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It is based on a short story by Yolanda Vargas Dulch\u00e9, published as a serial on the 1960s Mexican comic book L\u00e1grimas, Risas y Amor.It stars B\u00e1rbara Mori, Eduardo Santamarina, Jacqueline Bracamontes and Sebasti\u00e1n Rulli.Canal de las Estrellas aired Rub\u00ed from May 17[1] to October 22, 2004,[2] with Apuesta por un amor replacing it. Univision broadcast Rub\u00ed from September 20, 2004[3] to March 7, 2005, and has named Rub\u00ed as the top telenovela of all time.[4]Rub\u00ed P\u00e9rez (B\u00e1rbara Mori) is a very beautiful but poor woman who is obsessed with money. She studies at an exclusive university thanks to the financial support from Cristina (Paty Diaz), her hard-working older sister.  Rub\u00ed hopes to become rich by befriending rich people. She is best friends with Maribel de la Fuente (Jacqueline Bracamontes), a kind and wealthy young woman.  Maribel has a paralyzed leg, which prevents her from having a normal social life. Rub\u00ed is actually jealous of Maribel’s social status while pitying her disability.Rub\u00ed meets Maribel’s online boyfriend H\u00e9ctor Ferrer (Sebasti\u00e1n Rulli), an architect, and his best friend Alejandro C\u00e1rdenas (Eduardo Santamarina), a doctor.  H\u00e9ctor intrigues her because she knows he is very rich, and marrying a rich man has always been her ambition to leave poverty behind.  However, she finds herself falling in love with Alejandro.  H\u00e9ctor and Maribel get engaged.  Rub\u00ed starts dating Alejandro, but when she finds out that he is from a middle-class background and is not rich, she dumps him, though it breaks her heart. Rubi’s mother, Refugio tries to make Rubi see that money is not everything in life and that she will regret leaving Alejandro. However Rub\u00ed refuses to listen and then sets out to seduce H\u00e9ctor.H\u00e9ctor quickly falls under Rub\u00ed’s spell.  On H\u00e9ctor and Maribel’s wedding day, H\u00e9ctor leaves a devastated Maribel at the altar and elopes with Rub\u00ed instead to Cancun, where they get married. Rub\u00ed finally has the lifestyle and money that she has always dreamed of, although she’s disowned by her family and friends. On their wedding night Hector tries to make love to Rubi, Rubi keeps thinking about Alejandro, which makes her run out to the beach crying. Despite this, she is still in love with Alejandro, though he vows to her that he would never forgive her for what she did to Maribel. Hector was supposed to move to New York and work on an important project, but is kicked out after he dumps Maribel at the altar. Rub\u00ed also meets a tycoon named Yago Pietrasanta, who is a womanizer and Rubi starts going out with him despite being still married to H\u00e9ctor and also her mother and Alejandro’s objections, Rubi also gets envious of her sister Cristina’s happy relationship with Maribel’s ex chauffeur, Cayetano and to separate them, she has him framed of theft by slipping on him a priceless jeweled necklace, sending him to jail days before their wedding. However, Cristina soon finds that she’s pregnant with Cayetano’s child and tells Refugio about it, who in turn asks for Rub\u00ed’s help to release him from jail, but Rub\u00ed reveals to her mother what she did to Cayetano and a disappointed and ashamed Refugio disowns Rub\u00ed and dies from a heart attack before she could tell Cristina the truth about Cayetano. Later in Refugio’s funeral, Rub\u00ed is shunned and driven away by Cristina and her neighbors, who found out that she caused her mother’s heart attack and also gets disowned by Cristina.H\u00e9ctor decides to travel the world with Rub\u00ed, since he is not entirely sure that she has gotten over Alejandro. They are away for three years. When they return, Rub\u00ed discovers that Alejandro is now very rich and has a new wife named Sonia (Marlene Favela) and also meets Cristina’s daughter, Fernanda, whom Rub\u00ed likes due to her resemblance to her. During an argument between Rub\u00ed and Sonia on a glass bridge, the floor below Sonia shatters, and she falls through the glass and dies. When Rub\u00ed is phoning Loreto, H\u00e9ctor enters his wife’s room and snatches the phone away from her. He accuses Rub\u00ed of going to see Alejandro, but Rub\u00ed claims that she went to see Marco instead of Alejandro. Enraged, H\u00e9ctor pushes Rub\u00ed into the bed and makes love to her after Rub\u00ed attempts to warn her husband not to do this again. That night, Rub\u00ed and H\u00e9ctor end up getting naked on a bed after making love. Rub\u00ed scolds her husband for being intimate with her, but H\u00e9ctor tells her that, since they are married, Rub\u00ed is going to make love to him. H\u00e9ctor makes love to his wife again. Rub\u00ed comforts Alejandro after Sonia’s death and seduces him once again. He and Rub\u00ed become lovers.When he hears that Rub\u00ed was at the scene when Sonia died, he has her arrested for murder.  They seemingly hate each other now, but Rub\u00ed begins to feel love for him again when she learns that she is pregnant with his child. Because she does not want to divorce H\u00e9ctor and lose her money and status, she lies and tells H\u00e9ctor that the baby is his. She is released from jail, since it is ruled that Sonia’s death was accidental.H\u00e9ctor overhears Rub\u00ed telling her friend Loreto (Miguel Pizarro) that the child is actually Alejandro’s.  Angry and humiliated, H\u00e9ctor realizes that she never loved him, so he keeps her prisoner in her own home, intending to keep her and her child with him forever and away from Alejandro. Rub\u00ed manages to escape from H\u00e9ctor with help from Loreto and Genaro, and the truth about who is the father of her child finally comes out.  By now, Alejandro is aware that Maribel has been secretly in love with him and that he too has feelings for her, but he chooses to stay with Rub\u00ed for the sake of their baby.Sometime later, Rub\u00ed saves her beloved niece Fernanda (Kristel Casteele) from being hit by a car; Rub\u00ed is hit instead and has a miscarriage. She blames H\u00e9ctor for the miscarriage, since he has hit her before because of his jealousy.  H\u00e9ctor tries to prove that Rub\u00ed actually lost her baby after being hit by a car, but no one believes him except for Elena (Yadhira Carrillo).  She is the assistant to the Count of Arag\u00f3n and in love with H\u00e9ctor. H\u00e9ctor is fatally injured in a car accident and dies before he could tell Alejandro, who is performing H\u00e9ctor’s surgery and trying to save his life, the truth about Rub\u00ed.H\u00e9ctor left everything in his will to Rub\u00ed, much to his parents’ chagrin.  However, Elena, who hates Rub\u00ed, ensures that all of Rub\u00ed’s money is lost in the stock market, leaving Rub\u00ed poor again.  Alejandro is unjustly charged with intentionally letting H\u00e9ctor die on the operating table and is arrested, when the actual responsible was former hospital director Bermudez who secretly sabotaged the surgery to get revenge on Alejandro for getting him fired from the hospital and sent to jail. Immediately afterwards, the suspicions are proven unfounded and the charges against him are dropped, and Bermudez is arrested, though he accidentally shoots his son Ernesto, while he was saving Elena’s life.  Upon his release, Alejandro discovers exactly how Rub\u00ed lost their baby. It is also revealed that Elena is pregnant with H\u00e9ctor’s child, though he never knew it.Disgusted by the all the damage that she has done, Alejandro pays Rub\u00ed a visit one last time and tells her that it is over between them:  he has chosen Maribel.  Rub\u00ed begs him not to leave her, even humiliating herself by getting down on her knees.  He leaves her and begins to walk down the stairs.  As Rub\u00ed follows him, running down the staircase while holding onto the rail and screaming that she will never let him go, she loses her grip on the rail, falls several stories down, and crashes into a glass table below.To save her life, doctors have to amputate her leg.  When Rub\u00ed wakes up, she finds out to her horror that her leg was amputated. Even more devastating, her beautiful face is now full of scars because of multiple glass cuts. However, despite this, Rub\u00ed still doesn’t regret her actions and soon escapes from the hospital.Finding the wedding date of Alejandro and Maribel, she shows up unseen at the church. She sights a gun through a crack on a door, targeting Alejandro, but she cannot bring herself to shoot him.  She then aims at Maribel, but her sister Cristina, Maribel’s maid of honor, is in the way and blocking a clean shot.  Rub\u00ed relents and hides in a corner of the churchyard, despondent.After the wedding, her niece Fernanda wanders over to Rub\u00ed’s hiding place.  Rub\u00ed shows her scarred face to Fernanda, but the little girl is not repulsed by it.  On the contrary, she feels sympathy for her favorite aunt. When Rub\u00ed asks her if she would like to continue meeting her secretly and serve as an instrument to get her revenge and ruin Alejandro’s life, Fernanda happily agrees.  Rub\u00ed limps away, dressed in rags.Eighteen years later, Fernanda (now played by B\u00e1rbara Mori) is all grown up, bearing a striking resemblance to Rub\u00ed, save for her blonde hair. She visits her aunt, who is living in a one-room flat.  After hearing that Alejandro has returned to Mexico after years of living abroad, Rub\u00ed tells Fernanda that Alejandro and Maribel have a son, and that her job will be making both Alejandro and his son fall in love with her in order to destroy Maribel’s family.Alejandro is now the director of a hospital.  One day he finds Fernanda in his office.  He is utterly shocked, mistaking her for Rub\u00ed.  She greets him without revealing her identity and by pulling him by his tie and bringing him in for what looks like a kiss.  The screen caption, The End..? then appears.[5]Table of ContentsDeleted Scene[edit]Main[edit]Secondary[edit]Recurring[edit]Special participation[edit]Awards and nominations[edit]Reception[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Deleted Scene[edit]There is a deleted scene from the ending where an adult Fernanda meets up with Rub\u00ed’s old friend Loreto, who has lost his fame and became poor. Fernanda tells him about her intentions of avenging her aunt, and asks him to tell her the full story of Rub\u00ed to better know how to plan her revenge, as her family refuses to talk about Rub\u00ed and he tells with full details his own version about Rub\u00ed’s wrongdoings while showing Fernanda the neighborhood where she grew up, Maribel’s empty mansion and Rub\u00ed and Hector’s former mansion, and after Loreto finishes the story, Fernanda decides to go to get revenge on both Alejandro and Maribel.Main[edit]B\u00e1rbara Mori as Rub\u00ed P\u00e9rez Ochoa \/ Fernanda Mart\u00ednez P\u00e9rez (Antagonistic Protagonist) – A beautiful but wicked woman whose aim is to get out of poverty. Rub\u00ed has an obsessive love for Alejandro and will do anything to be with him but runs away with his millionaire best friend Hector, who was engaged to Maribel, and marries him. She’s ambitious and enjoys toying with people, without thinking of the consequences. Ends up disfigured and loses her leg.As Fernanda she is the daughter of Cristina who is fond of Rub\u00ed and shares a striking resemblance to her. She cares for Rub\u00ed years after her accident and helps her plot her revenge on Maribel and Alejandro.Eduardo Santamarina as Alejandro C\u00e1rdenas Ruiz (Protagonist) – A doctor and H\u00e9ctor’s childhood friend. He and Rub\u00ed love each other but her ambition constantly gets in the way, leaving him heartbroken. He later falls in love with Maribel and they get married.Jacqueline Bracamontes as Maribel de la Fuente Ortiz (Protagonist) – A kind and generous girl with a disability that affects her walking. Maribel considered Rub\u00ed her best friend and was unaware that she was envious of her wealth and looks down on her disability. She was engaged to H\u00e9ctor before he ran off with Rubi and was devastated till she fell in love with Alejandro.Sebasti\u00e1n Rulli as H\u00e9ctor Ferrer Garza (Protagonist, later Antagonist) – A man who Maribel met over the internet and was her fiance before he fell in love with Rub\u00ed. He becomes obsessed with Rub\u00ed and refuses to believe she only married him for his money. Dies in car crash.Ana Mart\u00edn as Refugio Ochoa Vda. de P\u00e9rez – Rub\u00ed and Cristina’s mother who always worries about Rub\u00ed’s decisions and tries to put her on the right path. Dies of illness after learning about Rub\u00ed’s schemes.Yadhira Carrillo as Elena Navarro – A woman who works for the Count and is in love with H\u00e9ctor, later becoming his lover, and Rub\u00ed despises her. She later becomes pregnant with H\u00e9ctor’s child and makes sure Rub\u00ed loses all her money.Secondary[edit]Josefina Ech\u00e1nove as Francisca \u201cPancha\u201d Mu\u00f1oz – Maribel’s maid who considers her to be like a daughter. She was aware of Rub\u00ed’s intentions from the beginning and warned Maribel against her. Dies of illness.Antonio Medell\u00edn as Ignacio C\u00e1rdenas – Alejandro and Sofia’ s father who takes care of his wife Carla.Ana Bertha Esp\u00edn as Elisa de Duarte – Genaro’s first wife and H\u00e9ctor’s godmother who longs for motherhood, being unable to bear children. She becomes devastated when she learns of Genaro’s affair but later falls in love with Arturo.Jos\u00e9 El\u00edas Moreno as Genaro Duarte – H\u00e9ctor’s godfather who takes care of him after the death of his parents and hides the fact that he has another family.Olivia Bucio as Carla Ruiz de C\u00e1rdenas – Alejandro and Sofia’s mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. She’s one of the few people Rub\u00ed seems to care for.Luis Gatica as Cayetano Mart\u00ednez – Cristina’s husband and Maribel’s chauffeur. Rub\u00ed dislikes his relationship with her sister and accuses him of stealing,  sending him to jail. Dies of heart disease.Leonorilda Ochoa as Dolores Herrera “Do\u00f1a Lola” – A noisy woman who lives in Rub\u00ed’s former neighbourhood.Roberto Vander as Arturo de la Fuente Rangel – Maribel’s father who feels responsible for her disability and the death of her mother. He later discovers that he’s the biological father of Luis.Ofelia Cano as Victoria Gallegos – A wealthy woman who supports Alejandro’s career. She was a close friend of Maribel’s mother when they were young and is revealed to be Paco’s mother.Miguel Pizarro as Loreto CarlionePaty D\u00edaz as Cristina P\u00e9rez Ochoa – Rub\u00ed’s sister who supports the household and is insecure of her looks, feeling overshadowed by Rub\u00ed. She was in love with Cayetano and married him but later falls in love with Marco.Arlette Pacheco as Lilia L\u00f3pez de Duarte – Luis and Naty’s mother and Genaro’s second wife. She was Arturo’s girlfriend when they were young.Jan as Marco Rivera – Alejandro’s close friend and a doctor who is in love with Cristina. He later marries her after the death of Cayetano.\u00cdngrid Martz as Lorena Trevi\u00f1o – Maribel’s friend from college who was in love with Saul, and later Paco.Recurring[edit]Dolores Salom\u00f3n “Bodokito” as MariquitaRoberto Sen as David Trevi\u00f1oSergio Jurado as Lic. Mill\u00e1nJos\u00e9 Antonio Ferral as Dr. Gardu\u00f1oMar\u00eda Fernanda Garc\u00eda as ValeriaEduardo Rodr\u00edguez as Sa\u00fal M\u00e9ndezSergio Argueta as Francisco “Paco” G\u00f3mez GallegosMarco M\u00e9ndez as Luis Duarte L\u00f3pezTania V\u00e1zquez as Sof\u00eda C\u00e1rdenas RuizHugo Mac\u00edas Macotela as Isidro Rold\u00e1nSergio Zald\u00edvar as Gazc\u00f3nMariana Rountree as Ingrid MendozaNicole Vale as Natalia ‘Naty’ Duarte (young)Karen Sandoval as Natalia ‘Naty’ DuarteKristel Casteele as Fernanda Mart\u00ednez P\u00e9rez (young)Manuel Foyo as Ernesto Berm\u00fadezSpecial participation[edit]Awards and nominations[edit]Reception[edit]Canal de las Estrellas’ October 22 finale broadcast of Rub\u00ed earned a rating of 28 points.[8]Univision’s March 7 finale broadcast of Rub\u00ed was watched by 8 million viewers.[9]TelevisionIn 1968, the original story, Rubi, was produced, directed by Francisco Wagner and produced by Valent\u00edn Pimstein, starring Fanny Cano, Antonio Medell\u00edn and Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez.In 1970, the film version with the same name as the telenovela, Rub\u00ed, was produced, directed and adapted by Carlos Enrique Taboada, starring Ir\u00e1n Eory, Aldo Monti and Carlos Bracho.In February 2010, ABS-CBN announced Televisa had given them to permit to do a Pinoy version of the series. The Pinoy adaptation stars Angelica Panganiban and Shaina Magdayao as leading women with Jake Cuenca and Diether Ocampo as their leading men. It was launched as one of the network’s offerings for the 60th year celebration of Pinoy Soap Opera (“ika-60 taon ng Pinoy Soap Opera”) during the Trade Launch for the 1st quarter that same year, entitled “Bagong Simula” (New Beginning) as an adaptation was made.In January 2012, O3 produced by the permission of Televisa an Arabic version of the series titled Ruby. The Arabic adaptation stars Cyrine Abdelnour and Diamant Abou Abboud as leading women with Maxim Khalil and Ameer Karara as their leading men. It was aired on MBC1 in the Arab world and LBCI in Lebanon.In January 2020, Univision made a remake starring Camila Sodi. This one is a remake and a sequel at the same time as it will follow events 20 years after the original ending.TheatreIn April 2017, Brazilian artist Clei Ribeiro starred in Rub\u00ed’s first theatrical version under the name Diamante. Being a male version. Clei Ribeiro himself stands out for having similar eyebrows to Barbara Mori’s, and for the beauty he has.References[edit]External links[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/rubi-2004-tv-series-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Rub\u00ed (2004 TV series) – Wikipedia"}}]}]