Mundo de Fieras to debut on Univision.

In what has become the most highly-anticipated novela launch of the fall season thanks to its unprecedented cast of today’s biggest stars and international production, “Mundo de Fieras” (Love and Cruelty) will debut on the Univision Television Network Tuesday, October 3rd at 9:00 PM ET/PT (8:00 PM Central).

Under the direction of Salvador Mejía Alejandre, the highly successful Executive Producer of such blockbuster hits as “La Madrastra,” “Inocente de Ti,” and “Mariana de la Noche,” “Mundo de Fieras” breaks new ground within the popular novela format. This unique novela introduces three evil women who plot and scheme to wreck havoc and conspire against the lead characters’ search for love and happiness. Adding to its uniqueness, “Mundo de Fieras” takes its characters, and viewers, to breathtaking international locales such as Venice, Italy and Barcelona, Spain.

“Mundo de Fieras” also marks the return of one of Spanish-language television’s most popular leading men, César Evora (La Madrastra, Entre el Amor y el Odio), in not one but two leading roles. Playing identical twins separated at birth, Evora portrays the good-hearted and honorable Gabriel, who was raised in the lap of luxury and sheltered by his loving adoptive parents, as well as Demián, the mean spirited brother who grew up in poverty and who turned to a life of crime…and dedicated to destroying Gabriel.

But an evil twin is only one of Gabriel’s problems. His second wife Joselyn, played by superstar Edith González (Mujer de Madera, Salomé), suffers from frequent bouts of hysteria and baseless jealousy that threatens to destroy the marriage. Joselyn’s mother, Miriam, played by respected actress Helena Rojo (Amor Real, Inocente de Ti), lives in the same house and is a tyrannical, greedy, and calculating woman with dark secrets who is capable of murder to further her ambitions. Joselyn’s daughter from her first marriage, Karen, played by the dynamic Michelle Vieth (La Madrastra, Amigas y Rivales), is spoiled, self-serving, and envious of her step-sister, Paulina, played by the beautiful Sara Maldonado (Corazones al Limite), and her growing romance with the handsome and kind Juan Cristóbal, portrayed by youthful heart-throb Sebastián Rulli (Contra Viento y Marea, Rubí).

With its mesmerizing series of plot twists and turns, secrets revealed and multi-generational appeal, “Mundo de Fieras” will submerge viewers in a world where cruelty and hatred attack relentlessly from all directions…and keep them hooked as love fights its way through the darkness and into the light.