| Genre: | Telenovela |
| Creator: | Perla Farías |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 169 |
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| Producer: | Paty Benítez |
| Camera: | Multi-camera |
| Network: | Telemundo |
Falsa identidad (English: False Identity) is an American drama television series created by Perla Farías and written by Sergio Mendoza. Produced by Telemundo Global Studios and Argos Comunicación.[1] The series stars Camila Sodi and Luis Ernesto Franco.[2] It premiered on Telemundo on 11 September 2018 and began airing on Netflix in 2019.[3]
The series was presented during the Telemundo upfront for the 2018–2019 television season,[4] and revolves around two complete strangers who have to assume the identity of a solid marriage to escape their past and escape their enemies.
On 21 January 2019, Telemundo confirmed that the show had been renewed for a second season.[5] [6] The season premiered on 22 September 2020 and concluded on 25 January 2021.[7]
See main article: Falsa identidad (season 1). Isabel (Camila Sodi) and Diego (Luis Ernesto Franco) are two strangers who must flee from their past to escape their enemies. Diego left his family after his father died and his mother remarried. In an act of rebellion, and to punish what he considers a betrayal of his father's memory, Diego gets involved in a criminal world, selling fuel to Sonora's most powerful drug dealer, Gavino Gaona (Sergio Goyri). Things got complicated when Diego, being the boyfriend of Gavino's daughter, also ends up having an affair with his wife, thus putting a price on his head.
For her part, Isabel marries Porfirio "El Corona" (Marcus Ornellas) at the age of fifteen years old. He was a member of a norteña music group, whose career was just beginning to take off. Over the years, El Corona's career dies, and he becomes a bitter and neurotic jealous man, who physically abuses Isabel for any excuse. Isabel endures the abuse thinking it is best for the children and to keep the family united until one day the violence of El Corona reaches her children: Amanda (Barbie Casillas) and Ricardo (Checo Perezcuadra).
Isabel escapes from her husband's house with her children, and finds refuge in Zoraida (Marcela Manriquez), a maid that works for Eliseo Hidalgo (Manuel Balbi), the mayor of Álamos, Sonora. Diego, who is the mayor's brother, also hides from the narco in the same house. It is there that their paths cross for the first time, and permanently. Eliseo devises a plan to hide Diego outside of Sonora, taking the identity of an American tourist who has just died in Sonora with his wife and son. To complete the farce, Isabel must pretend to be Diego's wife and have Ricardo act as their child.
Although this decision is the opportunity that Isabel was looking for to escape from El Corona, it also means leaving her oldest daughter behind, and trusting a man she has just met. Isabel and Diego begin their new life in Mexico City, at first they are complete opposites, but they learn to trust in each other. El Corona and the narcos do not take long to go after them, the past always finds them. But in the middle of persecution, Isabel and Diego discover a passion and chemistry that they had never experienced before, and there is only one step from here to real love.
See main article: Falsa identidad (season 1).
See main article: Falsa identidad (season 2).