''La Fan'', is an American
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
Telemundo
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, is a story written by Marcela Citterio and inspired by an idea of history
Angélica Vale
Angélica María Vale Hartman (born November 11, 1975), known professionally as Angélica Vale, is a Mexican-American actress, singer, impersonator, comedian, and radio personality, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Me ...
.
The story revolves around the life of a famous
telenovelas
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'' (P ...
actor and his faithful follower who is his number one fan.
The series stars
Angélica Vale
Angélica María Vale Hartman (born November 11, 1975), known professionally as Angélica Vale, is a Mexican-American actress, singer, impersonator, comedian, and radio personality, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Me ...
as Valentina,
Juan Pablo Espinosa as Lucas, and
Scarlet Ortiz
Scarlet Ortiz (born Hevis Scarlet Ortiz Pacheco) is a Venezuelan actress known for her role in telenovelas.
Biography
Scarlet started her acting career in a children's show called Nubeluz in Venezuela. She also participated in Miss Venezuela ...
as Salma.
On January 12, 2017, the first chapter of the telenovela was published with a duration of 20 minutes as a special before the premiere.
Plot summary
Vale (
Angélica Vale
Angélica María Vale Hartman (born November 11, 1975), known professionally as Angélica Vale, is a Mexican-American actress, singer, impersonator, comedian, and radio personality, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Me ...
) is a cheerful, humble, simple woman, and a fanatic of a soap opera actor, the famous Lucas Duarte (
Juan Pablo Espinosa). The lives of Vale and Lucas cross one day, by what they call destiny, luck or magic. While she is hidden inside a giant Pizza outfit, handing out flyers of the place where she works, she saves her beloved actor's life, but in reality, everything is part of one of the scenes of the telenovela. That is the first meeting between Lucas and Vale, but not the only one. Lucas's representative, Gabriel (
Gabriel Porras
Gabriel Porras (born Carlos Gabriel Porras Flores, February 13, 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor. He began his acting career working for TV Azteca in telenovelas like "Tres Veces Sofia" along with Mexican diva Lucía Méndez and " ...
), comes up with the idea of creating a contest for all his fans and after cheating a little, names Vale the winner. Vale, delighted, has lunch with him and ends up saving his life, now for real. After this Vale becomes his personal assistant and shadow, in other words, his guardian angel. Vale begins to know who Lucas Duarte really is (is hobbies, his defects) but even so, she loves him more and more. Lucas begins to realize who his real fan is...her strength, her light, her brilliance and, in spite of himself, he begins to fall in love with her. But like in every story, there is a dark past, a past that can transform their love into something impossible. Even though neither of them knows, Lucas is the father of Tomás (Emmanuel Perez), the son of Lucia, Vale's friend, who Vale has raised as if it were hers since her friend died. He is the man Vale hates for abandoning her friend. Vale is at a crossroads, she must decide whether to stand up for her deceased friend or to remain what she has always been: the fan.
Cast
Starring
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Angélica Vale
Angélica María Vale Hartman (born November 11, 1975), known professionally as Angélica Vale, is a Mexican-American actress, singer, impersonator, comedian, and radio personality, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Me ...
as Valentina Pérez
*
Juan Pablo Espinosa as Lucas Duarte
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Miguel Varoni as Justin Case / El Director
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Scarlet Ortiz
Scarlet Ortiz (born Hevis Scarlet Ortiz Pacheco) is a Venezuelan actress known for her role in telenovelas.
Biography
Scarlet started her acting career in a children's show called Nubeluz in Venezuela. She also participated in Miss Venezuela ...
as Salma Beltrán
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Ximena Duque
Ximena Duque (born January 30, 1985) is a Colombian actress and model.
Biography
Ximena was born in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on January 30, 1985 and at age 12 moved to Miami, Florida, where she began to study acting, diction and acce ...
as Adriana Zubizarreta
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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 ...
as Diego Castro
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Gabriel Porras
Gabriel Porras (born Carlos Gabriel Porras Flores, February 13, 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor. He began his acting career working for TV Azteca in telenovelas like "Tres Veces Sofia" along with Mexican diva Lucía Méndez and " ...
as Gabriel Bustamante
Also starring
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Omar Germenos as Carlos Zubizarreta
* Gloria Peralta as Eloisa Romero
* Elsy Reyes as Felicitas
*
Begoña Narváez as Jessica González
*
Pablo Azar
Pablo Azar (born Pablo Azar on July 27, 1982, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor.
Personal life
Pablo Azar is an international actor and painter.
Pablo Azar was born in Mexico City and currently lives in the United States.
Charit ...
as Benicio Torres
* Gabriel Rossi as Miguel Castro
* Josette Vidal as Miriam del Carmen
* Ricardo Kleinbaum as Enrique Julio Gardiazabal / Quique
* Lorena de la Garza as Natalia
*
Gabriel Valenzuela
Gabriel Valenzuela (born June 10, 1981) is a Colombian model and 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 ...
as Nicolás
*
Silvana Arias
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as Bárbara Blanco
*
Maritza Bustamante
Maritza Bustamante Abidar, better known as Maritza Bustamante, (born September 26, 1980) is a Venezuelan actress and model. Sister of the animator Nelson Bustamante. She is mostly known for her participation in Venezuelan telenovelas with the TV ...
as Lucía Hernández / Úrsula Molina
* Mario Espitia as Agustín Peterlini
* Freddy Florez as Roberto Flores / Bob
*
Roberto Plantier as Dr. Damián Arévalo
* Fernando Pacanins as Víctor Carrizo
*
Lalo García
Gonzalo García Téllez, known as Lalo García (20 March 1971 – March 2015) was a Spanish basketball player. García played his entire career for CB Valladolid, his hometown club, and played for the Spanish national team.
On March 4, 2015, Ga ...
as Rodrigo Gómez
* Emmanuel Pérez as Tomás Hernández
Special guest stars
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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 Paloma
*
Daniel Elbittar
Daniel Elbittar Villegas (born April 30, 1979), is a Venezuelan actor, model and singer, considered one of the 50 Most Beautiful TV, is also famous for acting in telenovelas.
Personal life
Elbittar has been married since 2014 to Venezuelan ac ...
as Leonardo Márquez / El Potro
*
Catherine Siachoque as Isabel
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Lupita Ferrer
Lupita Ferrer (born December 6, 1947) is a Venezuelan theater, film and television actress. She is known as a "Queen" of telenovelas and one of the most famous Spanish speaking telenovela actresses of all time.
Biography
Ferrer was born as Yola ...
as Silvia
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Jorge Luis Pila
Jorge Luis Pila (born August 3, 1972) is a Czech-born Cuban actor, known for acting in Telenovelas like La Patrona (2013), Yacaranday (1999). His debut was in Al norte del corazón (1997). His mother is from Czech Republic and his father is from ...
as El Tuerto
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Jesús Moré as Franco Villar
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David Chocarro
David Chocarro (born 5 April 1980) is an Argentine actor, model and former baseball player.
Career
Born in Buenos Aires, Chocarro entered the Mexican market for telenovelas through the front door as part of the cast of '' Los Exitosos Perez'' ...
as Ricardo Ernesto / Richard Ernestón
*
Ligia Petit as Roxana
*
Angélica María
Angélica María Hartman Ortiz (born September 27, 1944), known professionally as La novia de Mexico (Mexico's sweetheart), is an American-Mexican actress and singer-songwriter. Her songs El hombre de mi vida (The man of my life) peaked at No. ...
as Valentina Gardiazabal / Mamita
*
Adamari López as Carmen Córdoba
*
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 Guadalupe "Lupita"
*
Laura Chimaras
Laura Ariana Chimaras Martí (born 8 May 1991) is a Venezuelan writer, daughter of the actor . The daughter of actor Yanis Chimaras, Laura rose as to stardom as a teenager as the protagonist of the RCTV produced drama Libres como el Viento. As t ...
as Renata Izaguirre
*
Eduardo Serrano as Pascual Blanco
*
Sandra Destenave
Sandra Destenave (born Sandra Irene Destenave Fernández on November 6, 1972, in Chihuahua, Mexico) is a Mexican actress, model and hostess.
Early life
Destenave was born on November 6, 1972, in Chihuahua, Mexico
Mexico (Spanish language ...
as Dolores "Lola" D'Alessandro
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Fabián Ríos as Guillermo "Willy" del Castillo
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Henry Zakka
Henry Zakka (born July 29, 1956, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actor and director
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Directo ...
as Dr. Machado
*
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 ...
as La Parka
* José Ramón Blanch as Rogelio Gutiérrez / La Bestia
*
Carlos Ponce
Carlos Armando Ponce Freyre Jr. (born September 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican actor, musician, model, and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce contin ...
as Luis Alberto Fontan
*
Jorge Bernal
Jorge Bernal Alarcón (born October 24, 1979) is a Mexican former footballer who last played as a goalkeeper with Delfines F.C.
Club career
He made his professional debut for Veracruz on 27 August 2003 against C.F. Monterrey, immediately savi ...
as Himself
*
Ahrid Hannaley
Ahrid Hannaley (born May 3, 1987), is a Mexican television host and actress
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 ...
as Karina
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Dad Dáger as Patricia
Production
The production of the telenovela was confirmed on July 5, 2016, and the production concluded on December 22, 2016. The production is mainly recorded in
Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...
, the first scenes were made in
Los Angeles
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. Vale explained that the idea arose as she wanted to pay homage to all her fans and followers of the telenovela ''
La fea más bella
''La Fea Más Bella'' ("The Prettiest Ugly Girl or the ugliest the most beautiful “) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the second Mexican version of the popular Colombian telenovela: '' Betty la fea'' (the first is Azteca Tre ...
''.
![Juan Pablo Espinoza de](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Juan_Pablo_Espinoza_de_%22La_Fan%22_habla_de_la_necesidad_de_comedias_blancas_como_Chespirito.png)
The series is an original idea written by
Angélica Vale
Angélica María Vale Hartman (born November 11, 1975), known professionally as Angélica Vale, is a Mexican-American actress, singer, impersonator, comedian, and radio personality, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Me ...
in 2009, which has a promotional video uploaded to
YouTube
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that same year. The story is adapted by Marcela Citterio based on the idea of Angélica, is directed by
Miguel Varoni, Claudio Callao and Otto Rodríguez and as executive producers
Carmen Cecilia Urbaneja, José Gerardo Guillén and David Posada and as general producer
Angélica Vale
Angélica María Vale Hartman (born November 11, 1975), known professionally as Angélica Vale, is a Mexican-American actress, singer, impersonator, comedian, and radio personality, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Me ...
. Vale said that the series will have a bit of
sitcom
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ne ...
format.
Promotion
The first advance of the telenovela was presenting during the event broadcast by
Telemundo
Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language Terrestrial television, terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Television and Streaming#NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a divi ...
entitled, ''La Fiesta Latina de iHeart Radio''.
The telenovela was presented in Natpe the same day they finished the production.
Casting
In May 2016
Angélica Vale
Angélica María Vale Hartman (born November 11, 1975), known professionally as Angélica Vale, is a Mexican-American actress, singer, impersonator, comedian, and radio personality, known also as the daughter of Angélica María, "La Novia de Me ...
confirmed her return to the
telenovelas
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'' (P ...
, after being 10 years away from the dramatic genre. On August 3, 2016, Vale confirmed the participation of
Juan Pablo Espinosa as the protagonist of the story.
Scarlet Ortiz
Scarlet Ortiz (born Hevis Scarlet Ortiz Pacheco) is a Venezuelan actress known for her role in telenovelas.
Biography
Scarlet started her acting career in a children's show called Nubeluz in Venezuela. She also participated in Miss Venezuela ...
was chosen as the main villain of the story, and marks the debut of the actress in the network
Telemundo
Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language Terrestrial television, terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Television and Streaming#NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a divi ...
.
Miguel Varoni who besides being the director of the telenovela, his character Justin Case will have the same role of Varoni in the production of the
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'' ...
as it will be a character who works as director, also confirmed the participation of
Catherine Siachoque in the production. Espinosa confirmed through his
Instagram
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the participation of
Adamari López in the telenovela, the actress and presenter who was 8 years away from the telenovelas.
Shows cancelled
A total of 114 episodes were confirmed for series.
Due to the low rating of primetime that had the series,
Telemundo
Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language Terrestrial television, terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Television and Streaming#NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a divi ...
canceled the series, despite the number of cliffhangers, and only 54 episodes were programmed to be transmitted.
Ratings
Episodes
The series premiered 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 ...
at 2pm and had a total of 65 episodes,
while in its original broadcast had 54 episodes.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Spanish-language American telenovelas
Telemundo telenovelas
American telenovelas
2017 telenovelas
2017 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings