''La Dueña'' () is a 2012 Argentine miniseries. It is a blockbuster starring

Mirtha Legrand Rosa María Juana Martínez Suárez (born 23 February 1927), known by her stage name Mirtha Legrand (; from the French , "the great"), is an Argentine actress and television presenter. With an 80-year career, Legrand is one of the most recognize ...

, who worked on this series after 46 years of retirement from acting in television.

Plot

Sofía Ponte is a successful businesswoman, heading an important cosmetics firm. She does not trust her sons and heirs, and organizes a plot to see which of them are trustworthy. Her granddaughter Amparo loses her parents in a plane accident, and begins a romance with Félix, the son of the pilot. Félix takes a job at the firm, and secretly investigates the plane crash, suspecting that it was not an accident.

Cast

as Sofía Ponte de Lacroix *

Florencia Bertotti María Florencia Bertotti (born 15 March 1983), better known as Florencia Bertotti is an Argentine actress, singer, songwriter and businesswoman. Biography Florencia Bertotti parents are Gustavo Bertotti, a jeweler and María Candelaria Pér ...

as Amparo Lacroix *

Benjamín Vicuña Benjamín Vicuña Luco (born 29 November 1978) is a Chilean actor and entrepreneur. Biography Vicuña was born November 29, 1978, to father Juan Pablo Vicuña Parot and mother Isabel Luco Morandé. He is a descendant of Benjamín Vicuña Mack ...

as Esteban Salerno/Félix Fernández * Raúl Taibo as Juan Lacroix Ponte *

Juan Gil Navarro Juan Manuel Gil Navarro (born August 15, 1973) is an Argentine actor, screenwriter, television producer and film director. Biography Juan Gil Navarro is the son of Manuel Gil, a journalist and Alejandra Navarro, a secretary. He studied at the ...

as Federico Lacroix Ponte * Fabián Vena as Diego Lacroix Ponte * Claudia Lapacó as Teresa Fernández *

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as Hernán Verges *

Andrea Frigerio Andrea Luisa Mitchelstein, better known as Andrea Frigerio (born August 30, 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress, television presenter, former model and author. Career She began her professional career as a model. In 1989, she began work ...

as Lourdes Rivero de Lacroix * Juan Pedro Lanzani as Eliseo Lacroix Rivero *

Brenda Gandini Brenda Daniela Gandini is an Argentine actress and model. Career Gandini was born in Cipolletti, Argentina. Modeling career Brenda Daniela Gandini began her career in modeling in the year 2003 in advertising campaigns. In 2004, she appear ...

as Delfina Lacroix Rivero * Carlos Portaluppi as Sergio Matienzo *

Jorgelina Aruzzi Jorgelina Aruzzi (born September 30, 1974) is an Argentine actress. Trajectory She has participated in renowned television series, as Chiquititas, Son Amores, Amor Mío, La Niñera, La Dueña and others. TV series * 2016 Educand ...

as Daniela Pereyra Rossi *

Manuela Pal María Manuela Pérez Bosch Palos (born 9 October 1984), better known as Manuela Pal, is an Argentine film, theater, and television actress. Early life Manuela Pal was born on 9 October 1984 at the Medical Institute of Obstetrics in Buenos Aires ...

as Magdalena "Maggy" Rodríguez Costa *

Alfredo Casero Alfredo Casero (born 12 November 1962) is an Argentine musician, actor and comedian. Casero began studying acting with Norman Briski in 1987. Soon after he started working in the underground humour scene of Buenos Aires. In 1992 he created, a ...

as Oliverio Carranza * Mónica Cabrera as Helena Rossi *

Jorge D'Elía Jorge D'Elía (born April 28, 1938 in La Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine film and television actor, as well as a playwright. He is mostly known for his recurring role in the television series ''Los simuladores'' (2002–2004), which starred h ...

as Martín Braun *

Dolores Sarmiento Dolores, Spanish for "pain; grief", most commonly refers to: * Our Lady of Sorrows or La Virgen María de los Dolores * Dolores (given name), including list of people and fictional characters with the name Dolores may also refer to: Film * ''D ...

as Mariela Echegoyen * Daniela Aita as Nina Marini *

Graciela Dufau Felipa Graciela Pérez y Gutiérrez (August 23, 1915 – April 7, 2010),
Accessed April 2010 known by the

as Una amiga de Sofía *

Juan Ignacio Machado ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. The name is of Hebrew origin and has the meaning "God has been gracious." It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world and in the Philippi ...

as Un matón *

Nacha Guevara Nacha Guevara (born Clotilde Acosta, October 3, 1940) is an Argentine singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress from Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires province. Biography Trained as a dancer and actress, she discovered by chance a career as a singer bec ...

as Carmen Salguero Solar *

Enrique Pinti Enrique Pinti (7 October 1939 – 27 March 2022) was an Argentine actor and comedian. Life As a humorist, he performed stand-up shows with long monologues on Argentine politics and history, speaking at an extremely fast pace and resorting to a ...

as Dante Olivos Peña *

Daniel Rabinovich Daniel Abraham Rabinovich Aratuz (November 18, 1943 – August 21, 2015) was an Argentine musician, writer, humorist, lawyer and singer. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he cofounded the group Les Luthiers Les Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-mu ...

as Salvador Santos *

Juana Viale Juana Viale del Carril (born 15 April 1982) is an Argentine actress and television host. She is the granddaughter of Mirtha Legrand and Daniel Tinayre, the great-niece of Silvia Legrand and José A. Martínez Suárez, and the daughter of . Biogr ...

as Cecilia Peralta Ramos * Sebastián Estevanez as Marcos Guerrero *

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as Milton Lacroix *

Enrique Liporace Enrique Liporace (10 June 1941 – 27 January 2024) was an Argentine actor. Life and work Liporace began his career as an actor in 1963, when he was cast in ''La terraza'', directed by period piece filmmaker Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. He earned ex ...

as Renzo Pereyra Lucena *

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as La Cura * Veronica Mertel as Valeria Kantz

Production

began her career as a successful actress, and retired in 1965. She began to work as a TV host, in ''

Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand Rosa María Juana Martínez Suárez (born 23 February 1927), known by her stage name Mirtha Legrand (; from the French , "the great"), is an Argentine actress and television presenter. With an 80-year career, Legrand is one of the most recognize ...

'' (), a

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themed as a dinner, which lasted for several years. Her last previous acting work was in a stage play in 1990; she had not appeared on television as an actress for 46 years. ''La Dueña'' was scripted by Nacho Viale, grandson of Mirtha Legrand. She did not like the idea of acting at first, because of her age, but soon reconsidered and accepted. The original proposed name was "''La Doña''" ("''Doña''" is the Spanish female form of the honorific title "''

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''"), and the main character was scripted as the president of a news agency. The producer Martín Kweller proposed the changes to the name used and the cosmetics firm. The cast of the miniseries features several of the most important actors of Argentina. The program was initially scheduled to run on Sundays at 22:00 on

Telefe Telefe (acronym for Televisión Federal) is a television station located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The station is owned and operated by Paramount Global through Televisión Federal S.A. Telefe is also one of Argentina's six national televisio ...

, competing with the investigative journalism television program ''

Periodismo para todos ''Periodismo para todos'' () was an Argentine investigative journalism television program. It is hosted by the journalist Jorge Lanata, it aired on Sunday nights in '' eltrece''. It was highly critical during the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ...

'' () on channel 13. However, it was finally scheduled for Wednesdays at 22:30, competing with ''

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'' (). The premiere achieved almost 30.9 rating points.

Reception

The miniseries was praised by ''

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'' for the scripts and the production. The shooting, the locations, the cast and the editing have good quality. Although the point of main interest for the audience is Legrand's acting, the miniseries does not rely solely on her. The newspaper also criticised the use of outdated cliches at certain points in the plot, the presence of a comic relief character in a dramatic work, and the excessive use of

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allusions to Mirtha Legrand herself in the Sofía Conte character.

References

External links

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Official site
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