Mi Gorda Bella
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Mi Gorda Bella was a Venezuela
n telenovela
that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión
. This telenovela lasted 178 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International
.
Olimpia Mercouri de VillanuevaVillain - mother of Orestes. She's a bad woman who has fooled her husband and children to think she's a good mother and wife. She hates Valentina - and placed into doubt Orestes' real father. (Valentina and Orestes end up not being related at all)
Juan Angel Villanueva - he's Olimpia's husband, father to Orestes, Pandora, Ariadna and Aquiles. He's brother to Valentina's dead father Luis Felipe (Luis Felipe was killed by Olimpia, his sister in-law). So he's Valentina's uncle. He loves his niece and his children but he's been such a busy man that he's failed to see Olimpia's true face. Recently he's realized that Tza Tza "SaSa" has been in love with him all of her life.
Tza Tza "Sasa" Lanz - she's Valentina's aunt, her sister Eva Lanz was killed by Olimpia. She's a very loving person whose only family is Valentina and she'll do anything for her. She owns "la pension" - it's a large modest home that has over 5 rooms. She rents them out but she's so nice she takes in people who can't pay and finds herself in financial debt.
Franklin Carreño - he's an honest cop who fell in love with Valentina from the moment he first met her. He sees her inner goodness and he gets very upset when people try to take advantage of her sweetness. He's suspected for a while that Orestes might feel more for Valentina than mere friendship. He agrees to date Valentina at her request so people would stop teasing her about being in love with Orestes. While in their fake relationship, he really falls in love with her and breaks it off when he knows he's being used. Still, he defends Valentina. One drunk night ends him in bed with Chiqui - that will begin their relationship. He's also investigating Eva's death (Valentina's mother).
Chiquinquirá Lorenz Rivero "La Chiqui"Villain - she's Orestes girlfriend and best friend to Ariadna. She's beautiful, rich, arrogant and completely in love with Orestes. Upset at Valentina for taking Orestes away she gets seriously drunk and ends up bed with Franklin. This starts her metamorphosis and her romance with Franklin. Her parents are Lorenzo Lorenz and "Muñeca” Lorenz - recently she found out that her mother who is good and honest is not really her mother and she's a product of an affair her father had and "Muñeca” adopted her as her own daughter.
Pandora Villanueva - she's the third child of Olimpia & Juan Angel. She's very close to Aquiles, her brother. Pandora saw at the age of 6 her mother kill her uncle Luis Felipe and that has traumatized her. She has 'episodes' of lunacy were she starts screaming and struggling. For this reason she's considered the weird one in the family. She thinks she's doomed to suffer in life and never find happiness because she let her uncle get killed. This all changes when she meets and falls in love with the honest cop Jordi - much to her mother's distaste.
Jordi Rosales - he is Frankin's partner and best friend. He's honest and has no problem telling it like it is. He first sees Pandora when he came to her house with Franklin searching for Valentina. Quickly, he falls in love with her and comes on to her - she thinks he's tasteless and common and quickly gives him the cold shoulder. With all of the problems her brother gets into in the beginning of the novela she often turns to him until he kisses her one day. She denies their love for a while but he convinces her to let him into her heart.
Aquiles Villanueva - he's the youngest of the Villanuevas. In the beginning of the novela he's very much a loner and very close with his older sister Pandora. Because he's never had a girlfriend everyone think he's gay; he's even confused himself. When he gets into a fight in school he's expelled, consequentially he's thrown out from his house. Homeless and wandering his only hope lies in his sister who worries sick for him and in Valentina- the cousin he loves a lot. Tza Tza offers him a home with her and Valentina in "La Pension" - there he confesses to Valentina that when he was 11 his mother took him to a prostitute and that's traumatized him with women. He runs away in shame from Valentina and he's found days later unconscious. When he wakes up he has no memory of the last year and under his mother's instigations he's led to believe that Valentina is a bad person and he also believes Fabiola to be his girlfriend but it all changes when he starts seeing Ninfa - their maid in a whole new light.
Beatriz Teresa Carreño “Bea” - she's Franklin's younger sister. She's brave, honest and Valentina's best friend. She's a very humble girl and she adores her 'madrina' Tza Tza. Often she defends Valentina to the people that tease her; and she lives in love with Orestes' best friend Alejandro who never notices she's alive until she becomes a make-up artist for the company and she becomes the only person he can trust.
(2004) - Just as India was the first country to adapt Yo soy Betty, la fea, they also had the first adaptation of Mi Gorda Bella. This romantic comedy focused on a full-figured girl named Nikita Sareen (played by Shweta Agarwal, and later by Shraddha Nigam), who was loved by almost everyone who knew her. Young Nikita turned to food for comfort after she was exiled to a boarding school at an early age. Just when it seemed that fate was about to smile on her, tragedy took her mother's life, so Nikki was forced to live under the same roof with her uncle's menacing wife, Devyani (Reena Wadhwa), who tried everything in her power to rob Nikki of her inheritance. Nikki had two great loves during the course of the series: Karan (Keith Sequeira) and Arjun (Kushal Punjabi
).
to produce a local-flavored version of the telenovela called Manjalara. Using the same format, but with a few alterations to suit Malaysian cultural sensitivity, the 75-episode serial was shown every Monday to Thursday at 6.30 p.m. on TV3
. The series starred Jehan Miskin, Emelda Rosmila as Manjalara, Sheila Rusly, Mustapha Kamal and former national gymnast Raja Farah
.
(2010) - The Mexican remake premiered on May 3, 2010 in Mexico (August 9, 2010 on Univision in the U.S.) and is produced by Televisa
. This adaptation stars Ariadne Díaz
(Marianela Ruiz y de Teresa Pavón), Valentino Lanus (Emmanuel Ruiz y de Teresa Curiel), Azela Robinson (Fedra Curiel de Ruiz y de Teresa), César Évora (Emiliano Ruiz y de Teresa), Alexis Ayala (Lorenzo Porta-Lopez), and Cecilia Gabriela (Camila "Muñeca" Rivero de Porta-Lopez)
Songs=
Theme song
Other songs
Hilda Aguilera comes out in this has a deep conversation that is recognized has an intellectual person.
External links=
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...
n 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"...
that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión
RCTV
Radio Caracas Televisión Internacional is a Venezuelan cable television network headquartered in the Caracas neighborhood of Quinta Crespo. It was sometimes referred to as the Canal de Bárcenas. Owned by Empresas 1BC, RCTV Internacional was inaugurated as Radio Caracas Televisión on 15 November...
. This telenovela lasted 178 episodes and was distributed internationally by RCTV International
Coral Pictures
RCTV International is subsidiary of Radio Caracas Television RCTV, C.A., the company that owns Radio Caracas Television . Coral was formed in Miami, Florida in 1982 as the international distributor of RCTV's programs...
.
Characters
Valentina and Orestes Villanueva - They are cousins who fall in love when Valentina comes to live in Orestes' house once she graduates from High School. The house that they live in is rightfully Valentina's. Her mother and father owned it - but they were both secretly killed by Olimpia. They are the main characters of the show - Valentina is an overweight girl and Orestes is the perfect man.Olimpia Mercouri de VillanuevaVillain - mother of Orestes. She's a bad woman who has fooled her husband and children to think she's a good mother and wife. She hates Valentina - and placed into doubt Orestes' real father. (Valentina and Orestes end up not being related at all)
Juan Angel Villanueva - he's Olimpia's husband, father to Orestes, Pandora, Ariadna and Aquiles. He's brother to Valentina's dead father Luis Felipe (Luis Felipe was killed by Olimpia, his sister in-law). So he's Valentina's uncle. He loves his niece and his children but he's been such a busy man that he's failed to see Olimpia's true face. Recently he's realized that Tza Tza "SaSa" has been in love with him all of her life.
Tza Tza "Sasa" Lanz - she's Valentina's aunt, her sister Eva Lanz was killed by Olimpia. She's a very loving person whose only family is Valentina and she'll do anything for her. She owns "la pension" - it's a large modest home that has over 5 rooms. She rents them out but she's so nice she takes in people who can't pay and finds herself in financial debt.
Franklin Carreño - he's an honest cop who fell in love with Valentina from the moment he first met her. He sees her inner goodness and he gets very upset when people try to take advantage of her sweetness. He's suspected for a while that Orestes might feel more for Valentina than mere friendship. He agrees to date Valentina at her request so people would stop teasing her about being in love with Orestes. While in their fake relationship, he really falls in love with her and breaks it off when he knows he's being used. Still, he defends Valentina. One drunk night ends him in bed with Chiqui - that will begin their relationship. He's also investigating Eva's death (Valentina's mother).
Chiquinquirá Lorenz Rivero "La Chiqui"Villain - she's Orestes girlfriend and best friend to Ariadna. She's beautiful, rich, arrogant and completely in love with Orestes. Upset at Valentina for taking Orestes away she gets seriously drunk and ends up bed with Franklin. This starts her metamorphosis and her romance with Franklin. Her parents are Lorenzo Lorenz and "Muñeca” Lorenz - recently she found out that her mother who is good and honest is not really her mother and she's a product of an affair her father had and "Muñeca” adopted her as her own daughter.
Pandora Villanueva - she's the third child of Olimpia & Juan Angel. She's very close to Aquiles, her brother. Pandora saw at the age of 6 her mother kill her uncle Luis Felipe and that has traumatized her. She has 'episodes' of lunacy were she starts screaming and struggling. For this reason she's considered the weird one in the family. She thinks she's doomed to suffer in life and never find happiness because she let her uncle get killed. This all changes when she meets and falls in love with the honest cop Jordi - much to her mother's distaste.
Jordi Rosales - he is Frankin's partner and best friend. He's honest and has no problem telling it like it is. He first sees Pandora when he came to her house with Franklin searching for Valentina. Quickly, he falls in love with her and comes on to her - she thinks he's tasteless and common and quickly gives him the cold shoulder. With all of the problems her brother gets into in the beginning of the novela she often turns to him until he kisses her one day. She denies their love for a while but he convinces her to let him into her heart.
Aquiles Villanueva - he's the youngest of the Villanuevas. In the beginning of the novela he's very much a loner and very close with his older sister Pandora. Because he's never had a girlfriend everyone think he's gay; he's even confused himself. When he gets into a fight in school he's expelled, consequentially he's thrown out from his house. Homeless and wandering his only hope lies in his sister who worries sick for him and in Valentina- the cousin he loves a lot. Tza Tza offers him a home with her and Valentina in "La Pension" - there he confesses to Valentina that when he was 11 his mother took him to a prostitute and that's traumatized him with women. He runs away in shame from Valentina and he's found days later unconscious. When he wakes up he has no memory of the last year and under his mother's instigations he's led to believe that Valentina is a bad person and he also believes Fabiola to be his girlfriend but it all changes when he starts seeing Ninfa - their maid in a whole new light.
Beatriz Teresa Carreño “Bea” - she's Franklin's younger sister. She's brave, honest and Valentina's best friend. She's a very humble girl and she adores her 'madrina' Tza Tza. Often she defends Valentina to the people that tease her; and she lives in love with Orestes' best friend Alejandro who never notices she's alive until she becomes a make-up artist for the company and she becomes the only person he can trust.
India
Dekho Magar Pyaar SeDekho Magar Pyaar Se
Dekho Magar Pyaar Se is a 2004 Hindi language Indian soap opera that aired on STAR Plus channel based on the story of a frumpy girl, Nikki. The series was a remake of the 2002 Venezuelan telenovela Mi Gorda Bella.-Overview:...
(2004) - Just as India was the first country to adapt Yo soy Betty, la fea, they also had the first adaptation of Mi Gorda Bella. This romantic comedy focused on a full-figured girl named Nikita Sareen (played by Shweta Agarwal, and later by Shraddha Nigam), who was loved by almost everyone who knew her. Young Nikita turned to food for comfort after she was exiled to a boarding school at an early age. Just when it seemed that fate was about to smile on her, tragedy took her mother's life, so Nikki was forced to live under the same roof with her uncle's menacing wife, Devyani (Reena Wadhwa), who tried everything in her power to rob Nikki of her inheritance. Nikki had two great loves during the course of the series: Karan (Keith Sequeira) and Arjun (Kushal Punjabi
Kushal Punjabi
Kushal Punjabi is an Indian film and television actor, who won the TV reality game show, Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout, the Indian version of internationally popular "Wipeout" in February 2011, taking home the prize of 5 million.-Early life and family:...
).
Malaysia
Manjalara (2007) - After Malaysians were seduced by the beautiful fat Valentina and her antics in Mi Gorda Bella, a private television station decided to buy the rights from Venezuela's RCTVRCTV
Radio Caracas Televisión Internacional is a Venezuelan cable television network headquartered in the Caracas neighborhood of Quinta Crespo. It was sometimes referred to as the Canal de Bárcenas. Owned by Empresas 1BC, RCTV Internacional was inaugurated as Radio Caracas Televisión on 15 November...
to produce a local-flavored version of the telenovela called Manjalara. Using the same format, but with a few alterations to suit Malaysian cultural sensitivity, the 75-episode serial was shown every Monday to Thursday at 6.30 p.m. on TV3
TV3 (Malaysia)
Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad or TV3 began broadcasting on 1 June 1984 as Malaysia’s first commercial television station. It is part of Media Prima Berhad group of companies. It now transmits opened broadcasting business private 24-hours a day, 7 days a week since 1 January 2010...
. The series starred Jehan Miskin, Emelda Rosmila as Manjalara, Sheila Rusly, Mustapha Kamal and former national gymnast Raja Farah
Raja Farah
Raja Farah Binti Raja Aziz , is a Malaysian actress and model. She was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is the third child of four siblings. She is a Raja Jembal descendant from Kelantan. Farah received her education in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan, Seksyen 18, Shah Alam, Selangor.She became a TV...
.
Mexico
Llena de amorLlena de amor
__FORCETOC__Llena de amor is a Mexican Spanish-language soap opera, produced by Televisa, that began airing in 2010. It is a remake of the 2002–2003 Venezuelan telenovela Mi Gorda Bella, which itself was inspired by the 1999–2001 Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea.Llena de amor...
(2010) - The Mexican remake premiered on May 3, 2010 in Mexico (August 9, 2010 on Univision in the U.S.) and is produced by Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
. This adaptation stars Ariadne Díaz
Ariadne Díaz
Ariadne Díaz is a Mexican actress who graduated from the Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa and whose debut soap opera was Muchachitas como tú in 2007....
(Marianela Ruiz y de Teresa Pavón), Valentino Lanus (Emmanuel Ruiz y de Teresa Curiel), Azela Robinson (Fedra Curiel de Ruiz y de Teresa), César Évora (Emiliano Ruiz y de Teresa), Alexis Ayala (Lorenzo Porta-Lopez), and Cecilia Gabriela (Camila "Muñeca" Rivero de Porta-Lopez)
Cast
- Natalia StreignardNatalia StreignardNatalia Martínez-Negri Streignard is a famous Venezuelan actress who is working in telenovelas and soap operas.-Biography:Streignard was born in Madrid, Spain to an Argentine mother and a German father...
as Valentina Villanueva Lanz/Bella de la Rosa- Main Heroine - Juan Pablo RabaJuan Pablo RabaJuan Pablo Raba is a Spanish telenovela actor.-Biography :He was born in Bogotá, Colombia, but upon his parents' divorce, he was raised in Spain by his Argentinian father. There, he took his Baccalaureate & started studying Advertisement but soon decided this was not what he wanted in life...
as Orestes Villanueva Mercouri- Main Hero - Hilda AbrahamzHilda AbrahamzHilda Astrid Abrahamz Navarro is a Venezuelan telenovela actress and former beauty pageant titleholder...
as Olimpia Mercouri de Villanueva- Main Villain - Emma Rabbe as Tza Tza Lanz (Sasá)
- Norkys BatistaNorkys BatistaNorkys Yelitza Batista Villarroel is a Venezuelan actress, model and former beauty pageant titleholder.-Early life:...
as Chiquinquira Lorenz Rivero- villain, later good - Marianela GonzálezMarianela GonzálezMarianela González is a Venezuelan actress. Her parents are María del Carmen Álvarez "Carmenchu" and José Rafael González. She has one sister named María Alejandra...
as Pandora Villanueva Mercouri - Flavio CaballeroFlavio CaballeroFlavio Caballero is a well known Colombian actor. He is a native of Cartagena.-Biography:Flavio Caballero grew up with two childhood dreams: he wanted to become both a psychologist and an actor...
as Juan Angel Villanueva - Jeronimo Gil as Franklin Carreño
- Luciano D'Alessandro as Roman Fonseca- villain
- Belen Marrero as Camelia Rivero de Lorenz "Muñeca"
- Felix Loreto as Lorenzo Lorenz- villain
- Aileen CelesteAileen CelesteAileen Celeste, is a Venezuelan actress most recognised for her role as the bad-tempered and spoiled Ariadna Villenueva in the telenovela Mi Gorda Bella.- Personal life :...
as Ariadna Villanueva Mercouri- villain - Carlos AlvarezCarlos AlvarezCarlos Alvarez is the name of:*Carlos Alvarez , former Mayor of Miami-Dade County*Carlos Álvarez , Argentine politician and former vice-president*Carlos Alvarez , accused Cuban spy...
as Aquiles Villanueva Mercouri - Prakriti Maduro as Ninfa
- Amalia Perez Diaz as Celeste Villanueva de Dupont
- Carlos Marquez as Segundo Villanueva
- Marcos Moreno as Roque Julia- villain
- Ana Beatriz Osorio as Beatriz Carreño
- Hugo VasquezHugo VasquezHugo Vásquez is a Venezuelan actor. He is known for his role as the charismatic police Jordi Rosales in the telenovela Mi Gorda Bella.-TV series:* Guerra de mujeres...
as Jordi Rosales - Sandra Martinez as Fabiola
- Daniel Anibal Blasco as Samuel Robinson
- Mayra Africano as Nereida- villain
- Nathalie Cortez as Jessica Lopez "J.Lo"
- Mimi LazoMimi LazoAna María Lazo, commonly known as Mimí Lazo, is a Venezuelan film, television and theatrical actress and producer...
as Eva Lanz de Villanueva - Kareliz Ollarves as Debora Pereira
- Laureano OlivaresLaureano OlivaresLaureano Olivares is a Venezuelan film and television actor best known for his role in Elia Schneider's movie Sicario at the age of 16.-Films:*Sicario *La Vida del Otro *Huelepega: Ley de la Calle...
as Careperro - Rodolfo Renwick as Jorge Campos
- Sonia Villamizar as Natalia
- Aleska Diaz Granados as Vivian Duran
- Daniel AlvaradoDaniel AlvaradoDaniel Alvarado is Venezuelan actor. He has been married three times. He has two sons from his first marriage, Daniel and Luis. From second marriage with Carmen Julia Álvarez , he has a daughter Daniela and son Carlos Daniel...
as Jose Manuel Sevilla - Jose Manuel Ascensao as Ezquinaci
- Llena Aloma as Pepa Lopez Castro "Pepita"
- Jose Angel Avila as Jose Ignacio Pacheco
- Abelardo Behna as Alejandro Silva
- Kelvin Elizonde as Juan Carlos
- Jeanette Flores as Consuelito
- Edgar Gomez as Comisario Pantoja
- Jose Carlos Grillet as Daniel Eduardo
- Enrique Izquierdo as Macedonio Ortega
- Dora Mazzone as Angelica (2002)
- Eric Noriega as Benigno Matiz
- Sandy Olivares as Javier
- Martha Pabon as Gladiola
- Kristin Pardo as Carmen
- Miguel Angel Perez as Boligoma
- Manuel SalazarManuel SalazarManuel Alejandro Salazar Rivas is a retired Salvadoran footballer. He represented the Salvadoran national team.-Club career:...
as Luis Felipe Villanueva - Israel Baez as Guillermo Andres
- Gabriela Santeliz as Rita
- Soraya Sanz as Mama Dolores (2002)
- Jesus Seijas as Mateo
- Manuel Sosa as Joel
- Elisa Stella as Doña Elena
Songs=
Theme song
- "Poco a PocoPoco a PocoPoco a Poco is a single by Adicta, released in 2001.-Personnel:*Toto - vocals*Rudie Martínez - synthesizers, programming*Fabio Rey - guitar*Leo García - backing vocals...
" performed by JeremiasJeremiasCarlos Eduardo López Avila, better known under his stage name Jeremías, is a British-Venezuelan singer-songwriter who was born in London, England on September 19, 1973, of Venezuelan parents. He moved to Venezuela at the age of 2, although he still maintains a British passport...
is the theme song of "Mi Gorda Bella". It is also the background music of Valentina and Orestes.
Other songs
- "La CitaLa CitaLa Cita is the 10th studio album by Mexican pop singer Daniela Romo. This album was released on 1994 and it was produced by Bebu Silvetti. This is a doble CD with classic rancheras and boleros...
" performed by JeremiasJeremiasCarlos Eduardo López Avila, better known under his stage name Jeremías, is a British-Venezuelan singer-songwriter who was born in London, England on September 19, 1973, of Venezuelan parents. He moved to Venezuela at the age of 2, although he still maintains a British passport...
is the background music for Chiqui and Franklin. - "Supervisior de tus sueňos" performed by A5, also known as A Punto Cinco, is the background music for Pandora and Jordi.
- "AmameAmame"Amame" is the fourth and final single released from the Entre a Mi Mundo album by Selena.-Chart performance:...
" performed by Alexandre PiresAlexandre PiresAlexandre Pires do Nascimento is a Brazilian singer. Pires was previously the singer of group Só Pra Contrariar which he joined in the late 80s....
in is the background music for Ninfa and Aquiles. - "Niña BonitaNiña BonitaMi Niña Bonita is the single by Chino & Nacho. It is off the album, with the same name, Mi Niña Bonita. This song has two music videos, an original latin american version and a U.S. version.-Music video:...
" performed by MaíaMaíaMónica Andrea Vives Orozco, more commonly known as Maía is a Colombian singer-songwriter.-History:Mónica Vives Orozco is the only child of Rafael Vives and Mónica Orozco...
is the background music for Tza Tza and Juan Angel.
Hilda Aguilera comes out in this has a deep conversation that is recognized has an intellectual person.
External links=
- Mi Gorda Bella at the Novelahitz
- Mi Gorda Bella at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...