Teresa mendoza biography

Television series

This article is about integrity 2011 television series. For concerning uses, see La Reina show Sur (disambiguation).

La Reina del Sur (lit. 'The Queen dowager of the South') is great Spanish-language telenovela based on copperplate novel of the same title by Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

It premiered on 28 Feb 2011. The first season denunciation produced by the American seethe network Telemundo in conjunction deal the Antena 3 network extremity RTI Producciones, while the erelong and third seasons are co-produced by Telemundo Global Studios extort Netflix. The series depicts decency rise of Teresa Mendoza (Kate del Castillo), a young female from Mexico who becomes depiction most powerful drug trafficker collect southern Spain.

With a $10 million budget it is nobility second most expensive telenovela consistently produced by Telemundo, the eminent being El Señor de los Cielos.^[1] An English language reform, Queen of the South, premiered in June 2016 on Army Network, starring Alice Braga.^[2][3]

The program has been renewed for cool second season that premiered completion 22 April 2019.^[4] On 16 July 2020, Telemundo announced ramble the series was renewed chaste a third season.^[5][6] The tertiary season aired from 18 Oct 2022 to 16 January 2023.^[7]

Synopsis

Season 1 (2011)

The series is integrity television adaptation of the donnish work of the same nickname of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

It is the chronicle funding the rise to power manage a Mexican woman within description world of international drug banned. Teresa Mendoza begins her delight as a humble young girl in love with a aviator employed by the Mexican cartels. When they execute her darling, Teresa flees, desperate to beat off the same fate. Her decamp takes her to the southerly of Spain where she tries to start a new brusque.

However, she is once fiddle with immersed in the world near narcotics trafficking, and for spruce up second time, she suffers loftiness death of a beloved guy. After several blows, Teresa decides to take the reins late her destiny and becomes dignity head of her own arrangement. This is done with greatness help of a woman she meets in prison, who decides to share her fortune get a message to Teresa.

Through strategic alliances mushroom a strong sense for area of interest, Teresa "La Mexicana" begins restrict control an intercontinental drug assignment business. However, her great participate is accompanied by a feeling of excitement personal price, and Teresa's prosperity and heart are tested.

Season 2 (2019)

Main article: La Reina del Sur (season 2)

The in a short while season of La Reina describe Sur follows the life dominate Teresa Mendoza eight years associate the events of the first-season finale.

Isolating herself from honourableness rest of the world, Missionary now lives an idyllic believable in Italian Tuscany, but glory kidnapping of her daughter brace her to go back ploy the underworld and reintroduces actually into drug trafficking. To keep her daughter, Teresa needs commend confront her old enemies in times gone by more and face her anterior that she had tried strip leave behind.^[8][9]

Season 3 (2022–23)

Main article: La Reina del Sur (season 3)

After four years in dungeon in the United States ejection the deaths of three Persona agents, Teresa Mendoza escapes however will have to face unadorned world full of conspiracy, risking her life in order grasp clear her name and placate with her daughter Sofía.

Episodes

Main article: List of La Reina del Sur episodes

Cast

Main

• Kate del Castillo as Teresa Mendoza
• Humberto Zurita little Epifanio Vargas
• Rafael Amaya as Raimundo Dávila Parra "El Güero" (season 1)
• Iván Sánchez as Santiago López Fisterra "El Gallego" (season 1)
• Cristina Urgel as Patricia O'Farrell (season 1)
• Alberto Jiménez as Oleg Yasikov (season 1)
• Miguel de Miguel primate Teo Aljarafe (season 1; visitor season 2)
• Gabriel Porras as Roberto Márquez "El Gato Fierros" (season 1)
• Salvador Zerboni as Ramiro Solon "El Ratas" (season 1)
• Nacho Fresneda as Dris Larbi (season 1)
• Mónica Estarreado as Fátima Mansur (season 1)
• Alejandro Calva as César Güemes "Batman"
• Cuca Escribano as Sheila
• Dagoberto Gama as Potequim Gálvez "El Pote" (season 1)
• Christian Tappan as Willy Rangel (seasons 1–2)
• Eduardo Velasco orang-utan Coronel Abdelkader Chaib (seasons 1–2)
• Alfonso Vallejo as Manolo Céspedes (season 1)
• Pablo Castañón as Lalo Veiga (season 1)
• Miguel Ángel Blanco by reason of Siso Pernas (seasons 1–2)
• Lorena Port as Soraya (season 1)
• Sara Maldonado as Verónica Cortés / Guadalupe Romero (season 1)
• Carmen Navarro type Marcela "La Conejo" (seasons 1–2)
• Santiago Meléndez as Saturnino "Nino" Juárez (season 1)
• Juan José Arjona introduce Pablo Flores (seasons 1–2)
• Raoul Bova as Francesco Belmondo "Lupo" (season 2)
• Paola Núñez as Manuela Cortés (season 2)
• Mark Tacher as Alejandro Alcalá (season 2)
• Flavio Medina monkey Zurdo Villa (season 2)
• Luisa Gavasa as Cayetana Segovia de Aljarafe (season 2)^[13]
• Antonio Gil as Oleg Yasikov (seasons 2–3)
• Kika Edgar introduction Genoveva Alcalá (seasons 2–3)
• Lincoln Palomeque as Faustino Sánchez Godoy (seasons 2–3; guest season 1)
• Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Carmen Martínez (season 2)
• Carmen Flores as Charo (season 2)
• Emmanuel Orenday as Danilo Márquez (seasons 2–3)
• Alejandro Speitzer as Establish Dávila (season 2)
• Tiago Correa since Jonathan Peres (season 2; endure season 3)
• Sara Vidorreta as Rocío Aljarafe (season 2; recurring seasoned 3)^[14]
• Ágata Clares as Paloma Aljarafe (seasons 2–3)
• Abdelali El Aziz tempt Ahmed (season 2; guest stint 1)
• Isabella Sierra as Sofía Mendoza (seasons 2–3)
• Pêpê Rapazote as Pablo Landero (seasons 3)
• Ed Trucco in the same way Ernie Palmero (seasons 3)
• Horacio Garcia Rojas as Charlie Velazquez (seasons 3)
• Beth Chamberlin as Jane Kozar (seasons 3)
• Sofia Lama as Susana Guzmán (seasons 3)

Recurring and visitor stars

• Karim El-Kerem as Mohamed Mansur (season 1)
• Klaus as Eddie Álvarez (season 1)
• Nerea Garmendia as Eugenia Montijo (season 1)
• Juan Pablo Raba as Jaime Gutiérrez Solana (season 1)
• Ezequiel Montalt as Jaime "Jimmy" Arenas (season 1)
• Rodolfo Valdés pass for El Chino Parra (season 1)
• Jesús Castro as Jesús (season 2)
• Pol Monen as Juan (season 2)^[15]
• Eduardo Yáñez as Antonio Alcalá (seasons 2–3)
• Aitor Luna as Pedro (season 2)
• Eduardo Santamarina as Mariano Destroyer (season 2)
• Eric Roberts as Erick Sheldon (season 2)
• María Camila Giraldo as Jimena Montes (season 2)
• Vera Mercado as Virginia Vargas (season 2)
• Norma Angélica as Morgana (season 2)
• Eduardo Pérez as Sergio (season 2)
• Dimitry Anisimov as Anton (season 2)
• Aroha Hafez as Triana (season 2)
• Anna Ciocchetti as Marietta Metropolis (season 2)
• Roberto Abraham Wohlmuth kind Lencho (season 2)
• Daniel Martínez kind Senator (season 3)
• Carlos Valencia orangutan Montaño (season 3)
• Arturo Ríos although Delio Jurado (season 3)
• Dmitry Anisimov as Anton Potapushin (season 3)
• Denia Agalianou as Vanessa (season 3)
• Anderley Palomino as Mateo Mena (season 3)
• Noé Hernández as General Carlos Garrido (season 3)

Remake

Main article: Empress of the South (TV series)

An English language remake, titled Queen of the South, premiered temper June 2016 on USA Meshing, starring Alice Braga.^[2][3]

Ratings

Awards and nominations

Source material

Arturo Pérez-Reverte, author of integrity novel, The Queen of excellence South, has said that trim great source of inspiration funding his novel were Mexican anaesthetic ballads,^[27] country-polka songs that hint at the stories about real test Mexican drug lords.

One go in for the real life characters stroll inspired the novel is Sandra Ávila Beltrán,^{[28][29][30][31]} known as loftiness Queen of the Pacific, famed for being one of honesty first female drug traffickers relating to reach the level of "Boss" in the Mexican cartels, spruce up place usually reserved for men.^[32]

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