Cara Sucia was one of Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

's most popular telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

s, and its most exported to other countries.

Produced by Venevisión

Venevisión

Venevisión is one of Venezuela's largest television networks and a Venezuelan cable and terrestrial television network, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros...

 and filmed in 1992, Cara Sucia presents the story of Miguel Angel Gonzalez (played by Guillermo Dávila

Guillermo Dávila

Guillermo Dávila is a Venezuelan actor and singer who has acted in many telenovelas.After starting his career in theatre in the 1970s, Dávila first gained national fame in a telenovela called Ligia Elena, becoming famous internationally in 1983, when he starred in its sequel, Nacho, for...

) and Estrellita Montenegro (played by Sonya Smith

Sonya Smith

Sonya Eleonora Smith Jacquet is an Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas.-Biography:A blond and blue-eyed Hispanic born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is the daughter of Venezuelan actress Ileana Jacquet and Federico Albertini Smith, who is part-Colombian and part-American...

, a Venezuelan-American actress).

Filled with gaps and loopholes in the story (like most soap operas), Cara Sucia nevertheless still managed to keep its viewers on the edge of their seats most of the show's duration.

The show was also dubbed into English, Russian, Mongolian, and Tagalog

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 (in the Philippines

Philippines

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).

Plot summary

Miguel Angel is a member of one of Caracas

Caracas

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

' richest families, while Estrellita is a poor but hard-working beautiful girl who sells newspapers in a corner every day to earn a living. When they met, it was love at first sight, and as the story develops, they begin a beautiful romance that makes them begin to date and later get married.

But not everything is pink for the young couple and they have to survive, among other things, opposition by Miguel Angel 's parents, Horacio (Humberto Garcia) and Rebecca (Chony Fuentes); Horacio's declining mental health that makes him become more and more dangerous, the obsessive passion that evil Santa Ortigosa (Miguel Angel 's ex, played by Gigi Zancheta

Gigi Zancheta

Gigliola Zanchetta Pirella is a Venezuelan actress. Zanchetta has starred in many soap operas, among them "Primavera" alongside Fernando Carrillo and Cara Sucia...

) feels for Miguel Angel, a partnership that Horacio creates with two drug dealers who end up murdered by him' when he finds out they are using him, the revelation that Estrellita's mother was killed by a younger Horacio because she left him for the man who would become Estrellita's father and the kidnapping by Horacio of Miguel Angel and Estrellita's boy twins once Miguel Angel and Estrellita had married and begun a family.

Miguel Angel's mom, Rebecca, however, begins to relent on her opposition towards Miguel Angel and Estrellitas love once she realizes she was wrong about Estrellita (she thought at first Estrellita was a gold digger) and that it was her friend and Miguel Angel's ex, Santa who was the actual gold digger, and that her husband wasn't the man he pretended to be.

Horacio, who during the time he had kidnapped the two twin baby boys grew to love them like his own sons, shoots himself after a police stand-off where the babies are wrestled away from him, while Santa dies when her car is driven off a cliff. Miguel Angel and Estrellita recover their babies and finally achieve the love and happiness they had hoped for, and Rebecca accepts her daughter in law and twin grandsons as new members of her family.

Cast

• Sonya Smith
  Sonya Smith
  Sonya Eleonora Smith Jacquet is an Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas.-Biography:A blond and blue-eyed Hispanic born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is the daughter of Venezuelan actress Ileana Jacquet and Federico Albertini Smith, who is part-Colombian and part-American...
  
   - Estrella Montenegro Campuzano
• Guillermo Dávila
  Guillermo Dávila
  Guillermo Dávila is a Venezuelan actor and singer who has acted in many telenovelas.After starting his career in theatre in the 1970s, Dávila first gained national fame in a telenovela called Ligia Elena, becoming famous internationally in 1983, when he starred in its sequel, Nacho, for...
  
   - Miguel Ángel González
• Gigi Zanchetta - Santa Ortigosa
• Humberto García - Horacio González
• Adolfo Cubas
  Adolfo Cubas
  Adolfo Cubas is a well known Venezuelan actor. He has participated in a number of theater plays and television telenovelas....
  
   - Antonio González
• Eva Blanco - Candelaria Camacho
• Chony Fuentes - Rebeca
• Elio Rubens - Leonardo Montenegro
• Niurka Acevedo
  Niurka Acevedo
  Niurka Auristela Acevedo is an actress and a pageant titleholder.Acevedo was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1972. She is the Miss Venezuela International titleholder for 1991, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss International 1991 pageant held in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13,...
  
  
• María A. Avalone
• Julio Capote - Fermín
• Solmayra Castillo - Deyanira
• Hans Christopher - Víctor Iriarte
• Helianta Cruz - Beba Ortigoza
• Rita De Gois - Carmen dos Santos
• Joel de la Rosa - Fabian
• Alexis Escamez
• Eduardo Luna - Kirikó (Ángel Vargas López)
• Alberto Marín - Padre Lombarito
• Ana Martínez - Asunción
• Ana Massimo
• Hilda Moreno - Coralia
• Enrique Oliveros - Oscar
• Simón Pestana - José Grigorio
• Marcelo Rodríguez - Agustín
• Chumico Romero
• Marcelo Romo - Carmelo
• José Ángel Urdaneta - Chuy
• Winston Vallenilla - Freddy
• Gil Vargas
• Hilda Blanco - Moncha
• Mauricio González - Fernando Guzmán
• Juan Carlos Baena - Fotógrafo
• Manolo Manolo - Doctor
• Humberto Buonocuore - Pepino
• Lizbeth Manrique - Loly
• Manolo Manolo - Doctor
• Swenn Luna - Policial
• Karina, hija de Rebeca
• Tamara San Diego (Emilia Landaeta en "Como tú, ninguna)
• Ileana, vecina de Candelaria
• Tomasa, abuela de Ileana (Remigia en "Como tú, ninguna")
• Federica, prima de Santa (Isabel en "Como tú, ninguna")
• Rocky, killer (Reynaldo en "Simplemente María)
• Gato (Miguel en "Como tú, ninguna")
• Juan, padre de Moncha (Guanabocoá en "María Celeste")

Theme Song

The song was Antologia de Caricias by Altamira Banda Show