Pilar Garrido Corrales is a Filipino pop singer, songwriter, actress, comedian and television presenter. She is best-known for her distinctive backbend when singing and is popularly referred to as the "Asia's Queen of Songs" for her vocal style and longevity.
Bayani Rogacion Jr., known professionally as Bayani Agbayani, is a Filipino host, actor, singer, and comedian. After 15 years at ABS-CBN, he shuttled between his original home studio GMA Network and TV5 for the time being from 2008 to 2014 before moving back to ABS-CBN once more. Most of his television shows involves hosting, though he starred in several sitcoms. Most of his films involve actions with comedy. He is a graduate of Mass Communication in Broadcasting at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
Liwayway A. Arceo was a multi-awarded Filipina fictionist, journalist, radio scriptwriter and editor from the Philippines.
Clarita Villarba Rivera, better known by her screen name Mila del Sol, was a Filipina actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Born in Tondo, Manila, she gained fame in her very first lead role in the 1939 film Giliw Ko. She was discovered by LVN Pictures President Doña Sisang de Leon, who insisted in casting her over the objections of the film's director, who felt she was too young for the part. It was the film's director, Carlos Vander Tolosa, who gave her the screen name Mila del Sol for "causing the sun (sol) to appear as if by miracle (milagro) over his otherwise overcast set whenever she was called in to do her scenes."
Marlene Daudén is considered one of the greatest Filipina drama actresses of all time. She achieved her legendary status as a film thespian during her film career that spanned from the 1950s up to the 1970s. During the height of her fame, she was one of the most bankable stars of Sampaguita Pictures, which used to be one of the leading Philippine movie studios of the era.
Liza del Mundo is an American voice actress. Her daughter Vivian Vencer is also a voice actress.
Monica Pauline "Nikki" Santos Gil-Albert is a Filipino singer, actress, host, model, and video jockey. She is known for being part of the afternoon remake of Carlo J. Caparas' Pieta (2008–2009) and, in 2009, for portraying Princess Punzalan in the afternoon drama Nagsimula sa Puso (2009–2010). She is also well known for her lead portrayal as Jennifer "Jenny" La Peña in the 2012 remake of the 1990 radio serial of Salvador Royales' Mundo Man ay Magunaw, originally played by Jennifer Sevilla in the film version produced by SEIKO Films.
Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. She was conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022, she was the founder and president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo, Philippines. She was the director of the 1998 film José Rizal, a biographical film on the Philippines' national hero of the same name. She was part of the Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema.
Florence Danon-Gayda, better known as Rosa Rosal, is a FAMAS award-winning Filipina film actress dubbed as the "original femme fatale of Philippine cinema." She is also known for her work with the Philippine Red Cross. For her humanitarian activities, she received the 1999 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service, an award widely considered as Asia's Nobel Prize. She is the mother of TV host Toni Rose Gayda.
Charyze Solomon Pagotan, professionally known as Chariz Solomon, is a Filipino actress, model, comedienne, singer, and who is one of the hosts in the Philippine television program Startalk. She appears in several GMA Network programs. She also appeared in Unforgettable as the arrogant villain friend of Connie, Ruth and Pepito Manaloto as Janice Generoso, the hardworking secretary of PM Mineral Water and a long suffering wife to Patrick Generoso.
Emmanuelle Fabienne S. Camcam, known professionally as Emmanuelle Vera, is a Filipina singer, actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She won Reina Hispanoamericana Filipinas 2021, and represented the Philippines at Reina Hispanoamericana 2021, finishing third runner-up.
Mary Liza Diño is a government official, former beauty pageant winner and actress in the Philippines.
Margarita "Maita"FavisGomez was a Filipino scholar, activist and beauty pageant titleholder.
Pilar Delilah Veloso Pilapil-Penas, popularly known as Pilar Pilapil, is a Filipino actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned as Binibining Pilipinas Universe 1967. She represented the Philippines at the Miss Universe 1967 pageant but was unplaced.
Barbara Perez is a Filipina actress in movies and television. She was tagged as the "Audrey Hepburn of the Philippines" due to her doe eyes, pixie face, swan-like neck and 19-inch waistline. In the west she appeared in No Man Is an Island, a 1962 Hollywood movie starring Jeffrey Hunter.
Maria Rosa Francisca Catalina Gil-Eigenmann y Castellvi, also known professionally as Rosemarie Gil, is a Filipino actress and singer. She is best known for her portrayal of rich socialite-villainess roles.
Reynante Hofileña Abellana, professionally known as Rey "PJ" Abellana, is a Filipino actor who is best known for his portrayal as PJ in the Philippine TV series Anna Liza in the 1980s.
Elizabeth Indino Ramsey was a Filipina singer, comedian, and actress. During her almost six-decade career, she established herself as an iconic showbiz personality and entertainer. Ramsey's unique appearance courtesy of her Filipino-Jamaican blood, stage antics, irreverent humor, and punchlines delivered in her heavy Visayan accent brought her into prominence in the Filipino entertainment industry. She is also the mother of popular Filipina singer Jaya.
The following is a list of events affecting Philippine television in 1985. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes.
Nanette Inventor is a comedian, actress, singer, composer and writer from the Philippines.
