Beatiful Filipina Actresses

In this post, I am going to feature some of the hottest Filipina actresses today. These are the actresses who have made their marks in the Philippine movies today in no particular order.

1. Marian Rivera. She has been the queen of tele-fantasies. Her shows were all hits especially in Metro Manila area. However, when she was given a more serious role, her show didn't succeed and was given another telefantasy series and regained her popularity in TV.

2. Angel Locsin. Before Marian came to the scene, Angel Locsin was the most adored actress in the small screen. She made a lot of successful TV shows and movies of different genre. This is the advantage of Angel compared to Marian. Angel is proven to hit the ratings and box office in drama, fantasy, action and in all genres sfhe made.

More Filipina actresses to be featured in the next posts.

Marian Rivera is Quiet Nowadays

After her well-publicized portrayal of Darna, Marian Rivera has been very quiet. Even her ratings is also going down. It cannot be denied that the performance of "Ang Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang" was a flop.

That was supposedly the starting point of Marian's career to a more serious and mature roles. But Marian did not meet the expectations. Her portrayal as Proserfina was also a flop and GMA-7's big bosses were so concerned of this that they put Marian again in fantasy roles.

The expectations again were high. They were even saying that Marian can outrun the success of the Darna portrayed by Angel Locsin. They were correct, at least for one week. Darna soared in ratings in the first week of the show.

But then it suddenly goes down and until now, Darna is still down the cellar and GMA-7 bosses are trying to do everything to improve the ratings of the show. But to no avail.

Now the question is, are viewers tired of fantasy shows are are they just tired of Marian Rivera?

Carla Abellana - The Pinay Rosalinda

I stumbled upon this news saying that Rosalinda, the famous Mexican Telenovela, is to have it's local version here topbilled by the beautiful newcomer Carla Abellana.

There were a lot of contenders for the said show and one of the rumored contender for the coveted role was Marian Rivera who has been successful with her previous shows, namely "Marimar" and "Dyesebel".

So far, only Marian is dominating the primetime for the Kapuso Network GMA-7. Marian is everywhere. She's in the news, in a lot of commercials and in GMA-7's primetime shows for a long time.

But many observe the drop of viewers in Marian's latest telenovela "Ang Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang". Although there's a lot of factors they are looking as to what is the cause of the drop in the show's ratings, it cannot be denied that people will someday lose interest to Marian Rivera and look for someone new.

People needs a new face. The Filipino audience can't afford to see only one face every time they open their televisions.

GMA-7 bigwigs also noticed this and made the wise move. They dropped Marian Rivera and selected a new talent in the person of Carla Abellana. She's a commercial model and has the lineage of artists in her family. Her father, Rey "PJ" Abellana, was a matinee idol in the 80's and her grandmother, Delia Razon, was a famous actress in the 50's.

She's got the "mestiza" beauty and the face of an angel. She also got the brains, as she graduated Cum Laude in De La Salle University, one, if not the most prestigious university in the Philippines. She has already done some TV commercials, most noticeable were the shampoo and the Jolibee commercials.

With a lot of commercials, GMA-7 put their money to a newcomer and hopes to make big in the show business. As some say, for GMA-7, "After Marian Rivera, the next big thing is Carla Abellana".