Gina Pareño
Actor
Biography
Gina Pareño is a Filipina 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) 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. 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.
Filmography
One More Try
as Lola Medy 2012
Crush Kong Curly
as Lola Elvira 2021
Working Girls
as Nimfa 1984
Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo
as Belita 2006
Big Night!
as Babae sa Ospital 2021
Magic Temple
as Telang Bayawak 1996
The Bet Collector
as Amy 2006
Hiling
as Manang Gracia 1998
Yesterday's Promise
as Corazon 1994
Bridal Shower
as Lourdes 2004
The Reunion
as Aling Nena 2012
The Adventures of Pureza - Queen Of The Riles
as Mother Baby 2011
P77
as Lola Martha 2025
Ploning
as Intang 2008
Dalaw
as Olga 2010
The Fatima Buen Story
as Frank 1994