Katrina Halili

In this article, the surname is Halili (Philippine patronymic surname), and his middle name is Iren Pe (Chinese matronymic surname).

Katrina Halili
Halili at the 2008 PhilExpo, New Jersey
Born	Maria Katrina Iren Pe Halili (1986-01-04) January 4, 1986 (age 38) Quezon City, Philippines
Years active	2003–present
Agent	Sparkle (2003–present)
Known for	Prima Donnas Marimar The Stepdaughters Destiny Rose Unica Hija

Maria Katrina Iren Pe Halili (born January 4, 1986) is a Filipino actress and commercial model of Chinese descent. She made her screen debut in 2003 through the reality talent competition StarStruck , and became a household name for playing antagonist roles in several hit television series, the most prominent being Majika (2006), Marimar (2007) and Darna (2005 & 2009).

Dubbed as "GMA's Primera Kontrabida", ^[1] Halili notably top-billed the series Magdusa Ka (2008) which earned a nomination at the 37th International Emmy Awards. ^[2] The same year, she earned another nomination for "Best Actress" at the 3rdToFarm Film Festival. ^[3] She was also hailed by FHM as the "Sexiest Woman in the Philippines" twice in 2006 & 2007. ^{[4] [5]} In 2018, she earned a nomination for "Best Drama Actress" at the 37th PMPC Star Awards for Television. ^[6]

Background

Katrina Halili is an alumna of the StarStruck talent search and the cover girl of magazines such as FHM and Maxim Philippines. She was voted as FHM Philippines' sexiest woman for the year 2006 and in 2007. She is the first StarStruck contestant to top the FHM Philippines' 100 Sexiest list and the first Filipina celebrity to have won the title twice in a row. She is a four-time FHM covergirl (2005, 2006, 2008 and 2015). ^[7] With 123,000 votes, she placed 2nd in 2008.

She gave birth to her daughter named Katrence Lawrence Halili Cadevid by Kris Lawrence on September 18, 2012. ^[8]

She is co-parenting Lawrence's second child Lyric Lawrence (with a non-showbiz girlfriend) born on October 4, 2019. Halili's non-showbiz partner Jeremy G. Guiab, former vice mayor of Wao, Lanao del Sur succumbed to a heart attack at age 53 on January 29, 2024. ^[9]

Career

2003–2008: Career beginnings

Halili started her first soap drama way back 2004 ( Forever in My Heart ) where she played Janelle Bernabe, the antagonist to the character of Jennylyn Mercado. Since then she played supervillain roles in two famous GMA fantaserye, Darna and Majika . In April 2007, she was one of the main cast in Lupin , where she played a good character, Ashley Calibre. However the same year she was pulled out from the show to play the famous villainous role of Senyora Angelika Santibañez in the remake of Marimar , but the character was changed into a young who will compete with Marimar for Sergio's love and extremely ruthless character, this is also her first pure evil role as she killed many people in the series compared to her past roles as she only committed attempted murder. This made Katrina more famous as she was given her first lead role after Marimar this was the 2008 Magdusa Ka , she portrayed Christine, a headstrong waitress and prostitute who turns out to be a rich lass but was opposed by the evil Millet (played by Iwa Moto). Katrina said she was challenge for her new role because she always played heartless characters in the past. ^[10]

In the same year, she was given another lead role in Gagambino . But in May 2009, she was involved in a controversy surrounding a leaked video of her then partner, forcing her to temporarily go on hiatus from the showbiz industry. In June 2009, she returns to acting to play the villain role of Fedra Perez in Rosalinda .

2009–2010: Darna, Langit sa Piling Mo, Beauty Queen

In 2009, Halili was given another antagonist role in Darna , she played Serpina, a snake woman and one of the primary rival of Darna. Next is Langit sa Piling Mo , she played another main antagonist role as the scheming and manipulative Aurora. She later played a antagonist role in Beauty Queen . In Kaya ng Powers , she played an ex-syndicate member.

2011–2012: Continued success

In 2011, she rose to fame again as she played the role of Lynette in Munting Heredera , again she is the main antagonist of the series but later was killed. In 2012, she once again played a villain role as Emmie in My Beloved . She reunited with Marimar (2007) lead casts, Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes. Halili's character in this series is similar to her obsessed and murderous Angelika character in 2007 Marimar. However Halili and Rivera has another feud when Katrina started tweeting, she wanted to kill Emmie's character because someone is insecure and hateful to her. She said that this person also hated her five years ago. ^[11]

2013–present: Villainous and protagonist roles

In 2013, Halili played two main antagonist roles in two TV series, in Indio , she played the goddess of greed who wanted to kill the protagonist of the series. Another series is Magkano Ba ang Pag-ibig? , she played Margot, the scheming and hard-hearted sister of Lualhati who killed her mother out of anger, she also hated Eloisa.

In 2014, she played a protagonist role, a good character role in Niño as Hannah. In 2015, she played a villain role in The Rich Man's Daughter . Later Katrina Halili played the main villain role as Jasmine in Destiny Rose , Jasmine is the evil cousin of Joey who made his life miserable as hell. In the finale episode Jasmine tried to kill Joey/Destiny Rose by burning him but failed.

Later in 2016, Halili played another main antagonist role in Sa Piling ni Nanay as Scarlet, the socialite evil mother of Katherine who tried to kill Ysabel and even her daughter as a revenge. Scarlet is the one who killed Matilda and many characters. She is also the source of Ysabel's misfortune. She is a wicked mother as she uses her daughter to usurp the Mercado family's wealth and never loved Katherine.

In 2017, Halili played another main antagonist role in D' Originals as Yvette, the social climber sexy-tary-turned-mistress of Lando who tried to kill Lando and Josie because of her vengeance. Although Yvette is the one who started the fight as she uses Lando to usurp his wealth and brutally confront the legal wife, Josie. Jaclyn Jose played protagonist Josie who also played the antagonist role of Senyõra Angelica Santibañez in the 2015 Marimar , which was originally played by Halili in 2007.

In February 2018, Halili played the main villain role of Isabelle in The Stepdaughters , Isabelle hates Mayumi from the start and does many evil things to her including her loved ones. Isabelle also killed her unborn half-sister and tried to kill her own father and orchestrated kidnappings and serial murders in the series. In the end she kidnaps Mayumi and tries to kill her by burning her face but failed.

In November 2018, Halili joined the series Pamilya Roces , she played Maisa, the villainous daughter of Virgil, a seductive and ruthless serial killer who wants revenge for her mother's death.

In 2019, she played her first anti-hero role in TODA One I Love where she played Georgina, a mysterious rich character who hates the evil Mayora Dyna and plotted to kill her husband. Georgina firstly appeared as a cold-hearted and seductive woman but in reality she is kind and was a victim of the latter's cruelty as Dyna and the Generoso's killed her father. Now she helps Gelay to stop Mayora's evil things and expose her secrets. She later played another protagonist role in Prima Donnas as Lillian Madreal, the surrogate mother of the triplets, Mayi, Ella, and Lenlen. Late 2022, she portrayed Diane Sebastian, the doting mother of Bianca and Hope Sebastian, in the series Unica Hija .

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network
2003	StarStruck	Herself / Hopeful	GMA Network
2004–2009	Bitoy's Funniest Videos	Herself / J4K Host
2004–2005	Joyride	Vicki
	Forever in My Heart	Janelle Bernabe
2005	Mars Ravelo's Darna	Carol / Black Darna
	Now and Forever: Ganti	Alexa
2006	Majika	Juno
2006–2007	Atlantika	Princesa Ruana / Helena
2007	Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang: Ang Prinsipeng Unggoy	Princess Ameris
	Lupin	Veronica Arkanghel a.k.a. Ashley Calibre
2007–2008	Marimar	Senyora Angelika Santibañez / Angelika Aldama [12]
2008	MariMar: Rewind (Filipino Version)	Angélica de Santibañez (voice only)
	Sine Novela: Pablo S. Gomez' Magdusa Ka	Christine Salvador Doliente-Henson
	Obra: Katrina Halili	Various roles
2008–2009	Carlo J. Caparas' Gagambino	Lucy Gutierrez / Lady Mantisa [13] [14]
2009	Dear Friend: Magkaribal	Kim
	Rosalinda	Fedra Perez
2009–2010	Mars Ravelo's Darna	Serpina / Babaeng Anakonda / Valentina [15]
2010	Carlo J. Caparas' Panday Kids	Amazona Wenoa
	Langit sa Piling Mo	Aurora Ty
	Kaya ng Powers	Carlotta
2010—2011	Beauty Queen	Dorcas Rivas [16]
2010—2012	Party Pilipinas	Herself / Co-host / Performer
2011	Spooky Nights: Ang Manananggala: Battle of the Half-Sisters	Stella
	Munting Heredera	Lynette Sarmiento-Montereal [17]
	Spooky Nights: KaLAbit	Iya
2012	Spooky Valentine: Masahista	Noemi / Melissa
	My Beloved	Emilia "Emmie" Montecastro [18]
2013	Indio	Burigadang Pada Sinaklang Bulawan
	One Day Isang Araw	Yaya Maxima
	Sunday All Stars	Herself / Performer
2013–2014	Magkano Ba ang Pag-ibig?	Margarita "Margot" Cruz [19]
2014	Niño	Hannah Sagrado-Ibarra
2015	Maynila: Totoy's True Lab	Leslie
	The Rich Man's Daughter	Maria Louella "Wila" Mateo
2015–2016	Destiny Rose	Jasmine Flores [20]
2016–2017	Sa Piling ni Nanay	Scarlet Morato-Mercado [21]
2017	Wagas: Ang Babaeng May Kambal Ahas	Conchita
	D' Originals	Yvette Benitez [22]
	Road Trip	Herself / Guest
	Wagas: Drug Runner	Tintin
	Tadhana: Third Wife	Laisa
	Wagas: One Life to Give	Imelda Papin
	Dear Uge: Mr. + Mrs. + Ex	Mayette
	Kambal, Karibal	Nida Generoso
2018	The Stepdaughters	Isabelle Salvador
	Imbestigador	Margie
	Inday Will Always Love You	Herself
	Dear Uge: Basta Dubber, Sweet Lover	Gloria
	Imbestigador: Teacher Mhai	Mylene "Teacher Mhai" Durante
	Pamilya Roces	Maria Eloisa "Maisa" Renacia Quirante / Maisa Sampaguita
2019	TODA One I Love	Georgina Ferreira / Gregoria "Oriang"
	Wagas: Ang Lihim ni Isadora	Maya
	Tadhana: Akin ang Anak Ko	Susan
2019–2022	Prima Donnas	Lilian Madreal-Claveria
2021	Dear Uge: GangstaSistah	Red Pepper
2022	Tadhana: Hanggang Kailan	Victoria Terra-Dorata
2022–2023	Unica Hija	Diane Sebastian
2023	Wish Ko Lang: Paluwagan	Sara
	Magpakailanman: The Power of Love	Baby
2023–present	Black Rider	Rona Marie Ana "Romana" Tolentino Nadela
2023	Magpakailanman: Save my Children- The Quirly Galache Story	Quirly Galache
2024	Mommy Dearest
TBA	Recipes of Love	TBA

Film

Year	Title	Role
2004	Kilig... Pintig... Yanig
2005	Sablay Ka na Pasaway Ka Pa	Raven
2006	Gigil	Chynna
	Super Noypi	Annys
2007	Shake Rattle and Roll 9	Engkanto
2008	Romantic Island(Korean Movie)	cameo
	One Night Only [15]	Jasmine
2009	Sundo [15]	Kristina
	Dalaw	Daisy
2011	My Neighbor's Wife	Cameo
2015	Child Haus	Rose
2016	Higanti	Dolly
2018	Mga Anak ng Kamote	Iyong [23]
2019	KontrAdiksyon	Yvonne Acosta

Accolades

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2006	Katrina Halili	FHM Philippines Sexiest Woman	Won
2007			Won
2018	Mga Anak ng Kamote	3rd ToFarm Film Festival Best Actress [24]	Nominated
	The Stepdaughters	32nd PMPC Star Awards for Television Best Drama Actress [25]	Nominated

References

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2. "Katrina Halili wants to attend International Emmy awards night where Magdusa Ka is nominated for Best Telenovela". PEP.ph. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
3. "Mga pelikula nina Katrina Halili at Pokwang, pasok sa ToFarm Film Festival 2018". PEP.ph. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
4. "Katrina Halili back on the cover of FHM Philippines after nine years". PEP.ph. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
5. "FHM lists the Top 25 Sexiest Women of the Decade". PEP.ph. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
6. "CNN Philippines shows, anchors get nominations in 32nd PMPC Star Awards for TV". cnn. Archived from the original on October 10, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
7. "Katrina Halili on FHM.com.ph". Archived from the original on June 18, 2008. Retrieved June 19, 2008.
8. Llanes, Rommel (January 23, 2013). "Katrina Halili and Kris Lawrence welcome baby Katrence to Christian world". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
9. Ranara, John (January 16, 2024). "Katrina Halili grieves death of non-showbiz partner Jeremy Guiab". The Philippine Star .
10. "Heartless no more". GMA Network. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
11. Santiago, Erwin. "Is there another feud brewing between Marian Rivera and Katrina Halili?". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
12. "GMA 7, siksik sa mga pasabog". Archived from the original on June 14, 2007. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
13. "Gagambino", pasok sa GMA-7! Archived June 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine journal.com.ph
14. Dennis Trillo will have Katrina Halili and Nadine Samonte as leading ladies in "Gagambino" Archived July 13, 2018, at the Wayback Machine pep.ph
15. Dimaculangan, Jocelyn (November 2, 2009). "Marian, 'di puwedeng kumain habang may 'Darna'". Journal Online. Retrieved November 2, 2009.
16. "Journal Online | No more complaints from Iza". People's Journal . Archived from the original on September 7, 2010. Retrieved September 8, 2010.
17. "PEP.ph (Philippine Entertainment Portal): Showbiz and Beyond". Philippine Entertainment Portal.
18. "Marian Rivera reunites with Katrina Halili in My Beloved; wants to enrol in a culinary school". Philippine Entertainment Portal.
19. "Malalaking pangalan sa showbiz dapat abangan sa 'Magkano Ba Ang Pag-ibig?'". GMA Network.
20. "Gaganap na bidang transwoman sa Kapuso series na 'Destiny Rose,' napili na". GMA News. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
21. "Yasmien Kurdi, Mark Herras at Katrina Halili, magsasama sa bagong GMA teleserye". May 6, 2016.
22. Bianca Rose Dabu (February 16, 2017). "'D' Originals,' seryeng ipakikita ang mga modus ng mga nangangaliwang asawa". GMA News. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
23. Valle, Precious Del. "Why Katrina Halili accepted the lead role in dystopian flick 'Mga Anak ng Kamote'". Rappler.
24. "Katrina Halili thankful sa Best Actress nomination sa Star Awards | Abante TNT Breaking News". October 9, 2018.
25. "32nd Star Awards for TV winners revealed; ASAP joins MMK, Eat Bulaga, Bubble Gang in Hall of Fame". Philippine Entertainment Portal.

External links

• Media related to Katrina Halili at Wikimedia Commons
• Katrina Halili at IMDb