50 Fun Facts About Jane the Virgin

The show is a loose adaptation of Juana la Virgen, a 2002 series from which country?

The original was written by Perla Farías and starred Daniela Alvarado as 17-year-old Juana Pérez.

Who developed Jane the Virgin for American television?

She served as showrunner for the whole run and wrote the series finale.

In which city is the series set?

The show was actually shot on soundstages in Los Angeles.

At which January 2015 ceremony did Gina Rodriguez win Best Actress in a TV Series (Musical or Comedy)?

The show itself was nominated for Best Television Series (Musical or Comedy) at the same ceremony.

Which doctor accidentally artificially inseminates Jane during a routine checkup?

She is Rafael's older sister and a recovering alcoholic, which is why the mix-up happens.

Who plays hotel owner Rafael Solano?

He went on to direct Five Feet Apart in 2019, the year the show ended.

Which Canadian actor plays Detective Michael Cordero?

He was born on Valentine's Day 1990 in London, Ontario, and had earlier recurring roles on Bomb Girls.

Who plays Jane's mother Xiomara?

The Bronx-born actress said she related to the role because her own mother was also a young single mother.

Which former Miss Puerto Rico plays Jane's grandmother Alba?

She was crowned in 1967 and went on to a long screen career that included Switched at Birth, Glee and Teen Wolf.

Which Mexican actor plays telenovela star Rogelio de la Vega?

He was already a huge star at home from La fea más bella, one of Mexico's highest-rated telenovelas ever.

Which Israeli actress plays Petra Solano?

She also plays Petra's twin Anezka, and TVLine singled out her comic performance giving birth to twins in Chapter 36.

Who voices the Latin Lover Narrator?

His narration earned Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Narrator, a category usually dominated by documentary voices.

In the series finale, the Narrator is revealed to be whom?

He is narrating a telenovela adaptation of his mother's life, exactly as her book ends.

How many episodes of Jane the Virgin aired in total?

The finale was fittingly titled 'Chapter One Hundred', keeping the show's chapter-numbering scheme to the end.

From season three's fourth episode, which words were crossed out on the title card each week?

A different comedic substitution appeared in their place every episode, mirroring the fact that Jane was no longer a virgin.

Michael apparently dies in the tenth episode of season three from what?

It was a delayed complication of the gunshot wound he suffered in the season two finale.

When Michael turns up alive with amnesia, what name does he go by?

The season five premiere explains that Sin Rostro staged his death and shocked parts of his brain.

After Michael's apparent death, the story skips ahead how many years?

The jump lands on a wedding, and the show never quite tells you whose until the next episode.

Which character turns out to be the crime lord Sin Rostro?

She was Rafael's stepmother, and she murdered his father before being arrested in season three and dying in season five.

Which character is murdered by his own wife, the crime lord Sin Rostro?

He was Rafael's adoptive father and had doubted his son's ability to run the family hotel.

What is the name of the hotel Rafael owns and where Jane works?

After the time jump, Petra reopens it as a kid-friendly hotel while a rival adults-only hotel opens across the street.

Petra names her twin daughters after which two characters?

One of them ends up being called Ellie because Petra grows to hate the Frozen references.

Petra's long-lost twin grew up with a rough life in which country?

Their mother's surname is Anděl, and the twin ends up marrying the manager of the hotel lounge.

Petra Solano was born under which first name?

She has gone by several surnames too, including Anděl and Dvořáček.

Petra's mother Magda uses a wheelchair, but what is the truth about her condition?

She is Petra's co-conspirator in the plot to take Rafael's hotel and fortune, and keeps scheming from prison.

The season four finale reveals who really killed Anezka. Who was it?

It happened after the twin threatened Petra's children, and Petra ends up on trial for it.

How old was Xiomara when she gave birth to Jane?

That history is exactly why Jane vows to wait until marriage rather than repeat her mother's path.

What is Xiomara's job when the series begins?

Her real dream is a singing career, which Rogelio keeps trying to help along.

What is the first name of Rogelio and Darci Factor's daughter?

Her full name is Baby Michaelina de la Vega Factor, and Darci runs a matchmaking business.

In the season one finale, Xiomara and Rogelio learn they got drunkenly married in which city?

It happens the same night Jane gives birth and the newborn is snatched from the hospital nursery.

Which screen legend guest-stars as Rogelio's vain mother, Liliana?

Liliana and Xiomara do not get along at all during her visit.

Which pop star, Rogelio's nemesis, checks into Rafael's hotel as herself in season two?

Rogelio's long-running feud with her is entirely of his own invention.

Which singer, her childhood idol, does Xiomara meet at an awards show in season one?

Rogelio is expecting to win best actor in a telenovela that night.

Rogelio tries to recruit Eva Longoria for the American reboot of which of his telenovelas?

He also discovers that he and Longoria are distant cousins.

Brooke Shields plays Rogelio's nemesis, a spoof of herself. What is the character's name?

Their feud peaks in a televised debate about Rogelio's supposed male postpartum depression.

Which actress plays attorney Jane Ramos, known as J.R., who defends and then falls for Petra?

Her casting was announced in January 2018, but her role was kept secret until the day before her debut.

Which Teen Wolf star plays Adam Alvaro, Jane's first love?

Critics praised the season four episode in which Adam is revealed to be bisexual.

Gina Rodriguez's directing debut, Jane the Virgin's 'Chapter Seventy-Four', was built around which milestone?

The showrunner chose that episode for her deliberately, and it earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination for directing.

Where was the pilot episode filmed?

The rest of the series was shot on soundstages in Los Angeles.

Which prestigious honor did the show pick up during its first season?

The American Film Institute also named it one of the top ten television programs of that year.

The tie-in novel based on the book Jane writes in the show, published in 2017, is titled what?

It is a historical romance set in 1902 and was inspired by Jane and Michael's love story.

In season five, how much does a publisher pay for Jane's book?

She later blows through the advance hiring a whole bus to bail Rafael out just before the wedding.

The unproduced spin-off ordered to pilot in January 2019 was to be called what?

It was pitched as an anthology in which each season adapted a different novel written by Jane, with Rodriguez narrating; the CW dropped it that May.

The original 2002 Juana la Virgen was produced by which broadcaster?

Its heroine was a 17-year-old with a scholarship to study journalism in the United States.

Michael is shot in the chest at the end of season two by whom?

His supposed new partner was Sin Rostro in disguise all along.

When Jane finally loses her virginity in season three, what animated image does the show cut to?

The cartoon rocket, with the newlyweds inside, caps a wedding night full of interruptions.

What does Michael discover hidden beneath the hotel in season one?

It performs surgery on fugitives, which is how Sin Rostro keeps changing faces.

Unique among CW shows, what did Jane the Virgin offer on its SAP channel?

Many CW affiliates never carried the SAP channel, so few viewers ever heard it.

Rafael's frozen sample was his last chance at fatherhood because he had survived what?

The mix-up used his final sample, which raised the stakes for everyone.

Jane's son Mateo is named after which relative?

Alba's husband died before Jane was born, so she never met her grandfather.