# La Hija del Jardinero

La Hija Del Jardinero ("The Gardener's Daughter") is a Mexican telenovela directed by Luis Alberto Lamata. It aired from August 18, 2003 until April 23, 2004 on TV Azteca in Mexico.

## Plot

La Hija Del Jardinero was the first soap opera or telenovela that featured actress Mariana Ochoa. Ochoa played the main role, Luisa Fernanda, a talented and beautiful girl from a family that hides a secret. She fell in love with the character Carlos Eduardo, a smart doctor, who has a girlfriend named Jennifer de la Vega.
As predictable as this seems, this medium soap-opera talks about many ordinary things in life: love, exile, hate, greed and all the small things that life is about. However, the interesting plot finds a way to intertwine the characters in the most irrational and unexpected way, where Luisa Fernanda falls in love with her stepbrother Carlos Eduardo, where none of them knows the truth of their past.
Years ago, Luisa Fernanda's mother, Amelia, fell in love with Luis Alejandro Montero and got pregnant. Amelia's father, Fernando, got so mad that he never let her come back home, thinking that the gardener was the father. The fact is that the real father Luis Alejandro Montero whose first action was to unrecognize his daughter and immediately marry an older woman, Marisa Gomez Ruiz. She had a son, who fell in love years later with Amelia's daughter, Luisa Fernanda. When Montero married Marisa, the owner of the bank, he wanted to ruin her and her son Carlos Eduardo when she goes to a coma but he fails. Consuela, Amelia's sister, who hated her niece Luisa and was in love with Montero later dies in a car accident trying to reach her niece to tell her father the truth: Luisa Fernanda will be the heiress of her grandfather Fernando Alkantera too or the only one and not only or at all Consuela.

## Cast

| Actor | Character | Known as |
| Mariana Ochoa | Luisa Fernanda Pérez / young Amelia Alcántara | Main Heroine, daughter of Amelia and Luis Alejandro, adopted daughter of Pedro, in love with Carlos Eduardo |
| Carlos Torres | Carlos Eduardo Gómez Ruíz | Main Hero, doctor, son of Marisa, in love with Luisa Fernanda |
| José Alonso | Fernando Alcántara | Villain in first episodes, then good. Rich businessman, father of Amelia and Consuelo |
| Sergio Kleiner | Lic. Antonio Ordóñez | Attorney, collegaue of Marisa |
| Fernando Ciangherotti | Luis Alejandro Montero | Main Villain. Husband of Marisa, stepfather of Carlos, father of Luisa Fernanda and Armando |
| Ramiro Huerta | Pedro Pérez | Gardener, husband of Amelia. |
| Kenya Gascon | Marisa Gómez Ruíz | Bank owner, mother of Carlos Eduardo, wife of Luis Alejndro |
| Ángela Fuste | Amelia Alcántara | Daughter of Don Fernando, mother of Luisa Fernanda, wife of Pedro, died in a car accident |
| Alpha Acosta | Consuelo Alcántara | Main Villain. Daughter of Don Fernando, wife of Heriberto, died in a car accident, when she hallucinates her sister |
| Gerardo Acuña | Heriberto Sotomayor | Villain, Husband of Consuelo, father of Vanessa, died of a brain tumour |
| Alejandra Lazcano | Vanessa Sotomayor | Daughter of Heriberto, friend of Luisa Fernada, in love with Carlos Eduardo then with Orlando |
| Gabriela Vergara | Jennifer de la Vega | Villain. In love with Carlos Eduardo, sister of Carolina |
| Kenya Mori | Carolina 'Caro' de la Vega | Younger sister of Jennifer, in love with Armando |
| Betty Monroe | Andreina Torres | Colleague of Jennifer, lover of Luis Alejandro |
| Eduardo Victoria | Leopoldo Araoz | Villain, Friend of Luis Alejandro, later enemy of Luis Alejandro |
| Ana Ofelia Murguía | Rigoberta Rondón | Don Fernando's housekeeper |
| Loló Navarro | Rosario | Nanny of Carlos Eduardo |
| Laura Padilla | Sister Joaquina | Sister of Pedro |
| Mariana Urrutia | Sister Sonrisa | Friend of Luisa Fernanda |
| Nubia Martí | Guadalupe 'Lupe' González | Collegaue of Marisa, mother of César, in love with Lic. Ordóñez |
| Luis Alberto López | César Gonzalez | Friend of Luisa Fernanda, son of Guadalupe, in love with Clarita |
| Erika de la Rosa | Clarita | Maid in Marisa's house, in love with César |
| Carina Sarti | Alicia | Luis Alejandro's secretary |
| Abel Woolrich | Pancho | Gardener, collegaue of Pedro |
| Angélica Magaña | Lucero | Friend of Luisa Fernanda and Vanessa |
| Mariana Isla | Gabriela | School-mate of Carolina, Luisa Fernanda, Lucero and Vanessa |
| Eduardo Arroyuelo | Augusto Prieto | Attorney, friend of Luisa Fernanda |
| Masha Kostiurina | young Consuelo Alcántara | Daughter of Don Fernando |
| Carlos East Jr. | Armando Pereira / young Luis Alejandro Montero | Son of Luis Alejandro, in love with Carolina |
| Luis Gerónimo Abreu | Dr. Alfredo Anzola | Doctor |
| Cinthia Vázquez | Xóchitl Infante | Maid in Alfredo'house, in love with Alfredo |
| José Antonio Coro | Dr. Arreola | Doctor |
| Juan Luis Orendain | Dr. Serrano | Doctor |
| Rodrigo Abed | Guillermo | PR manager |
| Seraly Morales | Marina | Colleague of Guillermo |
| Alberto Casanova | Bobby | Friend of Armando |
| Fernando Sarfati | Rubén Cortés | Father of César |
| Jesús Vargas | Francisco Solórzano | Private detective, worked for Luis Alejandro |
| Luis Penagos | Ignacio | |
| Luis Ernesto Franco | Orlando | Musician, in love with Vanessa |
| Dora Cordero | | |
| Shirley Sánchez | | |