Soy tu dueña


Soy tu dueña is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nicandro Díaz González for Televisa. It is a remake of the telenovela La Dueña, produced in 1995.
Lucero, Fernando Colunga, Gabriela Spanic, Sergio Goyri, Jacqueline Andere, Ana Martín and Eduardo Capetillo star in this telenovela.
This was Colunga's second collaboration on-screen with Spanic, since 1998's La usurpadora, and his third collaboration with Lucero, after 2005’s Alborada and 2009’s Mañana es para siempre.
Univision introduced Soy tu dueña in the United States because Corazón salvaje, broadcast weeknights at 9pm/8c, was the least watched telenovela during prime time. It was broadcast from 1 June to 27 December 2010, becoming the most watched telenovela during the 21:00 time slot. The last episode was broadcast on 27 December 2010 with Triunfo del amor replacing it on 3 January 2011.

Plot

Valentina Villalba is a successful businesswoman and the heiress of a great fortune that her parents left to her upon their untimely death during her childhood. She lives in a beautiful mansion in Mexico City with her aunt, Isabel, her cousin, Ivana, and her faithful nanny, Benita. Valentina is a generous woman who shares her fortune and home with her aunt and cousin. But Ivana, Isabel's only child, is consumed with envy and jealousy toward Valentina and believes she deserves everything her cousin has. Valentina is in love with and engaged to marry Alonso Peñalvert. Unbeknownst to Valentina, Ivana and Alonso are having an affair and are conspiring to rob her of all she possesses.
Alonso stands Valentina up at the altar on their wedding day, but doesn't escape with Ivana as they had planned. Instead, he flees Mexico and the loan sharks to whom he is deeply indebted. Devastated over Alonso's betrayal and unaware of his secret relationship with Ivana, Valentina changes from a sweet and sensible woman into a cold, authoritarian and bitter person. She swears never to fall in love again and decides to isolate herself at her family's hacienda, "Los Cascabeles", where she intends to live while managing the estate. At "Los Cascabeles" and the town, she becomes known to all as "La Víbora", Spanish for viper or snake, due to her cold-hearted personality.
There, she meets her neighbor, José Miguel Montesinos, an attractive, intelligent and sensitive young man who falls in love with her beauty and strong personality. With his father and mother, Federico and Leonor Montesinos, José Miguel has relocated from Mexico City to his family's rundown and neglected hacienda due to his father's poor health. Despite the poor financial state in which his family finds itself and against his mother's wishes, José Miguel is determined to make the hacienda profitable as it was during his youth and a haven for his sick father.
Valentina's family decides to join her at "Los Cascabeles". Thus, begins a story of lies, deceptions, duplicity and treachery in which José Miguel must fight for Valentina's love against not only Ivana, who has got infatuated with him, but also against the wishes of his own mother and Valentina's ruthless ranch foreman, Rosendo Gavilán, who has fallen in love with Valentina.

Cast

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Recurring and guest stars