Angel Locsin

Director Mike Tuviera adores Angel Locsin. But there were times during the filming of TXT and The promise when he found it hard to look into her eyes.

“They’re very, very like jewels,” Director says of those Angel eyes. “When you look at them, you can easily see yourself getting lost in them. You can light her from any angle on film, and her eyes catch light so easily.” Mike is not the only man who has fallen under Angel’s spell. The light that comes from those same eyes has bewitched the men of this country. But for Mike, what makes her beautiful is what she has shown him of herself.

Mike was directing her in The promise when he fell ill from a viral infection. “I was hospitalized,” Mike recalls, “and then what Angel did almost on the hour, every hour, she would text me: ‘Director, get well soon, please come back as soon as you can. Take care.’ When I finally got back on the set, she was hands-on on me. She would ask if I drank my medicine.”

But there’s another reason that really made Mike love Angel, and it’s this: she decided to go into television and the movies primarily to help her father and namesake, Angel, who is visually impaired. “I found out,” Mike explains, “that one of the main reasons she got into showbiz was to save enough money for her dad to get an eye operation. C’mon, how can you not fall in love with that?”

Angelica Panganiban

Long back tresses framing a divine face, eyes that reveal everything in her soul, alabaster skin, a curvaceous body – Angelica Panganiban could have been a goddess born of the sea and sent live among mortals. Just so we know what real beauty is.

Now tie the hair into an unruly bun, and clear the face of make-up—she would still be stunning. Remember, this was once the child star who still looked adorable in rags and covered with soot for the movie Sarah, Ang Munting Prinsesa.

Angelica started her career as one of the kids in the sketch show, Ang TV. She had small parts in movies. She did a few commercials. The kid had flair. She could act, dance and entertain without trying. And right before our eyes, she broke into adolescence and started doing Sa Puso Ko Iingatan Ka and the teen-oriented show Berks.

Though the projects were never scarce, one movie Santa Santita, turned her career around for the better. The public began seeing her in a new light, and she felt ready to take on more challenges, such as posing for FHM, which put her on its cover in the March 2007 issue, and for a Ginebra San Miguel calendar.
Her handler, Cris Navarro, says, Angelica eagerly prepared for the transition to the adult image: ”She attended workshops for every project, from acting to dance, wushu training din, sensuality workshop, conversations with other senior artists.”
Now 21 and living on her own, Angelica is just enjoying life, working and playing hard as ever – as a female lead in the fantasy series Rounin and in a new movie for Star Cinema.

Claudine Barretto

Claudine Barretto has been referred to, on a couple of websites, as the next Vilma Santos. The writers may be right. Claudine is a certified actress, just like the multi-award-winning Governor Vi.
Claudine’s first big television exposure was in the ‘90s teen show Ang TV. She then starred in the comedy show Home Along Da Riles, as Dolphy’s sweet teenage daughter. While the careers of many teen stars of the ‘90s became virtually instinct as they entered adulthood, Claudine went to star in films that have displayed her talent and box-office appeal, Anak, Kailangan Kita, Milan, Dubai. In these films, she lit up the screen with her almost translucent, seemingly poreless skin. This woman does come from a family of beautiful women.
“Barretto’s clan has always exudes beauty”, says Wenn Deramas, her director on soap opera Walang Kapalit. “You can put make-up on her face for a quick thirty minutes because of her white complexion.”

Diana Zubiri

AT first glance, Diana Zubiri looks like the girl-next-door type. But the moment she starts to move, you notice that there’s a subtle, sensual aura about her.
Director Maura Gia Samonte first met Diana at Robbie Tan’s Seiko office. The young girl told the director that she was being offered 1,500 dollars to be an entertainer in Japan. Mau told her to grab the offer. “It was my way of saying she would have a hard time making it big,” Mau recalls. “I felt she didn’t have a fighting chance because Rosanna Roces was still reigning that time. That was one of my miscalculations in life because now, she has several TV shows, endorsements, and she had made a few number of films.”

Launched by Seiko Films in 2002 in the movie Itlog, Diana went on to star in a series of skin flicks—Bakat, Kasiping and Liberated, Part 1 and 2.
In October 2002, she made quite a stir when she posed in a skimpy bikini on an EDSA flyover, in a pictorial for FHM Philippines. The photo shoot earned an ire of puritans but garnered maximum publicity for both Diana and the magazine.
Mau Samonte says Diana isn’t exactly his idea of a sex goddess. But he may represent the minority view. “Diana can be so many things to so many people,” Mau himself admits. “I know a guy who always tells me, ‘I’m only for Diana Zubiri.’ Others find her attractive maybe because of her simple beauty.”
Perhaps that’s exactly the message Diana Zubiri is sending—that the simple beauty of the girl next door is completely sexy, too.

Heart Evangelista

When director Ed Palmos first saw Heart Evangelista, he was surprised by what she looked like. Heart was going through a rough time, and it showed. “She was wrecked,” Director Ed recalls. “She looked old. That was not the Heart Evangelista I was expecting.”
Heart was also jobless at that time, after a temporary separation from her mother network, ABS-CBN. “Later on, I boost her morale.” I tried to give all the support I could, telling her that those things would pass away one day, and that was part of the game.”
Thanks to Ed’s encouragement, Heart’s performance and beauty shone in their Independent film Ay, Ayeng. What the camera caught was a beauty incomparable. “Heart has unique qualities,” says the director. “She cannot be compared to others. Her Filipina beauty is what good about her. I’m so enthralled with that, ‘her charm from which you cannot see any European or Caucasian quality. ‘Her eyes and her pure Filipino blood is something that makes her lovable.
Ed adds, “She has expressive eyes and passion for her work. She has a wide room for improvement.”
After shooting Ay, Ayeng, Heart was back at ABS-CBN. Her problems, which were partly problems of the heart, did pass. The girl with the expressive eyes has found her way back to the small screen.

KC Conception

KC Concepcion—pretty, smart, talented—is the kind of girl that other girls aspire to be and that guys see as the dream girl they have always wanted to take home to their mothers. “She’s very pretty,” says Dani Caw, team publisher for entertainment of Summit Publishing. “She was able to get all the good genes from her parents. I guess she is famous because she’s born of two well-known people in show business, and then she got educated abroad.”

The popularity of Sharon Cuneta’s lovely daughter transcends age and social class. KC has appeared on the covers of magazines catering to different reader segments—and the issues where she appeared as cover girl have all been bestsellers. Caw illustrates: “There was a story where she was reunited with her dad Gabby Concepcion. When she worked with Hi! Magazine, the sales was really great. After two weeks, when YES! Was released, Yes also gained a great number of sales. So KC really sells covers. She also sells fashion magazines. She can cross over to the young women in Seventeen and Candy.”

KC prefers to keep her private life a little more private than that of most celebrities. But that air of mystery is precisely what keeps readers hooked on her. the bits and pieces about her life that manage to slip out for public viewing make her all the more intriguing.

Mylene Dizon

She is Romeo to Andrea del Rosario’s Juliet in that lesbian romp. You can probably imagine the sparks that flew between these two lovelies. But Mylene has always been a crowd favorite. Men are attracted to bad girls like moths to a flame. And Mylene has the strongest tractor beam that pulled all men in. sexy, naughty, and looking oh-so-fine.


Mylene’s face varies. This woman’s characteristic is just too flexible that when you try to set her for a pictorial, you can make her look innocent or resilient, in a sense. Mylene’s acting capability is also variable. She can do comedy, drama, sexy and even more revealing movies.

Her passion for her craft is immeasurable thus, shows how well-balanced and for the most part, enthusiastic in doing films that she never though she would when she was still starting as a cute teen-ager actress.
Some of her shows and films are Gimik, Sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan, Tabing Ilog, Princess Charming, Gatas sa Dibdib ng Kaaway, Ploning and Dyesebel.
She’s been in showbiz for more than a decade now, and she’s still stunning more than other actresses of her generation.