Piolo Pascual

Piolo Pascual born Piolo Jose Nonato Pascual on 12 January 1977 is a Filipino actor recording artist producer television personality and businessman Pascual began a career in 1993 after landing a bit role in the film The Vizconde Massacre Story God Help Us and made his first television appearance in the youthoriented talent and variety show Thats Entertainment He rose to fame after he was chosen as the leading man of Judy Ann Santos in the 1997 classic soap opera Esperanza They went on to star in several other television series and films including Sa Puso Ko Iingatan Ka 20012003 Sa Piling Mo 2006 Bakit Di Totoohanin 2001 Till There Was You 2003 and Dont Give Up on Us 2006 In 2002 Pascual starred in the period film Dekada 70 alongside Vilma Santos and Christopher de Leon which earned him a Best Supporting Actor win at the 2003 PMPC Star Awards for Movies FAMAS Awards and Gawad Urian Awards He won another FAMAS Award for Best Actor for the 2023 horror film Mallari In 2018 Pascual cofounded independent film company Spring Films with film and television director Joyce Bernal and Erikson Raymundo Spring Films produced Eugene Domingos Kimmy Dora movie series and the 2017 sleeper hit Kita Kita the highestgrossing Philippine independent film