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Perla Bautista
Filipino actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Perla Marcial Bautista (born February 18, 1940) is a Filipino actress whose career span more than six decades. She began her career playing minor roles in the late 1950s until she became a top-billed actress in the 1960s. She is known for portraying maternal roles in the succeeding decades and has since received five FAMAS Awards and a Gawad Urian.[1]
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Bautista, at the age of 17, joined LVN Pictures together with teenage stars such as Bernard Bonnin, Luz Valdez, Marita Zobel and Hector Reyes. She was formally introduced in the movie Eddie, Junior Detective (1958). She appeared such films like Malvarosa (1958), Casa Grande (1958), Venganza (1958), Black Beauty (1960) with Charito Solis, and Kilabot sa Barilan (1960) starring Fernando Poe Jr.
The first independent outfit Tagalog Ilang Ilang Productions under the late Atty. Espiridion Laxa built up the unique loveteam of Joseph Estrada-Perla Bautista in their first film together Markang Rehas (1962), both won the FAMAS best actor and best actress trophies.
Bautista did films like De Colores (1968) starring Joseph Estrada, Amalia Fuentes, and Leopoldo Salcedo, and Crush Ko Si Sir (1971) starring Dante Rivero, Hilda Koronel and Jay Ilagan. She played the mother of Nora Aunor in the classic film Minsa'y Isang Gamu-gamo (1976).
She starred in the film Grandpa Is Dead (2009) with Elizabeth Oropesa, Roderick Paulate and Manilyn Reynes, directed by Soxy Topacio. Bautista played the title role in the independent film Hermana Fausta (2009). She played the lead role in Ang Maestra, about a retired teacher with Alzheimer's disease and starred in the horror film Huling Habilin, about an old woman's ghost seeking justice.
She was cast in the television series Apoy sa Dagat starring Piolo Pascual, Diether Ocampo, and Angelica Panganiban.[2] [3] [4] [5]
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Personal life
She is the fifth of eight children of Vicente Bautista and Carmen Marcial. She finished secondary education at the Torres High School and enrolled in Commerce at the Lyceum of the Philippines. She has one son, Jude.
Filmography
Film
- 1975 Pagsapit ng Dilim
- 1989 Sa Diyos Lang Ako Susuko as Marina
- 1990 Ikasa Mo Ipuputok Ko!
- 1991 Sagad Hanggang Buto sa Idad
- 1991 Ganti ng Api as Josefa
- 1992 Kapatid Ko si Hudas as Caring
- 1993 Ako ang Katarungan: Lt. Napoleon M. Guevarra (I am Justice: Lt. Napoleon M. Guevarra) as Cuching
- 1993 Adan Ronquillo as Chayong Ronquillo
- 1994 Relaks Ka Lang, Sagot Kita as Joyce
- 1994 The Fatima Buen Story as Corazon
- 1994 Lipa 'Arandia' Massacre: Lord, Deliver Us from Evil as Crispina
- 1995 Dog Tag: Kamay ng Katarungan as Aling Nena
- 1995 Father En Son as Judge Consolacion
- 1997 Flames
- 2007 Seance
- 2007 Ouija
- 2008 Condo
- 2008 Imoral
- 2009 When I Met U
- 2009 Fausta
- 2009 Ded Na si Lolo
- 2010 Bigasan
- 2010 Presa
- 2011 Becky
Television
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