''A corazón abierto'' is a Colombian

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premiered on

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on April 26, 2010, and concluded on August 11, 2011. The series is created by

Fernando Gaitán Fernando Gaitán Salom (9 November 1960 – 29 January 2019) was a Colombian TV series and telenovela screenwriter as well as a producer. Career Fernando Gaitán was known for weaving different histories into diverse social contexts. He gai ...

based on the American medical

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created by

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, entitled ''

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''.

Plot

Season 1 (2010)

The aspiring

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María Alejandra Rivas (

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) is admitted to the program for interns at the Hospital Universitario of Santa María. Daughter of one of the most famous surgeons of her time, now Alzheimer's diseased, Maria Alejandra should bear the responsibility that gives her his last name. His group of new friends, Jorge Viana (Juan Manuel Mendoza), Cristina Solano (Natalia Durán), Isabel Henao (

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) and Augusto Maza ( Juan Pablo Espinosa), will from now on become their new family. María Alejandra faces the loneliness helped by these new people and by the sentimental relationship that she establishes with Andrés Guerra ( Rafael Novoa), one of the best surgeons of the hospital.

Cast

Main

* Rafael Novoa as Andrés Guerra *

as María Alejandra Rivas *

Carolina Gómez Carolina Gómez Correa (born 26 February 1975) is a Colombian actress, presenter and model, who held the title of Miss Colombia 1993 and placed 1st Runner-Up at Miss Universe 1994. Pageantry Señorita Colombia She won the Miss Colombia title ...

as Alicia Durán * Jorge Enrique Abello as Mauricio Hernández * Jorge Cao as Ricardo Cepeda * Rolando Tarajano as Javier Burgos * Juan Pablo Espinosa as Augusto Maza * Santiago Moure as Germán de la Pava * Aída Morales as Miranda Carvajal * Natalia Durán as Cristina Solano * Juan Manuel Mendoza as Jorge Viana * Marlon Moreno as Juan Felipe Becerra (season 2) * Sandra Hernández as Isabel Henao *

Carolina Guerra Carolina Guerra (born Carolina Liliana Guerra Molina; 30 July 1987) is a Colombian model, actress and television presenter chosen in 2005 to represent the nation's capital as ''Miss Bogotá''. She won a Škoda Fabia hatchback, 25 million pesos ...

as Violeta Botero (season 2) * Iván López as Rafael Gómez (season 2) * Rodrigo Abed as Javier Burgos * María Lara as Claudia Torres (season 2)

Recurring

* Juliana Gómez as Enfermera Nelly *

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as Sebastián Cárdenas * Alejandro López as Santiago * Brian Moreno as Rolando *

Diego Trujillo Diego Ignacio Trujillo Dangond (born June 30, 1960) is a Colombian film and television actor. He is best known for playing Walter Blanco in the Colombian remake of '' Breaking Bad'' called '' Metástasis''. Life and career Trujillo studied at ...

as Marcos Perdomo * Jacques Toukhmanian as Daniel Duque * Carlos Kajú as Jeison Campos * Jordana Issa as Usnaby * Marcela Posada as Laura Cruz * Lina Castrillón as Sandra Galindo *

María Elvira Arango María Elvira Arango Pardo (born June 3, 1967) is a Colombian journalist, actress, broadcaster and TV presenter. She is currently a television presenter of the program '' Los informants''. Biography María Elvira Arango studied journalism and s ...

as Elvira

Premiere

On April 26, 2010, ''A Corazón Abierto'' premiered in Colombia to excellent ratings. With a 20.4

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and 48 share, almost half the television viewing audience in

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watched the premiere.

References

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