My Top 60 Favorite Univision Novelas
A list of my favorite telenovelas (soap operas) that aired on America's number-one Spanish language television network, Univision.
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- StarsAngélica ValeJaime CamilPatricia NavidadA woman who is frowned upon for being the ugliest woman around, falls hopelessly in love with her boss, the heir of a film enterprise.
- StarsArath de la TorreMayrín VillanuevaLuz Elena GonzálezThe title which translates to "A family with luck" this Spanish television drama tells the story of a humble family taken in by a wealthy businesswoman after the head of the family saves her life.
- StarsAngélica RiveraEduardo YáñezSergio SendelA young girl falls in love with a wealthy man.
- StarsGuy EckerVanessa VillelaSusana DosamantesWhen Eva's father is killed by a hit-and-run driver, she vows to find the culprit. Her life becomes a nightmare when she begins to suspect the man she loves. However, her suspicions are being fed by others.
- CreatorInés RodenaStarsLuceroGabriela SpanicSilvia PinalValentina's life is turned upside-down after her fiancé Alonso leaves her at the altar.
- StarsVictoria RuffoMaite PerroniWilliam LevyA love story between a young girl wishing to become a professional model and a rich boy who works in a fashion house and falls in love with her.
- CreatorEmilio LarrosaStarsPedro FernándezItatí CantoralVíctor NoriegaWhen their paths cross in a terrible car accident, Rafael and Alejandra's lives change forever. Not only must Rafael struggle to pay off a debt to Alejandra, but he also must fight for her love.
- StarsDulce MaríaRodrigo NehmeAlfonso HerreraSix teenagers with different lives and personalities attend a prominent private school with only one thing in common: their vocation and passion for music.
- StarsAdela NoriegaFernando ColungaMauricio IslasIn 19th-century Mexico, Dr. Fuentes inherits a fortune and searches for a wife. His choice is Matilde Penalver y Beristain, from an aristocratic family whose fortune has waned.
- StarsBárbara MoriEduardo SantamarinaJacqueline BracamontesAn ambitious woman of humble background and stunning beauty is determined to change her poor situation, using her seductive skills on a millionaire doctor.
- StarsSebastián RulliAarón DíazAngelique BoyerTeresa is a young woman dominated by her greed. Her parents have made great sacrifices to give her a good, decent life, but Teresa wants more, a lot more.
- StarsVictoria RuffoCésar ÉvoraFernando ColungaCristina is a wealthy woman who loses her sight and is forced to give up her daughter. She is married to Federico Rivero.
- StarsAdela NoriegaEduardo YáñezJorge SalinasThe story of three brothers who are looking for revenge but find love.
- CreatorAdrián SuarStarsVioleta IsfelEleazar GómezIlean AlmaguerPatito likes a boy named Mateo. Patito's mother stumbles upon a man she used to love, but now he is with another woman.
- StarsLuceroFernando ColungaSergio SendelAfter Rebeca (Barbara) catches innocent Eduardo kissing his first love Fernanda, she sends him to a faraway land. Years pass and tragedy brings him back, with vengeance toward the Elizaldo family burning in his heart. As the series unfolds, he develops a secret identity to gain his revenge.
- StarsVictoria RuffoCésar ÉvoraJacqueline AndereA woman spends 20 years in jail for murder. When she gets out, she finds out that the only way to recover her son and daughter is to prove that she is innocent of such a crime.
- StarsDaniela CastroSabine MoussierFrancisco GattornoLucrecia and Julian are children when a tragedy happens in Lucrecia's family: her younger brother drowns in river near their home.
- StarsEduardo LiñánCecilia GabrielaDiego AmozurrutiaMarianela is a sweet, loving, and respectful young woman who lives with a deep secret that torments her life- her forbidden love for her cousin Emmanuel. As a young girl, he was her first crush being her super hero whenever she needed saving from her bullies. As a plus size girl, she never received the attention that other girls get but with Emmanuel she was just as important and special as anyone else. Because she knew that this love could never be, she sought to forget Emmanuel after having lost her both of her parents tragically and living away in boarding school throughout her adolescence. What she least expected though, was to return back home to her family where both her, Emmanuel, and the rest of their family have changed and gone through their own life situations. The sweet young boy who she crushed on as a young girl with is now a handsome and charming young man which makes Marianela fall deeper in love. He makes her feel like a woman showing her things about herself she never knew before. And although Emmanuel has a beautiful girlfriend, Marianela is still his favorite person in the entire world which makes her feel special. Now Marianela is conflicted with this forbidden love again as well as her biggest enemy, her aunt Fedra, who keeps a dark secret that surrounds the entire family. As she comes closer to legal age, Marianela's inheritance is almost at her disposal which her aunt Fedra refuses to lose. This fight begins a family war and many of the members begin to pick sides of who they will stand beside. Marienela must find the strength to push her kindness and love for Emmanuel to the side in order to fight against her aunt to keep her life and her parents' honest legacy alive.
- StarsJacqueline BracamontesDavid ZepedaWilliam LevyAlejandro returns home after a terrible accident to discover that he is married to Maria Jose, a poor, innocent girl who was deceived by Alejandro's brother Bruno. Bruno used Alejandro's name to marry Maria Jose, soon after he sent to kill his brother in hopes that Maria Jose would inherit Alejandro's fortune. But when Maria Jose arrives at the mansion she realizes that Bruno lied to her and used her. She is also scared when Alejandro is found alive and returns home. Doctors tell Alejandro that he suffers from memory loss but he is convinced he never met Maria Jose before and goes in search of the truth, but during this time and Maria Jose actually fall in love, while Bruno and Maura (Alejandro's ex-girlfriend) plot to break them up. Meanwhile, the brothers' mother Victoria has fallen in love with Fernando--Alejandro's best friend, so closer to his age than hers.
- StarsOlivia BucioAdela NoriegaDaniela RomoAlejandro and Alfonsina are in loved despite their families are rivals. The twist here the story revolves around a beautiful spring, which is property of Alfonsina's family.
- StarsAllisson LozanoEugenio SillerCésar ÉvoraMilagros, an orphan who was born and raised in a convent, must leave at age 18. She gets a job at the Belmonte mansion as a maid for Regina and falls in love with Alejandro, the son of Luciana and Constancio. The two fight for their love when Alejandro's family try to break them apart and old family secrets threaten their future.
- StarsAna LayevskaGabriel SotoMaría RubioLorena is an orphan little girl who's trapped in a asylum with her older sister cause they are orphan both they grew up later without parents , lorena is a smart young and beautiful girl , she dreams of being a chef from gourmet kitchen and get some little money for living while sara is a bad ambicious , perverse evil woman who only wanna destroy others and steal money from others to make wickedness on people with evilness pranks on them , in the end sara will pay for her evil mind and her crimes and wickednesses and evil pranks while lorena will marry to a brilliant male doctor really high classed
- StarsLeticia CalderónLaura FloresAllisson LozanoAfter her parents die in a car accident, the young and sweet Paloma is taken in by her aunts. Macarena soon takes a liking to her niece and treats her like a daughter, while Carlota is oppressive, wanting to keep Paloma under her clutches.
- StarsMaite PerroniWilliam LevyErik CoronaAn orphan girl finds her family and the love of her life, who is from one of the richest families in town. On her road to reunite with her family she faces many obstacles.
- StarsScarlet OrtizJorge PozaPatricia Reyes SpíndolaAfter living in poverty, Rafaela decides to become a doctor and work at a hospital to carry on. She didn't imagine that at the hospital she would find her true love and the envy of people who never liked her.
- StarsJuan Luis AriasAarón DíazEiza GonzálezLola, a poor, beautiful girl, meets a rich "Prince Charming" named Alexander Von Ferdinand, falls in love with him, and needs to fight her evil stepmother and stepsisters.
- StarsSherlynDulce MaríaChristian ChávezA math teacher has the difficult task to make their 10th grade students, to fall in LOVE with maths and with education as a hole.
- StarsAngélica RiveraJorge SalinasAlejandra Barros"Mariana de la noche" / "Dark Fate" (2003-2004) is a sad story about a young woman which everybody believed is cursed, because every man that falls in love with her soon or later is killed by mysterious and strange sucarstations. Mariana wants to love and to be loved, but she doesn't know that her father Atilio keeps a dark secret - he is madly in love with her and jealous her from everything and everybody. One night when Mariana walk in the mountain she meet with Ignacio, a young man who is back in the village to face his demons from the past. Mariana and Ignacio fall in love with each other from the first sight and every night they meet in the mountain, because she is afraid that if someone sees them in day , Ignacio also will be killed from her "curse".
- StarsAlejandra LazcanoDavid ZepedaSarah MintzA wealthy, unscrupulous family alters the fate of a mother and her two daughters.
- CreatorEmilio LarrosaStarsMichelle ViethAngélica ValeLudwika PaletaFour girlfriends from different social classes experience what's it like being 20 - working and studying, falling in love, getting drugs or fighting a terminal illness.
- StarsSilvia NavarroJosé RonJulieta RosenRenata, a spirited woman, is treated cruelly by her mother and sister. Falling in love with Jerónimo changes her life for the better, but his misguided quest to avenge his brother's death jeopardizes their relationship.
- StarsJaime CamilJacqueline BracamontesValentino LanusCandy faces betrayal and heartbreak after the love of her life cheats on her. Santiago dedicates himself to womanizing after his wife leaves him and their daughter. Together, Candy and Santiago find understanding and possibly love.
- StarsZuria VegaMariana SeoaneNinel CondeEl destino se niega a darle la oportunidad a Estrella Marina y Victor Manuel de estar juntos, las circunstancias de la vida parecen que los tendrán separados para siempre. En un pequeño pueblo llamado Playa Escondida aparece Victor quién está pasando por una gran depresión y es allí donde conoce a Estrella una joven humilde que vive con una familia de pescadores que la ha adoptado, ella fue el producto de una violación y su madre enloqueció por la violación. Ambos tratan de superar sus propias vicisitudes y ellos sienten una gran atracción pero algunos de los personajes como Coral y Oriana no permitirán que la pareja se una. Estrella Marina se va a la ciudad a ayudar a su madre y allí conoce a Hernán un hombre bueno que se enamora de ella, pero que a la vez la mantendrá alejada de su amor verdadero.
- StarsJacqueline BracamontesGuy EckerEnrique LizaldeMiranda San Llorente is a modern, spirited young woman who seems to have it all: beauty, wealth, and a loving heart. Her millionaire father, Gonzalo San Llorente, has placed his hopes on her as his successor because, of his three daughters, she most resembles him in drive and character. Florencia, the eldest, has a heart condition; Renata, the youngest, is a spoiled, irresponsible teenager. Currently, Miranda's thoughts are on her upcoming wedding. Her fiancé, Fabricio Beltran, is soon to return from Germany, where he studied for his doctor's degree--but Miranda does not suspect that Fabricio would rather marry her sister Florencia. Bertha de Aragon, her maternal aunt, deliberately brought the two young lovers together out of pure spite to hurt Miranda, whom she was never able to manipulate because the girl is not deceived by her aunt's pretense of kindness. Miranda is a constant reminder of the woman Bertha hates the most: her own sister, Fernanda de Aragon. Fabricio arrives with his friend Alejandro Luque, who believes that Gonzalo murdered his father and is intent on seeking revenge. But his mind is in turmoil when he meets Miranda and falls in love for the first time, which clashes with his desire for revenge. Miranda is also struck by an attraction she doesn't understand, and in their love/hate relationship they hurt each other and learn the meaning of sweet sorrow. Gonzalo's business goes bankrupt because of the mismanagement by Cesar, Fabricio's brother and Bertha's accomplice. Gonzalo goes to jail and Miranda must find a way to rebuild not only the family fortune, but the family itself, including her mother Fernanda, who left years ago because of Bertha's gossip and underhandedness. Also, Miranda and Alejandro must overcome the barriers between them, set by Cesar, who loves her, and Bertha, who fell in love with Alejandro at first sight. In this struggle of feelings and passion, of power and pride, Miranda and Alejandro will discover that only those who cause them can heal the wounds of love.
- CreatorMaría ZarattiniStarsDavid ZepedaDelia CasanovaRosa María Bianchi14 year old Iván returns with his mother, Alicia, to Álamos, Sonora, his birthplace. His father, Juan Jaime Mondragon, a wealthy and powerful businessman and landowner, does not recognize him as his son and rejects him. Alicia keeps her son's origin a secret and is forced to accept the job as a servant for the wealthy Lomelí Curiel family. Iván faces numerous obstacles and this story follows his life for decades. There are many secrets, betrayals, evils, passion, death, birth, forgiveness, redemption and so much more. All in pursuit of Love, Family and Destiny.
- StarsLuceroFernando ColungaArturo PenicheA woman marries a man without knowing the rumors about the man's sexuality.
- StarsDanna GarcíaSebastián RulliRaúl Araiza'Knock-Out to the heart' is the love story between a rich, handsome, blond businessman and a poor, brunette, brave orphan and boxing champion.
- StarsKaryme LozanoSergio GoyriEric del CastilloClemente Soriano is a vacuous man who is very powerful and wealthy. He has everything in life: he's a millionaire and has three daughters who all happen to be very beautiful, and has recently married Karina, his attractive young secretary. However, his past holds a dark secret; all of his happiness might soon be destroyed by his old enemy, architect Octavio Uriate, whose family hates Clemente Soriano because they blame him for his brother's death--Clemente had ruined him and stolen his wife. Clemente's eldest daughter Isabela Soriano is a strong young woman who adores her father but can't forgive him for marrying Karina, whom she doesn't like at all. One day, Isabela almost runs a man over with her car: Victor Izaquiree, the new veterinarian of Clemente's ranch. Isabela falls in love with Victor although she is engaged to horse-trainer Cesar. When Isabela finds out that Victor and Karina understand each other, jealousy becomes her enemy and she will suffer a great pain of love. Her sister Diana is very unsure of herself and whether she really wants to be an architect. Mauricio, an old school friend, is in love with her and courts her. One day he presents her to their former college professor for whom he works now: Octavio Uriate. Despite the hatred between the two families, Octavio and Diana fall in love and Clemente tries to destroy it. His youngest daughter Carolina has recently returned from the U.S., where she has been studying. To please her father, she lets Rafael court her; this young man has nothing and is only with her because of her last name and her father's money. Her heart betrays her when she falls in love with her childhood friend Pablo, one of Clemente's employees. When Clemente finds out that Carolina and Pablo are in love, he invents a big deceitful lie that they are actually half-siblings; believing this, Carolina marries Rafael. Clemente goes to Pablo's mother, his faithful servant Paz, and tells her to go along with this; Pablo will suffer the consequences if she doesn't. Because of this great lie, Carolina's life with Rafael is miserable as she pines for Pablo. At this point. all three sisters lose happiness and fight to regain it. But first they must face their father and uncover the mask he holds.
- StarsSergio GoyriLaura FloresRaquel OlmedoA woman in Mexico mistreated and abused by her husband abandons him, and goes to Spain where she falls in love and has an affair with another man.
- StarsYadhira CarrilloSergio ReynosoAarón DíazA lady is in love with an older man, all the trouble behind the romance.
- StarsYadhira CarrilloJuan SolerJacqueline AndereThe story of 2 women that look exactly the same, without being twins nor Even related.
- StarsSusana GonzálezEduardo SantamarinaCynthia KlitboAndrea Paz receives a heart transplant and falls in love with the donor's fiance.
- StarsCamila SodiValentino LanusHelena RojoFrom the city of Zacatecas, Florecita takes off on a large trip to the United States with the company of her sister Isela and her grandmother Cleotilde. The girls are going to reunite with their father Ruben, and their brothers Rodrigo and Victor, that live in Miami. It is a trip filled with dangers and suffrage; the grandmother dies along the way and her granddaughters have to bury her in the desert. The two young women continue their way filled with sadness, but without losing hope in finding their father. Finally, they get to Miami where they find out that Ruben has fallen in the alcoholism. In Miami there also lives Gabriela, the mother of Florecita, whom her children believe dead. Gabriela got married again and is now a famous television show host. Without knowing their family relationship, mother and daughter will find themselves again. Florecita starts working immediately by selling flowers in the street, where one day she meets Julio Alberto and his girlfriend Gloria, whom are about to be married. But that same day of the wedding, Gloria dies, and the heart of Julio Alberto breaks in one thousand pieces. Occasionally he sees Florecita on the street and talks with her for a moment. Little by little, the smile of the innocent florist gets into his heart, and his life results less empty. The mother of Julio Alberto, Rebeca, lives with her three sons to expenses of her twin sister Raquel. Both sisters hate each other, and Rebeca waits anxiously for the day in which Raquel will die to inherit her fortune. But Raquel will play Rebeca one last evil trick, since she knows she suffers from a terminal cancer, she decides to give her fortune to the florist. Rebeca gets furious when the testament is read; she will not allow a stranger to steal what she considers is hers, and she obligates Julio Alberto to make the young woman fall in love with him. Florecita ingenually believes in him and accepts to be his wife. With diabolic intelligence, Rebeca manages to deprives her from everything, and without any feelings, throws her out into the street. To Florecita, Julio Alberto's treason hurts more than the loss of her fortune. She was never rich and never meant to be rich. Decided to not to herself down by adverisities, she looks for a job again and finds it as a servant in the house of the Dalmacci family, where Jorge, the primogenitor, is fascinated by the kindness of her soul and falls in love with her. Now, Florecita finds herself in a crossroad because Jorge wishes to make her his wife, but Julio Alberto has discovered that he really loves her and begs her to come back with him. To which of these two does her heart belong?
- StarsYadhira CarrilloSergio SendelAlessandra RosaldoNora is a poor young woman filled with dreams who lives in the beautiful city of Patzcuaro. Her father and evil stepmother Isaura decide to marry her off to a rich man so that she can have a better life; on her father's deathbed she swears to marry a rich man. After her father dies. Heriberto Reyes begins to harass Nora; when he tries to molest her, she fires a gun at him and lands in jail--with a bad image. His wife Gertrudis has made Nora's life a living hell with help from Nora's ex-boyfriend Alfredo. Practicaly driven out of town, Nora and her stepmother move to Morelia to live with her Aunt Alejandra and her goddaughter Casilda, who is the opposite of what Nora symbolizes like beauty, inside and out. Nora meets the love of her life, Arturo, a pilot when she attempts suicide and he saves her. Over time their love grows, and Nora becomes jealous of women like Gisela, and her aunt's goddaughter Casilda. Gisela's husband Evaristo and Leonardo also admire Nora's beauty like Heriberto did, which makes Casilda jealous because she is in love with Leonardo. Later, Isaura discovers that Casilda isn't really Alejandra's goddaughter, but her REAL daughter. She discovers that Alejandra kept it secret because Casilda's father is Nora's dad. Isaura hides this from Casilda until the day that Isaura poisons her with an apple so Casilda can inherit Alejandra's money and split it with greedy Isaura. On another side of town, Paulina lives with her father and brother, and becomes a journalist for Juan Carlos Orellana, who falls in love with her. These characters' lives cross when Arturo goes to Miami as part of his pilot career and in a chance encounter he accidentally sleeps with Paulina. Meanwhile, Nora discovers she's pregnant and Isaura is furious because she wanted to marry her off to a rich man. Paulina is also pregnant after her encounter with Arturo. Nora and Paulina run into each other different times in their lives and discover that they have the same tastes--even in men. When Arturo tells Nora that Paulina is pregnant by him, Nora gets furious and decides to raise her baby alone; she doesn't even tell Arturo that there will be one. Isaura's rage over Nora's pregnancy drives her to tell Nora, after she gives birth, that her baby died--and she actually switches it with Casilda's, who was born the same night but died because Casilda overdosed on aspirin. Now alone in the world, Nora makes a drastic change in her life: she becomes a cold woman who exploits men for money and gets revenge on those who have wronged her, especially Arturo and Paulina. This was all caused by destiny and evil people who have poisoned her mind. When a charming man, Felix Palacios, enters the picture, they marry and move to Felix's mansion in a remote location not seen on any maps. After Nora decides to never see Arturo again, he marries Paulina, who had their baby the same night Nora and Casilda had theirs, but Arturo thinks sadly of Nora all the time. Paulina also thinks of Nora--she wants her to stay away and will go to drastic limits to keep her away. Underneath it all, Nora still loves Arturo., but she cant love anyone because she considers loving as her sin. After five years, Casilda brings over Alejandrita (Nora's biological child) and they notice that she looks exactly like Nora did as a child--and although she's from a rich family, she is still a pure, sweet little girl. On the other hand, Paulina and Arturo's little Marissa is selfish and spoiled, overindulged by her parents because they felt sorry that she had heart problems. Later, Felix hires a pilot because he bought Nora a private plane: the pilot is ARTURO. When Nora discovers this, she tries to avoid him as much as possible. Toward the end of the story, Isaura kills Paulina with a pair of scissors because she had heard Isaura confess that she switched Nora's and Casilda's babies at birth; Casilda comes out of the institution she was in for having false illusions of her [god]mother, and a lot of Mafia guys kill Felix and all his bodyguards. Leonardo is also killed because he also knew the truth about Nora and Casilda's babies switched at birth, and Casilda leaves Alejandrita with her real mother, Casilda's half-sister Nora, and goes away with a trucker and abandons Isaura in the desert. The next year, Arturo is in church telling Paulina via prayer that their daughter has had surgery that healed her heart problems. Nora sees Arturo for the first time in five years, at the same fountain where they broke up six years before because of Paulina's pregnancy, and they live happily ever after with their two daughters, Marissa and Alejandrita.
- StarsAna Brenda ContrerasJosé RonPatricia NavidadAfter Violeta's father dies, her family and her start to lose respect in the town. A lot of misfortunes start to happen like losing her father's company, Violeta's mother gets raped and the guy who raped her told everyone that she was being a whore. Violeta's older brother grows more disrespectful to her mother and everyone. Her sister Leah is blind and she has a little brother ned Dany. Violeta in all that has been happening to her falls in to love with a pilot, Max, who only seeks to get in her pants. Violeta's pride gets in the way of finding help to save her fathers company. In which she calls a far wealthy relative of her father, Marino, in the capital for help. Him coming to the town he some realize that family would be better in his home in the capital. They move to his home in the capital, to which his wife does not find pleasing and dislikes the family. Marino's youngest son, who is the most do to earth of all of Marino's children, falls in love of Leah. And even after moving to the capital Violeta and her family still face lots more challenges.
- StarsAna LayevskaRafael AmayaMaría RubioAna Escudero goes to Miami to visit her entire family in a two-story house; eventually, one fateful night, Ana's entire world crashes down on top of her. In the grand debut of the telenovela, the rash Ignacio Bustamante destroyed Ana's life when he runs over her brother while he is trying to change the tire to his car. To cover up the accident, Ignacio purposely throws a sleeping gas bomb into her house while her mom and brother's fiance are inside and then sets the house on fire. Everyone believes it was Ana who died. Her brother, who was in a coma, came out of it, but paralyzed. Afraid for their lives, they move to New York for two years before Fabian dies of an aneurysm. Because of this, Ana vows revenge on the Bustamante family and takes on a new persona. Unknowingly, at the same time, Ana meets the brother of Ignacio named Gustavo, the son who had been disowned by his father for refusing to go into the family business and wanting to pursue an acting career. Ana falls in love with Gustavo, not realizing that he's part of the family that she wants to seek revenge on.
- StarsSusana GonzálezFernando ColungaDaniela CastroAn epic love story set in Mexico during the 1740s about a poor girl named Camila and a pirate named Ricardo.
- StarsLaura LeónAriadne DíazBegoña NarváezTells the story of four girls: Elena Olivares, Isabel Flores, Leticia Hernández and Monica Sánchez Zuñiga. The villain is Federico Cantú, a psycho killer who will stop at nothing until he gets Guillermo's fortune.