La Otra (English: The Other Woman) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Televisa in 2002. It aired on Canal de las Estrellas from May 20 to September 20, 2002. The telenovela stars Juan Soler, Yadhira Carrillo, Jacqueline Andere and Sergio Sendel.

This telenovela was a moderate success in Mexico, airing at 8pm in the summer of 2002, right before the (usually) highest-rated hour of 9pm. It has also grown in popularity amongst telenovela fans of all kinds, thus making it a cult classic of sorts. La Otra was awarded the TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela of the Year in 2003.

Plot
Carlota Guillén (Yadhira Carrillo) lives in Querétaro with her mother, Bernarda (Jacqueline Andere), and her older sister, Eugenia (Mercedes Molto). 

Bernarda pretends to be a respectable lady, while, in fact, she used to be the lover of Leopoldo Guillén, a wealthy man from Guadalajara. Carlota is the latter's daughter and the half-sister of Román (Alejandro Ávila), who is Leopoldo's only legitimate son. When Román finds out that his father has divided his inheritance between him and the daughters of Bernanda, he plans revenge.

Carlota meets Álvaro Ibáñez (Juan Soler), a young doctor from Mexico City. Álvaro has a younger brother named Adrian (Sergio Sendel), who was adopted by his parents. In spite of the fact that their parents have always treated them both the same way, Adrián hates Álvaro. 

Bernarda knows that when her daughters marry, she will have to hand over their share of the inheritance to them. Not wanting to lose control of the money, she always opposes any man approaching her daughters.

Nevertheless, Román manages to seduce Eugenia, leaving her pregnant. Eugenia dies due to complications from childbirth and, at the same time, Bernarda is led to believe that her grandchild was also born dead.

Upon hearing about the death of Bernarda's daughter, Álvaro thinks that the one who died was Carlota. Heartbroken, he leaves the city and goes to live with his parents in Morelos. There, Álvaro will meet Cordelia Portugal (Yadhira Carrillo), who is identical to Carlota. Taking advantage of it, Cordelia will take the place of The Other Woman.

Cast

Main 

Juan Soler as Álvaro Ibáñez Posada
Yadhira Carrillo as Carlota Guillén Sáenz / Cordelia Portugal Sánchez de Ibáñez
Jacqueline Andere as Bernarda Sáenz Rivas vda. de Guillén
Sergio Sendel as Adrián Ibáñez Posada / Adrián Solís

Also main 

Manuel Ojeda as Juan Pedro Portugal
Alejandro Ávila as Román Guillén Caballero / Raúl Guízar
Eugenio Cobo as Father Agustín
Jorge Vargas as Delfino Arriaga
Julio Bracho as Lázaro Arriaga
Toño Mauri as Daniel Mendizábal
Azela Robinson as Mireya Ocampo Herrera

Recurring 

Maty Huitrón as Fabiana Morales Rivas
Lupita Lara as Matilde Sánchez de Portugal
Josefina Echánove as Tomasa López
Alonso Echánove as Refugio "Cuco" Ríos
Luis Couturier as Dr. Justo Ibáñez
Sergio Sánchez as Saltiel Orozco
Sergio Ramos "El Comanche" as Don Joaquín Pardo
Verónica Jaspeado as Apolonia Portugal Sánchez
Ignacio Guadalupe as Santos Mérida
Roberto Antúnez as Father Fermín
Virginia Gutiérrez as Esperanza
Fernando Robles as Fulgencio Ríos
Gastón Tuset as Dr. Salvador Almanza
Alfonso Iturralde as Narciso Bravo
Zoila Quiñones as Simona Díaz
María Prado as Martina Rubio
Virginia Gimeno as Hilaria Rivero
Isadora González as Paulina de Mendizábal
David Ramos as Father Conrado
Alberto Inzúa as Father Javier
Antonio de la Vega as Isaac Gómez
Carlos González as Benigno Mérida
Rosángela Balbó as Socorro
Lucy Tovar as Celina Chávez
Thelma Dorantes as Carmen
Shirley as Julieta Lugo de Guillén
Esther Guilmáin as Esther
Erika Blenher as Roberta
Carlos Speitzer as Librado Mérida Guillén
Natasha Dupeyrón as Natalia Ibáñez Portugal
Cosme Alberto as Braulio Portugal Rivero
Annie del Castillo as Karen Mendizábal
Constanza Mier as Aída

Guest stars 

Rosa María Bianchi as Guadalupe "Lupita" Posada de Ibáñez
Mercedes Molto as Eugenia Guillén Sáenz
Elsa Cárdenas as Martha Caballero vda. de Guillén
Ofelia Guilmáin as Sabina Herrera vda. de Ocampo
Macaria as Fátima de Salazar
Mónika Sánchez as Regina Salazar
Juan Peláez as Enrique Salazar

Awards and nominations

References

External links

2002 telenovelas
2002 Mexican television series debuts
2002 Mexican television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television shows set in Mexico
Televisa telenovelas