Ángela is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa that premiered on November 30, 1998 and ended on March 19, 1999.
The series stars Angélica Rivera, Juan Soler, Ignacio López Tarso and Jacqueline Andere.
Plot
Angela is a charming and beautiful young school teacher, with a sweet but firm character. Her only living relative is her mother Delia, a sick and embittered woman. On her deathbed, Delia makes Angela swear an oath that she will rise to the top in life, and with her last breath she curses Emilia Santillana, the woman who stole Angela's father away from her.
Upon hearing at last the name that Delia had always refused to reveal, Angela vows, with chilling determination, that she will not rest until she has found this woman, Emilia Santillana, and made her pay for ruining her mother's life. Emilia Santillana lives in the city of San Miguel de Allende, where she runs a very successful silver mine, "La Soledad". In addition to the mine, Emilia Santillana owns a factory.
One day, Angela arrives at Emilia's company seeking employment. Yolanda Rivas, Emilia's right hand, takes pity on the seemingly sweet and shy young girl and persuades her boss to hire her. Little by little Angela wins her trust. Angela is convinced of her righteousness and uses her beauty and her growing influence within the business to systematically destroy Emilia's world.
Only one person mistrusts her and is not seduced by her apparent innocence. Mariano Bautista, a young engineer who works in a silver mine. Angela tries to ignore her attraction for Mariano, but finally comes to realize that she truly loves him.
And, for the first time in her life, the promise of happiness seems within her reach when Mariano confesses that he too has fallen in love with her. Nevertheless, the oath she swore over her mother's grave binds her to her destiny, and Angela is now powerless to stop the tidal wave of destruction and suffering that she herself has unleashed.
Cast
Angélica Rivera as Ángela Bellati / Ángela Gallardo Bellati
Juan Soler as Mariano Bautista Solórzano
Ignacio López Tarso as Don Feliciano Villanueva
Jacqueline Andere as Emilia Santillana Roldán
Ana Martín as Delia Bellati Roldán
Juan Peláez as Humberto Gallardo
Patricia Navidad as Ximena Chávez
Joana Benedek as Catalina Lizárraga Miranda
Aurora Molina as Francisca Osuna
Ana Bertha Lepe as Lorenza Chávez
Olivia Bucio as Yolanda Rivas
José Elías Moreno as Father Martín Villanueva
Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez as Don Ramiro
Ernesto Godoy as Bruno Lizárraga Miranda
Rosángela Balbó as Esther Miranda Parra de Lizárraga
Harry Geithner as Julián Arizpe
Arsenio Campos as Óscar Lizárraga
Yolanda Ciani as Hortensia Solórzano Mateos de Bautista
Rossana San Juan as Susana Chávez
Eduardo Rivera as Emeterio González
José María Yazpik as René Bautista Solórzano
Luz María Zetina as Diana Gallardo Santillana
Gerardo Albarrán as Claudio Sazueta
Rocío Gallardo as Clara García
René Casados as Alfonso Molina
Isaura Espinoza as Norma de Molina
Carlos Bracho as Salvador Bautista
Manuel Benítez as Teniente Ramos
Lolita Ríos as Guadalupe "Lupita" García
Natasha Dupeyrón as María Molina
Andrea Riquelme as Graciela
Fernanda Reto as Irma Rodríguez
Vicente Herrera as Reynaldo
Marina Marín as Principal Guadalupe Armenta
Roberto Porter as Simón
Pilar Escalante as Teacher Lola
Isaac Castro as Luis
Lourdes Jáuregui as Young Delia Bellati Roldán
Héctor Parra as Young Humberto Gallardo
Orlando Miguel as Pedro Solórzano Mateos
Notes
Yadhira Carrillo was originally cast as Angela but replaced by Rivera at the last minute with little explanation causing some cast members to leave the cast in solidarity with Carrillo. Leading man Juan Soler eventually went to star with Yadhira three years later in the successful soap opera, La Otra.