List of La Madrastra characters


La Madrastra is a Mexican telenovela that aired on El Canal de las Estrellas in 2005. The program's main character is María Fernández Acuña, a woman who returns to Mexico after spending 20 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit only to find that her children believe that she is dead and that the picture of an unknown woman hanging above their fireplace is their mother. The telenovela follows María's attempts to regain her children's love without telling them who she really is, her complicated relationship with her ex-husband, Esteban, and her quest to find out which of her former friends really killed Patricia. Including María, the main cast consists of approximately twenty-five characters, as well as other recurring or minor characters.

Main characters

María

María Fernández Acuña, the series protagonist, is wrongly sentenced to life in prison after her friend, Patricia, is murdered in Aruba. After twenty years, María is released for good behavior and returns to Mexico City to confront her husband and friends who abandoned her, and to reunite with her two children, Héctor and Estrella. Despite originally doubting her innocence, María rekindles her relationship with Esteban, and they remarry so that she can be closer to her children, whom she fears to tell that she is their mother until she has cleared her name. However, María's children resent her and consider her to be their wicked stepmother who is trying to usurp their mother's rightful place. After María's name is cleared, she and Esteban finally tell their children the truth, and María is reunited with her children as their mother at long last.

The Suspects