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Esmeralda
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Leticia Calderón
Esmeralda Rosales-Peñarreal
137 eps
Fernando Colunga
José Armando Peñarreal De Velasco
137 eps
Raquel Morell
Blanca de Velasco de Peñarreal
137 eps
Enrique Lizalde
Don Rodolfo Peñarreal
137 eps
Dina de Marco
Crisanta
137 eps
Ana Patricia Rojo
Georgina Pérez Montalvo
137 eps
Alejandro Ruiz
Adrián Lucero
137 eps
Dolores Salomón
Tula
137 eps
Ignacio López Tarso
Melesio
137 eps
Salvador Pineda
Dr. Lucio Malaver
137 eps
Laura Zapata
Fátima Linares Viuda de Peñarreal
137 eps
Gustavo Rojo
Dr. Bernardo Pérez-Montalvo
137 eps
María Luisa Alcalá
Doña Socorro 'Socorrito'
137 eps
Nora Salinas
Graciela 'Gracielita' Peñarreal Linares de Valverde
137 eps
Noé Murayama
Fermín
137 eps
Juan Pablo Gamboa
Dr. Álvaro Lazcano
137 eps
Irán Eory
Sor Piedad
137 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Esmeralda actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Esmeralda reads strongest on Emotional Weight, Character Depth and Serialized.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
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.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Esmeralda is a telenovela that was released by Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name, and was itself remade in Brazil in 2004. Another version is Topacio from Venezuela in 1984.
One of the most famous telenovela all the time.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Salvador MejíaProducer
Direction
- Beatriz SheridanDirector
- Marta LunaDirector
- Karina DuprezDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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