When the promotional poster for the season was first released, it was revealed that the character of Mateo was recast with Elias Janssen due to previous child actor Joseph Sanders being too busy with school to commit to the role.
Mateo Solano Villanueva - Jane The Virgin
Nevertheless, the show's story was pre-planned out, the time-jump was inevitable, and so baby Mateo was subsequently aged to a terrible toddler; played by the adorable Joseph Sanders. Sanders played 4 year old Mateo, and portrayed him for the second half of season 3.
Mateo is a son was born on May 14th 2015 to Jane Villanueva and Rafael Solano and was the result of an accidental artificial insemination performed on Jane by Dr. Luisa Alver, Mateo's aunt. Mateo has a sweet side and big heart but is full of energy and can cause a lot of mayhem for the people around him.
Elias Janssen is known for Jane the Virgin (2014), The Mindy Project (2012) and Lethal Weapon (2016).
Mateo Villanueva (portrayed by Dennis Mencia, seasons 2 and 4) is Alba's late husband, Xiomara's father, and Jane's grandfather.
When the promotional poster for the season was first released, it was revealed that the character of Mateo was recast with Elias Janssen due to previous child actor Joseph Sanders being too busy with school to commit to the role.
Fortunately — and intelligently — the writers quickly deal with Mateo's kidnapping instead of stretching it out over multiple episodes. It turns out he was kidnapped by Rose (Sin Rostro!) in a convoluted scheme to retrieve a special brooch that she thinks has been locked up in a police department evidence room.
Gina Rodriguez as Jane Gloriana Villanueva, a 23-year-old, religious Latina virgin who becomes pregnant after being artificially inseminated by mistake. At the time she was dating Michael Cordero, a Miami police officer.
His wife has just started nursing school. One daughter is soon to be walking and the other just found out that Mateo is officially her biological son.
As the Season 1 finale of Jane the Virgin reminded us fans, the show has been a roller coaster of emotions from the day it premiered. But despite all of the ups and downs, our friendly (and helpful) narrator said Jane's heart was full when she gave birth to a baby boy on Jane the Virgin.
He and his brothers fought about the family wealth and Mateo gave it all up and decided to move to the US, as it was the wish of his wife, Alba Villanueva. Mateo worked very hard to provide for his family and, sadly, died at the young age of 43.
Mateo was diagnosed with autism at 5 years old, and. shortly after that, genetic sequencing showed that he. also has ADNP syndrome. ADNP syndrome, also known.
She has a five-year-old son named Mateo, with her boyfriend and baby-daddy, Rafael Solano.
Although the characters share a 5-year-old son (thanks to the miracle of an accidental artificial insemination) and have dated in the past, viewers have never seen Jane and Rafael as intimate as they were in the closing moments of "Chapter Seventy-Four," which means it was a new experience for the stars as well.
After taking the LSAT, Michael dies suddenly from an aortic dissection (his blood pressure spiked) from being shot by Sin Rostro.
There was a possibility that the Narrator would be a character who had died. However, as some theorized, the Narrator has been revealed to be Mateo Villanueva due to the fact that the narrator says he loves Xiomara very much.
Aside from the fact that Jane may have accidentally revealed the gender of her baby—a girl!
Jane deciding to keep Mateo
But in a moment of strength after quitting her job at the hotel (owned by ex-boyfriend, father-of-the-baby Rafael, are you following Jane the Virgin virgins?), our heroine made the decision to keep her baby, Mateo, for herself and sue the father for sole custody.
Fans will be relieved to know that, as his deportation process drags on, Mateo will not be in detention the whole season. “He will be in the world of Cloud 9 and with the other characters,” Green said. “Our focus will shift to showing what everyday life is like for him with deportation looming.
Jane and Rafael are the co-parents of Mateo Solano Villanueva.
She later divorces Rafael and in Season 2, she gives birth to their twin daughters, Anna and Elsa (later Ellie). Mateo is Jane and Rafael's baby.
Spoiler: Jane and Michael finally did it, a deed the show depicted with a cartoon of them stepping into a rocket that blasted off into the stars.
Anna and Ellie are the twin daughters of Petra Solano and Rafael Solano, born in 2016. At age 4 in 2020, the girls are heralded as very bright and extremely well-behaved, winning awards and recognition for their prodigiousness.
Petra left Lachlan for Rafael, as he had more money and the two got engaged after five months of being together. They marry and Petra becomes pregnant with a boy.
8. Mateo Solano Villanueva. During the final season, Mateo struggled in school and was diagnosed with ADHD.