What Happened to the Cast of Corazón Salvaje? Aimée Became an Economist

Corazón Salvaje aired from 5 July 1993 to 18 February 1994 — 160 episodes, produced by José Rendón for Televisa from the original story by Caridad Bravo Adams — and for a great many people it is still the best telenovela Televisa ever made. Eduardo Palomo played Juan del Diablo. He did not come from the usual Televisa mould: he came out of theatre, he played in a rock band, and he brought an intensity nobody else on Mexican television had at the time. Ten years after the last episode he was gone. On 6 November 2003, in Los Angeles, he suffered a heart attack and died. He was 41, married, with two children, in the middle of his career. Edith González played the Countess Mónica, and had been acting since childhood. After Corazón Salvaje she carried leading roles for more than twenty years in television and theatre. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2016, she did not hide it — she spoke about the treatment, kept appearing in public and kept working, in a country where that was not common. She died on 13 June 2019, aged 54. Enrique Lizalde played Noel Mancera here — but in 1966, in the very first version of Corazón Salvaje, he had played Juan del Diablo himself. Twenty-seven years later he returned to the same story to play the older man and hand the part to Eduardo Palomo. He died on 3 June 2013, aged 76, of liver cancer. Claudia Islas played the villain Sofía Montero and was nominated as Best Leading Actress in 1994 for it. Born on 17 July 1946, she is now 80, retired since her last television work in 2004, living in Miami, married to Jaime Bravo since 1990. Ariel López Padilla played Andrés Alcázar y Valle, the legitimate brother — the most thankless role in the production. Born 12 August 1962, he is 64 and still working; he appeared in a new version of Los ricos también lloran in 2022. He was married to Mariana Levy, who died on 29 April 2005 aged 39, and they had a daughter, María. He has been married to Paola Mancilla since 2011, with twins Julia and Santiago, and lives in Cuernavaca — near where part of Corazón Salvaje was filmed. And Ana Colchero played the Countess Aimée, the engine of almost every conflict in the story. In 2002 she did what almost nobody in that industry does: she retired from acting entirely. No break, no relaunch, no public quarrel. She went on to write and to study economics, and today she works as a writer and economist on political and social analysis. The actress who played the most ambitious character in the telenovela was the only one in the cast who turned her back on fame while she still had it. Who did you watch this one with? Tell us in the comments. Sources and accuracy: every date, age and figure here was checked against public records before publishing, and reflects what those records showed in September 2026; any money figures are estimates. This channel's narration is produced with an AI voice. Telenovela Vault exists as a tribute to classic Spanish-language television and to the performers and families behind it.