Arturo Peniche

Acting

Arturo Peniche

Born

1962-05-17 (64)

Place of birth

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Known for

El Señor de los Cielos poster
8.0

Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of airplanes he used to transport drugs, he was also known for washing more than $200 million through Colombia to finance his huge fleet. He is described as the most powerful drug trafficker of his time.

El Señor de los Cielos

2013

Hearts to the Limit poster
8.7

Corazones al límite is a Mexican telenovela about a teenage girl named Diana who was emotionally neglected from her parents, and felt unwanted. After being expelled from her boarding school in Switzerland, Diana goes back to live with her parents.

Hearts to the Limit

2004

Maria Mercedes poster
7.3

María Mercedes, a poor girl who sells lottery tickets, meets a rich man who hates his own family and sees in María Mercedes an opportunity to make their lives miserable.

Maria Mercedes

1992

Top Chef VIP poster
7.3

Four finalists compete for the grand title of Top Chef VIP and a prize of $200,000.

Top Chef VIP

2022

The Poor, Rich Family poster
7.7

The Poor, Rich Family is a story of love, romance, twists of fate, and countless amusing situations involving two families with nothing in common—yet who are now forced to live under the same roof. On one side are the millionaire Ruizpalacios family; on the other, the Mendonças, a classic working-class family.

The Poor, Rich Family

2013

Vivo Por Elena poster
6.7

Vivo Por Elena is a Mexican telenovela starring Victoria Ruffo and Saul Lisazo with the antagonic roles of Ana Patricia Rojo and Sebastian Ligarde. The telenovela aired on Univision in 1998. The theme song for the telenovela was Vivo Por Ella, sung by Andrea Bocelli with a duet by Marta Sanchez. The telenovela has been repeated several times on different channels since its original airing.

Vivo Por Elena

1998

Film credits

1990s · 9 titles

Series credits

El Señor de los Cielos poster
8.0

Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of airplanes he used to transport drugs, he was also known for washing more than $200 million through Colombia to finance his huge fleet. He is described as the most powerful drug trafficker of his time.

El Señor de los Cielos

2013

Hearts to the Limit poster
8.7

Corazones al límite is a Mexican telenovela about a teenage girl named Diana who was emotionally neglected from her parents, and felt unwanted. After being expelled from her boarding school in Switzerland, Diana goes back to live with her parents.

Hearts to the Limit

2004

Maria Mercedes poster
7.3

María Mercedes, a poor girl who sells lottery tickets, meets a rich man who hates his own family and sees in María Mercedes an opportunity to make their lives miserable.

Maria Mercedes

1992

Top Chef VIP poster
7.3

Four finalists compete for the grand title of Top Chef VIP and a prize of $200,000.

Top Chef VIP

2022

Top Chef VIP poster
7.3

Four finalists compete for the grand title of Top Chef VIP and a prize of $200,000.

Top Chef VIP

2022

The Poor, Rich Family poster
7.7

The Poor, Rich Family is a story of love, romance, twists of fate, and countless amusing situations involving two families with nothing in common—yet who are now forced to live under the same roof. On one side are the millionaire Ruizpalacios family; on the other, the Mendonças, a classic working-class family.

The Poor, Rich Family

2013

Vivo Por Elena poster
6.7

Vivo Por Elena is a Mexican telenovela starring Victoria Ruffo and Saul Lisazo with the antagonic roles of Ana Patricia Rojo and Sebastian Ligarde. The telenovela aired on Univision in 1998. The theme song for the telenovela was Vivo Por Ella, sung by Andrea Bocelli with a duet by Marta Sanchez. The telenovela has been repeated several times on different channels since its original airing.

Vivo Por Elena

1998

Contra viento y marea poster
7.2

Contra viento y marea is a Mexican telenovela aired from April 25 until November 4, 2005. This was also the last acting role of Beatriz Sheridan, who died in 2006 of a heart attack.

Contra viento y marea

2005

The Outsider poster
6.9

Rodrigo Junquera finds out he is close to death, he decides to ask the nanny of his young child, Virginia Martínez, a beautiful and honest woman, to marry him with the intention of preparing the road so she can look after his children when he's gone. Virginia has to deal with the contempt of Rodrigo's children who acuse her of being an ambitious woman who married their father for his money. Virginia is in love with Rodrigo's eldest son, Carlos Alberto, who has come to mistreat her after finding out she married his dad.

The Outsider

2001

Tierra de amor y coraje poster
9.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tierra de amor y coraje

2026

Soñadoras poster
7.4

Soñadoras is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 1998, and shown in 1999 on Univision.

Soñadoras

1998

The Tempest poster
7.3

La tempestad is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía Alejandre for Televisa. It is loosely based on the Colombian telenovela La Tormenta, produced by RTI Colombia for Telemundo and Caracol TV. William Levy and Ximena Navarrete star as the protagonists, while Iván Sanchez, Laura Carmine, Mariana Seoane, Cesar Evora, and Manuel Ojeda star as the antagonists. Daniela Romo is also confirmed to star. Previously, Jessica Coch and Adriana Louvier were originally confirmed to star as the antagonist.

The Tempest

2013

En nombre del amor poster
7.6

En Nombre Del Amor is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is a remake of Cadenas de Amargura. En Nombre Del Amor was produced by Carlos Moreno, and filming began on August 4, 2008. It premiered in the United States July 7, 2009 on Univision and ended its run on March 7, 2010 in a two-hour grand finale on a Sunday. Starring for Allison Lozz and Sebastián Zurita, as adult stars Victoria Ruffo, Arturo Peniche with Leticia Calderón as the villain protagonist and main villain, co-starring for Laura Flores, Alfredo Adame, Víctor Cámara, and the participation of Altair Jarabo as youth antagonist.

En nombre del amor

2008

Morelia poster
5.0

Morelia is Mexican telenovela which starred Alpha Acosta, Arturo Peniche and Cecilia Bolocco. It was the first Mexican soap opera filmed in the city of Miami, it was produced and broadcast on Televisa in 1995–1996, Univision in 1996 and 2000–2001, Galavisión in 1998, and TeleFutura in 2003–2004. It is a remake of La Zulianita with Lupita Ferrer and José Bardina.

Morelia

1995

The Soul Has No Color poster
7.0

The plot told the story of Guadalupe, the eldest daughter of the Roldans, a traditional bankrupt family: to solve the family's financial problems, the father forces Guadalupe to marry a man she doesn't love.

The Soul Has No Color

1997

A Double Identity poster
2.0

Niña de mi Corazón is a teen Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Telefe adapted from Pedro Damian's 1997 Mi Pequeña Traviesa, that premiered on March 8, 2010 and ended on July 9, 2010. Damian was also the producer of this telenovela.

A Double Identity

2010

Monte Calvario poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Monte Calvario

1986

Zorro: La espada y la rosa poster
7.3

Spanish telenovela based on Johnston McCulley's characters. Don Diego Dela Vega, adopts the secret identity of Zorro. Diego born in the 1790s to a white father, Don Alejandro Dela Vega, and his wife, Native American warrior named Toypurnia. Diego learned his acrobatics and fencing skills in Spain, under a great swordmaster, than he returned to his family's California hacienda. He lives as both a nobleman and a vigilante, fighting imperialist oppression. He is backed by the brotherhood of Zorro, a secret society called the Knights of the Broken Thorn. Zorro falls in love with a beautiful young widow, Esmeralda Sánchez de Moncada. She arrives in California with her sister Mariángel Sánchez de Moncada and her father, Fernando, the newly appointed governor—and villainous dictator—of Los Angeles. The story arc focuses on mysteries concerning Esmeralda's long-lost mother and the man whose atrocities changed Diego's life forever. Their resolution threatens to shake the Spanish Empire.

Zorro: La espada y la rosa

2007

Alborada poster
7.8

Alborada is a telenovela made by the Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set in colonial Panama and Mexico a few years before Mexican Independence from Spain. The series was broadcast from December 2005 to April 2006 on Univision in the United States. Alborada won the TV y Novelas award for best telenovela of the year.

Alborada

2005

Victoria poster
8.2

A woman who falls in love with a dashing younger man, when her marriage collapses around her.

Victoria

2007

I Dare You to Leave poster
7.6

A heartbreaking story in which power, obsession, and desire will tragically mark the love between Paulina and Adrián who will fight for their love against all odds, even if it takes their life.

I Dare You to Leave

2015

Amor en silencio poster
8.4

Marisela Ocampo is a wealthy, beautiful, and intelligent young woman who feels a great void in her life, but then she meets Fernando Silva, a good, honest man from a respectable family. The two fall in love, but their families oppose the relationship: on one side is Marisela’s father, Miguel, who considers Fernando beneath his daughter and wants something better for her; on the other is Mercedes, Fernando’s sister, who harbors an unhealthy love for her own brother and refuses to see him happy with any woman; and to make matters worse, Paola, Marisela’s sister, becomes infatuated with Fernando and is unwilling to let her sister have him.

Amor en silencio

1988

Mujeres engañadas poster
7.2

Mujeres engañadas is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and broadcast on El Canal de las Estrellas from October 25, 1999, to April 7, 2000. Produced by Emilio Larrosa, the novela stars Laura León and Andrés García as well as an ensemble cast and tells the story of four couples who live in the same apartment building.

Mujeres engañadas

1999

Qué Bonito Amor poster
7.2

Qué bonito amor is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía Alexandre for Televisa. It is based on La Hija del Mariachi, produced by Colombian's RCN Television and written by Mónica Agudelo in 2006-2007. Jorge Salinas and Danna García star as the protagonists, while Malillany Marin, Roberto Palazuelos, Marcelo Buquet, Salvador Pineda and Pablo Montero star as the antagonists.

Qué Bonito Amor

2012

Siempre te amaré poster
8.7

Siempre te amaré is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 2000, adapted by the 1975 telenovela Lo imperdonable by Consuelo Garrido and Georgina Tinoco, and it stars Laura Flores, Fernando Carrillo and Arturo Peniche, with the participation of Alejandra Avalos, Alejandro Tommasi and Rafael Rojas.

Siempre te amaré

2000

María José poster
7.0

María José is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from February 13 to May 18, 1995. It is a remake of the 1982 telenovela Bianca Vidal, based on the original story by Inés Rodena and freely adapted by Gabriela Ortigoza. The story follows María José, a beautiful and humble young woman who works as a domestic servant while caring for her ailing foster father. She falls in love with Carlos Alberto Almazán, but their relationship is threatened by family secrets, social differences, and the schemes of Imperia, a woman determined to keep them apart. As hidden truths about María José's past come to light, she must fight for love, justice, and her rightful place in the Almazán family.

María José

1995

The Flight to Victory poster
8.0

Victoria is a free spirited girl from a humble background and an aspirant Sprinter. She was abandoned by her biological mother when she was a child. A woman named Chencha took her in and treated her as her own daughter. Victoria dreams to become a Champion at the Olympics and much determined to fight any obstacle that gets her way. Victoria also finds herself in between two men, Andres and Raul who are willing to fight for her love.

The Flight to Victory

2017

Marisol poster
5.5

Mexican telenovela starring Erika Buenfil and Eduardo Santamarina with the antagonic role of the star actress Claudia Islas. It was produced by Televisa. This telenovela contained 145 episodes and is a remake of Marcha nupcial.

Marisol

1996

Valeria y Maximiliano poster
7.4

Valeria y Maximiliano is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa and originally broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas from December 23, 1991, to May 1, 1992. Created by Nora Alemán, the telenovela stars Leticia Calderón and Juan Ferrara. The story follows Valeria Landero, a beautiful, wealthy, and strong-willed young woman whose pride and impulsive nature bring conflict to her family. After rejecting the obsessive Román de la Fuente, she becomes the target of his revenge, which threatens to destroy everything she loves. Throughout her struggles, Maximiliano Riva remains by her side, and together they must overcome betrayal, ambition, and family intrigue before finding true love.

Valeria y Maximiliano

1991

La indomable poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La indomable

1987

La Reina Soy Yo poster
7.4

La Reina Soy Yo is a Mexican telenovela produced by Sony Pictures Television for Televisa. It is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela La reina del flow, created by Claudia Sánchez and Said Chamie. The series premiered on Univision in the United States on May 13, 2019, and later aired on Las Estrellas in Mexico from August 26 to December 17, 2019. The story follows Yamelí Montoya, a gifted songwriter who is betrayed, wrongfully imprisoned, and presumed dead. After receiving a new identity through a witness protection program, she returns as music producer Lari Andrade to seek justice against those who destroyed her life.

La Reina Soy Yo

2019

Mi Secreto poster
7.6

Mi Secreto is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carlos Moreno Laguillo for TelevisaUnivision and originally broadcast on Las Estrellas from September 12, 2022, to February 24, 2023. Based on the 1974 telenovela Ha llegado una intrusa, created by Marissa Garrido, it was adapted by Martha Carrillo and Cristina García and directed by Luis Eduardo Reyes and Nelinho Acosta. The telenovela stars Macarena García, Diego Klein, Isidora Vives, Andrés Baida, Karyme Lozano, Arturo Peniche, Claudia Ramírez, and Fernando Ciangherotti. The story follows Valeria, who assumes the identity of her friend Natalia after a tragic accident leaves her believing Natalia is dead. Hoping to escape a false accusation, Valeria starts a new life at the Moncada estate, where she falls in love with Mateo. As hidden secrets are revealed and Natalia unexpectedly returns, both women must face betrayal, family conflicts, and the consequences of deception.

Mi Secreto

2022

Amor amargo poster
7.2

Amor Amargo is a Mexican telenovela produced by Pedro Ortiz de Pinedo for TelevisaUnivision and originally broadcast on Las Estrellas from November 4, 2024, to February 23, 2025. Based on the Portuguese telenovela Ilha dos Amores (2007), created by Maria João Mira and Diogo Horta, it was adapted by Héctor Forero, Gaby Ruffo, Lenny Ferro, Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo, and Carlos Arteaga. Directed by Juan Carlos Muñoz, Jorge Robles Sánchez, and Manolo Fernández, it stars Andrés Palacios, Ana Belena, Daniela Romo, Arturo Peniche, Martha Julia, and Alejandro Ávila. The story follows Tomás Jiménez, a successful businessman whose life changes after meeting Gabriela San José, a woman with a strong personality and a passion for her work. Their love faces obstacles caused by family conflicts, secrets, betrayal, and painful revelations from the past. As hidden truths emerge, Tomás and Gabriela must overcome resentment and ambition to find forgiveness, justice, and the possibility of a new beginning.

Amor amargo

2024

Tenías que ser Tú poster
7.0

Tenías que ser Tú is a Mexican telenovela produced by Mapat L. de Zatarain for Televisa and originally broadcast on Las Estrellas from March 12 to July 8, 2018. It is based on the Chilean telenovela Ámbar, created by Daniella Castagno. The story follows Marisa and Miguel, whose lives become unexpectedly intertwined through their children. As they navigate family responsibilities, misunderstandings, and personal challenges, they gradually discover a chance at love and a new beginning.

Tenías que ser Tú

2018

Preso No. 1 poster
7.1

The story of a humble farmer who becomes President of Mexico. When he is falsely accused of fraud and incarcerated, he must fight back against the corrupt system behind the scheme and clear his name for the sake of his country and family.

Preso No. 1

2019

Mi rival poster
9.1

Paloma, married to a wealthy plantation owner, falls for Renato, a young man brought to manage the estate. Renato’s success and Paloma’s daughter’s love for him create a rift between mother and daughter, turning them into rivals.

Mi rival

2026

Amor Dividido poster
7.2

April and Max thought they had a made life, until fate decided to radically change it, to unite them in the midst of loneliness and disappointment. Learn about the importance of love for family and how people can learn from their mistakes to get ahead.

Amor Dividido

2022

Blind Date poster
7.4

Lucía is a vlogger whose life depends on other people's opinions, and especially that of Maura, her mother, who watches over her all day. When Lucía's sister announces her engagement, her mother begins to worry about Lucía's appearance and emotional stability, betting that she will attend the wedding alone, dressed in black and heavier than ever. Lucía will have 258 days to lose weight, change her image and find a boyfriend. The bet with her mother goes viral and throughout the story Lucía shares the events of each blind date.

Blind Date

2019

El Principe del Barrio poster
8.6

No synopsis available yet.

El Principe del Barrio

2023

This Is Silvia Pinal poster
7.1

A biography of Silvia Pinal, Mexican actress, singer, and producer, showing the professional as well as personal parts of her life. Partial narration by the legend herself.

This Is Silvia Pinal

2019