Scripted series · Telemundo
Doña Bárbara
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Genesis Rodriguez
Maricela
190 eps
Edith González
La doña
190 eps
Christian Meier
Santos
190 eps
Katie Barberi
Cecilia Vergel
190 eps
Arap Bethke
Antonio Sandoval
190 eps
Paulo Quevedo
Balbino Paiba
190 eps
Roberto Mateos
Lorenzo Barquero Luzardo
190 eps
Raúl Gutiérrez
Coronel Diógenes Pernalete
190 eps
Lucy Martínez
Eustaquia
190 eps
Daniela Tapia
Gervasia Sandoval
190 eps
Juan Felipe Muñoz
Pedro "Pedrito"
190 eps
Óscar Mauricio Rodríguez
Genaro Mondragón
1 eps
Paula Barreto
Luisana Requeña
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Doña Bárbara actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Doña Bárbara reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Humour.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The story
What it's about
Doña Bárbara is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo, Sony Pictures Television International and RTI Colombia. Edith González and Christian Meier star in this adaptation of the 1929 novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos.
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