''La viuda negra'' (''The Black Widow'') is a 2014 Spanish-language

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produced by

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and

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for

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-based

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network

Univisión 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 ...

and for Colombia-based

network

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. It is an adaptation of the book ''La patrona de Pablo Escobar'' of José Guarnizo based on history from

Griselda Blanco Griselda Blanco Restrepo (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012), known as ''the Black Widow'', was a Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel, and in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld, during the 1970s through the e ...

Series overview

Season 1 (2014)

The story of

, a woman who as a teenager was raped by her stepfather. Griselda decides to leave home because her mother did not believe her stepfather abused her. Griselda joins a gang of criminals in order to survive alone in the world. Griselda falls for "Cejas" the first man who betrays her and thus was born "La viuda negra", a woman who murdered her three husbands for having betrayed her. Her ruthlessness and ability to sell large amounts of cocaine earned her the reputation of The Queen of Cocaine.

Season 2 (2016)

Griselda has a second chance to live, but to save her son, who is sentenced to die in the electric chair, Griselda agrees to work with the American government and help end a dangerous drug cártel, whose leader is José Joaquín Guerra, alias "El Diablo". Griselda feels lost and desolate in love, until she meets her guardian angel, Ángel Escudero. This time, the widow will have to choose between returning to wear the crown as "Queen of Cocaine" or secure the future of her new family.

Cast

Main

Ana Serradilla Ana Isabel Serradilla García (born August 9, 1978) is a Mexican actress starring in TV series such as '' La Viuda Negra'', ''Drenaje Profundo'' and '' Linea nocturna''. She also starred in the Mexican version of '' Desperate Housewives'', '' Ama ...

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 Richi * Ramiro Meneses as Sugar *

Juan Pablo Gamboa Juan Pablo Gamboa (born November 24, 1966 in Cali, Colombia) is a Colombian actor. The second of four children,Juan Pablo Gamboa Cook. was raised in a bi-cultural, bilingual household due to his mother, Sandra Cook - originally from Boston who went ...

as Norm Jones * Eileen Moreno as Young Griselda * Lucho Velasco as Robayo * Margarita Reyes as Celia * Alex Gil as Killer * Francisco Bolívar as Agente García * Jenni Osorio as Juliana * Emilia Ceballos as Katty *

Isabel Cristina Estrada Isabel Cristina Estrada Cano (born 21 January 1980) is a Colombian actress, model, and presenter. Biography Isabel Cristina Estrada was born in Medellín in 1980. In her adolescence she began to work as a model, and played volleyball at a profes ...

as Abogada * Katherine Porto as Susana *

Raúl Méndez Raúl Méndez Martínez (born April 11, 1975 in Laguna, Torreón, Mexico) is a Mexican actor of film, theater and television. Biography He studied acting at the Center for Arts Education Monterrey and La Casa del Teatro with Luis de Tavira ...

as Joaquí Guerra "El Diablo" * Luis Giraldo as Dylan * Héctor de Malba as Alejandro Buendía *

Luis Roberto Guzmán Luis Roberto Guzmán (born April 9, 1973) is a Puerto Rican actor known for his performances in Mexican telenovelas like '' Alborada'', and for his title role in Mexican series ''El Pantera''. Guzmán also worked on the film '' Ladies' Night'' ...

as Ángel Escudero * Daniel Lugo as Carlos Sarmiento * César Mora as Pelón * Antonio Jiménez as Tyler *

Martín Karpan Carlos Martín Karpan (born June 3, 1974 in Villa del Parque, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine- Colombian actor, notable for playing a villain in the telenovela ''El Cuerpo del Deseo'' and '' Te Voy a Enseñar a Querer''. Personal life ...

as Brian Ferguson * María Fernanda Yepes as Venus * Héctor García as Yépez * Alejandro López as Rincón * Luis Carlos Fuquen as "Lokiño" * Claudio Cataño as Robert Jones * Mauricio Bastidas as Capó * Eduardo Victoria as Topo * Piero Melotti as El Zarco * Alfredo Anhert as Vicente * Angeline Moncayo as Daga * Sandra Beltrán as Cecilia

Recurring

Fernando Gaviria Fernando Gaviria Rendón (born 19 August 1994) is a Colombian professional road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is well known as a sprinter. Riding for the Colombian national cycling team, Gaviria came to int ...

as General Guzmán * Tiaré Scanda as Ana Blanco * Viviana Serna as Karla Otálvaro * Julián Farietta as Michael Corleone Blanco * Yessy García as Silvio * Camilo Wilson as Cejas * Rodolfo Silva as Coronel Ronderos * Ana Soler as Señora Restrepo * María José Vargas as Child Griselda * Norma Nivia as La Alemana *

Pablo Valentín (17 October 1972), known professionally as ''Pablo Valentín'' is a theater, film and television actor best known for his role as Pedro in ''Vecinos''. Early life Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Valentín has appeared in telenovelas such ...

as Ceferino * Carlos Felipe Sánchez as Young Richi * Luis Eduardo Motoa as Presidente de Colombia * Ilja Rosendahl as State Attorney * Vanessa Acosta Paula Gómez * Camila Kisara as Cinthya * Claudio Cataño as Robert Jones *

Luis Fernando Montoya Luis Fernando Montoya Soto (born 2 May 1957) is a former Colombian football manager, best known for leading Once Caldas to winning 2004 Copa Libertadores. He was shot during a robbery in December 2004. Since then he has been struggling with a te ...

as Enzo Vittoria * Mauricio Mejía as Pablo Escobar * Lucas Velázquez as Eduardo Farfán *

Roberto Manrique Roberto Manrique (born April 23, 1979) is an Ecuadorian model, and actor best known for his roles in telenovelas. Starting his career in Ecuador, and later doing telenovelas for Telemundo in Colombia. Biography He was born April 23, 1979, in ...

as Doménico Vittoria

Broadcast

The series premiered on February 23, 2014, in United States on

UniMás UniMás (, stylized as ''UNIMÁS'', and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The network's programming, which i ...

, on September 1, 2014, in Colombia on

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References

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