10 Things You Need to Know About the New Queen of the South, Alice Braga

Alice read La Reina del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte eight years ago after a friend told her she should read it. "I completely loved it because of this character," she said of Teresa Mendoza. "I think she's a very strong female character — someone that is resourceful, [someone] that came from poor life circumstances but never victimized herself. I always say that heroes are not victims, so it's nice to play a character that always wants to fight and never gives up."