The Stepmom

The Stepmom (La madrastra) is a Mexican television series produced by Carmen Armendáriz for TelevisaUnivision. It aired on Las Estrellas from 15 August 2022 to 21 October 2022. The series is a reboot based on the 2005 Mexican telenovela of the same name, and the fifth production of the Fábrica de sueños franchise. The series stars Aracely Arámbula and Andrés Palacios.

Plot
During a trip to Spain, Marcia Cisneros is accused of murdering Nicolás Escalante and is sentenced to 35 years in prison. Esteban Lombardo, her husband, considers her not only a murderer but an adulteress who killed her lover to cover up her betrayal, so he abandons her and files for divorce. Marcia is certain that she is innocent and that among her ex-husband's friends is the murderer, so she studies law while in prison to reopen her case.

Twenty years later, a lawyer manages to get her early release and she returns to Mexico to clear her name and be reunited with her children, but they believe her dead. Lucrecia, Esteban's older sister, placed a portrait of an unknown woman in their home and the children grew up adoring the woman in the portrait. Marcia summons all the suspects, who are shocked to see her, but to win over her children and investigate each of the suspects, she changes her name and introduces herself as Marisa Jones. Marcia forces Esteban to break up with his fiancée in order to marry her, thus becoming the stepmother to her own children.

Cast

 * Aracely Arámbula as Marcia Cisneros / Marisa Jones
 * Andrés Palacios as Esteban Lombardo
 * Marisol del Olmo as Lucrecia Lombardo
 * Juan Carlos Barreto as Father José Jaramillo
 * Martha Julia as Florencia Linares
 * Marco Treviño as Donato Rivas
 * Cecilia Gabriela as Emilia Zetina
 * Juan Martín Jauregui as Bruno Tejeda
 * Isadora González as Inés Lombardo
 * Denia Agalianou as Paula Ferrer
 * Eduardo España as Rufino González "El Tortuga"
 * Montserrat Marañón as Cándida Nuñez
 * Ricardo Fastlicht as Francisco "Pancho" Nuñez
 * Epy Velez as Violeta Pardo
 * Carmen Muga as Alba Bermejo
 * Adrián Di Monte as Álvaro González
 * Iker Madrid as La Condesa
 * Alberto Pavón as Iñaki Arnella
 * David Caro Levy as Hugo Lombardo Cisneros
 * Ana Tena as Lucía Lombardo Cisneros
 * Emiliano González as Rafael Lombardo Cisneros
 * Julia Urbini as Celia Nuñez
 * Sebastían Fouilloux as Omar Escalante
 * Christopher Valencia as Pablo Nuñez
 * José Elías Moreno as Santino González

Guest star

 * Gabriel Soto as Nicolás Escalante

Recurring

 * Vilma Sotomayor as Rebeca Escalante
 * Palmeira Cruz as Betina
 * Diego Soldano as Gaspar Iglesias

Production
In October 2018, the series was announced to be part of the Fábrica de sueños franchise. In May 2022, the series was presented during the Univision upfront for the 2022–2023 television season, with Aracely Arámbula and Andrés Palacios being announced in the lead roles. Filming began on 6 June 2022.