''Enemigo íntimo'' is a Spanish-language

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that premiered on

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on 21 February 2018 and ended on 21 September 2020. Produced by

Telemundo Global Studios Telemundo Studios, formerly known as Telemundo Television Studios, is a division of NBCUniversal that develops original programming in Spanish. History After these agreements, Patricio Wills, former president of Telemundo-RTI, pass to be the pers ...

and

Argos Comunicación Argos Comunicación is a television and film production company owned by Epigmenio Ibarra based in Mexico City. Profile The company started as the telenovela-production unit for TV Azteca with '' Nada personal'' and has since then produced many ...

and distributed by

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. The series tells the story of two siblings separated when they were small children and who were united years later. Both ignore that they have many things in common, the same parents, a happy childhood and a great crime that separated them. He has never stopped looking for her and she now she has no memories and now fate puts them face to face in a war without quarter. On 7 May 2018,

confirmed that the show has been renewed for a second season. The production of the second season began on 9 September 2019.

Plot

Season 1 (2018)

The season follows the story of two siblings who witness the murder of their parents in the hands of one of the drug cartels in

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

, after this murder, Roxana Rodiles (

Fernanda Castillo María Fernanda Castillo García (born 24 March 1982), known as Fernanda Castillo, is a Mexican actress. She is best known for her roles as Daniela Montalvo in '' Destilando amor'', Luisa Barrera in '' Teresa'', co-starring Angelique Boyer and ...

) the younger sister of Alejandro Ferrer (

Raúl Méndez Raúl Méndez Martínez (born April 11, 1975 in Laguna, Torreón, Mexico) is a Mexican actor of film, theater and television. Biography He studied acting at the Center for Arts Education Monterrey and La Casa del Teatro with Luis de Tavira be ...

) is kidnapped. 25 years later, Alejandro Ferrer is now the captain of the Federal Police and only seeks revenge against the narcos for destroying his family. Roxana that after 25 years disappeared and ignoring that her brother is Alejandro enters a business of buying and selling diamonds. However, everything will be reduced when the interpol that silently followed the trail of money tries to capture it. After being detained and interrogated, Roxana enters the prison of Las Dunas, a boarding school with almost unique characteristics throughout Mexico, since it simultaneously houses, although in different pavilions, men and women deprived of liberty for being accused or condemned. for the most diverse crimes. Alejandro knowing this is responsible for sending Daniel Laborde (

Matías Novoa Matías Novoa, (born June 14, 1980) is a Chilean-Mexican actor and model. He is best known for working with TV Azteca doing telenovelas A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The ...

), as an infiltrated agent who will try to fall in love with Roxana to obtain information, after several misunderstandings between the two siblings and without knowing they are relatives, they will try to destroy the narcos.

Season 2 (2020)

The second season takes place two years after the first season. Roxana (

), who can no longer hide under the alias of "El Profesor", will fight to reestablish the Mil Cumbres cartel and grow her empire, but Alejandro (

), commander of the Anti-Drug Unit, will not be willing to leave her now that he knows that "El Profesor" and her missing sister are the same person. These conflicts between opposing sides unleashed a war of revenge between two blood brothers, now turned into worse enemies.

Cast and characters

Main

Introduced in season 1

as Alejandro Ferrer (seasons 1–2) *

as Roxana Rodiles (seasons 1–2) *

as Daniel Laborde / Eduardo Tapia "El Tilapia" (season 1; guest season 2) *

Rafael Sánchez Navarro Rafael Sánchez Navarro (born 1958) is a Spanish- Mexican actor. He is the son of Manolo Fábregas, an actor from Spain who established himself in Mexico. Sanchez Navarro is also the cousin of Manuel Sánchez Navarro, who in turn is the son of ...

as Leopoldo Borges * Guillermo Quintanilla as Anselmo López "Guillotina" *

Leonardo Daniel Leonardo Daniel (; born 26 July 1954) is a Mexican actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as fi ...

as Commander David Gómez (season 1; guest season 2) *

Otto Sirgo Otto Sirgo (, born Otto Sirgo Haller; December 19, 1946 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban actor and director of Mexican telenovelas and theater. He is the son of Cuban actor Otto Sirgo and Mexican actress Magda Haller and was married to Maleni Morales, ...

as Nemesio Rendón *

Alejandro Speitzer Alejandro Sánchez Speitzer (born 21 January 1995) is a Mexican actor. Career Alejandro Speitzer started his career as a child actor when he was 5 years old. His very first job was in a recurring role in the Mexican TV mini-series ''Ray of Ligh ...

as Luis Rendón "El Berebere" (season 1; guest season 2) * Armando Hernández as Héctor Fernández "Colmillo" * Samadhi Zendejas as María Antonia Reyes "Mamba" *

Valentina Acosta Valentina Acosta (born July 23, 1982), is a Colombian television actress, presenter and model A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century E ...

as Olivia Reyes *

Itahisa Machado Itahisa Machado (born April 10, 1987, in Tenerife, Canary Islands), is a Mexican born-Spanish actress and model. She currently resides in Mexico City, Mexico. Career She began her career as a model of commercial television. In 2006 she part ...

as Marimar Rubio * Elvira Monsell as Zoraida * Mayra Rojas as Clarisa * Alpha Acosta as Minerva Zambrano * Mar Zamora as Ochún * María del Carmen Félix as Ana Mercedes Calicio "La Puma" (seasons 1–2), a lesbian woman. * Mauricio Rousselon as Robaldo Bolado "El Bowser" * Natalia Benvenuto as Puki * Alan Ciangherotti as Bernardo Rendón "El Buitre" * Tania Niebla as Tamara * Miguel René Moreno as Lieutenant Gabriel Puenzo * René García as Priamo Cabrales * Francisco Calvillo as Rafael Mantilla Moreno "El Patojo" *

Diego Soldano ''Diego Soldano'', (born January 18, 1969) is an Argentine actor. Better known for his notable roles in the telenovelas, ''La Patrona'', ''Las trampas del deseo'', '' Los miserables'' and ''Señora Acero ''Señora Acero'', also known as ''Seño ...

as Federico Montalvo * Flavio Peniche as Pedro Bencomo Saldivia "Sanson" * Sandra Benhumea as Lula Pineda * Rafael Nieves as Lieutenant Carlos Muñán * Mónica Jiménez as Eladia Cornejo * Iván Aragón as Juan Romero "El Chamaco" *

Jean Paul Leroux Jean-Paul Leroux (born January 7, 1976) is a Venezuelan film actor. His career started in small roles in theater, but his true career started in the critically acclaimed movie '' Secuestro Express'' in 2005, along with Argentine actress Mía Maes ...

as Ángel Cordero * Roberto Uscanga as Fermín Pedraza "El Cristero" * Eduardo Reza as Gibrán Mendiola

Introduced in season 2

* Aitor Luna as Martín Ustariz *

Irán Castillo Irán Castillo Pinzón (born 4 January 1977) is a Mexican actress and singer. Castillo began her career in the 1990s, after roles in telenovelas such as ''Agujetas de color de rosa'', ''Confidente de Secundaria'', and '' Preciosa''. Subseque ...

as Carmen Govea *

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''. Ca ...

as Don Jesús *

Elyfer Torres Elvia Fernanda Torres Pérez most known as Elyfer Torres (born 15 February 1997 in Mexico), is a Mexican actress. Her first major role was in the Telemundo telenovela's ''Betty en NY'' (2019). Although previously she stood out for series like '' ...

as Alicia García *

Luis Alberti Luis Alberti (6 April 1906 – 26 January 1976) was a Merengue music, Dominican Merengue musician, arranger, conductor, and author of significant popular songs such as ''Compadre Pedro Juan'' and many others performed and recorded by noted interpr ...

as Javier Rivera *

Tiago Correa Tiago Kadú Correa Girrulat (born August 28, 1981, in Santiago de Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chil ...

as Diego Lozano *

Germán Bracco Germán Bracco (born 22 August 1998 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican television actor, and stage actor. Best known for his role Federico Becker in the Televisa's telenovela '' Caer en tentación'' (2017–2018), role for which he won the awar ...

as Manuel Salas * Amaranta Ruiz as Gladys Bernal "La Mariscala" *

Erick Chapa Erick Chapa (born July 5, 1985 in Mexico City, Mexico), is a Mexican television actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or ...

as Arturo Morillo *

Yuvanna Montalvo Yuvanna Montalvo (born 15 March 1988) is a Venezuelan model and actress. Biography She began her acting career in 2007 with a guest role in the teen telenovela '' Somos tu y yo''. Since then, she has appeared in several telenovelas produced by V ...

as Karla Padilla * Arturo García Tenorio as Díaz *

Claudette Maillé Claudette Maillé (born 11 November 1964) is a Mexican actress best known for her roles in Mexican telenovelas and films. She has won two Ariel awards, one in 1992 as Best Supporting Actress for her participation in the film '' Like Water for Cho ...

as Elisa Torres * Héctor Kotsifakis as Héctor Moreno "El Sargento" * Ruy Senderos as Ricardo Medina * Julio Casado as Raúl Ortega "El Habanero" * Jorge Gallegos as Alan Rodríguez * Luis Zahera as El Gallego * Tony Plana as Santilla

Television ratings

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (2018)

Season 2 (2020)

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Enemigo intimo 2018 telenovelas Spanish-language American telenovelas Telemundo telenovelas American telenovelas 2018 American television series debuts 2018 Mexican television series debuts Mexican telenovelas Argos Comunicación telenovelas 2020 telenovelas Works about Mexican drug cartels