El Amor No Es Como Lo Pintan

 

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Cast in alphabetical order by character / Elenco por orden alfabético por personaje:

Alberto Miranda -  Victor Gonzalez, Alicia Ramirez - Vanessa Acosta, Alma De Galán - Kenya Mori, Carmela - Mercedes Olea, Carolina Alvarado - Nubia Marti, Cecilia Batrés - Barbara Eibenschutz, César Miranda - Héctor Soberón, Cynthia Rico - Vanessa Villela, Dunia Miranda - Gina Romand, Engracia Valdés - Regina Torne, Enrique Alvarado - Miguel Couturier, Gerardo Ramírez - Arturo Berinstain, Jaime Galán - Andres Palacios, Javier Batrés - Rodrigo Cachero, Jorge Miranda - Aaron Beas, José Gonzalez - Rodrigo Mejia, Juanito Ramírez -  Manuel Francisco Valdez, Lena - Ana La Salvia, Lucia - Joadnydka Mariel, Ma. Elena Ramírez -  Rosenda Monteros, Manuel Miranda - Sergio Klainer, Mariano -  Germán Valdez III, Mario - Enoc Leaño, Marisela Aguilera - Betty Monrroe, Martha Rico - Elizabeth Guindi, Nana Paquita -  Dunia Zaldivar, Pablo Rico - Rodolfo Arias, Padre Damián - René Campero, Rafael Avila - Roberto Medina, Rolando Miranda - Pepe Loza, Silvia Miranda - Eva Prado, Sonia Aguilera - Carmela del Valle, Susana Oviedo ("Susy") - Nur

 

 

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Full Cast and Crew for "Amor no es como lo pintan, El" (2000)

         

Directed by

Antulio Jiménez Pons    

 

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)

Eric Vonn        writer

 

Cast (in credits order)

Vanessa Acosta.... Alicia Ramírez

Arturo Beristáin.... Gerardo Ramírez

Rosenda Monteros.... Ma. Elena Ramírez

Manuel Francisco Valdéz.... Juanito Ramírez

José Loza.... Rolando Miranda (as Pepe Loza)

Gina Romand.... Dunia Miranda

Héctor Soberón.... César Miranda

Víctor González.... Alberto Miranda

Sergio Kleiner.... Manuel Miranda (as Sergio Klainer)

Aarón Beas.... Jorge Miranda

Eva Prado.... Silvia Miranda

Vanessa Villela.... Cynthia Rico

Rodolfo Arias.... Pablo Rico

Elizabeth Guindi.... Martha Rico

Kenya Mori.... Alma de Galán

Andrés Palacios.... Jaime Galán

Regina Torné.... Engracia Valdés

Miguel Couturier.... Enrique Alvarado

Nubia Martí.... Carolina Alvarado

Betty Monroe.... Marisela Aguilera

Carmen del Valle.... Sonia Aguilera

Nur.... Susana 'Susy' Oviedo

Rodrigo Cachero.... Javier Batres

Bárbara Eibenshutz.... Cecilia Batres

Rodrigo Mejía.... José González

Roberto Medina.... Rafael Ávila

Mercedes Olea.... Carmen

Ana La Salvia.... Lena

Dunia Saldívar.... Nana Paquita

René Campero.... Padre Damián

Germán Valdés III.... Mariano

Jonadyka Muriel.... Lucía

Enoc Leaño.... Mario

rest of cast listed alphabetically

Susana Alexander.... (2001)

Martha Itzel

Guillermo Murray.... Claudio

 

Produced by

Juan David Burns.... producer

Antulio Jiménez Pons.... producer

Elisa Salinas.... producer

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CHARACTERS

from “dd”

 

WARNING:  THE DESCRIPTIONS CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE CHARACTERS DURING AND AT THE END OF THE NOVELA.

 

Adela - madre de Charito, esposo de Daniel. doesn’t realizes he has been abusing her daughter since they married. When she learns of it, doesn’t believe it at first. Even after she does, she reconciles with him. But when she finds him trying to rape Charito again, she kills him and goes to jail.

 

Alberto Miranda -   Victor Gonzalez : spoiled son of Rolando, hermano de César. believes in money and beautiful women. has affairs with Marisela and Lena, seduces Desirée and gets her to particpate in the replacement of Alicia. ends up losing his father’s agency, marries Marisela

 

Alicia Ramirez -  Vanessa Acosta:  una buena muchacha, inteligente, pero algo fea. gains the friendship and trust of Rogelio, then wins the love of César.  loses him to Marisela and then to Paulina, thanks to tricks played by both, but reconciles with him in the end.

 

Alma De Galán -  Kenya Mori :  amiga de Cynthia y Alicia. ama a Jaime y se casa con él. hija de Enrique y Carolina. is killed by Carlos

 

Andrés - hermano de Coco, hijo de Nicolas y Romé. se enamora de Desirée, then Lena. loses both.

 

Arturo -  padre de Carmela, esposa de Fátima, enfermo. never says a word.

 

Carla - hija de Rogelio. has had a breast removed due to cancer. se enamora de Carlos. becomes friends with Alma, Cynthia, and Alicia. trusts Carlos, in spite of Alma’s warning, until he tries to kill her father near the end of the novela

 

Carlos - amigo de Jaime. pretends to love Carla. complice de Desiree. the only really bad guy in the novela. he kills Alma, marries Carla, tries to kill her father Rogelio.

 

Carmela (Carmelita, Carmen) -  Mercedes Olea:  secretary or AA. amiga de Alicia y Rosario. hija de Fátima y Arturo. falls in love with Javier but can’t give up her role as her mother’s keeper. Strangely, however, partway into the novela, after breaking up with Javier, she just moves away to take a job in another city and leaves her mother a note. After she marries her new boss, she sends for her parents. [basically, it makes no sense and is just a way to get her out of the novela]

 

Aurora - prima de Paulina. becomes friends with Desirée. has a funny way of speaking. wants to be an actress. falls in love with Coco.

 

Carolina Alvarado -  Nubia Marti: madre de Alma, esposa de Enrique. after he divorces her, she falls in love with and marries Rogelio

 

Cecilia Batrés -  Barbara Eibenschutz:  madre de Javier. alcoholico. recovers and marries his real father and leaves novela early in story.

 

Cesar Miranda/Felipe -  Héctor Soberón: hermano de Alberto, hijo de Rolando y Dunia. un buen hombre que prefiere el arte, el cinema al finance. novio de Marisela. se enamora de Alicia. marries Marisela because she is pregnant; divorces her when she loses the baby. marries Alicia but is separated from her by Paulina’s tricks. finally discovers the truth and reconciles with Alicia only to be kidnapped by Paulina. succeeds in returning to Alicia and re-marrying her.

 

Charito - see Rosario

Clotilde - verdadera madre de Alicia. lives with otra hija, Desiree. participates with her daughter in the “replacement” of Alicia, but can’t go through with the murder and repents. ends up owning a small restaurant, thanks to Alicia, with Paquita. becomes friends with Ma. Elena, Dunia, Daniela.

 

Coco/Conrado - hijo de Dr. Nicolas Galvan and Romé. hermano de Andrés. se enamora de Aurora

 

Cynthia Rico -  Vanessa Villela:  amigo de Alma  y Alicia. parece una buena muchacha pero cree que beauty and money are everything. ex-novia de Pepe. hija de Pablo y Marta.  very concerned with her looks. has an affair with Dario, then with Enrique and Julian. becomes addicted to drugs. eventually loses her mind to drugs.

 

Daniel - stepfather of Charito. has been abusing her since she was a child. She permits it, even though she is an adult, out of fear for her mother. With the help of Carmela, she eventually tells her mother the truth.

 

Dario -  esposo de Lucia, amante de Cynthia, Sonia, y Dunia. hermano de Rafael. a womanizer who has an affair with Cynthia. participates in the planned kidnapping of Juanito, kidnapping and murder of Alicia. When he survives a supposed death, he changes, becomes a Data-like “angel-on-earth” determined to make up for all the bad he has done. just sort of disappears from the novela.

 

Desirée - novia de Carlos, hija de Clotilde, hermana germela de Alicia. When she first appears in the novela, she becomes a partner with Carlos and Dunia in the kidnapping of  Alicia, during which time she impersonates Alicia with the help of makeup and a dental apparatus. can’t go through with the murder and is forgiven by Alicia. falls for Andrés and then for Javier.

 

Dinora(?) - madre de Lena. has a very bad relationship with her daughter. appears in the last months of the novela and leaves before the end.

 

Dunia Miranda -  Gina Romand:  madre de Alberto y César, esposo de Rolando. amiga de Sonia y Daniela killed Rolando’s lover many years before (never quite clear if she really did or just says she did). doesn’t love her husband. prefers Alberto to César. she is a woman who enjoys the good life: clothes, jewelry, massages, etc. Arranges for the murder of Alicia, the kidnapping of Juanito to recover the inheritance her husband left to Alicia. Seems to change toward the end of the novela, recognizes her errors. becoming real friends with Alicia and her family.

 

Elena (Lena) - mejor amiga de Marisela. see Lena

 

Engracia Valdés -  Regina Torne :  madre de Jaime. a woman with a very strong personality. at first, she seems the typical villain but turns into a comic villain: a woman with strong sexual appetites who goes after Gerardo, who likes bondage scenarios (with the whip in her hand), then becomes ultra-religious. marries Gerardo

 

Enrique Alvarado -  Miguel Couturier:  padre de Alma, esposa de Carolina.  se enamora de Cynthia, se divorcia de Carolina, se casa con Cynthia. loses all his money, divorces Cynthia

 

Fátima -  madre de Carmela, esposa de Arturo. always putting down her daughter, doesn’t believe any man could love her, has obviously impeded earlier attachments. successfully prevents Carmela’s marriage to Javier. When Carmela finally, and surprisingly, leaves her, she ends up dependent on Charito, in a home for old people. For a while, she survives as a street person. Eventually goes to live with Carmela and her new husband elsewhere and leaves the novela

 

Gerardo Ramírez -  Arturo Berinstain:  padre de Alicia and Juanito. a gambler. hijo de Mama Elena. se casa con Engracia

 

Jaime Galán (Nikko)-  Andres Palacios : novio de Alma, amigo de Pepe.  hijo de Engracia. se casa con Alma. despues de su muerte, leaves the novela

 

Javier Batrés -  Rodrigo Cachero:  amigo de Felipe/César. works with him on the films although he doesn’t agree with César’s vision. hijo de Cecilia. worried about his mother’s drinking. falls in love with Carmela but loses her. Then he has a brief romance with Alicia before falling in love with Desirée

 

Jorge Miranda -  Aaron Beas:  un buen hombre. amigo de César. sobrino de Rolando. se enamora de Charito y de Lena. becomes paralyzed in an accident and, finally, realizes that Charito is the woman for him. se casa con ella

 

José Gonzalez -  Rodrigo Mejia: 

 

José María - padre de Julian y Paulina. antigua amiga de Dunia. un mafioso de lo primero. visits Dr. Nicolas Galvan but has more faith in the tarot readings of his wife. se casa con Dunia. frames Dunia and Daniela for his crimes.

 

Juanito Ramírez -   Manuel Francisco Valdez:  hermano de Alicia, hijo de Gerardo, nieto de Ma. Elena

 

Julian - leads Cynthia into the world of drugs. hijo de José María, hermano de Paulina. kicks the drugs.

 

Lena -  Ana La Salvia:  novio de Jorge, mejor amiga de Marisela, amante de Jaime, Jorge, Julian, y otros. no ama a nadie, inclusivo su madre

 

Lucia (Luciana) -  Joadnydka Mariel:  dueña de la boutique donde Cynthia trabaja. esposo de Dario. small role in first part of novela

 

Ma. Elena Ramírez -   Rosenda Monteros:  abuela de Alicia y Juanito. madre de Gerardo. se enamora de Manuel y se casa con el

 

Manuel Miranda -  Sergio Klainer:  hermano de Rolando, padre de Jorge, esposo de Silvia. tio de Alberto. se enamora de Ma. Elena despues del muerte de Silvia y se casa con ella

 

Mariano -   Germán Valdez III: 

 

Mario -  Enoc Leaño: 

 

Marisela Aguilera -  Betty Monrroe :  novia de César, hija de Rigoberto y Sonia. mejor amiga de Lena. se casa con César thanks to a trick. They divorce. She ends up losing her money, changing her hairstyle, and marrying Alberto.

 

Martha Rico -  Elizabeth Guindi:  madre de Cynthia, esposo de Pablo. una buena mujer

 

Nana Paquita -   Dunia Zaldivar:  nana to Alberto y César. se enamora de Gerardo but loses him to Engracia

 

Nicolas Galvan - psychiatrist who treats José María. esposo de Romé, padre de Andrés and Coco

 

Pablo Rico -   Rodolfo Arias:  padre de Cynthia, esposa de Marta. un buen hombre. Gerardo’s best friend

 

Padre Damián -  René Campero: tries, unsuccessfully, to control Engracia’s excesses.

 

Padre Anselmo - replaces Padre Damian

 

Paulina - hija de José María, hermana de Julian. se enamora de César. pretends to be a friend of Alicia’s. becomes obsessed with César. with her father’s help, “kidnaps” Cësar in last weeks of novela.

 

Rafael Avila -  Roberto Medina:  works in the business, seems to play all the angles. likes Marisela. hermano de Dario. a crook. involved in the kidnapping of Juanito. in the beginning is fond of hitting Marisela, thanks to Alberto’s advice. later in the novela, steals from Alberto. ends up in jail

 

Reinaldo - padre de Jaime y Javier. marries Cecilia. small role in first part of novela.

 

Rigoberto - padre de Marisela. esposo de Sonia. killed by Dario. never seen.

 

Rolando Miranda -  Pepe Loza:  padre de Alberto y César. dies about ¼ of the way into novela

 

don Rogelio - padre de Carla. doctor to Rolando. un buen hombre. se enanamora de Carolina en las ultimas semanas y se casa con ella. is shot by Carlos

 

Romé(?) - esposa de Nicolas, madre de Andrés and Coco. Tarot reader.

 

Rosario (Charo, Charito) - secretary, amiga de Alicia y Carmela. abused by her stepfather Daniel. With the help of Carmela, she eventually tells her mother the truth and faces up to him. loves Jorge and, eventually, marries him

 

Silvia Miranda -  Eva Prado:  esposa de Manuel, madre de Jorge. dies early in novela.

 

Soledad - esposa muerta de Gerardo

 

Sonia Aguilera -  Carmela del Valle:  madre de Marisela, esposa de Rigoberto. amiga de Duñia. amante de Dario. marries Max and dies offscreen about halfway through novela

 

Susana Oviedo ("Susy") -

 

 

 

 

 

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