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.
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Series overview
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.
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".
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.
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
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.