Rubí

For the town in Spain, see Rubí, Barcelona. For the remake broadcast on TV in the Philippines, see Rubi (TV series).

Rubí
Rubi tan bella como perversa...
Genre	Telenovela
Format	Serial drama
Created by	Yolanda Vargas Dulché
Written by	Yolanda Vargas Dulché (original story) Ximena Suarez, Virginia Quintana (adaptation)
Directed by	Eric Morales Benjamín Cann
Starring	Bárbara Mori Eduardo Santamarina Jacqueline Bracamontes Sebastián Rulli Ana Martín
Theme music composer	Reyli
Opening theme	La Descarada by Reyli
Ending theme	La Descarada by Reyli
Country of origin	Mexico
Language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	115
Production
Executive producer(s)	José Alberto Castro
Producer(s)	Ernesto Hernández Fausto Sáinz
Editor(s)	Alejandro Iglesias Omar Blanco
Cinematography	Bernardo Nájera Alejandro Frutos
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Televisa
Broadcast
Original channel	Televisa
Original run	May 17, 2004 – October 22, 2004
Chronology
Preceded by	Amarte es mi Pecado
Followed by	Apuesta por un amor
External links
Website

Rubí is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 2004. The plot is based on a short story by Yolanda Vargas Dulché, published as a serial on the 1960's Mexican comic book Lágrimas, Risas y Amor. The story is protagonized antagonistically by Bárbara Mori as the shameless, Rubi being the main villain of the story.

Plot

Rubí Pérez (Bárbara Mori) is a beautiful but poor woman. She studies at an exclusive university because of of the efforts of Cristina, her older sister, and a scholarship. Rubí' is friends with Maribel de la Fuente (Jacqueline Bracamontes), a nice and wealthy young woman who has a small defect in her leg, which prevents her from having a normal social life. Rubí is actually jealous of Maribel's status.

Rubí eventually meets Maribel's boyfriend Héctor Ferrer (Sebastián Rulli), an architect, and his best friend Alejandro Cárdenas (Eduardo Santamarina), a doctor. She is intrigued by Héctor because she knows he is very rich, and marrying a rich man has always been her ambition in order to leave poverty behind. However, she finds herself falling in love with Alejandro. Héctor and Maribel get engaged. Rubí starts dating Alejandro, but when she finds out that he comes from middle-class background and is not rich, she decides to dump him, though it breaks her heart. She then decides to seduce Héctor.

Héctor falls quickly under Rubí's spell. On Héctor and Maribel's wedding day, Héctor leaves a desolate Maribel at the altar, and elopes with Rubí instead. Now Rubí finally has the lifestyle and money that she has always dreamed of. Nevertheless, she still in love with Alejandro, although he assures her that he would never forgive her for what she did to Maribel.

Héctor decides to travel the world with Rubí, since he is not entirely sure she has gotten over Alejandro. They are away for three years, and when they return, Rubí discover that Alejandro is now very rich, and engaged to a woman named Sonia. Sonia dies after having an argument with Rubí on a glass bridge. Rubí now seduces Alejandro again, brings him comfort after Sonia's death, so he and Rubí become lovers.

When he learns that Rubí had been with Sonia when the latter died, he sends Rubí to prison for it. They seem to hate each other now, but Rubí begins to feel love for him again when she discovers she is expecting his child. Because she does not want to divorce Héctor and lose her money and status, she lies and tells Héctor that the baby is his. She is released from prison, since it is found that Sonia's death was due to her falling through the glass bridge.

Héctor overhears Rubí telling her friend Loreto that the child is actually Alejandro's. Angry and humiliated, Héctor realizes that she never loved him and holds her prisoner in her own house. Rubí manages to get away from Héctor, and the truth finally comes out that Alejandro is the father of her child. Alejandro is now aware that Maribel has been secretly in love with him and that he is also very fond of her, but he decides to stay with Rubí for the sake of their baby.

Sometime later, Rubí saves her niece Fernanda from getting hit by a car; Rubí is hit instead and has a miscarriage. She blames Héctor for the miscarriage, since he has hit her before because of his jealousy. Héctor tries to prove that Rubí actually lost her baby after being hit by a car, but only Eelena, a woman who is the assistant to the Count of Aragón, believes him, since she is love with Héctor. Héctor is hurt in a car accident and dies before he could tell Alejandro, who is operating on him trying to save his life, the truth about Rubí.

Héctor left everything in his will to Rubí. But Eelena, who hates Rubí, makes sure that Rubí's money is all lost in the stock market. Alejandro is released from prison and finds out how Rubí lost their baby. It is also revealed that Eelena is expecting Héctor's child, though he never knew it.

Alejandro pays Rubí a visit one last time, disgusted by the damage she has done, and tells her that it is over between them: He has chosen Maribel. Rubí begs him not to leave her, even humiliating herself by getting on her knees. He leaves her and begins to walk down the stairs. As Rubí follows him, screaming that she will never let him go and and running down the staircase while holding onto the rail, she loses her grip on the rail, falls down several stories, and crashes into a glass table below.

To save her life, doctors had to amputate her leg. When Rubí wakes up, she finds out to her horror that her leg was was amputated; even more devastating to her, she sees that her beautiful face is now full of scars from where the glass cut in. Rubí escapes from the hospital

Finding the wedding date of Alejandro and Maribel, she shows up unseen, and draws a gun through a crack on a door, aiming at Alejandro but then being unable to shoot him. She then aims for Maribel, but her sister Cristina, Maribel's maid of honor, gets in the way. Rubí hides in a corner of the churchyard, despondent.

After the wedding, her niece Fernanda wanders over, and Rubí shows her her scarred face, but Fernanda is not repulsed by it. On the contrary, she sympathizes with her favorite aunt. Wen Rubí asks her if she would like to continue meeting her secretly and taking her advice on how to get what she wants using her beauty, Fernanda happily agrees. Rubí is then seen limping away, dressed in rags.

Years later Fernanda is all grown up, with a striking resemblance to Rubí. She visits her aunt, who is now living in a one-room flat. After hearing that Alejandro has returned to Mexico after years of living abroad, Rubí tells Fernanda that Alejandro and Maribel have a son, and that her job will be to make both the father and the son fall in love with her and drive them to such a state of passion that they are willing to kill each other for her love, thus destroying Maribel's heart and getting revenge on Alejandro.

Alejandro heads to his office, where he finds Fernanda inside waiting for him. He is utterly shocked, mistaking her for Rubí. She greets him, without revealing her identity, winks at the camera, closes the office door, and kisses a quite surprised but not entirely unwilling Alejandro. The caption, The End..? appears.

Cast

Main cast

Eduardo Santamarina|| Alejandro Cardenas || Protagonist. In love with Rubi. Is manipulated by Rubi, Doctor, he meets Sonia in Cancun. Sonia becomes in love with Alejandro. Later Sonia and Alejandro become engaged, making Rubi furious. After Sonia dies, Eduardo and Rubi meet in Cancun, he pregnants Rubi. At the end, he realizes that he is in love with Maribel, they marry and have a family.

Actor	Character	Relation
Barbara Mori	Rubi Perez de Ferrer	Protagonist-Antagonist. She is the daughter of Refugio and sister of Cristina. Ambitious, she betrayed Maribel the day of her wedding with Hector by escaping with Hector to another country and marrying over there. She is madly in love with Alejandro, later she gets pregnant by Alejandro, but she loses the baby when trying to save Fernanda's life. She is the most beautiful woman in the university where she attends. At the end, Rubi falls from the third floor of the hotel, and results in a leg amputation and a disfigured face. She tries to shoot Maribel and Alejandro at their wedding.
Sebastian Rulli	Hector Ferrer	Co-protagonist. He is godson of Elisa and Genaro. At first he is best friend of Alejandro. He meets Maribel through the Internet. He returns to Mexico and meets Maribel in person. He becomes engaged to Maribel. Later, Rubi starts seducing him in his office, he becomes in love with Rubi, making him leave Maribel in the altar. After he marries Rubi, he's life becomes in a living hell, due to jealousness toward Alejandro. He becomes an rival/enemy to Alejandro. At last, he is killed in an car accident, and he dies in the hospital
Jacqueline Bracamontes	Maribel de la Fuente	At first, she is in love with Hector, she is betrayed by her best friend, Rubi, taking his fiancee the day of her wedding. She becomes best friend of Alejandro, later she realizes that she is in love with him, but it is impossible because Alejandro loves Rubi and marries Sonia. At the end, she marries
Ana Martin	Dona Refugio Ochoa Viuda de Perez	Mother of Rubi and Cristina. In the 54 episode, she dies from a heart attack caused by Rubi.
Yadhira Carrillo	Elena Navarro	Assistant of Lucio Montemayor, becomes in love and pregnant by Hector. Becomes Rubi's enemy. Suffers in the end by Hector's death.
Miguel Pizarro	Loreto Echague	Gay, best friend of Rubi, he is a fashion designer. He made Maribe's wedding dress. At the end, he becomes Fernanda's friend, and he becomes poor and selling magazines and newspapers in the streets.
Manuel Landeta	Lucio Montemayor	Villain, boss of Elena, he becomes lover of Rubi while she is married to Hector. Ambitious, killed by Dr. Bermudez Awards Year Ceremony Category Nominee Result 2005 TVyNovelas Awards Best Telenovela Rubí Won Best Lead Actress Bárbara Mori Won Best Lead Actor Eduardo Santamarina Won Best Male Villain Manuel Landeta Nominated Best Supporting Actress Ana Martín Won Best Supporting Actor Roberto Vander Nominated Best Song for a Telenovela Reyli Won Best Direction Benjamín Cann Eric Morales Won Ratings In Mexico, the soap opera debuted with a 17 rating, by the 40 episode the soap opera had a 23 rating, and by the 60 episode it had average a 25 rating with a 48% Share and never decreased. The 5 last episode had a 28-30 rating. The final episode of the soap opera registered a rating of 37.2 and a maximum of 41 points. In Mexico City, it had 42 rating, and in Monterrey its rating in the final episode was 45 rating. The popularity made a huge impact on foreign countries, which made it one of the best telenovelas ever produced. In the United States, it first episode debuted with 21.8 and was a huge hit that even been a Mexican telenovela, many US Citizens never missed an episode of the telenovela, and in its final episode it beated NBC, ABC, and FOX Tv Shows which the telenovela competed with. It final episode registered a rating of 33.7 and was seen by 12.3 million people. References External links Rubí at the Internet Movie Database