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The Greatest Love is a Philippine melodrama television series directed by Dado C. Lumibao, Jeffery Jeturian and Mervyn Brondial, starring Sylvia Sanchez, Nonie Buencamino, Andi Eigenmann, Dimples Romana, Arron Villaflor, Matt Evans, and Joshua Garcia. The series premiered on ABS-CBN's Kapamilya Gold afternoon block and worldwide on The Filipino Channel on September 5, 2016 replacing Tubig at Langis.
The Greatest Love began with young Gloria's (Ellen Adarna) great love story when she fell in love with a boatman named Peter (Ejay Falcon). Even if they loved each other, Gloria was forced to marry Andres under circumstances (Junjun Quintana).
Through the years, an adult Gloria (Sylvia Sanchez) has become a loving and selfless mother to Amanda (Dimples Romana), Andrei (Matt Evans), Paeng (Arron Villaflor), and Lizelle (Andi Eigenmann).
However, a long-kept secret will shatter their once happy family, leading to Gloria’s children leaving her one by one. As Gloria struggles to keep her family together, she starts to show symptoms of dementia and begins to lose pieces of her memory. She initially brushes off the symptoms until she discovered that she has Alzheimer's disease.
At the root of their family's problems, all along, her children thought that Gloria was unfaithful to their father, the late Andres. However, unknown to them, Gloria was raped by Andres that made her marry him instead of Peter.
Gloria's family started to become shattered when they discovered that Lizelle was an illegitimate chilld, the result of Peter and Gloria's illicit love.
Her mission is to bring back the love her family once had for each other as it becomes more difficult as she races against time while trying to gather her memories before they are completely wiped out.
Main cast
- Sylvia Sanchez As Gloria Guerrero-Alegre
She is a selfless mom to her four children. She is joyful and always has a positive outlook on life. "There is money in the trash"; is her motto in life as she leads a profitable junkshop. Her youngest child, Lizelle, helps her run the business. Family is her most important priority and the thing that Gloria cares about the most. She soon discovers that she has Alzheimer's disease, and the symptoms of her disease cause her trouble throughout the series.
- Nonie Buencamino As Peter Alcantara
Owner of Nuevo Rio, and childhood lover of Gloria, in his youth he went abroad to work for his future family with Gloria. He came back exactly on the day of Gloria and Andres' wedding, finding out that Gloria didn't wait for him. Peter is the biological father of Lizelle. Then a successful businessman, he later returns into Gloria's life and tries to make up for all the lost time that they had missed. He wants to marry Gloria but Amanda objects to this matter because they cannot accept him as part of the family. Peter waits until the Alegre siblings will finally accept him.
- Andi Eigenmann As Lizelle Alegre/Alcantara
She is Gloria's youngest child. Lizelle is loving and understanding, and always prioritizes the needs of her loved ones. She is the result of Gloria and Peter's illicit love, that makes her an Alcantara instead of an Alegre.
- Dimples Romana Amanda Alegre-Cruz
Gloria's first born, she is a successful marketing executive, a good wife, and a responsible mom to her only child Z. She got mad at Gloria when she learned of her mother's secret past. She despises Lizelle and hates her because she is an illegitimate child of Gloria. Later, she forgives Gloria for her mistakes and tries to make up for lost time before her mother's memory is wiped out because of the deadly Alzheimer's disease.
- Arron Villaflor As Rafael "Paeng" Alegre
He is the third of the four siblings. An aspiring indie rock singer, he has been inclined towards music since his younger years. He inherited this love for music from his father, Andres. Paeng steals money from Gloria to keep on continuing with his gambling addiction. Along with Amanda, he dislikes Lizelle and blames her as the reason Gloria and Andres' marriage broke.
- Matt Evans As Andres "Andrei" Alegre Jr.
He is the second of the four siblings and is the eldest male. He is a freelance make-up artist. An intelligent, kind, and understanding son to his Mama Gloria, his favorite person in the world. He quotes that Gloria is the only woman that Andrei will love for the rest of his life as Andrei is gay. He is in a relationship with his boyfriend named Ken.
- Joshua Garcia As Zosimo "Z" Cruz
Amanda and Chad's only child. He is a senior high school student. As he is Gloria's eldest and only grandchild, he is close to his precious grandmother, who he lovingly calls MommyLa. He disobeys his mother, Amanda, when she forbids him to see Gloria to avoid further complications in the family. Z later finds out of Gloria's disease.
Special participation
- Jana Agoncillo as Leklek
- Marnie Lapuz as Adela Sunico
- Allan Paule
- Kamille Filoteo as Liza
- Lance Lucido as Buboy
- Jessy Mendiola as Diane
- Mara Lopez as young Stella
- Anna Luna as young Lydia
- Jane Oineza as teenage Amanda
- Teejay Marquez as teenage Andrei
- John Manalo as teenage Paeng
- Hannah Lopez Vito as adolescent Lizelle
- Michelle Vito as adolescent Amanda
- Nathaniel Britt as adolescent Andrei
- John Vincent Servilla as adoslescent Paeng
- Angeluo Alayon as young Andrei
- Raikko Mateo as young Paeng
- Juvylyn Bison as young Amanda