Friday, December 17, 2010

Cast of characters in "Triunfo del Amor"

Maximiliano (William Levy) is the son of Victoria y Osvaldo. A sexy, attractive, virile young man, intellitent and audacious in his mother's business. He has exquisite taste in dress, inherited from his father and learned from Victoria. Further, he can enchang women, who fall at his feet due to his captivating smile.

He works as an administrator in his mother's fashion house. He is responsible and creative, and knows how to solve problems rapidly and efficiently. He is a friend to Sergio Duarte, with whom he works.

Maximiliano meets María "The Unprotected" and is captivated by her beauty. He tries to seduce her, pretending his name is Ssergio Duarte. He just wants to pass some agreeable moments without attachment, but the girl rejects him and awakens his curiosity. He begins to get to know her and discovers she's different from all the girls he's known.



María Desamparada ("The Unprotected" or "The Defenseless") (Maite Perroni)is extraordinarily beautiful, noble and genteel. She's lived in an orphanage since the age of three, always thinking she was abandoned in the streets by her parents, when in reality her mother, Victoria, had an accident and this led to Maria being lost. She was raised with a strong resentment towards her birth parents, above all toward her mother for abandoning her.

When Maria leaves the orphanage she rooms with Nati and Linda, two girls very different physically and morally, but who have also suffered greatly in life. The three are like sisters even though their personalities are completely different.



Bernarda (Daniela Romo) is an elegant, mature woman with an extraordinary personality which inspires respect, even fear, because she is very strict. Apparently she has a generous and charitable heart, dedicated to God, but in reality she is pitiless, full of rancor. She is full of contradiction, speaking of doing good while in reality she is the incarnation of evil.

She feigns a nonexistant vulnerability - on the contrary, she is extraordinarily strong and uses her intelligence against those she believes are against her. She is seductive, skilled at blackmail, knows how to manipulate situations in her own favor. The fragility she pretends to allaws her to attack her enemies without awakening suspicions. She dedicates herself to persecuting those she deems to be sinners and punishes them believing this is her divine right, since her son Juan de Dios is a priest.



Victoria (Victoria Ruffo) is one of the most successful Mexican designers. Her fashion house is one of the most respected even on an international level. She is supremely talented, possessing an outstanding sensibility that makes it easy to intuit changes in popular taste and to be at the forefront, knowing and even directing the course of Mexican fashion.

She's traveled a long road to become the famous woman she is now. From a past as a humble domestic employee to being the owner of an empire in the world of fashion. When young she suffered live's injustices, but that's what motivated her to leave her humble world and begin her meteoric career. Despite suffering great penalties, including losing her daughter, she began to work as a costumer in a clothing factory. It was there that she discovered her innate talent for design, combined with her experience from youth helping her godmother to sew and embroider her own clothes.



Álvaro Guillermo (García Cantú} is a mature man, bitter and resentful of life, because despite being sex and attractive, he hasn't had the same opportunities as Osvaldo, whom he's hated all his life, thinking he stole: the love of Amalia, the leading roles he thought he deserved, but above all the love of Victoria. Since then, pretending to be his friend, he has planned to destroy him.

Solitary, sinister and malicious, he broods over his lack of success. He has a perverse relationship with Jimena, the girlfriend and later wife of Maximiliano, whom he subjugates to his desires and caprices. Alvaro knows well that the baby Jimena expects is his, but he doesn't care about her marriage. Ruining her life is part of his vengeance against the family Sandoval.



Jimena (Dominika Paleta) is very beautiful, the most important model in Victoria's fashion house. She has an unstable relationship with Maximiliano, whom she has attached herself to for monetary gain as she knowns he will inherit the great Sandoval fortune.

However, the relationship between Jimena and Max is less viable every day since he desides to break with her because she is a jealous, possessive blackmailer. In reality she suffers from a mental disorder. She asks Victoria to intervene and prevent the separation, but Maximilian has made up his mind to leave Jimena.



Sor Clementina (Alicia Rodríguez) is Mother Superior in the orphanage where María Desamparada spent her childhood. She is full of love for all orphaned children and has a special love for Maria who from a young age gained the trust and the heart of this nun, who is Maria's protector and spiritual guide.



Juan Pablo (Diego Olivera) is a priest who loves his vocation (to protect those most in need and help them find a better life). His energies are directed toward the most helpless: the elderly, children and adolescents in danger of being snatched, molested, or falling into drug addiction. He directs them towards sports and other recreational activites. He is modern but respectful. Like all human beings, being young he doubts his calling, and this causes him to slip up and bonk Victoria one night...



Osvaldo (Osvaldo Ríos) is a mature, conservative, sexy and virile actor, married to Victoria whom he loves profoundly and who is the mother to his daughter Fernanda. He was a widow when he married Victoria; Maximiliano is his son from his first marriage, a son whom Victoria has raised as her own.

Osvaldo is one of the most sought-after galans (leading men) in Mexican television. He is amiable and affectionate with his family. Victoria is convinced he is faithful, upright, incapable of deceiving her or lying to her. The reality is different - he hides a huge secret that torments him: tired of being abandoned by his workaholic wife, he begins an affair with Maria's friend Linda.



Antonieta (Erika Buenfil) is a mature, elegant and guarded woman, chief of command to Victoria, whom she has known since that long-ago pregnancy. They worked together in the couture workshop of Humberto Padilla. Atonieta helped Victoria with her daughter until the terrible accident caused by Bernarda, in which Victoria's daughter got lost.

She is faithful to Victoria and will do anything for her happiness; she is the only one allowed to confront her and point out her errors. Antonieta is in love with Claudio, adminstrator at the fashion house and suffers in silence since she knows he's been in love with Victoria forever.



Pipino (Miguel Pizarro) is the star designer at Victoria's fashion house. He's campy but not a homosexual, and lives in an extravagant manner. He hates Luchiano Ferreti, his Italian rival.



Milagros (Carmen Salinas), originally from Guadalajara and a 'Chiva' was widowed very young and had to care for her son Juanjo, so she moved to Mexico City. She has a lonely-hearts business, reads cards and horoscopes. She's a great cook.



Linda (Dorismar) was born in Monterrey, but moved early to Mexico City when her parents divorced and her mother wanted a new life. Linda had a bad relationship with her stepfather so was happy to get a chance to live alone. She is aware of her beauty, which she uses for her convenience. She is seductive and has sugar daddies. She hopes to marry a rich man.



Juanjo (Cuauhtémoc Blanco) is a handsome youth of humble origin and a generous soul. He favors the other soccer team and fights with his mother Milagros over the games. He is a fireman. He adores his mom and hopes some day she will conquer the heart of Don Napo, as he calls Napoleón. He falls head over heels in love with Linda and decides to tell her. She marries him while continuing to bonk Osvaldo.

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Wow! What's more amazing, that Cuauhtémoc Blanco is on this show, or that Mr. 5ft, AKA, Mr. "it's football not soccer" had no idea who he was?
 

Cuauhtémoc Blanco? Well who is he? I found it amusing he was described as a "handsome youth" when from this picture it appears that he is neither.
 

Thanks very much for both the plot description and cast of characters. I'm on the fence with this TN whether I'll add a third TN to my viewing ( invested in Llena and Eva has me hooked now) - there's so much of it that is so similiar to recent TN's like Un Nombre and Mi Pecado: the plot is hardly anything to stir my interest. (Lord, they even show Bernarda wearing PURPLE - shades of Carlota). I may give into a few episodes and see how it goes.
 

That’s okay, Mr. Maven didn’t know who Cuauhtémoc Blanco was either. But I think of him as the Brett Favre of Mexico. (And Melinama, if you don’t know who Brett Favre is, I’m not sure I want to know that.)

As for this novela, I can’t wait for it to start – Project Runway goes Gothic. I know very well that in months or even weeks, the writers will be breaking our hearts and we’ll be wondering how we ever let ourselves get on board this runaway train, but I can’t help myself. I’m in love!

And what a great cast! Maite and Victoria and Daniela and Dominika and the Adonis-like William! Not a screamer in the bunch and as far as I can tell, no obviously pickled, surgically frozen faces

Personally, I don’t mind remakes. (I get Hawaii 5-O on my On Demand channel and I nearly swoon every time McGarret says: Book ‘em, Dano!)
 

This one looks like a mixture of En Nombre del Amor and Cuidado con el Ángel to me. Oh, well, I love to watch William Levy act as well as Maite Perroni. So, I guess I may give it a try. Thanks, Chapel Hill Fiddler, for the summary of characters. I'm committed to Llena so I guess I might just watch this one on weekends on the DVR.

Jeanne
 

NovelaMaven, I love Hawaii 5-0 for the scenes--many of which I know quite well from having lived just a block outside Waikiki for seven plus years. I chuckle at scenes I know aren't close to where they say they are, or what they call them for the program. I thought for sure I saw the outside of the Kapahulu Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in one scene referred to as something entirely different.

I can't help but wonder if the remake will help or hurt Hawaii tourism-especially if people think this kind of junk really happens on ‘Oahu all the time. It doesn't! When I see the program's gore, it gives me pause. The reminders of the place I really consider home, however, are both delightful and nostalgic at the same time.

Jeanne
 

Wow, Jeanne, interesting!

I suspect this show might help, rather than hurt tourism in Hawaii because the stories are so wild that they don't feel personally threatening.

New York City was very sorry to see the Law and Order franchise closing down so that much grittier show must not have done too much harm to the Big Apple's appeal.

The complex tragedies on the traditional Mexican telenovelas probably do nothing to deter tourism. I bet every time a city or town is used as a setting, it sees a bump in tourism. (But more realistic narcodramas may well have the opposite effect.)
 

Good points, NovelaMaven. Hawaii needs the tourism boost. Their education system and everything else suffers when tourism is down.

Jeanne
 

Bonk? Really, did they use the term bonk? I nearly had a fit laughing.

If this is what we're in for, bonk away. Only we know that Wm and Maite can't bonk for a long time. What happened to Cositas and Index fingers touching?

Girls raised in orphanages, or orphaned at an early age are almost a requisite start to many tns I've seen.

Maybe the writers start with a premise that we have a good but poor girl, maybe her origins are shouded in mystery. And what could that be....oh, here's a good one: she was orphaned and doesn't know she has rich and successful parents who are still alive and her love interest might just be her half-brother.

You know I'm going to watch William to see if this role is as good a fit as Sortilegio's. He played the attractive, successful business man, lover, husband so well. I wonder if his faithful secretary Mari will come with him from Sortie. I miss her.

Does anyone know if this is the tn they were calling Cuna de los Lobos awhile back?
Newbie-One-Kanobe
 

This one is based on "Mi Rival," but when Mejía first started casting around for a show to do, he toyed with the idea of remaking Cuña de Lobos (but did not).

TDA is having ratings difficulties in Mexico, apparently. It has some interesting cast, but I heard they are going to change the story to boost ratings.

"El triunfo del amor es el nombre tentativo de esta nueva producción, la cual es el remake de Mi rival, historia original de Inés Rodena, la cuál se transmitió en 1973 por primera vez y fue protagonizada por Lola Beltrán, Saby Kamalich y Enrique Álvarez Félix."

Also remade into "Amada Enemiga" with Susana Dosamantes (currently the vilana on Eva Luna), which I saw a few eps of and liked.
 

Jeri, I don't know how many times this novela has been remade, but it's definitely one generation from El Privilegio de Amar, the first novela I ever saw.

The plot sounds exactly the same, except for one difference. In EPDA, Helena Roja (the Victoria Ruffo character) was sick, sleeping out of doors, and it was pouring rain. So she left her child on someone's doorstep to save her from becoming sick from exposure. The whole novela she's guilty about leaving the child. In this one it sounds like the evil mother of the priest took the child. Of course, Victoria Ruffo would never play someone who'd willingly give up her child!

I've seen Cuauhtémoc Blanco play in World Cup games (soccer - fútebol). He's one tough dude. I've seen him doing commercials on Univision, but didn't expect him to be an actor.
 

Thanks for the recap! Like daisynjay, I'm already hooked on Eva Luna and Llena de Amor, and am not sure about a third TN. I am making it through the end of Soy tu Duena but sometimes it's hard. On the other hand, I already like the looks of the actor who plays the priest and I keep on hearing rapturous things about William Levy and the lady who plays the main villain looks to like she's going to be fabulous, so I need to at least give this TN a look-see. Maybe I'll watch a couple of episodes a week and keep track of the plot via recap the rest of the time! It looks to be an interesting story, anyway.
 

I said on another thread that "Privilegio de Amar" was my gateway drug. I'm looking forward to this one! Andres Garcia was the Galan actor in that one and was really fun to watch and Cynthia Klitbo was awesomely crazy in the Dominika Paleta part.

Not sure if Maite Peroni is up to this...but can't go wrong with Sr.William Levy!
 

Newbie and Jeri:
Mejía and his crew started to work on the Cuna de lobos remake, and a few months ago there was a press conference with the protagonists (Levy, Danna Garcia, Dominika Paleta, Rebecca Jones, and so on). I don't know what happened since then, maybe they've recorded the pilot and now they are waiting for Televisa's approval. This was meant to be an American type of series like Mujeres asesinas.

As for TDA: at the beginning Mejía said it was going to be the mixture of Mi rival and EPDA (like CS09 was the mixture of CS and Yo compro esa mujer), but after months of blabberings and blurry promises it turned out TDA was the exact remake of El privilegio de amar - except a few elements at the beginning. My die hard EPDA/Rojo/Évora-fan friends hate it. The Ruffo/Levy fans enjoy it. The Maite fans want another Mi pecado.

Girls raised in orphanages, or orphaned at an early age are almost a requisite start to many tns I've seen.

:)))
EPDA/TDA is based on a Delia Fiallo story called Cristal. The Fiallo telenovelas (EPDA, Esmeralda, Cuidado con el angel, Luz María, Guadalupe, Milagros, Leonela, Rosalinda, Kassandra, Peregrina, Mariana de la noche, Mar de amor, the upcoming Rafaela... and their countless versions) are all the same: a young, poor, naive and (half-)orphan girl falls in love with a handsome, rich and immature jerk, her heart breaks, and it turns out she's from a filthy rich family. Fiallo is the ambassador of telenovela rosas. (And male chauvinism + violence.) Mejía's adapted four Fiallo stories: Esmeralda, Rosalinda, Mariana de la noche and now TDA. By the way, the old lady has a very nasty tongue and she hates almost everything about Televisa. She hated CCEA because the protagonist should've been an older man. She hated EPDA because the Bernarda/Maria Joaquina character was altered. She hated Mariana de la noche. But she was in love with Esmeralda because it was the most faithful adaptation she's ever seen.
 

Aribeth, thanks so much for all the great background information on Triunfo del Amor. I do love telenovelas, but have yet to watch a remake. Since I saw EPDA, I'll probably watch the first couple of episodes just to see how it looks, but won't stick it out for the whole thing.

I especially like your description of the cranky writer who hated the TN adaptations!
 

Thanks, Aribeth! Interesting info on Delia; the thing I most remember hearing about her was outrage that she wrote Leonela, where the heroine falls in love with her rapist, the galan. Woo.

I am interested in one coming up, called "Para Volver a Amar," which everyone who talks about it seems to appreciate.
 

Melinama - thank you for this information!

If Max is son of Victoria & Oswaldo, and María is daughter of Victoria, does this mean our protagonists are half-sibs???



"bonk"? LOL ... that alone has me curious and I'm going to give this a try.

NOVELAMAVEN - Brett Farve .... wasn't he the guy who played a football player in "There's Something About Mary"? ;-)
 

Doris--Max is the adopted son of Victoria. She considers him a son because she's been with Osvaldo from the time Max was a very small child. (Sorry I missed you when I came your way--maybe there will be another time!)

Jeanne
 

Doris,

That WAS Brett Favre in 'There's Something About Mary'! He might be a better actor by now -- He's made tons of commercials since then -- although as an actor he'll never equal his brilliance as an athlete. Still, it's too bad he doesn't speak Spanish.
:D
 

OT: NovelaMaven, are you a Packers fan? All my husband's family is from Green Bay.

His grandfather was "Sneezer" of Sneezer's Snack Shop, where Vince Lombardi and the team used to eat every day. (He's actually mentioned in Lombardi's book, "Run to Daylight.")

When our Virginia nephew comes for Christmas this week, Jerry's taking him to Lambeau to freeze his giblets off at the game!

He'll love it; we've been indoctrinating him as a cheese head since he was 6.
 

Schoolmarm - Thanks for clearing up Max's "sib" status. Makes sense that he'd be adopted for the plot to work in telenovelaland. If you ever are in town again, I hope we can meet. With NHL hockey games and a bad schedule, it just wasn't meant to happen. I hope you and Sandy had a nice visit.
 

wow, Jeri! I'm just a humble cabeza de queso, more a fan of the romance of the Packers than the Packers themselves. But you -- you married into royalty!!!
 

It's funny; I only vaguely remember the Packers being good in the 1960's and was never a particular football fan until we got married.

But oddly enough, my favorite colors were always green and gold! Green Bay does have a lot of great history and tradition: it's Titletown.
 

Welcome, Doris-and I am hopeful to get back there. It was a lovely visit, indeed!

Jeanne
 

I''m on the fence about this one primarily due to the fact that I can't stand William Levy. (I know it makes me a heretic but something about him gives me the creeps - big time) On the other hand the rest of the cast looks interesting and it's been awhile since I watched a night novela.
 

If this show has been getting bad ratings in Mexico, that isn't necessarily a bad sign.

I remember someone reporting that Pasion had such bad ratings in Mexico that they actually cut it short (or were going to, or something)... but it was very popular here on Caray.

On the other hand, FELS did great in Mexico but was not greatly beloved on Caray.

Of course, it's possible that TDA is just so awful that it won't appeal to anyone. But I'm actually more inclined to give it a chance now.
 

Decie Girl, you are not alone in being a heretic. I wouldn't exactly say that Levy gives me the creeps. But to me he's not even near being in Colunga's league. Levy always gives me the impression he's looking over the shoulder of the heroine at a mirror to see how he looks.
 

Oh yeah, I've liked shows with bad ratings and good ratings; disliked ones with bad ratings and good ratings.

Some kind of mysterious alchemy going on there. Can't tell the players without a program -- or without looking at the program anyway.

I just brought the ratings up as it bore on the story discussion, that they were thinking of changing the story to improve them...
 

Hi, Caray family. I'm back. Life's been hard, but I'm back for William Levy and my Caraymates. I've missed you all very much, and I look forward to seeing you in the recap comments.

Con muchisimo amor,

Cielo
 

No, I'm glad you mentioned the ratings Jeri because it's the first intriguing thing I've heard about this show. Of course bad ratings can mean it's a stinker; but they could also mean that it's different than what people are used to, which could be a plus in my book.

So, whereas I wasn't inclined to tune in before, now I actually want to check it out!
 

Hey Cielo (and others), we're down at least one recapper for Triunfo, want to join up?
 

Hi, Blogmom! As of now, recapping doesn't seem like something I can commit to. :( I can try as a sub, but I don't think I'll be able to stick with it as long as I did with Pecado. Full-time work, and then part-time work and full-time school. I'll definetely try if we need someone tho. What day do we need coverage?
 

Well, I'm definitely in if there's an errant priest bonking in the script! First time I've heard of that in a novela. I haven't seen M.P. in anything yet, but the rest of the female cast are top notch and I've missed seeing Guillermo García Cantú's villainy. Osvaldo Rios did a really believable job in CS2009, too. The only obvious problem is the Salvador Mejia and Liliana Abud combo. Gawd only knows how that will affect the circo.
 

Jardinera: You mentioned Liliana Abud. Imagine my surprise when I recognized her as Raquel in the Intro to Spanish "TN" DESTINOS which I watched and enjoyed. I knew she was a writer now. I've heard nothing but bad things about Mejia's TNs. Is she always affliated with him?

Robey
 

Robey:
No, Abud used to be a better writer, she was working with Ernest Alonso (RIP), who was one of the best Televisa producers ever. La otra, Amarte es mi pecado, Yo compro esa mujer are true gems.

By the way, she wrote the script of the EPDA, too.

Apparently she lost her mind & talent when she teamed up with Mejía.
 

I think I'll watch it because of Maite Perroni. But why do they always try to have these characters that are womanizers turn into monogamists? It just doesn't work that way! But alas, this is a telenovela.
 

creeps!!???!i luv william,i think hes the best thing on my screen,i watched sortillegio before CCEA think hes nailing it whataever character hes given with whomever.he once said that telenovelas pass a message,i believe so,in one way or another they are my inspiration and aspiration.can,t wait to see how triunfo del amor unfolds.thanks for the recaps.
 

CUIDADO CON EL ANGEL CAP 103 P3
 

Wow. William Levy and Maite Perroni look good together. They should be in all the novelas.
 

i am so glad that william levy and maite perroni are back together again in another soap, i love triunfo del amor it is a great soap and i love william and maite they are great together and hope they will continue to act together and have an sucess in they career
 

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