''Un camino hacia el destino'' (English: ''Road To Destiny'') 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

Nathalie Lartilleux Nathalie Lartilleux is a French television producer, who is an executive producer at Televisa. She is best known for her telenovela, ''Cuidado con el ángel''. Career Lartilleux began her career by being an associate producer of the telenovel ...

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 the Mexican telenovela '' La hija del jardinero'', which was produced in 2003 by

TV Azteca TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas. It is the second-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa. It primarily competes with Televisa as well as some local operators. It owns two national ...

. The series stars

Paulina Goto Paulina Gómez Torres (born 29 July 1991) known professionally as Paulina Goto is a Mexican actress, singer, and television hostess. She first gained popularity for her debut role in the Mexican telenovela '' Niña de mi Corazón'' in 2010. She ...

as "Luisa Fernanda" and

Horacio Pancheri Horacio Pancheri (born 2 December 1982) is an Argentine actor and model. He played the lead role Carlos Gomez Ruiz in ''Un Camino Hacia El Destino'', produced by Nathalie Lartilleux, alongside Paulina Goto, Lissete Morelos René Strickler, Ana P ...

as "Carlos".

Synopsis

Luisa Fernanda Pérez, a beautiful, 18-year-old student, has two passions: mastering the violin and gardening, a skill she learned from her father, Pedro, the former groundskeeper of the wealthy Altamirano family's estate. A chance encounter with destiny alters her life after she is injured in a car accident caused by Luis (her biological father), a playboy lawyer and falls for his stepson, Carlos, an attractive, young doctor treating her at the local hospital.

Cast

Main

as Luisa Fernanda *

as Carlos Gómez *

Jorge Aravena Jorge Aravena (; born October 1, 1969) is Peruvian-Venezuelan telenovela actor. He is known for his role in telenovelas such as '' Girasoles Para Lucia'', '' La Revancha'', ''Secreto de Amor'', and '' Mi Vida Eres Tu''. Biography Jorge was born ...

as Pedro Pérez *

Ana Patricia Rojo Ana Patricia Rojo Stein (born February 13, 1974) is a Mexican actress and singer. She is famous for her participation in many telenovelas of Televisa, like ''María la del barrio'' as Penelope Linares (1995), '' Esmeralda'' as Georgina Pérez-Mo ...

as Mariana Altamirano *

Lisette Morelos Lisette Morelos (; born Lisette Garcia Morelos-Zaragoza on May 21, 1978, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress, singer and model. She started her career at a young age. She attended the Centro de Educación Artística (CEA). Her first Te ...

as Amelia Altamirano *

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 Hernán Sotomayor *

René Strickler René Strickler (born April 27, 1962) is an Argentine actor. Telenovelas Show hosting * ''TVyNovelas Award The Premios TVyNovelas are presented annually by Televisa and the magazine TVyNovelas to honor the best Mexican television producti ...

as Luis Montero *

Eugenia Cauduro Eugenia Cauduro () (born Eugenia Cauduro Rodríguez on December 20, 1968, in Mexico City, Distrito Federal) is a Mexican actress and former model. Life Eugenia Cauduro is the daughter of Ernesto Cauduro Gemoets and Silvia Rodríguez Porras, and ...

as Marissa Gómez *

Patricia Reyes Spíndola Patricia Verónica Núñez Reyes Spíndola (born 11 July 1953) is a Mexican actress, director, and producer. She has received four Ariel Awards, two for Best Actress ('' Los Motivos de Luz'' in 1985 and ''The Queen of the Night'' in 1994), and ...

as Blanca *

Gustavo Rojo Gustavo Rojo Pinto (5 September 1923 – 22 April 2017) was a Uruguayan-Mexican actor. Life and career Gustavo Rojo was born on 5 September 1923 on a German ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. His mother was the prominent Spanish auth ...

as Don Fernando Altamirano * Brandon Peniche as Javier

Secondary

Rocío Banquells Rocío Banquells (; born María del Rocío Banquells Nuñez, 22 June 1960 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) is a Mexican pop singer and actress, best known for her work on television, the stage and cinema of Mexico and Latin America. Her mezzo v ...

as Guadalupe *

Agustín Arana Agustín Arana (born Agustín Arana Flores on August 27, 1968) is a Mexican actor and singer. He was a member of the Mexican singing group, Garibaldi. This was the second Garibaldi group that succeeded the first group of the same name. He grew ...

as Licenciado Ignacio Ordóñez * Candela Márquez as Isabela de León * Ianis Guerrero as César *

Yuliana Peniche Yuliana Peniche Hernández Huici (born 29 August 1981) is a Mexican actress. She has participated in various soap operas; she started when she was a little girl in ''Madres Egoístas'' (1991) as Carmen. Then she starred in '' Alondra'', ''Marí ...

as Andrea Fonseca * Alejandro Peniche as Felipe * Andrés Pardavé as José * Vanya Aguayo as Carolina de León * Aranza Carreiro as Camila Sotomayor * Lalo Brito as Hernán * Samadhi Zendejas as Nadia * Arena Ibarra as Adelina * Claudia Martín as Vicky *

Bárbara López Bárbara Elizabeth López Pérez (born 13 August 1992), best known as Bárbara López is a Mexican actress best known for her role as Juliana Valdés in the crime drama television series ''Love to Death'' (2018–2019). Her other notable TV roles ...

as Lucero * Constanza Mirko as Virginia *

Aurora Clavel Aurora Clavel (born August 14, 1936) is a Mexican film and television actress who is noted for her roles in the movies '' Tarahumara'' (1965) and ''Once Upon a Scoundrel'' (1973), as well as in numerous telenovelas. For example, she played Mama ...

as Rosario * María Morena as Migdalia *

Sheyla Tadeo Sheyla Tadeo (born Sheyla Osiris Tadeo Bringas on April 3, 1973, Culiacán, Sinaloa) is a Mexican actress, comedian and singer, best known for her appearances on Televisa's various television series. The daughter of Ramon and Michele (née Brin ...

as Sor Sonrisa *

as Guadalupe *

Harry Geithner Harry Geithner Cuesta ( Bogotá DC, Cundinamarca; March 9, 1967), known as Harry Geithner, is a Colombian actor, film director and producer known for being CEO of Geithnerland productions Inc., a production company, talent agency and content cre ...

as Leopoldo

Guest starts

* Rebeca Manríquez as Hermana Rosaura Pérez * Alejandro Ruiz as Solórzano

Background and casting process

Producer Nathalie Lartilleux's plans for a new telenovela were revealed in the spring of 2015. Goto confirmed in an interview that ''Un camino hacia el destino'' is not a remake of '' La hija del jardinero''. Instead, it is based on some elements from the original telenovela. Casting for the telenovela began in late October 2015 where

auditioned for the lead role of "Luisa Fernanda". Goto took violin lessons for her role before production began on the program. Her casting in the telenovela was announced days later on November 6, 2015. Argentine actor,

, was later cast in the lead male role.

and

were both confirmed for the telenovela in mid-November. The opening theme song of the telenovela is performed by

Filming

Production on the telenovela began on November 23, 2015 on location in

Villa Victoria Villa Victoria is a municipality in Mexico State 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 sout ...

, a town located outside

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

. Additional scenes are filmed in

and at

Televisa San Ángel Televisa San Ángel (originally Estudios y Laboratorios San Ángel, S.A.) is a film and television studio located in Mexico City. It was originally built by Jorge Stahl as a motion picture studio, and in the 1970s would be sold to the Azcárrag ...

. The cast also filmed several scenes in

Cabo San Lucas Cabo San Lucas (, "Saint Luke Cape"), or simply just Cabo, is a resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. As at the 2020 Census, the population of the city was 202,694 inhabitan ...

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 ...

in mid-February 2016.

Promotion

On January 19, 2016, a private press event for the telenovela was held at

. A trailer featuring new scenes was also presented, and the principal cast and crew members were officially introduced to the media. Goto played the violin with an orchestra and sang the telenovela's theme song, "Mi camino eres tú". The event was streamed live on the telenovela's official website.

Broadcast

The series premiered on January 25, 2016, in Mexico on

El 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 ...

and currently airs weeknights. On February 23, 2016, it began airing weeknights in United States on

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 ...

. Its premiere episode on

was watched by 2,086,000 viewers. The last episode was broadcast in August 29, 2016

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Camino hacia el destino 2016 telenovelas Mexican telenovelas Televisa telenovelas 2016 Mexican television series debuts 2016 Mexican television series endings Television series reboots Spanish-language telenovelas