She's a maid with a secret past and zero tolerance for rich-people nonsense. Chaos ensues.
Season 1 • Episode 78
LatestAngela is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in 1998. The series was first debuted on May 17, 1999 on Univision in the United States, replacing that year's hit La Mentira, and ended on September 9, 1999, being replaced by Tres Mujeres. It aired a second and a third time on Galavisión on March 15, 2000 and May 8, 2001, and ended a second and a third time on July 1, 2000 and August 24, 2001. It aired a fourth time back to Univision's late night "Grandes Historias" lineup, aired on October 28, 2003, and ended on February 27, 2004. It aired a fifth time on TeleFutura on September 18, 2006, and ended on January 8, 2007. This telenovela contained 78 episodes.
Acting
Jacqueline Andere devours scenery as the villainous stepmother.
Costume
Ángela's transformation wardrobe deserves its own credit sequence.
Writing
78 episodes of escalating melodrama that somehow never jumps the shark.
Angélica Rivera
Ángela
Juan Soler
Mariano
Jacqueline Andere
Emilia Santillana
Patricia Navidad
Jimena Chávez
Ignacio López Tarso
Feliciano Villanueva
Ana Bertha Lepe
Lorenza Chávez
José Elías Moreno
Padre Martín Villanueva
Rosángela Balbó
Esther Miranda de Lizárraga
Luz María Zetina
Diana Gallardo Santillana
Juan Peláez
Humberto Galindo
José María Yázpik
René Bautista Solorzano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This cemented Angélica Rivera's status as 'La Novia de México' before she became First Lady.
The 78-episode format was already shrinking; classic telenovelas often ran 200+. This was prestige TV by 1998 standards.
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