Dama y obrero ( Lit: ''Lady and Worker'' / English: ''Labour of Love'') is a Spanish-language

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produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is a remake of the Chilean telenovela of the same title produced by

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in 2012.

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and

José Luis Reséndez José Luis Reséndez Santos (born October 14, 1978 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) is a Mexican actor and model. He won the national male pageant El Modelo México and represented his country in Mister World 2003, held in London, England, wh ...

stars as the protagonists, while Fabián Ríos,

Felicia Mercado Felicia Mercado (born Felicia Mercado Agud on December 17, 1959) is a Mexican actress, singer and TV hostess, best known for her appearances in telenovelas . She appeared in ''Between Love and Hatred'' and ''Teresa (2010 telenovela), Teresa''. H ...

and

Sofía Lama Sofía Lama (; born Sofía Lama Stamatiades on June 9, 1987, in Puebla, Mexico) is a Mexican actress of Greek descent. Life Sofia Lama was born in Puebla, Mexico, a state in the center of Mexico. She started acting at the age of 11 and was the ...

stars as the antagonists. On June 24, 2013, Telemundo broadcast ''Dama y Obrero'', replacing ''

Pasión Prohibida ''Pasión Prohibida'' () is a Spanish-language romantic drama telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Television Studios, Miami. It is a remake of the Turkish telenovela '' Aşk-ı Memnu'' by Ece Yörenç and Melek ...

''. The last episode was broadcast on October 18, as part of Telemundo's changes in prime-time programming, and because of low ratings. On October 21, 2 hours of '' Marido en Alquiler'' have been temporarily broadcast weeknights at 8pm/7c.Novelas de Telemundo: nuevo horario
As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.

Plot

Ignacia (

) is a young engineer working at a large

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company, Omega Construction, which is owned by Tomás Villamayor ( Fabián Ríos), her boyfriend. They spend much time together and finally decide to get married, but Ignacia misconceives the kind of person that Tomás really is. Shortly before their

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, they have a very strong fight in which Tomas tries to hit her but is foiled by the intervention of Pedro. that makes Ignacia leave the town and take time for reflection. She meets Pedro o Pérez ( Jose Luis Resendez), a simple

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without money and big aspirations, who makes her forget all her problems. The attraction between the two is immediate and mutual (love at first sight). They cannot avoid spending a memorable weekend together, which ends on a Sunday afternoon by when the two are madly in love with each other. However, Ignacia knows that, what she is experiencing is a dream, a parenthesis in her life. When Pedro awakes on Monday morning, he thus finds a note at his side saying that Ignacia thanks him, and she is leaving without a trace. On Ignacia's return home, Tomás is awaiting her with the news that he is offering her a new position in his company and he is looking for her forgiveness. She agrees but gets surprised when she comes to the workplace in her position of construction supervisor to see Pedro as a worker at the construction site. Despite having every reason in the world not to be together, Ignacia and Pedro discover that their love persists over all prejudices, differences, rejection and, the many, sometimes cruel, obstacles raised by others, who want to see them apart.

Cast

Main

as Ignacia Santamaría *

as Pedro Pérez * Fabián Ríos as Tomás Villamayor *

as Estela Mendoza *

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as Margarita Pérez * Shalim Ortíz as José Manuel Correal *

Leonardo Daniel Leonardo Daniel (; born 26 July 1954) is a Mexican 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 fil ...

as Mariano Santamaría * Sofia Lama as Mireya Gómez *

Tina Romero Tina Romero (born Tina Romero Alcázar, August 14, 1949) is an American actress. A native of New York City, Romero moved to Mexico in her youth, and later established a career there as an actress. Her early film roles included '' The Divine Caste ...

as Alfonsina Cardemil * Riccardo Dalmacci as Olegario Gómez *

Christina Dieckmann Christina Dieckmann Jiménez (born April 22, 1977) is a Venezuelan model, actress, who participated in Miss Venezuela 1997 where she won a chance to go to Miss World. She then became a model and has worked for numerous advertising campaigns in Ve ...

as Karina Cuervo * Lilian Tapia as Berta Suárez / Gina Pérez * Alex Ruiz as Christopher Melquíades Godínez * Óscar Priego as Rubén Santamaría * Roberto Plantier as Ángel García * Carolina Ayala as Guadalupe "Lupita" Pérez

Recurring

Diana Quijano Diana Quijano Valdivieso (born April 12, 1962) is a Peruvian actress and model. Filmography Television * '' Parientes a la fuerza'' (Telemundo, 2021 ) as Michelle Bonnet * '' La Hija Prodiga'' (TV Azteca, 2017-2018) As Matilde Salamanca. * '' ...

as Gina Pérez *

Kendra Santacruz Kendra Santacruz (born July 24, 1989, in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico), is a Mexican television 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 ...

as Isabel García *

Rosalinda Rodríguez Rosalinda Rodríguez is a Mexican stage and TV actress known for her work in telenovelas for Telemundo, Telemundo Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo ...

as Petra García * Alexander Torres as El Ratón * Héctor Fuentes as Enrique Molina * Angeline Moncayo as Gema Pacheco Maldonado * Osvaldo Strongoli as Ernesto Villamayor

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Telemundo Now, Telemundo Full Episodes
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