List of La Madrastra characters

La Madrastra is a Mexican telenovela that aired on El Canal de las Estrellas in 2005.

The telenovela follows María's attempts to regain her children's love without telling them who she really is, her complicated relationship with her ex-husband, Esteban, and her quest to find out which of her former friends really killed Patricia.

María Fernández Acuña (Victoria Ruffo), the series protagonist, is wrongly sentenced to life in prison after her friend, Patricia, is murdered in Aruba.

After twenty years, María is released for good behavior and returns to Mexico City to confront her husband and friends who abandoned her, and to reunite with her two children, Héctor and Estrella.

Despite originally doubting her innocence, María rekindles her relationship with Esteban, and they remarry so that she can be closer to her children, whom she fears to tell that she is their mother until she has cleared her name.

The promotional poster for *La Madrastra* , which depicts thirteen of the main characters. In the center and top left: María ( Victoria Ruffo ). At the bottom, from left to right: Carmela ( Margarita Isabel ), Servando (Lorenzo de Rodas), Alba ( Jacqueline Andere ), Esteban ( César Évora ), Fabiola ( Sabine Moussier ), Bruno ( René Casados ), Daniela ( Cecilia Gabriela ), and Demetrio ( Guillermo García Cantú ). In the top right, clockwise from bottom: Leonel ( Eduardo Capetillo ), Héctor ( Mauricio Aspe ), Estrella ( Ana Layevska ), and Ángel ( Miguel Ángel Biaggio ).