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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, Metro Manila, Philippines
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2003–present
Agent	Sparkle

Maria Katrina Iren Pe Halili (born January 4, 1986) is a Filipino actress. She began her career after finishing as a finalist on the reality talent search StarStruck (2003). She was the first Filipina to be named by FHM Philippines as the world's sexiest woman twice, in 2006 and 2008. Her performances in Darna (2005 & 2009), Majika (2006), Marimar (2007), the International Emmy nominated Magdusa Ka (2008), Destiny Rose (2015), Sa Piling ni Nanay (2016), The Stepdaughters (2018) and Prima Donnas (2019) established her as one of the leading actresses in soap operas, mostly portraying antagonist roles. In 2024, Halili won Best Supporting Actress at the Emirates Film Festival for her role in AbeNida (2023).

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). 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Film

Awards and nominations

Listicles

Notes

1. Awards, festivals, honors and other miscellaneous organizations are listed in alphabetical order.
2. Indicates the year of ceremony. Each year is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible.
3. (with Allen Dizon, Gina Pareño, Joel Lamangan, Leandro Baldemor, Vince Rillon, Kate Brios, Ina Alegre, Mimi Juareza, Nella Marie Dizon and Anna Jardin Cabrega)

References

1. "Katrina Halili wants to attend International Emmy awards night where Magdusa Ka is nominated for Best Telenovela". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
2. "Katrina Halili on FHM.com.ph". Archived from the original on June 18, 2008. Retrieved June 19, 2008.
3. Llanes, Rommel (January 23, 2013). "Katrina Halili and Kris Lawrence welcome baby Katrence to Christian world". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
4. Ranara, John (January 16, 2024). "Katrina Halili grieves death of non-showbiz partner Jeremy Guiab". The Philippine Star.
5. "Heartless no more". GMA Network. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
6. Santiago, Erwin. "Is there another feud brewing between Marian Rivera and Katrina Halili?". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
7. "GMA 7, siksik sa mga pasabog". Archived from the original on June 14, 2007. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
8. "Gagambino", pasok sa GMA-7! Archived June 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine journal.com.ph
9. Dennis Trillo will have Katrina Halili and Nadine Samonte as leading ladies in "Gagambino" Archived July 13, 2018, at the Wayback Machine pep.ph
10. ^ Dimaculangan, Jocelyn (November 2, 2009). "Marian, 'di puwedeng kumain habang may 'Darna'". Journal Online. Retrieved November 2, 2009.
11. "Journal Online | No more complaints from Iza". People's Journal. Archived from the original on September 7, 2010. Retrieved September 8, 2010.
12. "PEP.ph (Philippine Entertainment Portal): Showbiz and Beyond". Philippine Entertainment Portal.
13. "Marian Rivera reunites with Katrina Halili in My Beloved; wants to enrol in a culinary school". Philippine Entertainment Portal.
14. "Malalaking pangalan sa showbiz dapat abangan sa 'Magkano Ba Ang Pag-ibig?'". GMA Network.
15. "Gaganap na bidang transwoman sa Kapuso series na 'Destiny Rose,' napili na". GMA News. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
16. "Yasmien Kurdi, Mark Herras at Katrina Halili, magsasama sa bagong GMA teleserye". May 6, 2016.
17. Bianca Rose Dabu (February 16, 2017). "'D' Originals,' seryeng ipakikita ang mga modus ng mga nangangaliwang asawa". GMA News. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
18. Valle, Precious Del. "Why Katrina Halili accepted the lead role in dystopian flick 'Mga Anak ng Kamote'". Rappler.
19. Baylon, Khryzztine Joy (March 23, 2024). "Katrina Halili wins first Best Supporting Actress award in 21 years". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
20. Ganal, FM (October 6, 2018). "Bagani, Contessa, Asintado, Kambal, Karibal among nominees for 32nd PMPC Star Awards for Television". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
21. "CNN Philippines shows, anchors get nominations in 32nd PMPC Star Awards for TV". CNN. Archived from the original on October 10, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
22. "Katrina Halili thankful sa Best Actress nomination sa Star Awards - Abante TNT". TNT Abante (in Filipino). October 8, 2018. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
23. Katrina Halili: Do you think I'm sexy?. Philippine Daily Inquirer. January 25, 2007. p. 40.
24. Villafuerte, Ingrid (July 6, 2007). "Katrina Halili makes FHM history as back-to-back Sexiest Woman". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
25. "Kapuso stars Marian and Katrina voted as FHM's Top 2 Sexiest Pinays". GMA Network. July 1, 2008. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
26. Anadia, Sanden (June 30, 2009). "FHM Top 5". The Philippine Star. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
27. "Angel Locsin is FHM's Sexiest Woman in the World for 2010!". Philippine Entertainment Portal. June 29, 2010. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
28. "Kapuso stars dominate Top 10 list of 2011 FHM Sexiest Women". GMA News Online. July 1, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
29. "FHM Philippines reveals the Top 10 Sexiest Women of the World 2012 - LionhearTV". Lionheartv.net. July 2, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
30. "FULL LIST: FHM Philippines' 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2013 - LionhearTV". Lionheartv.net. July 9, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
31. "Sam Pinto, Jennylyn Mercado join Marian Rivera in FHM sexiest top five". GMA News Online. July 6, 2014. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
32. "Kapuso stars dominate FHM 100 Sexiest 2015". GMA Network. July 8, 2015. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
33. Ching, Mark Angelo (March 11, 2010). "FHM lists the Top 25 Sexiest Women of the Decade". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
34. "Kim Chiu leads this year's YES! 100 Most Beautiful list". Philippine Entertainment Portal. June 22, 2010. Retrieved June 20, 2024.

External links

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

• StarStruck (Philippine TV series) participants
• 1986 births
• 21st-century Filipino actresses
• Filipino child actresses
• Filipino film actresses
• Filipino television actresses
• Living people
• Models from Quezon City
• Filipino female models
• Filipina gravure idols
• Filipino people of Chinese descent
• Actresses from Quezon City