# The Impostor (2014)

> A woman living under a false identity infiltrates a wealthy family in a Spanish-language telenovela full of secrets and reversals.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/45582

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 120
- Episode runtime: 42 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Sebastian Arrau, Coca Gómez
- Network: Telemundo
- Cast: Lisette Morelos, Sebastián Zurita, Christian Bach, Manuel Landeta, Begoña Narváez, Jonathan Islas, Mauricio Hénao, Mimi Morales
- TMDB rating: 7.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3356508/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: melodramatic, theatrical, suspenseful, sentimental

## What critics say

Audience reception is positive, with a 7.5/10 rating from a small number of votes.

## Synopsis

The Impostor (2014) is a Mexican Spanish-language telenovela created by Sebastian Arrau and Coca Gómez for Telemundo. Lisette Morelos plays Blanca Guerrero, who takes on the identity of Victoria San Marino, a role that puts her inside the wealthy Altamira family. Sebastián Zurita plays Eduardo León Altamira, whose household is a cauldron of rivalry and suspicion, while Christian Bach plays Raquel Altamira Vda. de León, the matriarch whose authority shapes the family's fortunes. Manuel Landeta, as Adriano Ferrer, and Begoña Narváez, as Mariana Serrano de Altamira, add further pressure to the web of loyalties. The engine of the series is simple and relentless: a woman must keep her borrowed name intact while navigating boardroom-style family politics, inheritance stakes and romantic entanglements. Each episode delivers escalating confrontations, overheard conversations and sudden reversals that keep the central deception teetering. Presented as a single 120-episode run, the show is a classic soap built on melodrama, emotional heightening and a sense of constant threat. Its tone is sweeping and theatrical, with a bittersweet pull beneath the drama. Fans of Maria la del Barrio and La usurpadora will find resonance in its disguised-identity plotting and glossy, sentimental excess.

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