''Cuento de Navidad'' (English: ''A Christmas Carol''), is a Mexican
telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...
produced by Eugenio Cobo for
Televisa
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content.
In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
in 1999. It is an adaptation of the
1843 eponymous novel by the famed English writer
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
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Notable cast
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Luz María Aguilar
Luz María Aguilar (born Luz María Aguilar-Torres, 26 March 1935 in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico) is a Mexican actress from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
She has worked as an actress in theatre, cinema and television. One of her main roles w ...
as Doña Petra
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Julio Alemán
Julio Méndez Alemán (November 29, 1933 – April 11, 2012) was a Mexican actor.Chantal Andere
Chantal Andere (, born Jacqueline Chantal Fernández Andere; born January 25, 1972) is a Mexican actress and singer best known for her portraying as the villainess, the vamp or the bitter woman in telenovelas. She has come across as a serious ...
as Beatriz "Betty"
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Eduardo Santamarina
Eduardo Hernández García Santamarina (; born 9 July 1969) is a Mexican film, theater, and television actor who is known for his leading roles in many telenovelas. Beside Televisa telenovelas, Santamarina appeared in some Telemundo telenovelas. ...
as Angel
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as María
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Karla Álvarez
Karla Álvarez (; 15 October 1972 – 15 November 2013) was a Mexican actress best known for her roles including '' Maria Mercedes'' and '' Alma Rebelde'' and as a contestant for Big Brother VIP in 2003. Her last TV appearance was ''Qué Bonito ...
as Miriam
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Leticia Calderón
Leticia Calderón (; born Carmen Leticia Calderón León on July 15, 1968) is a Mexican actress. as Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come
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Itatí Cantoral
Itatí Guadalupe Cantoral Zucchi (born May 13, 1975) is a Mexican actress, singer, dancer, and producer, She is of Spanish and Italian descent. She is best known for her roles as Soraya Montenegro in Televisa's telenovela ''María la del Barrio ...
as Sebring Cirrus
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Fernando Colunga
Fernando Colunga Olivares () (born 3 March 1966) is a Mexican actor best known for his work in Mexican telenovelas.
Colunga gained international fame for playing Luis Fernando de la Vega in the Mexican soap opera ''Maria la del Barrio''. He is ...
as Jaime Rodríguez Coder
*Luis Couturier as Fernando Soto del Monte
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Laura Flores
Laura Aurora Flores Heras (born August 23, 1963) is a Mexican actress, hostess and singer.
Biography
Laura Flores had a hit single "El Alma No Tiene Color" ("The Soul Has No Color"), which was a duet with Marco Antonio Solís taken from the ...
as An angel (The pretty woman)
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Susana González as Miní
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Eleazar Gómez
José Eleazar Gómez Sánchez (; better known as Eleazar Gómez born May 29, 1986, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor. He is noted for his performance in Mexican telenovelas. Gómez is the brother of actress Zoraida Gómez, Alizair Gomez ...
as Kevin
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Edith González
Edith González Fuentes (; 10 December 1964 – 13 June 2019) was a Mexican actress. She is best remembered for working on multiple telenovelas produced by three different multimedia companies, which included Televisa, TV Azteca and Telemundo.
G ...
as Josefina Coder
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Rafael Inclán
Rafael Jiménez Inclán (born February 22, 1941) is a Mexican actor. He has starred in movies (several of them of which are so-called ficheras), telenovelas (Spanish soap operas), and stage works. His career began in 1969. He is actor Alfonso ...
as Pavón
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Aaron Hernan as Don Leonardo
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Mauricio Islas
Mauricio Islas (born Juan Mauricio Islas Ilescas, August 16, 1973) is a Mexicans, Mexican actor. He is best known for his work in telenovelas produced by Televisa, TV Azteca, Telemundo, and Venevision.
Currently, he lives and works in Miami, ...
as Edmundo Soto
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Eugenio Derbez
Eugenio González Derbez (; born September 2, 1961) is a Mexican actor and comedian. He has appeared in many films and television series including '' The Book of Life, The Angry Birds Movie 2 and The Secret Life of Pets.''
In the 2010s, he ap ...
as Nurse
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Arath de la Torre
Arath De La Torre Balmaceda (born March 20, 1975) is a Mexican actor and comedian, best known for his roles in the television series ''Una Familia con Suerte'' as Pancho López and the critically acclaimed and popular novelas ''Soñadoras'' and ...
as José
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Ernesto Laguardia
Ernesto Laguardia (; born October 5, 1959) is a Mexican actor known for his performances in Mexican telenovelas.
Biography
Laguardia was born in Mexico City and started as a model while he was in elementary school. His enthusiasm eventually led ...
as Miguel
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Andrea Lagunés as Angel
*Juan Peláez as Santa Claus
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Mariana Levy as Guadalupe "Lupita"
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Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Pedro Armendáriz Bohr (April 6, 1940 – December 26, 2011), better known by his stage name Pedro Armendáriz Jr., was a Mexican actor.
Life and career
Pedro Armendáriz Bohr was born in Mexico City to Mexican-American actor Pedro Armendáriz ...
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Nuria Bages
Nuria Bages ( born Nuria Bages Romo on December 23, 1950) is a Mexican actress better known for her work in television and the stage.
Active in Mexican television since the early 1980s, Bages became a household name after winning the role of Si ...
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Roberto Ballesteros
Roberto Ballesteros (born March 22, 1954) is a Peruvian actor. Although he was born in Lima, Peru, Ballesteros is widely known for his work in Mexican telenovela and films, leading many of his fans to believe that he is actually Mexican.
In the U ...
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Luis Bayardo
Luis Jorge Bayardo Ramírez (born October 28, 1935 in Tecolotlan, Jalisco, Mexico), is a Mexican television actor. His film career began in the last years of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema
The Golden Age of Mexican cinema ( es, Época de ...
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Ricardo Chávez
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Eric del Castillo
J. Eduardo Eric del Castillo-Negrete Galván (born 22 July 1934) is a Mexican actor of theater, film and television who has dabbled as a screenwriter, director and arguer film, beginning his career in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Early yea ...
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Alberto Estrella
Alberto Estrella (born Alberto Rodríguez Estrella, 23 September 1962) is a Mexican actor. He has appeared in more than 90 films and television shows since 1986.
Biography
Estrella was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He starred in the fil ...
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Ana Layevska
Anna Sergeyevna Layevska ( uk, Анна Сергіївна Лаєвська, Anna Serhiyivna Layevsʹka, russian: Анна Сергеевна Лаевская, Anna Sergeyevna Layevskaya; born January 10, 1982), known as Ana Layevska, is a Mexic ...
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Ivonne Montero
Ivonne Montero (born Ivonne García Macedo Montero on April 25, 1974) is a Mexican actress, model and singer. She is best known for playing the leading role in ''¡Anita, no te rajes!'' ("Anita, Don't Give Up!") in 2004.
Biography
She has portr ...
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Adriana Nieto
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Manuel Ojeda
Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta (4 November 1940 – 11 August 2022) was a Mexican actor. Ojeda was one of the most active actors of television and cinema in Mexico. He played the villain, Zolo, in the Hollywood film '' Romancing the Stone''.
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Arturo Peniche
Arturo Peniche (born Arturo Delgadillo Peniche on May 17, 1962) is a 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 Traición''.
Biogr ...
See also
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List of Christmas films
Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television; since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, their many editions are sold and re-sold every year d ...
References
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Television shows based on A Christmas Carol