Lucrecia Montesinos Hendrich

* Season 3
* Season 2
* Season 1

 — Lucrecia Montesinos Hendrich, in "Polo (episode)"

**Lucrecia Montesinos Hendrich**, commonly referred to as **Lu**, is a main character through Seasons 1-3 on the Netflix series *Elite*, serving as one of the two secondary antagonists (along with Cayetana) of its first overall story arc. Raised in an upper class backgrond, she is the daughter of the Mexican ambassador in Spain. She attended Las Encinas and has since graduated to study at Columbia University in New York. She is portrayed by Danna Paola.

## Biography

### Background

Lu's parents are diplomats, so she has lived in many countries including Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and Mexico. She lived with her father most of the time as her mother was always on business trips, and was never shown. From spending time in the UAE, she acquired Arabic, which she once used to communicate with Omar over dinner. She has a older half-brother named Valerio, who later attends Las Encinas with her. Lu had the best grades of the class until Nadia’s arrival.

## Throughout the Series

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3

### Season 1

Lu is not happy when new students arrive. First, because she is reluctant to rub shoulders with people from a different background, and also because she fears school competition, especially from Nadia. When Nadia caught Lu and Guzmán having sex in the bathroom, Lu urges Guzmán to seduce Nadia to humiliate her. When he develops real feelings for Nadia, Lu gets jealous.

### Season 2

In Season 2, Lu has her brother, Valerio, back in her life. They have a secret romantic relationship that is very taboo. She hooks up with Valerio while continuing to date Guzmán. She comforts Guzmán after Marina's death and spent the summer in Asturias with his family. Lu is completely dedicated to Guzmán, but realizing he doesn't love her - he dumps her for Nadia.

Lu befriends Cayetana during the season, while her friendship with Carla continues to suffer. Upon finding out that Cayetana is a liar, Lu publicly shames her and everyone else who has crossed her in her life at a public event.

### Season 3

When Valerio returns, Lu confronts him and asks him what he's doing back at school. She finds out he is living in a car and she convinces him to come home when their father is out of town to stay. She tricked him into talking to their father to resolve things - but their father just gets more upset and kicks him out. Lu confronts him saying she is not innocent in all of this. Her father tells her that if she is such an adult, then she can finance her own life and cuts her off.

Realizing that she won't be able to pay for university, Lu realizes she needs to apply for a scholarship. She applies for the Columbia University scholarship, the same one that Nadia wants. They compete for the scholarship throughout the season but Nadia wins it. Nadia and Lu started to form a friendship despite all of this, and Nadia agrees to share the scholarship, 50-50.

At the graduation party, Lu gets in a verbal argument with Polo. She was holding a broken champagne bottle and without fully realizing what she was doing, stabbed him. Polo dies and Lu freaks out. All of her friends band together to make sure that Lu doesn't receive the blame.

At the end of Season 3, Lu goes with Nadia to the airport to fly to New York.
## Physical Appearance

Lu is an attractive young woman with long dark brown hair. Her eyes are dark brown as well. She is of average height and is always seen sporting luxury items; even while in school uniform. She often accessorizes her outfit with headbands and hair clips.

In Season 1, she has wavy brown hair styled with designer headbands. In Season 2, her hair is straight and she starts wearing hairclips. In Season 3, her hair is wavy again.

In terms of makeup, Lu often wears eye liner, fake eyelashes and a bit of lipstick.

## Personality

Lu strives to be the best and is highly competitive. When Nadia arrives, Lu, used to being number one in her class, sees her as a threat, and complains to the headmaster and her teacher about Nadia's hijab due to her prejudice about Islamic culture. She often blackmails people (like Martín, the English teacher) to get what she wants. Lu can be witty and humorous, but her friendly side is quickly overshadowed by her cockiness and ambition.

Lu is also extremely loyal and territorial. She protects those close to her and is hesitant to allow people to interfere in her social circle, unless befriending them would benefit her, as seen with how she acts toward Cayetana during Season 3. During the interrogation scenes, Lu compares the scholarship students arriving at Las Encinas to "introducing a new species" and claims that it alters the environment. However, those who are close to her receive unconditional support and care from her.

## Secret(s)

* Challenged Guzmán to take Nadia's virginity. (exposed)
* Bribed Martin to give her the best score on the exam. (exposed)
* Shared an incestuous relationship with Valerio. (exposed)
* Her father disowned her financially. (exposed)
* Saw that Omar and Malick kissed.
* Accidentally stabbed Polo. (exposed)

## Relationships

### Lu and Guzmán

In the beginning of Season 1, Guzmán and Lu were dating. Lu challenged Guzmán to seduce and humiliate Nadia in an attempt to prevent her from revealing to Azucena that Lu and Guzmán hooked up in the Las Encinas changing room. However, when Nadia and Guzmán started to become close, Lu became jealous and revealed to Nadia the truth.

In Season 2, they are back together although they seem to fight a lot over Guzmán’s new addiction to drugs. During the Halloween party in 63 hours missing, Guzmán confessed to cheating on Lu with Nadia and revealed that he didn't love Lu. They broke up. However, in 84 hours missing, he asks Lu to pretend they are still together in front of his parents and she accepts. Before the party, she finds out that he had sex with Nadia again, so, tired of lies and being used, she reveals Guzmán cheated on her with Nadia in front of the guests.

In Season 3, Lu seems to be more independent and self-assured, accepting that Guzmán doesn’t love her and rejecting him on certain occasions like at Valentine’s party because she realizes she was his last choice., learning that she doesn't need anyone to find her happiness. They end up in good terms, as friends, despite everything he did to Lu because she steems him a lot.

(*See more: Lu and Guzmán*)

### Lu and Nadia

Lu appeared to strongly dislike Nadia from the moment Nadia entered the halls of Las Encinas, most likely due to Nadia threatening her academic status and her anti-Muslim sentiment. Lu even went as far as complaining about Nadia's hijab to the principal, who forced Nadia to take it off if she wanted to remain a student at the school. Lu very much saw Nadia as competition, both for the top spot in their class and for the affection of Lu's boyfriend, Guzmán, who developed feelings for Nadia throughout the first season and consequently left Lu for Nadia. In the third season, due to her being cut off from her family's wealth, Lu competed with Nadia for full scholarship for a scholarship to Columbia University in New York, but as their final semester winded down, Nadia and Lu started bonding and agreed it's best to put everything behind them and decided to become friends.

In Polo, after graduating, Nadia decided to split the scholarship with Lu, after learning about her financial situation. The two girls became even closer due to the generosity and decided to travel to America together.

## Trivia

* Lu speaks three confirmed languages: English, Spanish and Arabic (to the surprise of the Shanna family).
* She lived two years in Abu Dhabi.
* Like another well-known Lucrecia/Lucrezia (Borgia), Lu has engaged in incest.
* Lu initially wanted to attend St. Andrews University, but after her father, Felipe, cut her off from the family fortune, she decided to aim for the scholarship to Columbia University instead.
* It's not explored in the series but Lu has some sort of eating disorder since she doesn't eat breakfast or dinner and she constantly tries to be fit. She is shown stress eating in Cayetana's party after seeing Guzmán partying too hard because of Valerio's drugs.
* She is the second person to commit murder.
	+ Lu is the first female main character to commit murder, the second being Carmen in Season 7.
	+ She is also the first person to leave unharmed after covering up the crime.
* In Season 3, Lu's Instagram account was revealed.
* On October 20, 2023, after the release of the seventh season of the series, Danna Paola stated that she is most likely to return for the last season.

## Appearances

* "Deseo"
* "Sábado noche"
* "El amor es una droga"
* "Todos mienten"
* "Todo va a salir bien"
* "Todo estalla"
* "Assilah"
* "34 hours missing"
* "36 hours missing"
* "59 hours missing"
* "63 hours missing"
* "66 hours missing"
* "84 hours missing"
* "0 hours missing"

### **Season 3**

* "Carla (episode)"
* "Samuel and Guzmán"
* "Cayetana and Valerio"
* "Lu (episode)"
* "Ander (episode)"
* "Rebeka (episode)"
* "Nadia and Omar"
* "Polo (episode)"

## Gallery

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3

## References

1. ↑ *El amor es una droga*
2. ↑ *20 hours missing*
3. ↑ *59 hours missing*
4. ↑ *Samuel and Guzmán*
5. ↑ *20 hours missing*