Hollywood Celebrities

Filipino and Filipino American Celebrities in Hollywood’s Entertainment Industry?

Television and Movies throughout the United States, not just California.

But first…

Filipino Celebrities in the Philippines

  • Dingdong Dantes
  • Enrique Gil
  • Alden Richards
  • James Reid
  • Daniel Padilla
  • Marian Rivera
  • Nadine Lustre
  • Maine Mendoza
  • Kathryn Bernardo
  • Liza Soberano

Vanessa Hudgens: Eurasian

First published on July 13, 2009.

Vanessa Anne Hudgens came to prominence as the star of High School Musical, playing the role of Gabriella Montez. Her mother Gina Guangco was born in the Philippines, while her father Greg Hudgens is of Irish and Native American descent.

V, her debut album, came out in 2006. It features the song “Come Back to Me.”

Her next appearance on the big screen will be as Sa5m in Bandslam, a movie scheduled to hit theaters on August 14, 2009. Continue reading “Vanessa Hudgens: Eurasian”

Nicole Scherzinger, Pussycat Doll

Posted in 2009

Full Name: Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger
Singer-songwriter, dancer and model.
Best known as the lead singer for the Pussycat Dolls.

Birthday: June 29, 1978   Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii
Grew up up in Kentucky.      Nickname: Hula
Hometown: Santa Monica, California
Record Label: Interscope Records

Biography: Her father was Filipino and her mother is Hawaiian/Russian mother. Her father (last name: Valiente) left when she was a baby and she adopted the surname of her stepfather (Scherzinger). Continue reading “Nicole Scherzinger, Pussycat Doll”

Lou Diamond Phillips: Half-Filipino

*Best known for playing Ritchie Valens in the 1987 movie La Bamba

Birthday:February 17, 1962
Birth name: Lou Diamond Upchurch

Acclaimed Hollywood actor Lou Diamond Phillips is of dual heritage — his late father was an American sailor and his mother Lucita is Filipina. He was born Lou Upchurch at a U.S. navy hospital in the Philippines in 1962. His step-father, from whom he acquired the surname he is currently using, was also a navy sailor.

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Rob Schneider is part Filipino?

* In October 2017, in the wake of the Harry Weinstein scandal, Rob Schneider revealed that he too experienced an unwanted sexual advance in Hollywood; in his case, from a male director who has since died and whose identity he refrained from revealing.

Hollywood comedian Rob Schneider is of dual heritage — his father is Jewish and his mother Pilar is half-Filipina. That makes him quarter-Filipino!

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