Latin Book Festivals, in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, In her spare time Geraldine likes to support causes such as the...

 and Andrea López

Andrea López

Andrea Lopez is a Colombian actress. She is best known for her antagonistic roles in telenovelas.- Telenovelas :* El secretario .... Paola Zorrilla* El Clon .... Marissa...

.

The series has been released on DVD in the USA in a condensed version with optional English subtitles.
This telenovela was sold to 21 countries around the world.

Story

In her 25th wedding anniversary party, Victoria Mendoza (Victoria Ruffo) finds out her husband Enrique Mendoza (Arturo Peniche) has a mistress, Tatiana López (Andrea Lopez). Suddenly Victoria's whole life crashes around her as she realizes her marriage is wrecked. As she tries to heal the pain of her husband's adultery, she meets the 33-year-old Jerónimo (Mauricio Ochmann) out of the blue.

Victoria falls for this younger man, giving her a second chance at the true love and passion missing in her loveless marriage. Many of her loved ones oppose her relationship, including her daughters Paula (Geraldine Bazán) and Mariana (Laura Perico), her mother Mercedes (Margalida Castro) and her ex husband. They blame her for the breakup. On the other hand, her son Santiago (Ricardo Abarca) offers unconditional support. While her younger daughter Mariana (Laura Perico) is supposed to be going to university but isn't, she instead goes to a bar. The owner of the bar, Pacho, gets girls high and then rapes them. And that's what happened to Mariana. Mariana met him because of her other "friend" Arturo. Mariana actually wanted to get together with Arturo but Pacho convinced her into getting with him supposedly just to make Arturo jealous. Victoria has many problems but does she know she has those problems? Can she solve them? So Victoria faces a difficult decision: either fight to keep true love alive or surrender and let it slip away.

Production

Victoria is a remake of Señora Isabel, a 1993 Colombian telenovela. This story was also filmed for Mexican TV in 1997 as Mirada de mujer

Mirada de mujer

Mirada de mujer is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on TV Azteca in 1997, based in the Colombian telenovela of 1994 " Señora Isabel". It is considered one of the best Telenovelas in the history of the television industry in Mexico...

(The Gaze of a Woman). 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....

  broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. This show's working titles were Tiempos de Victoria (Victoria's Times), Señora Isabel and The Mauricio Ochmann Project.

The show's premiere on Telemundo reached 782,000 core adult (ages 18–49) viewers, according to NTI, and over 1.5 million total viewers overall. The expanded the series' run to about 160 chapters from the standard length, 120 shows. It has not announced any plans to remake Miradas sequel, El Regreso (The Return) as Victoria covered El Regreso (both in one). Géraldine Bazán won a Latin ACE Award for "Best Inspiring Young Actress" during her role as Paula.

Broadcast

Victoria airs on Caracol TV

Caracol TV

Caracol Televisión is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.- History :Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots...

 in Colombia, on 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 the United States, on Fox televizija in Serbia

Serbia

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, on Nova TV - September 26, 2008 and Diema Family

Diema Family

Diema Family is a bulgarian television channel, aimed at family audiences, part of Nova Broadcasting Group, ownd by Modern Times Group. Television was established in 1999 under the name Alexandra TV. Currently Diema Family is aimed at families, mainly Latin American and broadcast animation series...

 - January 5, 2009 in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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, Televisa

Televisa

Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

 (on Galavisión

XEQ-TV

XEQ is a Televisa TV station, based in Mexico, Distrito Federal. XEQ is the flagship television station of the Galavisión network ....

) in Mexico, on POP TV

POP TV

POP TV is a Slovenian commercial television station operated by the multi-media company PRO PLUS d.o.o.It is a TV channel with the highest ratings in Slovenia , and at the same time the most popular and trustworthy...

 in Slovenia

Slovenia

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, on NTV Hayat

NTV Hayat

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 in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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, on Acasǎ

Acasa

Acasă is a television channel operated by the Central European Media Enterprises that broadcasts in Romania. It is mostly dedicated to daytime telenovelas, family movies, news, talk shows, soap operas and entertainment.-Telenovelas:-External links:*...

 in Bucharest, Romania, from August 2009 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...

 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...

, on Shant Tv in Armenia and from August 2009 on Farsi1

Farsi1

FARSI1 is the first international free-to-air Persian-language general entertainment channel. It is considered to be an Afghan-Iranian channel, though it's based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates....

 EutelSat Satellite TV Channel (Farsi1

Farsi1

FARSI1 is the first international free-to-air Persian-language general entertainment channel. It is considered to be an Afghan-Iranian channel, though it's based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates....

 later confirmed censoring some scenes including kisses and sexual actions in order to adapt the serial to Iranian culture).

Alternate ending

On August 4, 2008 Telemundo broadcast the alternate ending of Victoria through Yahoo! Telemundo. It was the first alternate ending of a Spanish Telenovela ever aired by Telemundo in the United States.

Advertisements

Product placements in the US version of this show include: JCPenney, T-Mobile

T-Mobile

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 Scrubbing Bubbles

Scrubbing Bubbles

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, Budweiser

Budweiser

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, Bud Light, Windex

Windex

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, Oust, Lysol

Lysol

Lysol is a trade name for common household cleanersLysol may also refer to:* Lysol , a 1992 album by The Melvins* Lysol , Actor muMs da Schemer played Lysol in The Mad Real World skit on Chappelle's Show....

, State Farm

State farm

State farm can refer to:*Sovkhoz, a type of state-owned farm in the Soviet Union*Volkseigenes Gut, a type of state-owned farm in East Germany*Państwowe Gospodarstwo Rolne, a type of state-owned farm in People's Republic of Poland...

, Visa, Lowes, The Home Depot

The Home Depot

The Home Depot is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services.The Home Depot operates 2,248 big-box format stores across the United States , Canada , Mexico and China, with a 12-store chain...

, Walmart and Pledge. In some cases, Telemundo news programs can be seen or heard while characters are watching TV, even though this show is not specifically set in the United States.

Cast

(in order of appearance)

• Victoria Ruffo
  Victoria Ruffo
  Victoria Ruffo is a Mexican actress. Ruffo, the surname she uses professionally, is actually her maternal grandfather's surname.- Biography :...
  
   .... Victoria Santiesteban de Mendoza - '
• Mauricio Ochmann
  Mauricio Ochmann
  Mauricio Ochmann Siordia is a Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas. He also appeared in Kevin Costner's film Message in a Bottle, the TV series That's life and Latino Green. He appeared as Fabián Duque in Telemundo's Dame Chocolate...
  
   .... Jeronimo Ernesto Acosta - '
• 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:...
  
   ... Enrique Mendoza - '
• Andrea López
  Andrea López
  Andrea Lopez is a Colombian actress. She is best known for her antagonistic roles in telenovelas.- Telenovelas :* El secretario .... Paola Zorrilla* El Clon .... Marissa...
  
   .... Tatiana López - former lover of Enrique, mother of enrique's child felipe"
• Diana Quijano .... Camila Matiz - friend of Victoria
• Javier Delgiudice .... Gerardo Cárdenas - husband of Helena and father of Arturo
• Laura Perico
  Laura Perico
  Laura Perico is a Colombian actress.-Telenovelas:* 2010 - El Clon .... Natalia* 2010 - Rosario Tijeras ....Leticia* 2009 - El penultimo beso ....Clara de Luna Izquierdo Preciado* 2008 - Victoria ....Mariana Mendoza...
  
   .... Mariana Mendoza - daughter of Victoria and Enrique, radio host
• Ricardo Abarca .... Santiago Mendoza - son of Victoria and Enrique, singer
• Adriana Romero
  Adriana Romero
  Adriana Romero Henríquez is a Colombian actress. She is the daughter of late writer Bernardo Romero Pereiro and Judy Henríquez. Sister of Jimena Romero and granddaughter of Bernardo Romero Lozano and Carmen de Lugo.- Filmography :...
  
  ....Valeria Saenz - Loves Jeronimo
• José Julián Gaviria....Martin Acosta - son of Silvia and Jeronimo
• Patricia Grisales]]..... - Carlota Velandia friend and adssociate of Victoria"
• Margalida Castro
  Margalida Castro
  Margalida Castro is a Colombian theatre and television actress, born 19 November 1943 in San Gil, Santander.Ms Castro grew up in Bogotá and studied music as a child...
  
   .... Mercedes 'Memé' de Santiesteban - mother of Victoria
• Laura Londoño .... Eliza - 'amiga de Mariana'
• Andrés Felipe Martínez ..... - 'Guillermo' - el jefe de Jeronimo
• Roberto Manrique
  Roberto Manrique
  Roberto Manrique is an Ecuadorian model, and actor best known for his roles in telenovelas. Starting his career in Ecuador, and later doing telenovelas for Telemundo Network in Colombia-Biography:...
  
   .... Sebastian Villanueva - Paula's Husband
• Camilo Trujillo .... - Arturo Cardenas - son of Helena and Gerardo Cardenas
• Ricardo González .... - Henry - friend of Jeronimo
• Géraldine Bazán
  Géraldine Bazán
  Rosalba Géraldine Bazán Ortíz is a Mexican actress, singer, and anchorwoman currently living in Miami. She's part of Women Fair, Amigos for Kids activities, Latin Book Festivals, in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, In her spare time Geraldine likes to support causes such as the...
  
   .... Paula Mendoza - daughter of Victoria and Enrique, lawyer
• María Helena Doehring
  María Helena Doehring
  María Helena Doering is a Colombian actress and model.Doering was born to a German-Bolivian father and Colombian mother. She studied in London and speaks fluent French, English, Italian and Spanish. She started her career as an actress by appearing in a Kolynos commercial, and a commercial for...
  
   .... Helena de Cárdenas - wife of Gerardo and mother of Arturo
• Natalia Bedoya .... - Estrella - girlfriend of Santiago
• Julio del Mar .... - Bernardo Solis doctor of Camila
• Lucero Gómez .... dona Thea
• Paola Díaz....Silvia - Jeronimo's ex-wife, died"
• Angela Carrisoza
• David de Oliveira
• Edmundo Troya ... ex of Camila
• Maria León Arias ... Marlene
• Rene Figueroa
• Fernando Corredor
• Luz Mary Arias .... Marlene
• Mariano Fernández
• Fabio Camero Jr.
• Maru Giraldo
• Gloria Pinilla
• Fernanda González
• Adriana López
• Daniel Calderón .... Santiago's friend
• Naren Daryanani
• Victor Hugo Trespalacios .... Elvis
• Luis Carlos Galeano
• Sebastián Eslava .... Pacho
• Daniel Quintero
• Sonia Rico
• Diego Camacho
• Maria Emilia Kamper
• Claudio Fernández
• Javier Felipe Rodríguez
• Mario A. Parra
• Nestor Pineda
• Paula A. Herrera
• Karol Aza
• Jackeline Aristizabal
• Alex Rodríguez
• Ximena Salamanca

External links

• http://www.telemundo.com Telemundo Website
• http://msnlatino.telemundo.com/novelas/Victoria/ Official "Victoria" Website