Gina Pareño (; born Geraldine Acthley; October 20, 1947) is a Filipina actress.
Early life
Pareño was born to a
German American
German Americans (german: Deutschamerikaner, ) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 43 million in 2019, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the Unit ...
father and a
Filipina mother.
Career
She started her career in the 1960s as an extra in several films and then later on became one of the artists of
Sampaguita Pictures. In 2006, she gained international recognition for her role in ''
Kubrador'' (''The Bet Collector'') wherein she won the Best Actress award at the
Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema and at the
Brussels International Independent Film Festival
The Brussels Independent Film Festival, previously known as the Brussels International Independent Film Festival, or le Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bruxelles, has taken place since 1974. It originally focused on Super 8
Super ...
. 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.
Personal life
In 2022, Pareño came out as part of the LGBT community.
Filmography
Television
Film
Awards and nominations
International awards
Philippine awards
ref:
["ABS-CBN big winner at GMMSF Entertainment Awards"]
''ABS-CBN News''. Retrieved 2014-05-21.
References
External links
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article on Pareño with bio
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1949 births
Living people
ABS-CBN personalities
Actresses from Manila
Best Supporting Actress Asian Film Award winners
Filipino film actresses
Filipino people of American descent
Filipino people of German descent
Filipino women comedians
GMA Network personalities
People from Pandacan
Tagalog people
TV5 (Philippine TV network) personalities
20th-century Filipino actresses
21st-century Filipino actresses
Filipino television actresses
21st-century LGBT people
LGBT actors from the Philippines