''The Mafia Dolls'' (
Spanish
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: ''Las muñecas de la mafia''), is a Colombian
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'' ...
created by Andrés López and Juan Camilo Ferrand and that premiered on
Caracol Televisión
Caracol Televisión (known as Caracol and previously as Canal Caracol) is a Colombian free-to-air television network owned by Caracol Medios, a unit of Grupo Valorem. It is one of the leading private TV networks in Colombia, alongside Canal RCN ...
on 28 September 2009, based on the book ''Las fantásticas'' written by the same creators of the series.
On 10 October 2017 it was confirmed that the series would be revived for a second season produced by
Caracol Televisión
Caracol Televisión (known as Caracol and previously as Canal Caracol) is a Colombian free-to-air television network owned by Caracol Medios, a unit of Grupo Valorem. It is one of the leading private TV networks in Colombia, alongside Canal RCN ...
for
Netflix
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,
and it released on 15 March 2019.
Series overview
Plot
The story deals with the lives of five young friends, Brenda, Olivia, Violeta, Renata and Pamela, who live in the fictional Colombian town of "El Carmen." Throughout the series, they become further and further embroiled in inextricable situations because of their involvement with drug king-pin, Braulio Bermudez, his family and his lieutenants. Bermudez, played by the veteran Colombian actor, Fernando Solórzano, is a "capo" operating out of "El Carmen."
Pamela immigrates to the
United States of America
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to try to get away from trouble and be near her father, who was a pilot and ended up in prison because he was captured by the DEA taking flying cocaine to the United States. She ends up as a maid but tells Brenda she is happy and having a great life.
Olivia ends up in getting eight years in jail, for having a fake wedding with the notorious Braulio Bermudez, and acquiring some of his property.
Violeta dies when, after Braulio's, now led by Norman since Braulio is in jail, local cartel decides to have a treaty with Nicanor’s cartel.
Renata also dies because, to repay money she owed him, Erick, a former henchman of Braulio, forces her to carry drugs to the United States in her stomach. None of her loved ones ever find out about her death because she has no identification on her person.
Brenda ends up carrying Braulio's child, but he is captured, extradited and sent to a US prison, so that she never sees him again.
Cast
Main
*
Amparo Grisales
Amparo Grisales de Tessarolo (born Amparo Grisales Patiño September 19, 1956) is a Colombian actress. Best known for her role as Lucrecia Rivas in '' The Mafia Dolls.'' Also starred in the 2007 Telemundo serial ''Madre Luna'' ("''Mother Moon''" ...
as Lucrecia Rivas
* as Braulio Bermúdez
*
Angélica Blandón as Brenda Navarrete
*
Katherine Escobar
Katherine Escobar is a Colombian model and actress best known as Olivia on the Mafia Dolls telenovela, also work in novels such as New rich, new poor and I want to die like Catherine.
Filmography
References
l
Living people
Colombia ...
as Olivia
*
Yuly Ferreira as Renata Gómez
*
Alejandra Sandoval
Alejandra Sandoval (born 23 August 1980) is a Colombian actress.
Biography
Alejandra was born in the city of Cali where she was raised by her single mother. After high school, she joined the Universidad de San Buenaventura to study psychology.
...
as Violeta Manrique
* Andrea Gómez as Pamela Rojas
* Andrea Guzmán as Noelia de
* Diego Vásquez as Norman Alberto Zarama
*
Julián Román
Julián Edgardo Román Rey (born November 23, 1977) is a Colombian 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 med ...
as Erick González
* Juan Pablo Franco as Leonel Giraldo
*
Lincoln Palomeque
Lincoln Palomeque (born March 20, 1977) is a Colombian 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 ...
as Giovanni Rosales
* Marcela Valencia as Ximena
* Jessica Sanjuan as Guadalupe Bermudez
* Aura Helena Prada as Carina de Manrique
* María Claudia Torrez as Melisa
* Orlando Valenzuela as Gregorio Manrique
* Mauricio Vélez as Asdrúbal López
* Félix Antequera as Nicanor Pedraza
*
Julián Arango
Julián Arango Robledo (born October 6, 1969) is a Colombian television actor.
He is best known to fans around the world for his role as the temperamental fashion designer Hugo Lombardi in the Colombian mega-hit telenovela ''Yo soy Betty, la f ...
as Claudio Pedraza
*
as Janeth
*
Paola Rey
Paola Andrea Rey Arciniegas (born December 19, 1979, in San Gil, Santander, Colombia) is a Colombian actress and model.
Biography
Paola Andrea Rey Arciniegas was born on December 19, 1979 in San Gil, Santander, Colombia. She is the daughte ...
as Brenda Navarrete
* Juan Carlos Messier as Raúl Jiménez
* Sebastián Peterson as Amín Martínez
*
Vicky Hernández
Vicky Hernández is a Colombian movie, theater and TV actress.
Work
Film
*2016 Between Sea and Land
*2005 Les Gens Honnêtes Vivent en France (Soeur Suzanna)
*2004 Perder es Cuestión de Método, de Sergio Cabrera
*2004 El Cristo de Plata
*200 ...
as Flor de Navarrete
* Paula Barreto as Martha
*
Gary Forero as Orlando Páez
* Juan Manuel Restrepo as Kenny
* Carlos Kajú as William Toledo
* Edwin Maya as Arturo
* Adriana Osorio as Aurora de Gómez
* Jason Chad as DEA Agent
* Camilo Sáenz
* Rodolfo Silva
* Norma Nivia
* Lina Nieto
* Roger Moreno
* Felipe Bernadette
Recurring
* Julián Caicedo as Uña (season 1)
* Jairo Ordóñez as Mugre (season 1)
* Alejandro López as Alejo (season 1)
* Andrés Sandoval as Nicolás (season 1)
* Franklin Gutierrez as a Prisoner (season 2)
* Jennifer Leibovici as Magaly (season 2)
References
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2009 telenovelas
2009 Colombian television series debuts
Colombian telenovelas
Colombian crime television series
Spanish-language telenovelas
Caracol Televisión telenovelas
Television shows set in Colombia
2019 telenovelas
Spanish-language Netflix original programming
2019 Colombian television series endings
Works about Colombian drug cartels