La viuda negra (TV series)

*La viuda negra*
La viuda negra
	Season 1 poster
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	Gabriela Monroy
Starring	See list
Theme music composer	Francis Amat
Opening theme	"Cuidado" by Samo
Country of origin	Mexico; United States; Colombia;
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	144
Production
Executive producer	Hugo León Ferrer
Producers	Madeleine Contreras; Dereck Bond;
Production locations	Bogotá, Colombia; Medellín, Colombia; Mexico City, Mexico; New York City, NY, U.S.; Miami, Florida, U.S.;
Editor	Alba Merchan Hamann
Production companies	RTI Producciones; Televisa
Original release
Network	UniMás; Caracol Televisión; Televisa;
Release	February 23, 2014 –; May 22, 2016

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 released
Season	Episodes	First released	Last released
1	81	February 23, 2014 (2014-2-23)	June 8, 2014 (2014-6-8)
2	58	February 28, 2016 (2016-2-28)^[1]	May 22, 2016 (2016-5-22)

Season 1 (2014)

The story of Griselda Blanco, a woman who as a teenager was raped by her stepfather. 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. Her ruthlessness and ability to sell large amounts of cocaine earned her the reputation of The Queen of Cocaine.^[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

Ana Serradilla as Griselda Blanco
Julián Román as Richi
Ramiro Meneses as Sugar
Juan Pablo Gamboa as Norm Jones
Eileen Moreno as Young Griselda
Lucho Velasco as Robayo
Margarita Reyes as Celia
Alex Gil as Killer
Francisco Bolívar as Agente García
Jenni Osorio as Juliana
Emilia Ceballos as Katty
Isabel Cristina Estrada as Abogada
Katherine Porto as Susana
Raúl Méndez as Joaquí Guerra "El Diablo"
Luis Giraldo as Dylan
Héctor de Malba as Alejandro Buendía
Luis Roberto Guzmán as Ángel Escudero
Daniel Lugo as Carlos Sarmiento
César Mora as Pelón
Antonio Jiménez as Tyler
Martín Karpan as Brian Ferguson
María Fernanda Yepes as Venus
Héctor García as Yépez
Alejandro López as Rincón
Luis Carlos Fuquen as "Lokiño"
Claudio Cataño as Robert Jones
Mauricio Bastidas as Capó
Eduardo Victoria as Topo
Piero Melotti as El Zarco
Alfredo Anhert as Vicente
Angeline Moncayo as Daga
Sandra Beltrán as Cecilia

Recurring

Fernando Gaviria as General Guzmán
Tiaré Scanda as Ana Blanco
Viviana Serna as Karla Otálvaro
Julián Farietta as Michael Corleone Blanco
Yessy García as Silvio
Camilo Wilson as Cejas
Rodolfo Silva as Coronel Ronderos
Ana Soler as Señora Restrepo
María José Vargas as Child Griselda
Norma Nivia as La Alemana
Pablo Valentín as Ceferino
Carlos Felipe Sánchez as Young Richi
Luis Eduardo Motoa as Presidente de Colombia
Ilja Rosendahl as State Attorney
Vanessa Acosta Paula Gómez
Camila Kisara as Cinthya
Claudio Cataño as Robert Jones
Luis Fernando Montoya as Enzo Vittoria
Mauricio Mejía as Pablo Escobar
Lucas Velázquez as Eduardo Farfán
Roberto Manrique as Doménico Vittoria

Broadcast

The series premiered on February 23, 2014, in United States on UniMás, on September 1, 2014, in Colombia on Caracol Televisión.^[4]

References

^ "Actores piden mejorar condiciones de trabajo tras accidente de Angeline Moncayo". caracol.com.co (in Spanish). February 2, 2016. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
^ Univision Network. "Sinopsis de 'La Viuda Negra'" (in Spanish). Univision. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
^ ^a ^b "¡No te pierdas La Viuda Negra II! Estreno mundial 28 de febrero a las 10PM/9C por UniMás". uvideos.com (in Spanish). Retrieved February 6, 2016.
^ "Canal Caracol anuncia el estreno de la serie 'La viuda negra'". vanguardia.com (in Spanish). August 29, 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2016.

[caracol.com.co-1] "Actores piden mejorar condiciones de trabajo tras accidente de Angeline Moncayo". caracol.com.co (in Spanish). February 2, 2016. Retrieved February 4, 2016.

[2] Univision Network. "Sinopsis de 'La Viuda Negra'" (in Spanish). Univision. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2014.

[uvideos.com-3] "¡No te pierdas La Viuda Negra II! Estreno mundial 28 de febrero a las 10PM/9C por UniMás". uvideos.com (in Spanish). Retrieved February 6, 2016.

[4] "Canal Caracol anuncia el estreno de la serie 'La viuda negra'". vanguardia.com (in Spanish). August 29, 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2016.

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