Overview
- Netflix confirmed Monday that it will produce an autobiographical series about Angélica Rivera, with a planned release on the platform in 2027 and Sofía Castro cast to play her.
- The show is produced by El Estudio with Pablo Cruz and Juana Blaya leading the production and lists Ana Lorena Pérez Ríos Gómez and Teresa Simone as directors.
- Writers credited on the project include Adriana Pelusi, Carolina Rivera, Larissa Andrade, Ana Sofía Clerici and José Miguel Núñez, signaling a multi-writer development process for the scripts.
- The series will trace Rivera’s rise from telenovela star to Mexico’s First Lady and foreground her account of the personal costs of life in the public eye, which Rivera described as an act of freedom and courage.
- No official casting or depiction of Enrique Peña Nieto has been announced, and the project follows a string of streamer-backed biographical series produced by El Estudio that can shape public memory of well-known figures.