Munting Heredera

Overview

Munting Heredera or Little Heiress is a Filipino family-oriented drama series created and developed by Maryo J. de los Reyes for GMA Network. Playing the lead role of Doña Anastacia, a rich widow in search of her "munting heredera", is the multi-award winning actress and one of the original Queens of Philippine cinema, Gloria Romero, making her television debut. The show was first shown on May 9, 2011, replacing Dwarfina on GMA Network and on May 11, 2011, on GMA Pinoy TV. Worldwide, via GMA Pinoy TV, the quality of the picture is much finer but is still at 480i, though digitally mastered. The series was extended for five weeks more than its original plan, but after one week the show was extended again for an additional five weeks for the second time. A third extension of 10 weeks was made. The series concluded on February 3, 2012, and was replaced by Biritera. It ran for thirty nine weeks with the total of 195 episodes.

Cast

Gloria Romero

Anastacia "Ana" Montereal-Lobregat

Mark Anthony Fernandez

Jacob Montereal

Camille Prats

Sandra Santiago-Montereal/Susan Velasco

Katrina Halili

Lynette Sarmiento-Montereal

Roderick Paulate

Emmanuel "Manny" Mejia

Mona Louise Rey

Jennifer "Jenny" S. Montereal

Gabby Eigenmann

Desmond Montereal / Michael Sison

Leandro Baldemor

Philip Arboleda

Ynez Veneracion

Claire Montereal

Neil Ryan Sese

Simeon Velasco