Adela Amalia Noriega Méndez (born 24 October 1969), better known as Adela Noriega (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈðela noˈɾjeɣa]), is a Mexican actress. Noriega came to prominence as a teenager, starring in teen-oriented coming-of-age telenovelas in the late 1980s. Some of her most notable works include Quinceañera (1987), Dulce Desafío (1989), María Isabel (1997), El Privilegio de Amar (1999), El Manantial (2001) and Amor Real (2003). Noriega's success as a leading actress has led her to be known as one of the "Queens" of the genre.

Adela Noriega was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. Her father died when she was very young and her mother passed away in 1995. She has two siblings; an older sister, Reyna, and a younger brother, Alejandro.

Noriega was discovered as a child, at the age of twelve she was scouted in a shopping centre while she was walking with her mother. Shortly after, she began to work as a fashion model and started appearing in TV commercials and music videos. After being spotted on a shooting of a commercial by Patty de Llano, wife of the producer Luis de Llano Macedo, she began working as a teen actress. She made her television debut at the age of fourteen in the telenovela Principessa and shortly after she participated in Juana Iris. In both shows she interpreted antagonists. She also guest starred on the comic show Cachún cachún ra ra! for a few years.

Fernando Colunga (born Fernando Colunga Olivares, pronounced: [feɾˈnando koˈluŋɡa oliˈβaɾes]; March 3, 1966 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actor known for his work in Mexican telenovelas.

Some of Colungas' best known television work include Maria la del Barrio with Thalía, Esmeralda with Leticia Calderón, La Usurpadora with Gabriela Spanic, Abrazame muy Fuerte with Aracely Arámbula, Amor Real with Adela Noriega, Alborada with Lucero, Pasion with Susana González, Mañana Es Para Siempre with Silvia Navarro & Lucero, Soy tu dueña with Lucero & Gabriela Spanic. Colunga received his drama education at CEA (Centro de Educación Artística de Televisa).

Born on March 3, in Mexico City, he was an only child of Don Fernando Colunga and Margarita Olivares.

He graduated from the University of Mexico as a civil engineer, but dreamed of becoming an actor. In 1988 he started out his career as a stand-in in various movies and as a stunt double in the telenovela Dulce desafío. Around this time he also joined the cast of the children's show Plaza Sesamo and small roles in Madres Egoistas and Cenizas y diamantes. In 1992 he landed his first major role in television as Chicho in the successful Maria Mercedes alongside Thalía. Supporting roles in Mas alla del puente and Marimar soon followed, but it wasn't until he landed the role of Luis Fernando de la Vega in María la del Barrio that he became a household name. Since the mid 1990s he's been one of the best known leading actors in Mexican telenovelas. In 2003 he played leading role in Amor real alongside Adela Noriega.

Israel Jaitovich (born 12 August 1969, Mexico City) is a Premios TVyNovelas award-winning Mexican actor, producer, writer and racing car driver. He produced and co-hosted the Televisa variety series Desmadruga2.

Jaitovich began his acting career in 1991, in the role of Nicolas on the telenovela Capricho, and has appeared on further Televisa programs, some of which have aired on Univision in the United States. His other Televisa appearances, mostly on the Canal de las Estrellas, were in Amada Enemiga, La Mentira, Infierno en el Paraiso, and Otro Rollo.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003 he was given his own television series, El Bano, his debut as a producer. Desmadruga2, his most notable^{[citation needed]} television, series premiered in 2007. This series received a Premios TVyNovelas award for Best Entertainment Program^{[citation needed]} and has continues to broadcast on the Canal de Las Estrellas in Mexico and Univision in the U.S.

Jaitovich is also a racing car driver, and currently^[update] drives the #33 car in the NASCAR Corona Series. Previously he raced in the Mexican Formula Three, and was a motorcycling racing champion.^{[citation needed]} He is also involved in charitable events.^{[citation needed]}

Guy Frederick Ecker (born February 9, 1959) is an American actor better known for his work in telenovelas. Ecker became a household name in Latin America for his portrayal of Sebastián Vallejo in the Colombian telenovela Café, con aroma de mujer. A second Colombian production, Guajira also proved successful. In 1998, he moved to Mexico and won his first leading role in a Mexican telenovela, playing opposite Kate del Castillo in the telenovela La Mentira, which also became a huge success. Leading roles in Salomé and Heridas de Amor followed. American viewers may be familiar with him through his work on the television show Las Vegas as Detective Luis Perez (who is killed in the Iraq War).

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Ecker is the third out of five children (3 girls, 2 boys) of American parents Marion and Bob Ecker. His father was a businessman, originally from Wisconsin, who worked for several multinational companies and, during his childhood, Ecker lived in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico.

Carla Estrada (born circa 1957 in Mexico City) is one of the foremost telenovela producers of Latin America.

On 2005 the Mexican government decided to place a statue of the producer in one of Mexico City's most important parks and on January, 2007 she appeared on People En Español's list of The 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the world. When aired in the United States, Estrada's telenovela Amor Real shocked the world by having higher ratings than all of the other television shows in America; placing Univision on top of American networks such as NBC and ABC.

Estrada went to the UAM in Xochimilco to study psychology. She decided not to follow that career soon after, however, and she asked to have her major changed. Given a choice of new classes she could take, she chose communications, in part because her father was a journalist and her mother an actress.

Before graduating from the UAM in 1978, Estrada had already been hired by Televisa. She made history at Televisa by becoming the first woman producer in Mexican television history, but her beginnings were humble: at first, no celebrity wanted to work with her. Over the years this has changed, however, and she has produced some of Mexico's (and Latin America's) most famous soap operas, while working with such famous actors as Adamari López, Adela Noriega, Lucero, Gabriela Roel and many more. Estrada was asked to produce soap operas for Televisa by Victor Hugo O'Farril. Her first soap opera was Pobre Juventud. Before that, she had been the producer of the teen-oriented show, XETU, where many superstars, such as Gloria Trevi, participated.