''Rosalinda'' is a Mexican

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produced by

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for

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in 1999. It is a remake the

'' María Teresa'' on 1972.

Thalía Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda (; born 26 August 1971), known mononymously as Thalía, is a Mexican singer and actress. Referred to as the " Queen of Latin Pop", she is considered one of the most successful and influential Mexican artists. Havi ...

Fernando Carrillo Fernando Enrique Carrillo Roselli (born January 6, 1970, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actor, model and singer. Biography Fernando Enrique Carrillo Roselli was born on January 6, 1970, in Caracas, Venezuela. He was mostly educated i ...

and

Angélica María Angélica María Hartman Ortiz (born September 27, 1944), known professionally as La novia de Mexico (Mexico's sweetheart), is an American-Mexican actress and singer-songwriter. Her songs El hombre de mi vida (The man of my life) peaked at No. ...

star as the main protagonists, while Lupita Ferrer stars as the main antagonist. This was the last telenovela wherein Thalía starred in (to focus on her rising music career at that time). ''Rosalinda'' remains as the most expensive television production in Mexico, as well as the all-time most exported and most watched single telenovela in the world, as it was broadcast in Mexico and more than 180 countries worldwide to 2 billion viewers by 2000.

Plot

Rosalinda is a pretty woman who sells flowers and decorates a fancy restaurant. One day, she meets Fernando José, a man of high social status. He plays the piano at the restaurant. They eventually fall in love, get married, and have a child named Erika, but his stepmother Valeria desires to split the happy couple up, and she has the perfect way of doing so. Rosalinda's real mother, Soledad, served a 20-year prison sentence for the murder of Fernando José's real father. She was innocent, but took the blame. After finding out this horrible news, Fernando José abandons Rosalinda and her daughter. Valeria kidnaps Erika. Rosalinda goes into a clinical and eventually loses her mind. She is locked up in a mental hospital. One night, the mental hospital catches fire and burns down. Rosalinda manages to escape, but her loved ones are convinced she is dead. Suffering from a major case of amnesia, she is forced to become a thief by an old man who takes her in. She meets Alejandro "Alex" Dorantes while trying to steal from his house. Alex cleans her up and she takes on the identity of Paloma Dorantes and becomes a singer. She falls in love with Alex, the

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who makes her famous. Meanwhile, Fernando José marries Rosalinda's cousin, Fedra. Rosalinda's life with Alex seems to be going well. However, things just don't seem to be totally right. One night, Rosalinda and Alex attend one of Fernando Jose's

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s. He plays a song which happens to be the first one he played the day they met. This seems to trigger Rosalinda's memory of her past. Overwhelmed by these memories, Rosalinda scurries out of the concert hall and gets hit by a car. Alex rushes her to the

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. It is then that Rosalinda realizes that she is not Paloma, but Rosalinda. Now that Rosalinda has gained her memory back, she must go back and fight to gain her child back, her family, and Fernando Jose in the process.

Cast

Main cast

as Rosalinda Pérez Romero/Rosalinda del Castillo de Altamirano / Paloma Dοrantes *

as Fernando José Altamirano del Castillo *

as Soledad Martha Romero * Lupita Ferrer as Doña Valeria Del Castillo

Recurring cast

* Nora Salinas as Fedra Pérez Romero * Adriana Fonseca as Lucía Pérez Romero *Elvira Monsell as Bertha Álvarez *Jorge De Silva as Roberto "Beto" Pérez Romero * René Muñoz as Florentino Rosas *Eduardo Luna as Aníbal Eduardo Rivera Pacheco * Víctor Noriega as Alejandro "Alex" Dorantes * Miguel Ángel Rodríguez as Javier Pérez *

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as Alcira Ordóñez * Ninón Sevilla as Asunción *Renata Flores as Zoila Barriga * Alejandro Ávila as Gerardo Navarette *

Laura Zapata Laura Guadalupe Zapata Miranda ( born July 31, 1956) is a Mexican support telenovela actress, singer, and dancer. She has acted in Televisa productions. Family Born in Mexico City, Zapata is the daughter of Guillermo Zapata Pérez de Utrera ( ...

as Verónica Del Castillo de Altamirano *

Ivonne Montero Ivonne Montero (born Ivonne García Macedo Montero on April 25, 1974) is a Mexican actress, model and singer. She is best known for playing the leading role in '' ¡Anita, no te rajes!'' ("Anita, Don't Give Up!") in 2004. Biography She has port ...

as Celina Barriga *

Guillermo García Cantú Guillermo García Cantú (born April 23, 1960 in Monterrey, 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 ...

as José Fernando Altamirano * Susana González as Luz Elena * Sabine Moussier as Cristina

Special Participation

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as the prison director

Awards and nominations

Philippine adaptation

In 2009,

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produce a Philippine adaptation of the series starring

Carla Abellana Carla Angeline Reyes Abellana (; born June 12, 1986) is a Filipino actress and model who played the lead role in the Philippine adaptation of the Mexican telenovela '' Rosalinda'' in 2009. She is also known for her lead role in '' Sine Novela: ...

as Rosalinda and

Geoff Eigenmann Geoffrey Michael Alatiit Eigenmann (; born March 23, 1985), better known by his screen name Geoff Eigenmann, is a Filipino actor, host and model notable for his performances in television; he is a member of the Eigenmann family of actors a ...

as Fernando Jose. Rosalinda premiered on July 6, 2009 on the network's ''Telebabad'' primetime block and ended on November 27, 2009 with a total of 105 episodes.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosalinda (telenovela) 1999 telenovelas 1999 Mexican television series debuts 1999 Mexican television series endings Mexican telenovelas Televisa telenovelas Mexican television series based on Venezuelan television series Spanish-language telenovelas Television shows set in Mexico City