Soy tu dueña (Literal English translation: I'm your owner, International English title: A Woman of Steel) 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.
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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 her Mexico City mansion with her aunt, Isabel, her cousin, Ivana, and her nanny, Benita. Ivana is consumed with envy and jealousy toward Valentina and believes she deserves everything her cousin possesses. 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 steal her fortune.
Everything changes for Valentina when Alonso leaves her at the altar. From a sweet and sensible young woman, she transforms into a cold, authoritarian, and bitter person. She isolates herself and goes to live at the 'Los Cascabeles' ranch, one of her properties in the countryside. 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.
In the countryside, she meets José Miguel, an attractive, intelligent, and sensitive young man who has recently moved to the neighboring ranch. Between Valentina and José Miguel, several disagreements arise over the boundaries of their lands. She responds haughtily, but José Miguel, nevertheless, falls in love with Valentina's beauty and strong character and becomes determined to win her over.
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 become 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
Main
Lucero as Valentina Villalba
Fernando Colunga as José Miguel Montesinos
Gabriela Spanic as Ivana Dorantes
Sergio Goyri as Rosendo Gavilán
Jacqueline Andere as Leonor
Ana Martín as Benita
Eduardo Capetillo as Horacio
David Zepeda as Alonso Peñalvert
Julio Alemán as Ernesto Galeana
Carlos Bracho as Father Justino
Eric del Castillo as Federico Montesinos
José Carlos Ruiz as Sabino
Marisol del Olmo as Gabriela
Fabián Robles as Felipe
Ana Bertha Espín as Enriqueta
David Ostrosky as Moisés Macotela
Rossana San Juan as Crisanta
Fátima Torre as Iluminada
Cristina Obregón as Sandra Macotela
Paul Stanley as Timoteo
Mario del Río as Filadelfo
Claudia Ortega as Teresa
Eduardo Rivera as Juan