El Rostro de la Venganza ( Lit: ''The Face of Vengeance'' / English: ''Facing Destiny'') is a Spanish-language

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produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami.

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and Cynthia Olavarria starred as the protagonist, with the special participation of

Maritza Rodríguez Sarah Mintz (born Maritza Rodríguez Gómez; September 1, 1975 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a Colombian telenovela actress and model. In January 2018, she announced that she had changed her name to Sarah Mintz. She is best known for her roles ...

, while

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and

Marlene Favela Marlene Favela (born Silvia Marlene Favela Meraz on August 5, 1977, in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, Mexico) is a Mexican actress and model. In Mexican television, as of 2013 she was best known as Esmeralda in the TV show ''Zorro, La Espada y l ...

starred as the antagonists.

History

Telemundo announced a prime-time broadcast of ''El Rostro de la Venganza'' on May, as part of the 2012–2013 season. From June 23, 2012 to January 24, 2013, Telemundo aired ''El Rostro de la Venganza'' weeknights at 10:30pm/9:30c, following half-hour of '' Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal''. From January 28, 2013 and onwards, Telemundo aired one-hour episodes, replacing ''Pablo Escobar''. The last episode was broadcast on April 12, with ''

El Señor de los Cielos ''El Señor de los Cielos'' (in English: ''Lord of the Skies'') is an American telenovela created by Luis Zelkowicz, based on an original idea by Mariano Calasso, and Andrés López and it started airing on American broadcast channel Telemundo. P ...

'' replacing it. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.

Plot

''El Rostro de la Venganza'' tells the story of Diego Mercader (Jorge Eduardo García), an 8-year-old boy, bullied and harassed in school by his classmates. He suffers a breakdown and is urged by unknown persons to shoot 7 of his colleagues, being given access to a gun from a lockroom. Accused of the mass murder, he enters a prison for psychological diseases. Twenty years later, psychiatrist Antonia Villaroel (

) obtains his liberation by legal means and with the support of a generous benefactor Ezequiel Alvarado (

). Diego is being given a new identity, the one of Martín Méndez (

) and tries to renew his life under the employment of Ezequiel. He is put as the personal bodyguard of his fiancée, Mariana (

), compromised in an outrageous relationship with his son, Luciano (

Jonathan Islas Jonathan Christian Islas Porras best known as Jonathan Islas (born on November 15, 1979, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor mainly known for his roles in various telenovelas. Career He started his acting career in theatrical shows in ...

). He will find himself in a maze of intrigues and betrayal, sustained by Antonia's decision to find the truth about the murders and by Ezequiel's family. Later Mariana and Antonia are killed by Alicia and Alicia takes the lead role and it is later revealed that she is Eva Samaniego out for revenge.

Cast changes

The initial cast was announced to be

as Antonia,

Iván Sánchez Iván Sánchez (born November 19, 1974 in Móstoles, Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish actor, model and film producer. Career After his time as a model, Sánchez started acting in 2002 in his home country doing cinema, television, and theater. His fi ...

as Diego/Martín and

as Mariana.

was originally to play Luciano Alvarado at the very beginning, nevertheless being rather proposed for the lead. The role of Luciano was given to the former leading actor

, who was let out from the final production due to his constant discontent with the plot. Eventually,

took the part. Maritza Rodríguez and Elizabeth Gutiérrez exchanged roles; Rodríguez had been cast as Antonia, and Gutiérrez as Mariana. After two weeks of broadcast, Gutiérrez announced she was leaving the production, thus letting the series without a female protagonist, as Rodríguez had only played a special role. The initial plot had to be changed, with her character getting killed halfway through.

was cast in with a new role to substitute the lead.

's character was changed from a Protagonist to an Antagonist as the telenovela went on.

Cast

Main

as Ezequiel Alvarado. ''Antagonistic protagonist, later becomes good'' *

as Antonia Villarroel. ''Co-protagonist. Killed by Valeria Samaniego'' *

as Mariana San Lucas. ''Co-protagonist. Killed by Alicia'' *

as Diego Mercader / Martín Méndez. ''Main protagonist character'' *

as Alicia Ferrer / Eva Samaniego. ''Main villain character, mysterious killer, killed 6 children in the past, loves Martín, ends up in jail''

Recurring

as Luciano Alvarado. *

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as Valeria Samaniego. *

Roberto Mateos Roberto Mateos (born April 28, 1963, in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico), is a Mexican actor of telenovelas. He is best known for his performance in most successful telenovelas productions such as Televisa, Venevision and Telemundo. He live ...

as Federico Samaniego *

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as Katerina Alvarado *

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as Alex Maldonado *

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as Diana Mercader *

Gabriela Rivero Gabriela Rivero Abaroa (born September 15, 1964 in Mexico City, Mexico), better known as Gaby Rivero, is an actress and singer. Best remembered for portraying Maestra Jimena (character played in telenovelas Carrusel and Carrusel de las Américas) ...

as Laura Cruz * Eduardo Serrano as Juan Mercader * Rebeca Manríquez as Sonia Castro * Jacqueline Márquez as Tania Stuardo * Dayana Garroz as Carolina Pinto *

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as Natalia García *

Wanda D'Isidoro Wanda Catherine D’Isidoro Arcolín (born October 20, 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a Venezuelan actress. D'Isidoro was born to an American mother and a Sicilian father, who met when her mother was an actress. They married and moved to Vene ...

as Verónica Baeza * Chela Arias as Eliana Alvarado * Martha Mijares as Manuela Cruz * Héctor Fuentes as Salvador Casas * Rafael León as Marcos Alvarado * Cristian Carabias as Omar Mercader * William Valdés as Miguel Ángel Samaniego * Jorge Eduardo García as Juan "Juanito" Mercader / Young Diego Mercader *

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as Tomás Buenaventura *

Rodrigo de la Rosa Rodrigo de la Rosa (born August 30, 1977) is a Mexican actor, best known for appearing in several telenovelas. He starred in three successful Mexican telenovas, '' Daniela 2002'', '' El Alma Herida 2003'', and ''La Ley del Silencio 2005'', althou ...

as Víctor Leytón

Guest

* Adriana Bermudez as Leticia "Lety" *

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as Sol Luisa / Marcia Rey *

Lorena Gómez Lorena Gómez Pérez (born 12 April 1986 in Lleida) is a Spanish pop singer known artistically as Lorena. She was the winner of TV's Spanish language's talent-search program fifth series of ''Operación Triunfo''. In 2007, her debut album, ...

as Sandra Arriagada * Emily Alvarado as Young Carolina Pinto * Ginna Rodriguez as Young Diana Mercader

Awards

References

External links

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