Who played the lead role of Maricruz in the Mexican telenovela Quinceañera?

Adela Noriega played Maricruz in the Mexican telenovela Quinceañera.

Quinceañera was a Televisa production that premiered in Mexico in 1987. The drama focused on teenage characters and the social pressures surrounding adolescence, friendship, romance, and family expectations.

Noriega starred opposite Thalía, who played Beatriz. Their pairing helped make the telenovela an important youth-oriented television production in Mexico and Latin America. The title connects the series to the fifteenth-birthday tradition, although the program is a scripted melodrama rather than a documentary about quinceañeras.

The series is easy to confuse with the 2006 independent film also titled Quinceañera. The telenovela predates that film by nearly two decades and has a different cast, story, and format.