''Rubí'' 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
José Alberto Castro
José Alberto Castro (born José Alberto Sáinz Castro, 31 May 1963) is a Mexican producer and director.
Biography
He is the brother of actresses Verónica Castro, Beatriz Castro, telenovela producer Fausto Gerardo Sáinz, and uncle of Mexican s ...
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 ...
. It is based on a short story by
Yolanda Vargas Dulché
Yolanda Vargas Dulché de la Parra (; July 18, 1926 Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico– August 8, 1999 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer principally known for the creation of the comic book character of Memín Pinguín and various telenovelas for ...
, published as a serial on the 1960s Mexican comic book ''Lágrimas, Risas y Amor''.
It stars
Bárbara Mori
Bárbara Mori Ochoa () (born 2 February 1978) is a Uruguayan-born Mexican actress, model, producer and writer. She is known for playing the main character in the 2004 telenovela '' Rubí,'' one of the most successful telenovelas of all time. Sin ...
,
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. ...
,
Jacqueline Bracamontes
Jacqueline Bracamontes Van Hoorde (born 23 December 1979) is a Mexican actress, former model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Nuestra Belleza Jalisco 2000, Nuestra Belleza México 2000 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2001.
...
and
Sebastián Rulli
Sebastián Oscar Rulli ( or , born 6 July 1975) is an actor and model. Born in Argentina, he has spent most of his professional career in Mexico, becoming a dual Argentine and Mexican citizen.
Biography
Rulli was born in Buenos Aires, the ol ...
.
Canal de las Estrellas
Las Estrellas ("The Stars"; previously El Canal de las Estrellas, or "The Channel of the Stars") is one of the cornerstone networks of TelevisaUnivision, with affiliate stations all over Mexico, flagshipped at XEW-TDT in Mexico City. Many of the ...
aired ''Rubí'' from May 17 to October 22, 2004, with ''
Apuesta por un amor
Apuesta (English means ''Wager'') may refer to:
*"Apuesta", song and EP by Cirse (band)
*" La Apuesta" (The Bet) song by Thalía
* La apuesta (film) (The Bet) 1968 Costa Rican film directed by Miguel Salaguero
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'' replacing it.
Univision
Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...
broadcast ''Rubí'' from September 20, 2004 to March 7, 2005, and has named ''Rubí'' as the top telenovela of all time.
Plot
Rubí Pérez (
Bárbara Mori
Bárbara Mori Ochoa () (born 2 February 1978) is a Uruguayan-born Mexican actress, model, producer and writer. She is known for playing the main character in the 2004 telenovela '' Rubí,'' one of the most successful telenovelas of all time. Sin ...
) is a very beautiful but poor woman who is obsessed with money. She studies at an exclusive university thanks to the financial support from Cristina (
Paty Diaz Paty may refer to:
* Páty, a village in Hungary
* Paty (footballer) (born 1990), Angolan footballer
* Samuel Paty (1973–2020), French victim of terrorism
See also
*
* Patty (disambiguation)
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), her hard-working older sister. Rubí hopes to become rich by befriending rich people. She is best friends with Maribel de la Fuente (
Jacqueline Bracamontes
Jacqueline Bracamontes Van Hoorde (born 23 December 1979) is a Mexican actress, former model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Nuestra Belleza Jalisco 2000, Nuestra Belleza México 2000 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2001.
...
), a kind and wealthy young woman. Maribel has a paralyzed leg, which prevents her from having a normal social life. Rubí is actually jealous of Maribel's social status while pitying her disability.
Rubí meets Maribel's online boyfriend Héctor Ferrer (
Sebastián Rulli
Sebastián Oscar Rulli ( or , born 6 July 1975) is an actor and model. Born in Argentina, he has spent most of his professional career in Mexico, becoming a dual Argentine and Mexican citizen.
Biography
Rulli was born in Buenos Aires, the ol ...
), an architect, and his best friend Alejandro Cárdenas (
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. ...
), a doctor. Héctor intrigues her because she knows he is very rich, and marrying a rich man has always been her ambition to leave poverty behind. However, she finds herself falling in love with Alejandro. Héctor and Maribel get engaged. Rubí starts dating Alejandro, but when she finds out that he is from a middle-class background and is not rich, she dumps him, though it breaks her heart. Rubi's mother, Refugio tries to make Rubi see that money is not everything in life and that she will regret leaving Alejandro. However Rubí refuses to listen and then sets out to seduce Héctor.
Héctor quickly falls under Rubí's spell. On Héctor and Maribel's wedding day, Héctor leaves a devastated Maribel at the altar and elopes with Rubí instead to
Cancun, where they get married. Rubí finally has the lifestyle and money that she has always dreamed of, although she's disowned by her family and friends. On their wedding night Hector tries to make love to Rubi, Rubi keeps thinking about Alejandro, which makes her run out to the beach crying. Despite this, she is still in love with Alejandro, though he vows to her that he would never forgive her for what she did to Maribel. Hector was supposed to move to New York and work on an important project, but is kicked out after he dumps Maribel at the altar. Rubí also meets a tycoon named Yago Pietrasanta, who is a womanizer and Rubi starts going out with him despite being still married to Héctor and also her mother and Alejandro's objections, Rubi also gets envious of her sister Cristina's happy relationship with Maribel's ex chauffeur, Cayetano and to separate them, she has him framed of theft by slipping on him a priceless jeweled necklace, sending him to jail days before their wedding. However, Cristina soon finds that she's pregnant with Cayetano's child and tells Refugio about it, who in turn asks for Rubí's help to release him from jail, but Rubí reveals to her mother what she did to Cayetano and a disappointed and ashamed Refugio disowns Rubí and dies from a heart attack before she could tell Cristina the truth about Cayetano. Later in Refugio's funeral, Rubí is shunned and driven away by Cristina and her neighbors, who found out that she caused her mother's heart attack and also gets disowned by Cristina.
Héctor decides to travel the world with Rubí, since he is not entirely sure that she has gotten over Alejandro. They are away for three years. When they return, Rubí discovers that Alejandro is now very rich and has a new wife named Sonia (
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 ...
) and also meets Cristina's daughter, Fernanda, whom Rubí likes due to her resemblance to her. During an argument between Rubí and Sonia on a glass bridge, the floor below Sonia shatters, and she falls through the glass and dies. When Rubí is phoning Loreto, Héctor enters his wife's room and snatches the phone away from her. He accuses Rubí of going to see Alejandro, but Rubí claims that she went to see Marco instead of Alejandro. Enraged, Héctor pushes Rubí into the bed and rapes her after Rubí attempts to warn her husband not to do this again. That night, when Rubí and Héctor end up naked on a bed after sex, Rubí scolds her husband for being intimate with her, but Héctor tells her that, since they are married, Rubí is going to make love to him. Héctor rapes his wife again. Rubí comforts Alejandro after Sonia's death and seduces him once again. He and Rubí become lovers.
When he hears that Rubí was at the scene when Sonia died, he has her arrested for murder. They seemingly hate each other now, but Rubí begins to feel love for him again when she learns that she is pregnant with his child. Because she does not want to divorce Héctor and lose her money and status, she lies and tells Héctor that the baby is his. She is released from jail, since it is ruled that Sonia's death was accidental.
Héctor overhears Rubí telling her friend Loreto (
Miguel Pizarro
Miguel Alejandro Pizarro Rodríguez (born February 17, 1988) is a Venezuelan politician in the National Assembly who represents the district of Petare in Caracas. He is also known for his role in the 2014 Venezuelan protests.
Early life
Around t ...
) that the child is actually Alejandro's. Angry and humiliated, Héctor realizes that she never loved him, so he keeps her prisoner in her own home, intending to keep her and her child with him forever and away from Alejandro. Rubí manages to escape from Héctor with help from Loreto and Genaro, and the truth about who is the father of her child finally comes out. By now, Alejandro is aware that Maribel has been secretly in love with him and that he too has feelings for her, but he chooses to stay with Rubí for the sake of their baby.
Sometime later, Rubí saves her beloved niece Fernanda (
Kristel Casteele
Kristel is both a feminine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
* Kristel de Catalina (born 1985), Filipino dancer and actress
*Kristel Fulgar (born 1994), Filipino actress
* Kristel Köbrich (born 1985), Chi ...
) from being hit by a car; Rubí is hit instead and has a
miscarriage
Miscarriage, also known in medical terms as a spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently. Miscarriage before 6 weeks of gestation is defined by ESHRE as biochemical lo ...
. She blames Héctor for the miscarriage, since he has hit her before because of his jealousy. Héctor tries to prove that Rubí actually lost her baby after being hit by a car, but no one believes him except for Elena (
Yadhira Carrillo
Yadhira Carrillo Villalobos (born May 12, 1973) is a Mexican actress, model and beauty queen.
Early career
Yadhira Carrillo was chosen Nuestra Belleza Aguascalientes
Mexicana Universal Aguascalientes (until 2016 called Nuestra Belleza Aguasca ...
). She is the assistant to the Count of Aragón and in love with Héctor. Héctor is fatally injured in a car accident and dies before he could tell Alejandro, who is performing Héctor's surgery and trying to save his life, the truth about Rubí.
Héctor left everything in his will to Rubí, much to his parents' chagrin. However, Elena, who hates Rubí, ensures that all of Rubí's money is lost in the stock market, leaving Rubí poor again. Alejandro is unjustly charged with intentionally letting Héctor die on the operating table and is arrested, when the actual responsible was former hospital director Bermudez who secretly sabotaged the surgery to get revenge on Alejandro for getting him fired from the hospital and sent to jail. Immediately afterwards, the suspicions are proven unfounded and the charges against him are dropped, and Bermudez is arrested, though he accidentally shoots his son Ernesto, while he was saving Elena's life. Upon his release, Alejandro discovers exactly how Rubí lost their baby. It is also revealed that Elena is pregnant with Héctor's child, though he never knew it.
Disgusted by the all the damage that she has done, Alejandro pays Rubí a visit one last time and tells her that it is over between them: he has chosen Maribel. Rubí begs him not to leave her, even humiliating herself by getting down on her knees. He leaves her and begins to walk down the stairs. As Rubí follows him, running down the staircase while holding onto the rail and screaming that she will never let him go, she loses her grip on the rail, falls several stories down, and crashes into a glass table below.
To save her life, doctors have to amputate her leg. When Rubí wakes up, she finds out to her horror that her leg was amputated. Even more devastating, her beautiful face is now full of scars because of multiple glass cuts. However, despite this, Rubí still doesn't regret her actions and soon escapes from the hospital.
Finding the wedding date of Alejandro and Maribel, she shows up unseen at the church. She sights a gun through a crack on a door, targeting Alejandro, but she cannot bring herself to shoot him. She then aims at Maribel, but her sister Cristina, Maribel's maid of honor, is in the way and blocking a clean shot. Rubí relents and hides in a corner of the churchyard, despondent.
After the wedding, her niece Fernanda wanders over to Rubí's hiding place. Rubí shows her scarred face to Fernanda, but the little girl is not repulsed by it. On the contrary, she feels sympathy for her favorite aunt. When Rubí asks her if she would like to continue meeting her secretly and serve as an instrument to get her revenge and ruin Alejandro's life, Fernanda happily agrees. Rubí limps away, dressed in rags.
Eighteen years later, Fernanda (now played by Bárbara Mori) is all grown up, bearing a striking resemblance to Rubí, save for her blonde hair. She visits her aunt, who is living in a one-room flat. After hearing that Alejandro has returned to Mexico after years of living abroad, Rubí tells Fernanda that Alejandro and Maribel have a son, and that her job will be making both Alejandro and his son fall in love with her in order to destroy Maribel's family.
Alejandro is now the director of a hospital. One day he finds Fernanda in his office. He is utterly shocked, mistaking her for Rubí. She greets him without revealing her identity and by pulling him by his tie and bringing him in for what looks like a kiss. The screen caption, ''The End..?'' then appears.
Deleted Scene
There is a deleted scene from the ending where an adult Fernanda meets up with Rubí's old friend Loreto, who has lost his fame and became poor. Fernanda tells him about her intentions of avenging her aunt, and asks him to tell her the full story of Rubí to better know how to plan her revenge, as her family refuses to talk about Rubí and he tells with full details his own version about Rubí's wrongdoings while showing Fernanda the neighborhood where she grew up, Maribel's empty mansion and Rubí and Hector's former mansion, and after Loreto finishes the story, Fernanda decides to go to get revenge on both Alejandro and Maribel.
Cast
Main
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Bárbara Mori
Bárbara Mori Ochoa () (born 2 February 1978) is a Uruguayan-born Mexican actress, model, producer and writer. She is known for playing the main character in the 2004 telenovela '' Rubí,'' one of the most successful telenovelas of all time. Sin ...
as Rubí Pérez Ochoa / Fernanda Martínez Pérez (Antagonistic Protagonist) - A beautiful but wicked woman whose aim is to get out of poverty. Rubí has an obsessive love for Alejandro and will do anything to be with him but runs away with his millionaire best friend Hector, who was engaged to Maribel, and marries him. She's ambitious and enjoys toying with people, without thinking of the consequences. ''Ends up poor and disfigured and loses her leg.''
As Fernanda she is the daughter of Cristina who is fond of Rubí and shares a striking resemblance to her. She cares for Rubí years after her accident and helps her plot her revenge on Maribel and Alejandro.
*
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 Alejandro Cárdenas Ruiz (Protagonist) - A doctor and Héctor's childhood friend. He and Rubí love each other but her ambition constantly gets in the way, leaving him heartbroken. He later falls in love with Maribel and they get married.
*
Jacqueline Bracamontes
Jacqueline Bracamontes Van Hoorde (born 23 December 1979) is a Mexican actress, former model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Nuestra Belleza Jalisco 2000, Nuestra Belleza México 2000 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2001.
...
as Maribel de la Fuente Ortiz (Protagonist) - A kind and generous girl with a disability that affects her walking. Maribel considered Rubí her best friend and was unaware that she was envious of her wealth and looks down on her disability. She was engaged to Héctor before he ran off with Rubi and was devastated till she fell in love with Alejandro.
*
Sebastián Rulli
Sebastián Oscar Rulli ( or , born 6 July 1975) is an actor and model. Born in Argentina, he has spent most of his professional career in Mexico, becoming a dual Argentine and Mexican citizen.
Biography
Rulli was born in Buenos Aires, the ol ...
as Héctor Ferrer Garza (Protagonist, later Antagonist) - A man who Maribel met over the internet and was her fiancé before he fell in love with Rubí. He becomes obsessed with Rubí and refuses to believe she only married him for his money. ''Dies in car crash.''
*
Ana Martín
Ana Beatriz Martínez Solórzano (born 14 May 1945), known professionally as Ana Martín, is a Mexican actress and model. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
She won the Miss Mexico title in 1963, which ...
as Refugio Ochoa Vda. de Pérez - Rubí and Cristina's mother who always worries about Rubí's decisions and tries to put her on the right path. ''Dies of illness after learning about Rubí's schemes.''
*
Yadhira Carrillo
Yadhira Carrillo Villalobos (born May 12, 1973) is a Mexican actress, model and beauty queen.
Early career
Yadhira Carrillo was chosen Nuestra Belleza Aguascalientes
Mexicana Universal Aguascalientes (until 2016 called Nuestra Belleza Aguasca ...
as Elena Navarro - A woman who works for the Count and is in love with Héctor, later becoming his lover, and Rubí despises her. She later becomes pregnant with Héctor's child and makes sure Rubí loses all her money.
Secondary
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Josefina Echánove
Josefina Echánove (born Josefina Rojas Hudson; 21 July 1917 – 11 July 1999) was a Mexican film, television and stage actress. as Francisca “Pancha” Muñoz - Maribel's maid who considers her to be like a daughter. She was aware of Rubí's intentions from the beginning and warned Maribel against her. ''Dies of illness.''
*
Antonio Medellín
Antonio Medellín (15 April 1934 – 18 June 2017) was a Mexican film and television actor. He was known for his roles in the telenovelas ''Muchachitas'' and '' Rubí''. In film, he was known for his role in the 1982 drama Mexican film '' Aq ...
as Ignacio Cárdenas - Alejandro and Sofia' s father who takes care of his wife Carla.
*
Ana Bertha Espín
Ana Bertha Espín Ocampo (born 13 October 1958) is a Mexican actress.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
*
1956 births
Living people
Mexican telenovela actresses
Mexican television actresses
Mexican fi ...
as Elisa de Duarte - Genaro's first wife and Héctor's godmother who longs for motherhood, being unable to bear children. She becomes devastated when she learns of Genaro's affair but later falls in love with Arturo.
*
José Elías Moreno
José Elías Moreno (12 November 1910 – 15 July 1969) was a Mexican character actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1937 and 1969. He was from the state of Jalisco. His son of the same name, born in 1956, is also a successful a ...
as Genaro Duarte - Héctor's godfather who takes care of him after the death of his parents and hides the fact that he has another family.
*
Olivia Bucio
Olivia Bucio (born October 26, 1954, in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico), is a Mexican actress. She worked with Televisa as an actress of telenovelas
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin Am ...
as Carla Ruiz de Cárdenas - Alejandro and Sofia's mother who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. She's one of the few people Rubí seems to care for.
*
Luis Gatica
Luis Gatica (born February 25, 1961) is a Mexican actor, son of the Chilean singer Lucho Gatica and the Puerto Rican actress Mapita Cortés. He is the uncle of fellow actor Alfredo Gatica.
Biography
Luis Gatica was born in Veracruz, Mexico. He g ...
as Cayetano Martínez - Cristina's husband and Maribel's chauffeur. Rubí dislikes his relationship with her sister and accuses him of stealing, sending him to jail. ''Dies of heart disease.''
*
Leonorilda Ochoa
Leonorilda Ochoa Pagaza (30 October 1939 – 22 May 2016) was a Mexican actress and comedian who appeared in film since the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, television, and theatre productions. She became popular as La Pecas in the sitcom ''Los Bev ...
as Dolores Herrera "Doña Lola" - A noisy woman who lives in Rubí's former neighbourhood.
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Roberto Vander
Roberto Vander (born Frans Robert Jan van der Hoek; September 20, 1950) is a Dutch-Chilean actor and singer.
Biography
After living in different Latin American countries such as Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil, he settled in Mexico in 19 ...
as Arturo de la Fuente Rangel - Maribel's father who feels responsible for her disability and the death of her mother. He later discovers that he's the biological father of Luis.
*
Ofelia Cano
Ofelia Cano is a Mexican actress. She appeared in many telenovelas. Some of her better known roles are the one of Rebeca in ''Entre el amor y el odio
''Entre el Amor y el Odio'' (English: ''Between Love and Hatred'') is a Mexican telenovela pr ...
as Victoria Gallegos - A wealthy woman who supports Alejandro's career. She was a close friend of Maribel's mother when they were young and is revealed to be Paco's mother.
*Miguel Pizarro as Loreto Carlione
*
Paty Díaz
Paty Díaz (born Patricia Díaz, March 17, 1974, in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the nort ...
as Cristina Pérez Ochoa - Rubí's sister who supports the household and is insecure of her looks, feeling overshadowed by Rubí. She was in love with Cayetano and married him but later falls in love with Marco.
*Arlette Pacheco as Lilia López de Duarte - Luis and Naty's mother and Genaro's second wife. She was Arturo's girlfriend when they were young.
*
Jan
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Acronyms
* Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN
* Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code
* Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group
* Japanese Article Num ...
as Marco Rivera - Alejandro's close friend and a doctor who is in love with Cristina. He later marries her after the death of Cayetano.
*
Íngrid Martz
Íngrid Martz de la Vega (; 17 September 1979) is a Mexican actress and model.María Fernanda García
María Fernanda García (born September 17, 1967) is a Mexican actress best known as "Licha" in '' Una familia de diez''. She has also appeared in many telenovelas and won a Silver Ariel for "Best Actress in a Minor Role" for the film '' Bienven ...
as Valeria
*Eduardo Rodríguez as Saúl Méndez
*Sergio Argueta as Francisco "Paco" Gómez Gallegos
*
Marco Méndez
Marco Méndez (born Marco Anibal Méndez Ramírez on October 1, 1976, in Uruapan, Michoacán) is a Mexican actor.
Méndez began as a model and later studied acting in Televisa's CEA. He made his television debut as 'Oscar Méndez' in the telenov ...
as Luis Duarte López
*Tania Vázquez as Sofía Cárdenas Ruiz
*Hugo Macías Macotela as Isidro Roldán
*Sergio Zaldívar as Gazcón
*Mariana Rountree as Ingrid Mendoza
*Nicole Vale as Natalia 'Naty' Duarte (young)
*Karen Sandoval as Natalia 'Naty' Duarte
*Kristel Casteele as Fernanda Martínez Pérez (young)
*Manuel Foyo as Ernesto Bermúdez
Special participation
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Carlos Cámara
Cárlos Cámara Lázaro (9 January 1934 – 24 February 2016) was a Dominican-born Mexican actor.
Biography
Cámara was born to a family of artists. He migrated to Venezuela where he married the actress Elisa Parejo, with whom he had three chi ...
as Dr. José Luis Bermúdez
*
Adriana Roel
Adriana Roel (4 July 1934 – 4 August 2022) was a Mexican actress from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Her roles included the Mexican telenovela ''Huracán''.
Filmography
* '' No quiero dormir sola'' (She Doesn't Want to Sleep Alone) 2012
* ...
as Hilda Méndez
*
Sergio Goyri
Sergio Matusalem Goyri Pérez (born 14 November 1958) is a Mexican actor, particularly known for his performances in soap operas. In 2019 he received significant negative coverage after complaining about the film community nominating Yalitza ...
as Yago Pietrasanta
*
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 ...
as Sonia Chavarria
*Alicia Fahr as Romina
*
Lorena Velázquez
Lorena Velázquez (; born December 15, 1937) is a Mexican actress and former beauty pageant titleholder.
Biography
Born María de la Concepción Lorena Villar in Mexico City, Velázquez debuted in 1955. She competed in Miss Mexico in 1958 and p ...
as Mary
*Gerardo Albarrán as Gabriel Almanza
*
Manuel Landeta
Manuel Landeta (born José Manuel Goenaga Jassan on October 5, 1958) is a Mexican singer and actor of telenovelas. His two sons Imanol and Jordi Landeta are also actors and singers.
Career
Manuel Landeta started his acting career at the age ...
as Lucio Montemayor
*
Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez
Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez Martínez (born 17 October 1946) is a Mexican actor and comedian who has appeared in over 140 films and television shows in Mexico.
Biography
Manuel Ibáñez Martínez was born on 17 October 1946, the youngest of four ...
as Onésimo Segundo Rabozo
*
Lilia Aragón
Lilia Aragón (born Lilia Isabel Aragón del Rivero, 22 September 1938 – 2 August 2021) was a Mexican film, television, and stage actress and politician. She was the Secretary of the National Association of Actors.
She also served as Deputy ...
as Nora de Navarro
Awards and nominations
, - style="text-align: center; top"
, Favorite Telenovela
, ''Rubí''
,
, - style="text-align: center; top"
, Best Protagonist
,
Bárbara Mori
Bárbara Mori Ochoa () (born 2 February 1978) is a Uruguayan-born Mexican actress, model, producer and writer. She is known for playing the main character in the 2004 telenovela '' Rubí,'' one of the most successful telenovelas of all time. Sin ...
,
Reception
Canal de las Estrellas
Las Estrellas ("The Stars"; previously El Canal de las Estrellas, or "The Channel of the Stars") is one of the cornerstone networks of TelevisaUnivision, with affiliate stations all over Mexico, flagshipped at XEW-TDT in Mexico City. Many of the ...
' October 22 finale broadcast of ''Rubí'' earned a rating of 28 points.
Univision
Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...
's March 7 finale broadcast of ''Rubí'' was watched by 8 million viewers.
Remake
;Television
In 1968, the original story, ''Rubi'', was produced, directed by Francisco Wagner and produced by Valentín Pimstein, starring
Fanny Cano
Fanny Cano Damián (28 February 1944 – 7 December 1983) was a Mexican actress and producer.
Death
Cano died on 7 December 1983, in an airplane accident in Madrid, Spain. Her flight was an Iberia 727 which was about to take off for Rome in co ...
, Antonio Medellín and Carlos Fernández.
In 1970, the film version with the same name as the telenovela, Rubí, was produced, directed and adapted by Carlos Enrique Taboada, starring
Irán Eory
Irán Eory ( fa, ایران اِئوری; 21 October 1939 – 10 March 2002, born Elvira Teresa Eory) was an Iranian-born actress. She achieved fame in Mexico after moving to that country in the late 1960s.
Biography
She was born in Tehran, I ...
, Aldo Monti and Carlos Bracho.
In February 2010,
ABS-CBN
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announced
Televisa
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In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
had given them to permit to do a
Pinoy version of the series. The Pinoy adaptation stars
Angelica Panganiban
Angelica Panganiban (; born Angelica Jane David Charlson on November 4, 1986) is a Filipino-American actress, model, TV host and comedienne.
Regarded as the new “Queen of Drama” by various media outlets, Panganiban is recognized as one of ...
and
Shaina Magdayao
Shaina Garcia Magdayao (; born November 6, 1989) is a Filipino actress, dancer, singer and model. She is currently working for Star Magic and a talent of ABS-CBN.
Magdayao is recognized as one of the country's premiere actresses and prettiest ...
as leading women with
Jake Cuenca
Juan Carlos Cuenca (; born December 30, 1987) popularly known as Jake Cuenca is a Filipino-American actor and model. Born in San Jose, California and was raised in Manila, Philippines. He also played for United Football League Division 2 sides ...
and
Diether Ocampo
Diether Pascual Ocampo (born July 19, 1973) is a Filipino actor, singer, and model.
Background
Ocampo was born on July 19, 1973 in Aniban, Bacoor, Cavite, where he attended school. He attended De La Salle University-Dasmarinas. He is of German ...
as their leading men. It was launched as one of the network's offerings for the 60th year celebration of Pinoy Soap Opera ("ika-60 taon ng Pinoy Soap Opera") during the Trade Launch for the 1st quarter that same year, entitled "Bagong Simula" (New Beginning) as an adaptation was made.
In January 2012, O3 produced by the permission of
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 ...
an Arabic version of the series titled ''
Ruby
A ruby is a pinkish red to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum ( aluminium oxide). Ruby is one of the most popular traditional jewelry gems and is very durable. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called sa ...
''. The Arabic adaptation stars
Cyrine Abdelnour
Cyrine Abdelnour ( ar, سيرين عبد النور; also spelled Cyrine Abd Al-Nour or Cyrine Abdel-Nour; born 21 February 1977) is a popular Lebanese singer, actress, and model.
Her first album, ''Leila Min Layali'', was released in 2004. She ...
and Diamant Abou Abboud as leading women with
Maxim Khalil
Maxim Hani Khalil ( ar, مكسيم هاني خليل; born on 7 November 1978 in Homs) is a Syrian actor.
Career
After he finished high school, he began as ballet dancer, then became a basketball player in youth and professional level. In 1998 ...
and Ameer Karara as their leading men. It was aired on
MBC1 in the Arab world and
LBCI
The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International ( ar, المؤسسة اللبنانية للإرسال انترناسيونال), widely known as LBCI, is a private television station in Lebanon. LBCI was founded in 1992 by acquiring the asse ...
in Lebanon.
In January 2020, Univision made
a remake starring
Camila Sodi
Camila Ía González Sodi (; born 14 May 1986) is a Mexican singer, actress and model. She is the niece of the singer and actress Thalía and a member of the Sodi family.
Family life
Camila Ía González Sodi was born in Mexico City, Mexico ...
. This one is a remake and a sequel at the same time as it will follow events 20 years after the original ending.
References
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2004 telenovelas
Female characters in comics
Mexican comics titles
Mexican comics adapted into films
Television shows based on comics
Spanish-language telenovelas
Televisa telenovelas
2004 Mexican television series debuts
2004 Mexican television series endings