Joyce Jimenez

Joyce Jimenéz (born October 19, 1978) is a Filipino American actress who mainly stars in movies in the Philippines.

Joyce Jiménez was born in Los Angeles, California to Filipino migrant parents. Her real name is Joyce Herrín Reintegrado. She is well known for having large breasts. Jiménez grew up in the Los Ángeles area where she studied at Bishop Amat High School in La Puente, California. She was accepted to UCLA but decided to forgo schooling to come to the Philippines, but recently she finished a college degree in a university in Australia.

In 1996, Jiménez participated in the Miss Philippines-Hollywood pageant. Although she did not win the title, she did win the Miss Photogenic title. She got her break when one of the judges of the pageant was also a movie talent manager who asked Jiménez to get in touch with her if she ever came to the Philippines which Jiménez did in 1997. Since 1997, Jiménez has starred in over 20 movies, most of which involved nudity. Though she is a popular actress in the Philippines, her critics are quick to point out that her overt sexuality in her movies is what makes her prominent and not necessarily her acting ability.

Jiménez started to venture out from films and into business. She owns Skin-Private Joyce, which specializes in bath and beauty products. She also opened a lingerie line Private Joyce.

Jennylyn Mercado

Jennylyn Mercado (born May 15, 1987) is a Filipina actress and singer. She became famous after winning in the first season of StarStruck, a reality-based talent search show of GMA Network in the Philippines.
Family

In the October 14, 2004 episode of TV drama series Magpakailanman of GMA Network, which featured her life story, viewers learned more about her childhood.

In May 4, 1991, when she was nearly four years old, she made headlines as a battered child. Her assailant was her stepfather, who burned her skin with cigarette butts and whacked her back with a flat iron. Her mother, who was then in Dubai working as a domestic helper, immediately came home. She came not to take care of her daughter, however, but to bail out her partner, who was in detention.

Her mother migrated to London and had her own family. Jennylyn's aunt, Lydia Mercado, legally adopted her.

In June 2004, Mercado's biological father, Noli Pineda, now 50, came home for a holiday. His arrival did not go unnoticed by the press. Reports came out saying that he was asking for money from his now self-sufficient daughter (an accusation she has strongly denied, insisting that her father wanted her to use his surname. She and her biological father, who is based in Korea, keep in touch.

Mercado is now the official spokesperson of the Bata Foundation (Christian Mission Services), a non-governmental organization. It operates with basic funding support from its partner organization, Christlicher Missiondienst (CMD) headquartered in Germany, supplementary assistance from two Japanese organizations and a few local groups, with the help of Feed Hungry Inc. and the GMA Artist Center.

Katya Santos

Who says beauty and brains don’t combine? In fact, you can add a little toss of sexiness. Look at Katya Santos and you know very well that she has it all.

Katrina Santos was born on February 2, 1982, in Manila, Philippines. As early as 4 years old, she was already busy doing commercials. The most notable was her Bear Brand ad. Growing up, she found the right training at Ang TV, a youth-oriented talent show of ABS-CBN.

It wasn’t long before she became a regular member of Oki Doki Doc. At 13, she tested her comic skills along with veteran comedians such as Babalu and Jimmy Santos. She also acted alongside Philippine-renowned thespians such as Claudine Barretto and Aga Muhlach .

However, perhaps it’s because younger talents started flooding the entertainment industry or that she was caught in a very awkward age, Katya’s career hardly took off. As a bold move, she decided to hop on the sexy bandwagon.

Katya was one of the original elite sexy members of the Viva Hot Babes. Her participation eventually catapulted her to a certified sex symbol. Together with the likes of Maui Taylor , Gwen Garci , and Andrea del Rosario , to name a few, they were able to release a number of sizzling videoke CDs and DVDs. Katya even got her solo spot courtesy of her Wet, Wild, and Kinky album. They also became busy promoting their singles such as Basketbol and Bulaklak, which, surprisingly, appealed to the masses, even to younger kids.

Her voluptuous bodies also graced numerous men’s magazines, including FHM and Hot Stuff. She was Tanduay’s official calendar girl in 2004. Most of all, it paved the way for a couple of dark movies such as Radyo and Sexdrive. Keka, despite being a bold film, got rave reviews even from the harshest critics. It’s a good thing that she was able to make her way through in spite of rejecting great roles in Tatarin, Balahibong Pusa, and Scorpio Nights.

Katya Santos went back to boob tube playing the role of Morita Ponce in the TV adaptation of Hiram na Mukha. This gave her an opportunity to showcase her own subtle yet convincing acting capabilities, especially when it demanded her o play the ultimate kontrabida against Heart Evangelista .

But she had enough. After Boso, which was released in 2005, Katya hopes to only reminisce those bolder days and rather focus on taking in more mature roles. She is also attempting to hone her singing skills and wish to release her first CD very soon. It will be a combination of pop and R&B, music genres she has grown to love and truly passionate about.

If she’s not doing movies, she also keeps her hands full managing her pizza parlor business, along with her non-showbiz boyfriend. Ever since, Katya has always been business-minded. It even persuaded her to take up Business Administration in International Academy of Management.

Indeed there’s more to life than showbiz. With wits, beauty, character, and body to die for, Katya will definitely go a long way.

Andrea del Rosario

She is just a part of the whole. Andrea was born with a twin brother, but hey this girl ihas no split personality, because she is indeed a personality in her own right!

Andrea is an independent young lady who lives on her own. This pretty angel has had a number of theatrical experiences, having friends from the Repertory Philippines. She can sing, dance and act-a bundle of talent in her 5'5" frame. She has also appeared as a model for Pretty-Pretty Fashion Clothing and did the catwalk with professional models at the Manila Hotel. She has also appeared in several movies such as Mula Sa Puso, Hiling, Bata,Bata Pano ka Ginawa? and Bukas Na Lang Kita Mamahalin. She was a part of the show Attagirl, where she shared the limelight with three of today's hottest babes.

This Star Circle Batch 3 member describes herself as a self-driven young woman who will take no risks and will create her own ladder to the top-and with the kind of outlook that she has, no one can absolutely stop her from getting there.

Angelica Panganiban

Angelica Panganiban was born on November 4, 1986 in the Caloocan City, Philippines. Panganiban is a member of ABS-CBN's elite circle of homegrown talents properly named Star Magic. She started her career in showbiz at the age of 6 and first show was Ang TV. She was the Junior-Senior Prom Princess in 2002 and Miss Junior and Senior Prom in 2003.

Angelica's parents separated when she was two years old. She has no memories of her father. In her childhood, Angelica had thought that her grandfather, Alfredo Panganiban, was her real father.

Angelica appeared in the cover of Cosmopolitan Philippines in September 2006 and in the cover of FHM Philippines in March 2007. She is the Maxim Philippines' first cover girl.

Perhaps her most famous(also controversial) of her photos appeared in the 2007 Ginebra calendar. During her teen days, she had a a relationship with actor Carlo Aquino. She is currently in a relationship with model and actor Derek Ramsay

Rica Peralejo

Rica Peralejo has one of the most extensive acting biographies for an actress her age. She began as a child, and shifted through age groups and genres to collect an impressive list of credits. Despite all this, she has also done documentary films and established herself as a talented singer.

Rica Peralejo was born on March 7, 1980, in the Philippines. She soon earned a role in the children’s comedy show “Ang TV.” In her teen years, she won roles in teen television comedy shows “Gimik” and “T.G.I.S.” These shows gave Peralejo her start in acting as a career.
After her days in youth variety and sitcoms, Peralejo landed roles in movies and other television programs. She moved between many genres fluently, which earned her various “queen” titles such as “Bold Queen,” “Horror Queen,” and “Scream Queen.” Despite the labels the media tried to pin on her, she also continued acting in comedies and sitcoms, as well as variety shows and television dramas.

Like many other teen stars, Peralejo had a role in the television series “Komics,” which was written from Philippine comic books, and several other programs. Over these years she faced intense competition from other Filipino stars , such as Angelu de Leon. In 2003 she was involved in a traffic accident in which her driver killed a 5-year-old boy. Ironically, she was working on “Malikmata,” a film about a woman who could see the dead—she had the starring role. None of this held her back, and she pushed forward to rise above her competition.
Between 1996 and 2006, Rica Peralejo starred or appeared in whopping 21 movies, 12 television episodes and series, and two videos. Through this, she still managed to cut three music CDs and had one single rise to the top of the charts, a cover of the love song “Fallin.” Her film credits include almost all genres: documentary, horror/thrillers, comedies, drama, action, family entertainment, and crime suspense. She has also participated in music awards ceremonies, talk shows, and television episodes (also of various genres).

With all of her different talents, Peralejo needs no other profession to fall back on, but she may be acting as a mentor to another up-and-coming actress—Peralejo’s younger sister, Paula, appears to be following in the older girl’s footsteps.

Rochelle Pangilinan

Rochelle Pangilinan born May 23, 1982 is a Filipina dancer, singer, and actress. She was one of the famous dancers in Philippines, and the leader of SexBomb Girls. She can be seen in Daisy Siete where she is the main protagonist, it is aired weekdays on GMA Network.

Personal background

Rochelle was born in Malabon, Philippines. She has two siblings. During her childhood, her family was poor, her father was an alcoholic, her father usually beats her mother while he's drunk, her parents then separated. In 2002, Rochelle's parents were back together again, also her father stopped his bad drinking habits.

Dancing career

Rochelle started to join dancing contest when she was a kid, and one day at the competition Joy Cancio offered Rochelle a job at Eat Bulaga. Rochelle was only 14 when she started to dance on Eat Bulaga. Then in 1999 a unnamed group was formed by the network, one of them is Rochelle. They were background dancers for Eat Bulaga. After sometime, the other three left the group. But Joy Cancio recruited more dancers. The group began in November 1999 as the 'Chicken Sandwich Dancers' which was an offshoot of the Danz Focus (house dancers of Eat Bulaga). At first there were 4 (Cheryl, Debra, Janine and Rochelle). The group expanded to 6 with the addition of Jopay and Aira. The group expanded to 8, 12 and 13 (during their first FHM Philippines appearance) to an all time high of 22.

Katrina Halili

Katrina Halili has gone from childhood beauty pageants to “StarStruck,” the Philippine reality-based teen talent search show, and on further to a large number of films and serials. She has been nominated for numerous awards and honors for her roles, and her photos can be found on the covers of FHM Philippines magazine as well as several men’s magazines.

In January 4, 1986, Maria Katrina Irene Halili was born in Quezon City in the Philippines. Palawan, and island province of the Philippines, is where she grew up. As a child she participated in pageants on the island and represented the city El Nido, which is a coastal town on the northeast tip of the island. The actress claims to be part Chinese, and is fond of mentioning this when being interviewed.

Although she spent her youth competing in beauty pageants, the direction of her career was changed when she auditioned for StarStruck. This television teen talent search has launched the careers of many of the Philippines’ top teenage actors and actresses, and the effect on Halili was no different. Although she was the only one not to audition at the studio, she still one a spot as a finalist.

Since then Katrina Halili has appeared and starred in many films and television series, and has posed for FHM Philippines magazine twice. FHM Philippines film critics placed her in highly three times on their list, and in 2006 she topped it.Since Halili’s star-studded StarStruck debut, she has appeared in a dramatic mini series, television dramas, teen romantic comedies, action and fantasy series, family television, a game show, reality TV, and several films of various genres. This busy actress performed in three movies and several television shows in 2006 alone, and her schedule for interviews and photo shoots were hectic as well. As if all that wasn’t enough work, Hallili has put together a collection of music videos on video entitled “Fantasies” with the starlet clad only in bikinis.

Marian Rivera

Marian Rivera Gracia was born in Madrid, Spain on August 12, 1984. As the only child of an inter-racial couple—her mother, Amalia Mallari Rivera, is a full-blooded Filipina and works as an airport attendant in London; her father, Francisco Javier Alonzo Gracia, restaurateur, is a full-blooded Spaniard—Marian had a pampered middle-class upbringing, courtesy of her nurturing maternal grandmother.

Her mother Amalia met her father Francisco in Madrid, Spain. It was in Madrid that her mom gave birth to a beautiful baby girl who was named Marian, after her paternal grandfather, Mariano Gracia. But the marriage of Amalia and Francisco didn’t last long. Marian was two years old when her parents decided to part ways.

Still, Marian’s story is not entirely a fairy tale.

Marian was flown back to the motherland when she was three years old and grew up raised by her Lola Francisca Rivera in Bayanan, Bacoor, Cavite. In her Lola’s home, Marian grew up to become a happy, contented, and well-adjusted adult.

Aside from “Yan-yan,” her mama and cousins fondly calls her “Poyi” or “Poyas” which means “makulit” in Spanish.

When Amalia went back to her job abroad, Lola Francisca became Marian’s designated guardian. Francisco Gracia, meanwhile, did not entirely cut off relations with his child.

It was in St. Francis of Assisi College System, Bayanan, Cavite Campus where Marian finished her elementary and high school days. She was just an average student up until she finished college.

Marian’s yearly trip to Madrid stopped only when she went to college.

The unique family setup was initially difficult for Marian’s mind to comprehend. The questions in her mind became a factor in Marian’s decision on getting her college degree in B.S. Psychology at De La Salle University in Dasmariñas, Cavite. In college, her favorite subjects were logic and Filipino psychology. And she has no problems with “deep Tagalog.”

Marian’s parents now have their own partners in life. Her father remains in Madrid, where he owns a restaurant. Her mom has long since moved to London, where she now works as an airport attendant. Neither one of her parents, however, has given Marian a sibling.

Diana Zubiri

Rosemarie Joy Garcia (born April 15, 1985), stage name Diana Zubiri, is an actress from the Philippines. Zubiri started her showbiz career after applying in Japan as an entertainer. She began to appear in sexy movies such as Itlog, Bakat and Kasiping.

In October 29, 2002, she had a photo shoot wearing a two piece bikini for FHM Philippines on top of EDSA-Shaw flyover in Mandaluyong City, that stirred controversy. Mandaluyong City Mayor Benhur Abalos filed charges of grave scandal against FHM Philippines and Zubiri but he later withdrew it after Zubiri and Jojo Gabinete, Zubiri’s manager, apologized. Because of the incident, Zubiri became widely-known.

After a few sexy flicks, Zubiri became a GMA Network artist, appearing as a regular cast in Bubble Gang, a sketch comedy television program. She also appears in Encantadia as the main cast, playing Danaya, the diwata that holds the Jewel of the Earth. She reprises her role of Danaya in Etheria