La viuda negra (telenovela)

La viuda negra
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Yesmer Uribe Gustavo Bolívar
Based on	La Patrona de Pablo Escobar: Vida y muerte de Griselda Blanco by José Guarnizo
Written by	Juan José Gaviria
Story by	José Guarnizo
Directed by	Carlos Cock William González Zafra Alejandro Lozano Alejandro García
Creative director(s)	Gabriela Monroy
Starring	See list
Theme music composer	Francis Amat
Opening theme	"Cuidado" performed by Samo
Country of origin	Mexico United States Colombia
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	144
Production
Executive producer(s)	Hugo León Ferrer
Producer(s)	Madeleine Contreras Dereck Bond
Editor(s)	Alba Merchan Hamann
Release
Original network	UniMás Caracol Televisión Televisa
Picture format	NTSC 480i HDTV 1080i
Audio format	Stereophonic
First shown in	United States
Original release	February 23, 2014 – present

La viuda negra (The Black Widow) is a 2014 Spanish-language telenovela produced by RTI Producciones and Televisa for United States-based television network Univisión and for Colombia-based television network Caracol Television. It is an adaptation of the book La patrona de Pablo Escobar of José Guarnizo based on history from Griselda Blanco.

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	81		February 23, 2014	June 8, 2014
	2	63		February 28, 2016[1]	May 22, 2016

Season 1 (2014)

The story of Griselda Blanco, a woman who as a teenager was raped by her stepfather (only once). Griselda decides to leave home because her mother did not believe her stepfather abused her. Griselda joins a gang of criminals in order to survive alone in the world. Griselda falls for "Cejas" the first man who betrays her and thus was born "La viuda negra", a woman who murdered her three husbands for having betrayed her.^[2]

Season 2 (2016)

Griselda has a second chance to live, but to save her son, who is sentenced to die in the electric chair, Griselda agrees to work with the American government and help end a dangerous drug cártel, whose leader is José Joaquín Guerra, alias "El Diablo".^[3]

Griselda feels lost and desolate in love, until she meets her guardian angel, Ángel Escudero. This time, the widow will have to choose between returning to wear the crown as "Queen of Cocaine" or secure the future of her new family.^[3]

Cast

Main

Actor	Character	Season
		1	2
Ana Serradilla	Griselda Blanco[4]	Main
Julián Román	Richi[5]	Main	Guest
Ramiro Meneses	Sugar[6]	Main
Juan Pablo Gamboa	Norm Jones[7]	Main[8]
Eileen Moreno	Young Griselda	Main
Lucho Velasco	Robayo[9]	Main
Margarita Reyes	Celia	Main
Alex Gil	Killer	Main
Francisco Bolívar	Agente García	Main	Guest
Jenny Osorio	Juliana	Main
Emilia Ceballos	Katty	Main
Katherine Porto	Susana	Main
Raúl Méndez[10]	Joaquí Guerra "El Diablo"		Main
Luis Roberto Guzmán[11]	Ángel Escudero		Main
Daniel Lugo	TBA		Main
César Mora	TBA		Main
Martín Karpan	Brian Ferguson		Main
María Fernanda Yepes	Venus		Main
Héctor García	TBA		Main
Claudio Cataño	TBA		Main
Eduardo Victoria	TBA		Main
Hugo Albores	Zarcos		Main
Alfredo Anhert	Vicente		Main
Angeline Moncayo	Daga[1]		Main
Sandra Beltrán	TBA		Main

Recurring

Actor	Character	Season
		1	2
Tiaré Scanda	Ana Blanco	Recurring
Viviana Serna	Karla Otálvaro	Recurring
Julián Farietta	Michael Corleone Blanco	Recurring
Yessy García	Silvio	Recurring
Camilo Wilson	Cejas	Recurring
Ana Soler	Señora Restrepo	Recurring
María José Vargas	Child Griselda	Recurring
Norma Nivia	La Alemana	Recurring
Carlos Felipe Sánchez	Young Richi	Recurring
Sebastián Eslava	Robert Jones	Recurring
Luis Fernando Montoya	Enzo Vittoria	Recurring
Mauricio Mejía	Pablo Escobar	Recurring
Roberto Manrique	Doménico Vittoria[12]		[lower-alpha 1]

Note(s)

1. The status of this actor/character in season 2 has not been confirmed.

Broadcast

The series premiered on February 23, 2014, in United States on UniMás, on September 1, 2014, in Colombia on Caracol Televisión.^[13]

References

1. "Actores piden mejorar condiciones de trabajo tras accidente de Angeline Moncayo". caracol.com.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 February 2016.
2. Univision Network. "Sinopsis de 'La Viuda Negra'" (in Spanish). Univision. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
3. "¡No te pierdas La Viuda Negra II! Estreno mundial 28 de febrero a las 10PM/9C por UniMás". uvideos.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2016.
4. "Griselda Blanco Interpretado por Ana Serradilla". caracoltv.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2015.
5. "Richi Interpretado por Julián Román". caracoltv.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2015.
6. "Sugar Interpretado por Ramiro Meneses". caracoltv.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2015.
7. "Norm Jones Interpretado por Juan Pablo Gamboa". caracoltv.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2015.
8. "¡Estaba vivo! Norm Jones regresa en busca de Griselda". uvideos.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 March 2016.
9. "Robayo Interpretado por Luis Alfredo Velasco". caracoltv.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2015.
10. "Raúl Méndez se convierte en El Diablo". uvideos.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2016.
11. "Por confirmar: Antagonista de 'La viuda negra 2' aparece borracho en el set". caracoltv.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2016.
12. "'La viuda negra 2', debut en Televisa de Roberto Manrique". eluniverso.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2016.
13. "Canal Caracol anuncia el estreno de la serie 'La viuda negra'". vanguardia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 February 2016.