Scripted series · Telemundo
The Inmate
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ignacio Serricchio
Lázaro Mendoza / Dante Pardo
13 eps
Ana Claudia Talancón
Frida Villarreal
13 eps
Erik Hayser
Jeremy Jones
13 eps
Alejandro Calva
La Foca
13 eps
Mariana Seoane
Roxana
13 eps
David Chocarro
Santito
13 eps
Flavio Medina
Peniche
13 eps
Luis Felipe Tovar
Mariano Tavares
13 eps
Isabella Castillo
Linda Morris
13 eps
Hector Kotsifakis
El Muerto
13 eps
Ramón Medína
Marcial
13 eps
Diego Calva
El Rubio
13 eps
Armando Espitia
Bocinas
13 eps
Luke Massy
Mariano Tavares
13 eps
Rodrigo Oviedo
Silvestre Chávez
13 eps
Gustavo Sánchez Parra
Cuauhtémoc
13 eps
Juan Pablo Castañeda
El Picudo
13 eps
Maru Bravo
Linda
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Inmate actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Inmate reads strongest on Character Depth, Serialized and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A former U.S. Marine, Lázaro Mendoza, enters a maximum security prison in Mexico (La Rotunda), under a false identity and accused of an alleged triple murder. Now as Dante Pardo, his mission is to infiltrate a dangerous band of inmates and guards that operate inside and outside of prison who are the prime suspects of the kidnapping of the teenage daughter of U.S. Judge, John Morris. Inside La Rotunda, Lázaro has to find out who carried out the kidnapping and the whereabouts of the girl.
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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
- Inna PayánExecutive Producer
- Marcos SantanaExecutive Producer
Cinematography
- Jaime ReynosoDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
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