''Teresa'' () is a Mexican

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produced by Lucy Orozco for

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in 1989.

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starred in her first and only protagonist role in telenovelas, together with Rafael Rojas,

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and Miguel Pizarro. The series and several of the actresses won awards in 1989 and 1990.

Plot

Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman desperately seeking to get out of the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives. Resentful of the miserable life that took her sister, she plans to use her beauty and intelligence to enter the world of luxury to which she wants to belong. To this end, she enters her classmate and friend Aurora's group of friends. There she meets Aurora's cousin Raul, a young but neurotic millionaire with suicidal tendencies. Telling Raul that she is rich, coupled with her beauty, Raul becomes smitten with her. Even though he and Aurora discover that Teresa lied about her wealth, Raul is obsessed with her and forgives her. Fearing that their opposition to the relationship will end with Raul's suicide, Aurora's parents accept the romance of Teresa and Raul. However, Teresa discovers that her deceit and ambition leads to unhappiness and loneliness.

Cast

as Teresa Chavero Martínez * Rafael Rojas as Mario Castro Guzman *

as Héctor de la Barrera * Miguel Pizarro as Raúl Solórzano * Patricia Pereyra as Aurora Molina *

Patricia Reyes Spíndola Patricia Verónica Núñez Reyes Spíndola (born 11 July 1953) is a Mexican actress, director, and producer. She has received four Ariel Awards, two for Best Actress ('' Los Motivos de Luz'' in 1985 and '' The Queen of the Night'' in 1994), an ...

as Josefina Martínez de Chavero *

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as Don Fabián * Mercedes Pascual as Enriqueta Martínez * Alejandro Rábago as Armando Martínez *

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as Juana * Laura Almela as Luisa de la Barrera *

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as Rosa Molina * Héctor Gómez as Manuel Molina *

Nadia Haro Oliva Nadia Boudesoque de Haro Oliva (11 April 1918 – 17 January 2014), born Albertina Charlotte Boudesoque Noblecourt, was a French-Mexican fencer and actress. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Sel ...

as Eulalia Garay * Omar Rodríguez as José Antonio Garay * Marta Aura as Balbina * Alfredo Sevilla as Ramón Castro *

Leonor Llausás Leonor Llausás Tostado (August 3, 1929 — February 13, 2003) was a Mexican television and film actress who appeared in over 100 works of film and television. She was nominated multiple times for the Ariel Awards and won a Best Actress award in ...

as Gudelia *

Patricia Bernal Patricia Bernal (born 27 October 1961) is a Mexican actress. She has appeared in more than twenty films and telenovelas including '' Pobre rico, pobre''. Her sons Gael (whose father is José Ángel García) and Darío (whose father is Sergio Ya ...

as Esperanza *

David Ostrosky David Ostrosky Vinograd (1 December 1956 – 17 August 2023) was a Mexican actor. Life and career David Ostrosky Vinograd was born on 1 December 1956 in Mexico City, Mexico, and was of Jewish descent. His father, Pedro Ostrosky, was Lithuan ...

as Wilebaldo "Willy" * Juan Carlos Bonet as José María *

Margarita Isabel Margarita Isabel (born Margarita Isabel Morales y González; 25 July 1943 – 9 April 2017) was a Mexican Ariel Award-winning film and television actress. She died on 9 April 2017, aged 73, from emphysema. Filmography Awards and nominations ...

as Marcela * Araceli Aguilar as La Morena * Jorge del Campo as Dr. Domingo Sánchez * Antonio Escobar as Delfino * Dora Cordero as Ceferina * Jair De Rubín as Chamuco * Germán Novoa as Monje * Oscar Vallejo as Peluche * Astrid Hadad as Margarita * Amparo Garrido as Mariana *

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as Sigfrido * Rosa Elena Díaz as Lucha * Norma Jacobi as Ana Celeste

Awards

References

External links

* 1989 telenovelas 1989 Mexican television series debuts 1990 Mexican television series endings Spanish-language telenovelas Television shows set in Mexico City Televisa telenovelas Mexican television series reboots {{Mexican-telenovelas-stub