Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay

Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay
Format	Drama, Romance
Starring	(see cast) for complete details.
Country of origin	Philippines
No. of episodes	200
Production
Running time	45 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABS-CBN
Original run	July 2, 2002 – 2003

Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay (engl. transl.: The Long Wait / How Long I Have Waited For You) / Timeless (International English Title) is a Filipino soap opera, produced by ABS-CBN and Star Cinema. It started in 2001 and ended in 2003. The critically-acclaimed and top-rating teleserye won the CMMA Best Drama Series and the PMPC Star Awards Best Primetime Drama Series. It is the first local soap opera that became a finalist to the Best Drama Series category of the International Emmy Awards. It was also part of the top five drama series of the Asian TV Awards.

Sypnosis

Lorrea and Lorrinda Guinto (Lorna Tolentino) are twins. Lorrea accidentally takes the place of her twin sister in the world of the drug lords. After many trial and tribulations she finds her missing son, Andrei/Yuri (John Lloyd Cruz).

Cast

• Lorna Tolentino as Lorrea Guinto / Lea Mijares, Lorrinda Guinto / Ingrid Medrano / Red Butterfly – Lorrea is the good twin trying to find her lost son Andre and the female Protagonist. Lorrinda has always wanted more than life had to offer for her so she became a part of the drug syndicate and adopted the names Ingrid Medrano and Red Butterfly. They both fall in love with Boris.

• John Lloyd Cruz as Andrei / Yuri Orbida – The lost son of Lorrea. He grows up to be a lawyer and seeks justice for the deaths of his foster fathers.

• Rica Peralejo as Helaena Argos – The eldest child of Henri Argos. She does everything in her power to raise her brother and sister after her father dies. She gets seriously hurt from her first love which is Yuri but will learn to love again with Anilov.

• John Estrada as Boris Arcangel – He becomes the man that both Lorrea and Lorrinda love. He becomes the right hand man of Henri Argos.

• Edu Manzano as Henri Argos – Father of Helaena, Katrina, and Niko. One of the leaders of the drug syndicate.

• Jean Garcia as Lady Morgana – The female antagonist of series She will make Lorrea, Yuri, and the Argos children's lives miserable as hell.

• Bea Alonzo as Katrina Argos – The middle child of Henry Argos. She grows up to be a lawyer and falls for her sister's first love.

• Ronnie Lazaro as Mirdo Orbida – The first foster father of Yuri who raised and taught him right from wrong up to his adolescent years.

• Johnny Delgado as Dimitri Mijares – The father of Anilov and the second foster father of Yuri who educate him to a law school after Mirdo died.

• Bing Loyzaga as Brigitta – She pretends to be a caring friend to Henri but underneath of it is the will to do anything to be his one true love. The older sister of Morgana.

• Shaina Magdayao as Guinivere "Gwenn" Martinez – The foster child of Lorrea.

• Alwyn Uytingco as Nikolai "Nikos" Argos – The youngest Argos child and the closest to Lorrea.

• Ricky Davao as Francis Ventaspejo – A struggling priest who tries to make up for all the mistakes he has done to Lorrea. The biological father of Yuri.

• Bernard Palanca as Anilov Mijares – Son of Dimitri but they do not get along. He does the exact opposite of what his father wants even when it comes to his personal life.

• Dimples Romana as Kayla "Pards" Reneza – She is the childhood friend of Yuri and loves him from a far.

• Rafael Rosell as Tiborce – He is the man who Kayla married despite her love to Yuri.

• Jhong Hilario as Ivan – Childhood friend to Yuri.

Cameo

• Jennylyn Mercado

Trivia

• A movie was made having the same title, starring Judy Ann Santos and Rico Yan in 1998.

• First TV soap of John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo together as a loveteam.

External links

• Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay at the Internet Movie Database