Acting
Dec 16, 1949
Tondo, Manila, Philippines
Gina Pareño
Acting
Biography
Gina Pareño is a Filipino actress born in Tondo, Manila. Her career began as an extra in several films throughout the 1960s, before starring in numerous roles with the Philippine film production company Sampaguita Pictures. In 2006, she gained international recognition for her role in Kubrador (The Bet Collector), winning Best Actress awards at the Osian’s Cinefan Festival and the Brussels International Independent Film Festival. Pareño also won the Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress as an outspoken and brash mother in the movie Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo and then later on received accolades for the same film and category in the FAMAS Awards as well as the Film Academy of the Philippines Awards in that same year. Pareño and co-actress Jaclyn Jose were cited in the 61st Cannes Film Festival in 2008 for their performance in Brillante Mendoza's Serbis. The film earned several recognitions, including a Best Actress award for Pareño at the 6th Pacific Meridian International Film Festival and an Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Feature Films (99)
A barrio lass agrees to be the subject of a man's research about aswangs. He falls for her but hides his feelings knowing that she's an aswang.
Ang Manananggal na Nahahati ang Puso
Teresa is pregnant by her rich boyfriend Edwin. However, Edwin is sent away to manage their provincial plant by his father Don Lauro to stop the impending unsuitable match.
Laging Umaga
Anghel found haven living in squalor with destitute and petty, young criminals led by Toni. When he fell in love with a young woman, it caused friction and separated them, and revealed further differences between the two when they met again at the hands of justice.
Crime
A struggling family owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business.
Serbis
In the picturesque island of Cuyo, Palawan, an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel docks carrying the fisherman named Muo Sei, a man looking for something or someone with the name Ploning. He has from sunrise to sundown to look for this "Ploning".
Ploning
A story about four girls who want to help their mother financially by running a club.
Jamboree 66
Television & Series (15)
Basta't Kasama Kita was an ABS-CBN primetime series starring Robin Padilla and Judy Ann Santos. The show also aired worldwide on ABS-CBN's The Filipino Channel and on a two-week delay on the International Channel in the United States. The TV series re-aired on the defunct Pinoy Central TV in 2005-2006 and in 2010-2011 it re-aired on Kapamilya Channel, an affiliate of ABS-CBN's The Filipino Channel
Basta't Kasama Kita
Mara Clara: With Kathryn Bernardo, Julia Montes, Mylene Dizon, Jhong Hilario. Mara and Clara where both born on the same day and switched at birth.
Mara Clara
Darna is a 2005 drama fantasy action television series based on the Mars Ravelo's fictional character of the same name and a loose adaptation of the 2003 Mars Ravelo's Darna Miniseries by Mango Comics. It aired on Philippine television on GMA and starred top actress Angel Locsin as the iconic superheroine. It premiered in Filipino homes on April 4, 2005 and ended on November 25, 2005. The official title of the series is Mars Ravelo's Darna.
Darna
Labs Ko Si Babe is a Filipino drama-comedy aired by ABS-CBN in 1999 starring Marvin Agustin and Jolina Magdangal. It was a Comedy-Television sitcom that aired weeknights on its prime time slot after Saan Ka Man Naroroon. The show was memorable because of Jolina Magdangal and Marvin Agustin' triumphant love team and as the lead stars of the series. The series ended in November 2000 and was replaced by the prime time television series Pangako sa ’Yo. The show also made Jolina Magdangal the box office queen of the decade.
