Yo soy bea

Infobox Television
show_name=Yo soy Bea


genre=Comedy-Drama
director=Rafael de la Cueva
starring=Ruth Núñez
Alejandro Tous
Mónica Estarreado
Norma Ruíz
Jose Manuel Seda

Roberto Correcher
David Arnaiz
Inma Isla
Enmanuel Esparza
Vicente Cuesta
Patricia Montero
theme_music_composer=5notas
opentheme=Te falta veneno
country=Spain
language=Spanish
num_episodes= Más de 500
location=Madrid
runtime=approx. 42 min without commercials
network=Tele5
audio_format=
first_aired=June 10 2006
last_aired=June 24,2008 // present
related=U.S. adaptation of "Betty la Fea"
website=http://www.telecinco.es/yosoybea/ and Bea´s Blog
awards=2006 Best "Telenovela TP" and 2007 Best "Telenovela" TP

"Yo soy Bea" is an Spanish television comedy-drama series starring Ruth Núñez.

Despite the original Colombian production already being in Spanish, Telecinco launched an adaptation in Spain called Yo soy Bea in July, 2006. The Spanish version title (which translates to "I am Bea") is a pun, with "Bea" sounding like bella, meaning pretty and like fea, meaning ugly. Ruth Núñez played Beatriz Pérez Pinzón and Alejandro Tous was Álvaro Aguilar, the company boss.

After an emotional wedding with her beloved Bea Alvaro Aguilar, the two disappear from the series, and Beatriz Berlanga Echegaray finally becomes the absolute protagonist of the series alongside Roberto Vazquez. This is an adaptation of the original Colombian Fernando Gaitan, whose writing involved, among other authors, Covadonga Thick, Ariana Martin, Marta Azcona, Mercedes Rodrigo, Ignasi Garcia, Roberto Goñi, Juanma Ruiz Cordova, Beatriz G. Cruz, Veronica Viñé, Santi Diaz, Jordi Arencón, Daniel del Casar, Jessica Pires, Estefania Salyers, Deysi Porras, Benjamin Zafra, Sara Alquézar, Daniel Corpas, Beatriz Duque, Daniel Castro and Remedios Crespo.

The Spanish adaptation screens weekdays at 5:30 pm and pulls in an average of over four million viewers (over +35% share of the audience). The series' record is a 40,7 % of share. It has become Spain's top-rated daytime programme. Ruth Núñez, known to Spanish viewers for her portrayal of a Yugoslav student in teen soap, Compañeros, plays the heroine.

In this version, Beatriz Pérez Pinzón (Núñez) is an unattractive 26-year-old economist whose looks aren't important to her. She's intelligent and kind, and one day, after having cared for her widower father for two years, she decides to look for a job. Although she's very well educated, she gets only a secretary job at the magazine "Bulevar 21". She becomes the secretary of Álvaro Aguilar (Alejandro Tous), the company boss. In the company, Bea will be against Cayetana (Mónica Estarreado), Álvaro's fiancée, and her friend Bárbara (Norma Ruiz), who is also Álvaro's secretary. The Spanish Version won a TP de Oro to "La mejor telenovela" this year (2007)

The series is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela "Yo soy Betty, la fea" ("I am Betty, the ugly")

On June 10, 2006, Tele5 channel picked up "Yo soy Bea" for the 2006-07-08