| Num Episodes: | 174 |
| Genre: | Telenovela Romance Drama |
| Creator: | Inés Rodena |
| Starring: | Guillermo Dávila Sonya Smith Gigi Zanchetta Adolfo Cubas Humberto García |
| Opentheme: | Antologia de Caricias by Altamira Banda Show |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Country: | Venezuela |
| Runtime: | 42–45 minutes |
| Company: | Venevisión |
| Channel: | Venevisión |
| Executive Producer: | Marisol Campos |
| Director: | Gabriel Walfensao |
| Creative Director: | Arquímedes Rivero |
| Camera: | Multi-camera |
| Related: | La gata (1968) La fiera (1983) Rosa salvaje (1987) Por un beso (2000) Pobre Diabla (2010) La Gata (2014) |
Cara Sucia (English title:Dirty Face) is a Venezuelan telenovela written by Carlos Romero and Alberto Gómez and produced by Venevisión in 1992.[1] The telenovela was distributed internationally by Venevisión International and was dubbed into English, Russian, Mongolian, Indonesian, and (Filipino) in the Philippines. Guillermo Dávila[2] and Sonya Smith[3] starred as the main protagonists with Gigi Zanchetta and Humberto García as the main antagonists.
Miguel Ángel González is a member of one of Caracas' richest families while Estrella is a poor but hard-working beautiful girl who sells newspapers in a corner everyday to earn a living. When they meet, they fall in love and begin a beautiful romance that leads to marriage. However, not everything is rosy for the couple. Miguel Ángel's parents Horacio and Rebecca are opposed to the relationship, and the obsessive passion Santa Ortigoza, Miguel Ángel's ex-girlfriend has over him. Horacio's declining mental health makes him become more and more dangerous, and he hides a secret from the past: many years ago, he murdered Estrella's mother because she rejected him and let her father be blamed for the crime. The secret is revealed once Leonardo Montenegro, Estrella's father, is released from prison and reunited with his daughter. Rebecca, Miguel Ángel's mother, begins to accept his relationship with Estrella once she learns about Horacio's secret and that she was wrong about Estrella being a gold digger, when it was actually Santa who was after their family's money.
Later, Horacio kidnaps Estrella and Miguel Ángel's twin boys, and during this time, he has begun loving them like his sons. He shoots himself after a police stand-off when the babies are wrestled away from him while Santa dies after her car is driven off a cliff.[4] [5]
| Cara Sucia | 1999 | 2000 | Monday to Friday | 2:30 pm | |||
| Cara Sucia | March 15, 1993 | October 15, 1993 | Monday to Friday | 8:00 pm | |||
| Cara Sucia | April 13, 1992 | November 6, 1992 | Monday to Friday | 9:00 pm | |||
| Cara Sucia | 1994 | 1995 | Monday to Friday | 7:00 p.m. | |||
| Cara Sucia | March 5, 1992 | October 12, 1992 | Monday to Saturday | 10:00 pm | |||
| Cara Sucia | May 11, 1994 | November 11, 1994 | Monday to Friday | 10:00 am | |||
| Cara Sucia | El Trece Telecanal | May 7, 1994 June 14, 1999 | November 11, 1994 February 4, 1999 | Monday to Friday | 05:00 pm 08:30 pm | ||
| Cara Sucia | April 4, 1994 June 14, 1999 | December 9, 1994 February 4, 2000 | Monday to Friday | 5:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. | |||
| Cara Sucia | April 4, 1994 June 14, 1999 | December 9, 1994 February 4, 2000 | Monday to Friday | 5:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. | |||
| Cara Sucia | March 21, 1994 September 1, 1994 | August 29, 1994 September 5, 1995 | Monday Monday to Friday | 11:00 am 4:00 pm |