# Soy tu dueña

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.

## Plot

Valentina Villalba (Lucero) 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 a beautiful mansion in Mexico City with her aunt, Isabel (Silvia Pinal), her cousin, Ivana (Gabriela Spanic), and her faithful nanny, Benita (Ana Martín). Valentina is a generous woman who shares her fortune and home with her aunt and cousin. But Ivana, Isabel’s only child, is consumed with envy and jealousy toward Valentina and believes she deserves everything her cousin has.
Valentina is in love with and engaged to marry Alonso Peñalvert (David Zepeda). Unbeknownst to Valentina, Ivana and Alonso are having a secret affair and are conspiring to rob her of all she possesses.
Alonso stands Valentina up at the altar of the church on their wedding day, but does not escape with Ivana as they had planned. Instead, he flees Mexico and the loan sharks to whom he is deeply indebted. Devastated over Alonso’s betrayal and unaware of his secret relationship with Ivana, Valentina changes from a sweet, fair, kind and sensible woman into a cold, authoritarian, bitter and despotic person. She swears never to fall in love again and decides to isolate herself at her family’s hacienda, “Los Cascabeles”, where she intends to live while managing the estate. At “Los Cascabeles” and the neighboring community, she becomes known to all as “La Víbora", Spanish for viper or snake, due to her implacable and cold-hearted personality.
There, she meets her neighbor, José Miguel Montesinos (Fernando Colunga), an attractive, intelligent and sensitive young man who immediately falls in love with her beauty and strong personality. With his father and mother, Federico (Eric del Castillo) and Leonor Montesinos (Jacqueline Andere), José Miguel has relocated from Mexico City to his family’s rundown and neglected hacienda due to his father’s poor health. Despite the poor financial state in which his family finds itself and against his mother’s wishes, José Miguel is determined to make the hacienda profitable as it was during his youth and a haven for his sick father.
Valentina’s aunt, cousin and nanny decide 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 got infatuated with him, but also against the wishes of his own mother and Valentina’s ruthless ranch foreman, Rosendo Gavilán (Sergio Goyri), who has fallen in love with Valentina.

## Cast
### Main

* Lucero as Valentina Villalba Rangel
* Fernando Colunga as José Miguel Montesinos
* Gabriela Spanic as Ivana Dorantes Rangel
* Sergio Goyri as Rosendo Gavilán
* Jacqueline Andere as Leonor de Montesinos
* Ana Martín as Benita Garrido
* Eduardo Capetillo as Horacio Acosta

#### Also main

* David Zepeda as Alonso Peñalvert
* Julio Alemán as Ernesto Galeana
* Eric del Castillo as Federico Montesinos
* Carlos Bracho as Father Justino Samaniego #1
* José Carlos Ruiz as Sabino Mercado
* Marisol del Olmo as Gabriela Islas
* Fabián Robles as Felipe Santibáñez
* Ana Bertha Espín as Enriqueta de Macotela
* David Ostrosky as Moisés Macotela
* Rossana San Juan as Crisanta Camargo
* Fátima Torre as Iluminada Camargo
* Cristina Obregón as Sandra Macotela
* Paul Stanley as Timoteo
* Mario del Río as Filadelfo Porras
* Claudia Ortega as Teresa de Granados
* Eduardo Rivera as Juan Granados
* Diego Ávila as Chuy Granados

#### Recurring and guest stars

* Gerardo Albarrán as Nerón Almoguera
* Claudio Báez as Óscar Ampudia
* Tony Bravo as Evelio Zamarripa / Úrsulo Barragán
* Arsenio Campos as Father Justino Samaniego #2
* Guillermo Capetillo as Rogelio Villalba
* Aurora Clavel as Angustias
* Emoé de la Parra as Narda de Ampudia
* Anabel Ferreira as Amparo
* Vicente Herrera as Dante Espíndola
* Martha Julia as Bridesmaid
* Pilar Montenegro as Arcelia Olivares
* Diana Osorio as Margarita Corona
* Raúl Padilla "Chóforo" as Father Ventura
* Alejandra Procuna as Brenda Castaño
* Eduardo Rodríguez as Dr. Esteban Noguera
* Alejandro Ruiz as Nazario Melgarejo
* Myrrah Saavedra as Leonela de Castaño
* Marisol Santacruz as Cecilia Rangel de Villalba
* Juan Carlos Serrán as Librado Manzanares
* Tony Vela as Commander Bruno Toledo

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Association | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
| 2010 | People en Español Awards | Best Telenovela | Soy tu dueña | Nominated |
| 2010 | People en Español Awards | Best Actress | Lucero | Nominated |
| 2010 | People en Español Awards | Best Actor | Fernando Colunga | Won |
| 2010 | People en Español Awards | Best Female or Male Villain | Gabriela Spanic | Nominated |
| 2010 | People en Español Awards | Best Female or Male Villain | Sergio Goyri | Nominated |
| 2010 | People en Español Awards | Best Couple | Lucero Fernando Colunga | Nominated |
| 2010 | People en Español Awards | Best Remake | Soy tu dueña | Nominated |
| 2010 | Califa de Oro Awards | Outstanding Performance | Eric del Castillo | Won |
| 2010 | TV Adicto Golden Awards | Best Couple | Lucero Fernando Colunga | Won |
| 2010 | TV Adicto Golden Awards | Best Male Villain | Sergio Goyri | Won |
| 2010 | TV Adicto Golden Awards | Best Actor | Fernando Colunga | Won |
| 2010 | TV Adicto Golden Awards | Best Actress | Lucero | Won |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Telenovela | Nicandro Díaz González | Nominated |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Actress | Lucero | Nominated |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Actor | Fernando Colunga | Won |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Antagonist Actress | Jacqueline Andere | Nominated |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Antagonist Actor | Sergio Goyri | Nominated |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Leading Actress | Ana Martín | Nominated |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Leading Actress | Silvia Pinal | Nominated |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Leading Actor | Eric del Castillo | Nominated |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Co-lead Actor | David Zepeda | Nominated |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Female Revelation | Fátima Torre | Won |
| 2011 | 29th TVyNovelas Awards | Best Male Revelation | Paul Stanley | Won |
| 2011 | Galardones a los grandes de Televisa | Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award for an Executive Producer | Nicandro Díaz González | Won |
| 2011 | Galardones a los grandes de Televisa | Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award for an Actress | Lucero | Won |
| 2011 | Galardones a los grandes de Televisa | Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award for an Actress | Silvia Pinal | Won |
| 2011 | Galardones a los grandes de Televisa | Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award for an Actor | Eric del Castillo | Won |
| 2011 | Galardones a los grandes de Televisa | Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award for an Actor | José Carlos Ruiz | Won |
| 2011 | Bravo Awards | Best Leading Actress | Silvia Pinal | Won |
| 2011 | Bravo Awards | Best Leading Actor | Julio Alemán | Won |
| 2011 | Bravo Awards | Best Female Revelation | Fátima Torre | Won |
| 2011 | Latin ACE Awards | Best Soap | Soy tu dueña | Won |
| 2011 | Latin ACE Awards | Best Actress | Lucero | Won |
| 2011 | Latin ACE Awards | Best Direction | Salvador Garcini Ricardo de la Parra | Won |
| 2011 | ASCAP Awards | Best Telenovela Song | "Dueña de tu amor" by Lucero | Won |
| 2020 | TV Adicto Golden Awards | Best Rerun | Soy tu dueña | Won |