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unusual facts about Telenovela


Telenovel

Telenovela -- Latin-American serialised television dramas


Adriana Prieto

On TV, her first appearance to a broader public was with A Rainha Louca, a telenovela of Rede Globo in 1967.

Andrea Lagunés

In 1998 she starred in the telenovela Gotita de amor, for which she recorded an album under the same name.

Antonio Farré

Farré has worked in Mexican Soap Operas such as Chispita, La Fiera, Rosa Salvaje, Cicatrices del Alma and television shows such as Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real with Silvia Pinal.

Cámara en Mano

The person who interviewed Sandro that day was Lucia Maciel, a regular interviewer who is also an actress, having participated in various Argentine telenovelas, including Resistiré with Celeste Cid.

Cleyde Yáconis

Her last TV role was fun Dona Brigida Gouveia, in the Silvio de Abreu's soap opera Passione, aired by Rede Globo.

Código Postal

It debuted on May 22, 2006 and finished on February 23, 2007 with hopes of duplicating the popularity of Mexican telenovela Rebelde which ended on June 2, 2006.

Cristal Marie

Cristal Marie (born May 26, 1986, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican singer, songwriter, actress and performer who is best known for singing the opening theme of the North American telenovela "Pecados Ajenos" by Telemundo alongside Cuban-American singer Jencarlos Canela.

Diego Mesaglio

Mesaglio, Bordonaba and another former "Tiny Angels" star, Felipe Colombo, were featured in the 2004 telenovela, "Floricienta".

Dina de Marco

She started her career as an actress in 1958, and went on to make over 20 soap operas, including success as La Pícara Soñadora, with the late Irán Eory, Eduardo Palomo and Mariana Levy in 1991, Alondra in 1995, Sentimientos Ajenos in 1996, and finally, her last soap opera was made in 1997, Esmeralda.

Empreguetes

In the telenovela, the group was formed occasionally, when the three employees were spending the night at the singer Chayene (Cláudia Abreu) while she was traveling and Rosario woke in the night and decided to write a song called "Life Empreguete" on next morning, Rosario called Kleiton (Fabio Neppo) to record music with the participation of Penha and Citizenship in studio Chayene.

Expensive Soul

The track O Amor É Magico from their 2010 album Utopia serves as theme song for the Portuguese telenovela Doida Por Ti.

Favorita

A Favorita, a popular and award-winning telenovela, first broadcast in Brazil at Rede Globo in 2008

Filipe Galvão

Fiuk auditioned to be cast in the seventeenth season of the telenovela Malhação, following in the footsteps of his father.

Guerreras y Centauros

The telenovela will be set in the 19th century against the background of the Battle of Carabobo.

Isa TKM

Isa TKM (Isa Te Quiero Mucho) is an original telenovela-like teen program from Nickelodeon Latin America in co-production with Sony Pictures Television, Made in Venezuela being the second from three Latin American Nickelodeon programs (The first one was Skimo from Mexico and the third one being La maga y el camino dorado, made in Argentina).

Ísis Valverde

Ísis Valverde played Camila in the 2009 telenovela Caminho das Índias, her character falls in love to Ravi, an Indian character played by Caio Blat.

José Bardina

He was popular not only in Venezuela, but also in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Spain, after the telenovelas produced by Radio Caracas Televisión and Venevisión reached its peak during the 1970s decade.

Juan Ferrara

Due to the novela's overwhelming popularity in Puerto Rico, the network decided to bring Ferrara back in 1985, to film a telenovela called Tanairi.

Khotan Fernández

In 2006 Khotan was back in Mexico for the role of "Sergio" in Corazón Partido, a Telemundo and Argos telenovela, in the same year he also starred as "Caronte" in the movie El Cartel.

La Madrastra

The telenovela gained notice in the English-speaking United States in 2005 after being featured on numerous episodes of E! network's The Soup.

Las Juanas

The telenovela begins when Juana Valentina (Angie Cepeda) finds out the man she always thought to be her father really is not, but a man named Calixto, who lives in a rural small town named Corozal.

Laura Natalia Esquivel

She will tour the country soon with a stage production based on Patito Feo and was also chosen by Mediaset as one of the leads in a telenovela they will produce in Argentina.

Lola Berthet

Berthet began acting at a young age, in her hometown of Buenos Aires, eventually becoming a well known telenovela actress in her home country as an adult.

Lorena Rojas

In 2005, she starred in her most acclaimed telenovela El cuerpo del deseo, beside Andrés García, Mario Cimarro, Erick Elías, & Sonia Noemí, among others, which proved to be an international success, broadcast by Telemundo NBC.

Luciano Castro

He received the Martín Fierro Award to the best actor, and the telenovela got the majority of awards, including the golden one.

Luis Gerónimo Abreu

In 2011, he was cast as the protagonist in Martin Hahn's mystery telenovela alongside former beauty queen and Miss Venezuela winner Mariángel Ruiz in La viuda joven.

María Elisa Camargo

In 2010 she portrayed Kristel Ruiz y de Teresa Curiel in the telenovela Llena de Amor (Fill Me With Love) as one of the villains alongside Altair Jarabo and Azela Robinson.

Murr Television

La Fea Más Bella (Mexican telenovela dubbed in Arabic. Known as Letty in the Arab World)

Nadia Di Cello

Di Cello also reprised the role of "María Fernández" in Chiquitias spin—off and appeared as "Silvana" in telenovela El Refugio, starring her Rebelde Way co-stars Belén Scalella, Francisco Bass, Piru Sáez, Jorge Maggio and María Fernanda Neil.

Olga Benário Prestes

In 2004, a popular Brazilian film based on Benário's life, Olga, directed by telenovela director Jayme Monjardim, which offered a thoroughly depoliticized account of Olga's life, centered on her love affair with Prestes, was released, to the disappointment of German critics, who called it "kitsch advertising".

Para Volver a Amar

The song was also chosen in Pueto Rico to be the theme song for the first 60 episodes of the Colombian telenovela Doña Bella.

Patricio Aylwin

They have five children (his daughter Mariana worked as a minister in subsequent governments) and 14 grandchildren (among them, popular telenovela actress Paz Bascuñán).

Primera dama

Primera Dama (stylized as Deseos de Mujer) and English (first Lady) is a Colombian telenovela Caracol Televisión, adaptation of the eponymous Chilean telenovela Channel 13 in 2010.

Provas de Amor

The song reached number 56 in Brazil and was featured on the Rede Globo 2004 telenovela "Como uma Onda".

Puerta de Hierro, el exilio de Perón

Laplace had previously played Perón at the movie Eva Perón: The True Story, the theater play "Borges y Perón" and the telenovela Padre Coraje.

Quererte Así

Quererte Así (Loving You Like This) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Eric Vonn for Azteca.

Raúl Macías

After his boxing career was over, Macías dedicated his life to acting, appearing in a number of Mexican telenovelas, most notably 1990's "Mi Pequeña Soledad" ("My Small Soledad"), alongside Verónica Castro, who would years later confess to him on one of her variety shows that she grew up as a fan of Macias.

René Muñoz

Quinceañera was the telenovela of the year, it featured singer Thalía in one of the main roles and catapulted the career of Adela Noriega in her first starring role.

Resistiré

In 2004, the telenovela won the Martín Fierro Award as the best show of the year, along with many other awards.

Roberto Vander

In 1997 he participated in a telenovela with Televisa and next year he made Enséñame a querer with Venevisión, the most important television network in Venezuela.

Saúl Lisazo

His first telenovela break came in 1990, when Mexican actress Lucía Méndez insisted that he would be her partner in her new novela, "Amor de Nadie", which became a major hit across Latin America.

Silvia Navarro

In 2010, she returned to Televisa and starred in Cuando Me Enamoro, where she portrays the main protagonist, Renata Monterrubio alongside Juan Soler and Jessica Coch.

Sony Entertainment Television Asia

Some of its most successful programmes to date include Indian Idol, an adaptation of the worldwide Pop Idol format owned by FremantleMedia, and Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin ("There is no one like Jassi"), an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Betty la fea and C.I.D.(T.V. Series).

The Mummers' Dance

It was also featured in the trailer for the film Ever After, starring Drew Barrymore, and in the soundtrack of the Brazilian telenovela Corpo Dourado.

Vidas de Fuego

Sebastian Rulli and Marlene Favela actually co-starred in the 2005 telenovela Contra viento y marea (literally, "Against Wind and Tide", or figuratively, "Against All Odds"), playing star-crossed lovers.

Xica da Silva

In 1996, the now defunct TV station Rede Manchete successfully adapted the film plot to the telenovela format, directed by Walter Avancini, written by Walcyr Carrasco and starring Taís Araújo as the title character.

Yahir

Yahir's debut in the telenovela world was through "Enamórate"(2003) opposite Martha Higareda in which he played "Yahir Jimenez" a son of a prominent business man.

Yanna Lavigne

Her television debut was in the Fantástico's sketch named “O Cupido”, in 2010, and in 2011 she guest starred in several episodes of the telenovela Malhação.


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