''The Inmate'' (Spanish: ''El Recluso'') is an American

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produced by Telemundo Internacional Studios that premiered on

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on 25 September 2018 and concluded on 11 October 2018. It is an adaptation of the Argentine television series titled '' El Marginal'' created by Sebastián Ortega and Adrián Caetano. The series tells the story of an ex-marine who enters a maximum security prison on the border between Mexico and the United States to investigate the kidnapping of the daughter of a prominent US judge.

Plot

An American ex-marine, Lázaro Mendoza (

Ignacio Serricchio Ignacio Ariel Serricchio (born April 19, 1982) is an Argentine actor. He is known for his role as Diego Alcazar on '' General Hospital'' and as Alejandro "Alex" Chavez on ''The Young and the Restless''. Other roles include Lifetime's ''Witche ...

) enters a maximum security prison in Mexico (La Rotunda), under a false identity and accused of an alleged triple homicide. Now as Dante Pardo, his mission is to infiltrate a dangerous gang of prisoners and guards that operates inside and outside the prison. They are the main suspects in the kidnapping of the teenage daughter of an American judge named John Morris (

Guy Ecker Guy Frederick Ecker (born February 9, 1959) is an American actor. Ecker became a household name in Latin America for his portrayal of Sebastián Vallejo in the Colombian telenovela ''Café con aroma de mujer (Colombian TV series), Café, con aro ...

). Within La Rotunda, Lázaro has to discover who is the mastermind of the kidnapping and discover the whereabouts of the girl.

Cast

Confirmed cast. *

as Lázaro Mendoza / Dante Pardo *

Ana Claudia Talancón Ana Claudia Talancón (born Ana Claudia Talancón Ortiz Tirado; 1 May 1980), is a Mexican actress, TV host, and philanthropist. She first started acting in her home town, Cancún, Quintana Roo. Early life and career Talancón first started st ...

as Frida Villarreal *

Flavio Medina Flavio Medina (; born April 19, 1978) is a Mexican actor. Biography Flavio Medina was born in Mexico City, Mexico, D.F. His first experience with live theater was during his childhood, when the grandson of Juan Grandini, passionate and illumin ...

as Jorge Peniche *

Luis Felipe Tovar Luis Felipe Tovar (born December 2, 1959, in Puebla) is a Mexican performance teacher and actor. He studied in the Theatre Fine Arts School of Mexico and in the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de La Habana in Cuba. He has been aw ...

as Mariano Tavares *

David Chocarro David Chocarro (born 5 April 1980) is an Argentine actor, model and former baseball player. Career Born in Buenos Aires, Chocarro entered the Mexican market for telenovelas through the front door as part of the cast of '' Los Exitosos Perez'' ...

as Juan Pablo 'Santito' *

Mariana Seoane Mariana Seoane (born Mariana Alejandra Seoane García on June 10, 1976 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress, model and singer. Biography Seoane was born June 10, 1976, from an Argentinian mother and a Cuban-Mexican father, Seoane demons ...

as Roxana Castañeda *

as John Morris *

Isabella Castillo Isabella Castillo Díaz (born 23 December 1994) is a Cuban actress and singer. Her best known role is that of Graciela "Grachi" Alonso, main character of the Nickelodeon Latin America's series ''Grachi'', for which has released several songs. ...

as Linda Morris *

Bradley Stryker Bradley Stryker (born June 29, 1977) is an American actor, who portrayed Trey Atwood on the FOX series ''The O.C.''. He has a lead role in the feature film, '' Tillamook Treasure'' (2006), playing Tom, the sidekick of logger Jimmy Kimbell. St ...

as Jack * Gustavo Sánchez Parra as Cuauhtémoc *

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as Florentino *

Alejandro Calva Alejandro Calva (born May 31, 1968 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico), 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 the ...

as La Foca * Rodrigo Oviedo as Silvestre Chávez * Ramón Medina as Marcial Navarro * Erik Hayser as Jeremy Jones * Diego Calva as El Rubio *

Kristyan Ferrer Kristyan Ferrer (born Kristyan Antonio Ferrer Medel; 14 February 1995) is a Mexican actor in various roles since 2001. He played the role of El Smiley in the award-winning film '' Sin Nombre'', directed by US director Cary Joji Fukunaga. For his ...

as El Syka * Juan Pablo Castañeda as El Picudo *

Héctor Suárez Héctor Suárez Hernández (; 21 October 19382 June 2020) was a Mexican actor, comedian, director and also CTO of Hatch. He appeared in about a hundred films and television shows in a career that spanned 60 years. He was noted for satirizing tho ...

as Salvador Valencia 'El Procurador' * Amador Torralba as Balin * Armando Espitia as Bocinas * Hector Kotsifakis as El Muerto * Luis Daniel Muñoz as Cumbias * Ricardo Esquerra as El Sobaco * Moisés Arizmendi as Porfirio Mendoza * Pepe Alonso as El Elegante *

Tiaré Scanda Tiaré Scanda (; born Tiaré Scanda Flores on January 6, 1974 in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the nor ...

as Azucena Tavares *

Adriana Barraza Adriana Barraza González (born 5 March 1956) is a Mexican actress, acting teacher, and director. In 1999 director Alejandro González Iñárritu cast her as the mother of Gael García Bernal's character in '' Amores perros'', which was nomin ...

as Guadalupe Mendoza * Jolien Rutgers as Camila * Vanesa Restrepo as Elvira * Nacho Tahhan as Evaristo Galindo * Cesar Ramos as Julian Mora

Production

The series was unveiled by Telemundo at NAPTE 2018. Filming took place 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 south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

during 2017. The first season will consist of 13 episodes.

Ratings

Episodes

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Inmate, The 2018 American television series debuts 2018 American television series endings 2010s American drama television series Telemundo original programming Spanish-language Netflix original programming