La Intrusa

La Intrusa (The Outsider) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ignacio Sada for Televisa in 2001. It is a remake of the Venezuela telenovela Valentina, produced in 1975. It stars Gabriela Spanic, Arturo Peniche, Laura Zapata, Chantal Andere, Sergio Sendel, Karla Álvarez, Dominika Paleta and Guillermo García Cantú. It was the second collaboration on-screen between Spanic, Andere, and Paleta, who three worked in La usurpadora (1998). Plot Rodrigo Junquera, who is close to death after an illness, decides to ask the nanny of his young child, Virginia Martínez, to marry him so she can look after his children when he's gone. Virginia is a noble, young woman who is in love with Rodrigo's eldest son, Carlos Alberto. After his death it is discovered that Virginia is Rodrigo's wife, the heir of all his wealth. Carlos Alberto, along with his siblings, then accuse her of being an ambitious woman who married Rodrigo in secret.