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1. Madeleine
Humphries

2. Madeleine Humphries
• Madeleine Lauren Humphries[fn 1] (born May 20, 1988),
known professionally as Madeleine Humphries[2] and
formerly as Carla Humphries is a Filipino actress.
Humphries is best known for her roles as Rita Arguelles in
the television drama Bituing Walang Ningning (2006), and
as Brenda Smith in the youth-oriented program Abt Ur
Luv (2006). She also appeared on the January 2011
cover of FHM Philippines Magazine.

3. • Humphries was a member of Star Magic, ABS-CBN's circle of
homegrown talents from 2003 to early 2009.[4] In March 2010, she
joined TV5's line-up of talents. In 2013, she starred in the action
film 10,000 Hours alongside Robin Padilla where she was
nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

4. Early life
• Madeleine Lauren Humphries was born in San
Francisco, California to a Filipina mother and a French-American
father of Italian descent. Humphries is the second of four children;
she and older brother Alec were born in the United States, while
her two younger siblings Nicolas and Samantha were born in
France and the Philippines, respectively.

5. Career
• Early career
• Humphries was discovered in 1999 at the age of 11 by
Johnny Manahan, the director of the ABS-CBN Talent
Center (now known as Star Magic)[6] She was invited to
join the Talent Center's acting workshops and audition as
a Talent Center artist after Manahan saw her perform in
her school's Recognition Day program.

6. • Humphries attended workshops in various disciplines, including acting,
singing, and personality development over the course of two years. She
was accepted and launched as a member of Star Circle Batch 11 in May
2003.
• After her launch, Humphries began appearing in one-time guest
supporting roles on various shows on the ABS-CBN network. Her first
recurring guest role came in late 2003, when she was cast as a fashion
model named "Paris" in the youth-oriented TV show Berks. In the show,
Paris subsequently became the girlfriend of Berks regular, Ketchup
(portrayed by Ketchup Eusebio). The role would be the first time
Humphries is paired with a comedian, a pattern that is later repeated in
the TV show Qpids.

7. • In 2004, Humphries appeared in a supporting role in her
first movie, My First Romance, as a friend of the lead
character portrayed by Heart Evangelista. She was also
cast that same year in her first primetime recurring guest
role as "Penelope" in the TV series Sarah, the Teen
Princess where she was positioned as a romantic rival of
the show's lead character portrayed by Sarah Geronimo.

8. • In 2005, Humphries was cast in ABS-CBN's Reality Loveteam
Search Qpids in 2005, where she and her loveteam partner
Janus del Prado emerged as the Qpids Voter's Choice for
receiving the most votes from viewers through phone calls
and SMS text messages. Qpids was where the stage name
"Carla Humphries-Loren" was first used, with the intent to
eventually transition her stage name to "Carla Loren"[citation
needed] ostensibly to improve her name recall among Filipino
viewers. After Qpids, however, Humphries continued to be
credited as "Carla Humphries."

9. • In 2006, Humphries and loveteam partner Janus del Prado were
cast in the Langis episode of Maalaala Mo Kaya, a drama
anthology on ABS-CBN, where Humphries' performance garnered
glowing reviews from the local entertainment press[citation needed].
• In the same year, Humphries was cast as "Rita Arguelles" in the
primetime drama series Bituing Walang Ningning, which
starred Sarah Geronimo and Angelika dela Cruz. The series ran for
21 weeks during which time one of her shampoo commercials also
began airing in the Philippines.

10. • Humphries also appeared that same year in supporting roles in two
well-received Star Cinema movies, D' Lucky Ones and First Day
High.
• Humphries was also cast as one of the four lead characters in the
youth-oriented TV series Star Magic Presents: Abt Ur Luv, which
began airing in November 2006. The show launched her new
loveteam with Victor Basa, won Best Youth Oriented Program at the
21st PMPC Star Awards (2007), and aired a total of 57 episodes.
The series finale aired on January 5, 2008.

11. • In 2008, Humphries joined the cast of Palos—a primetime action /
drama TV series on the ABS-CBN network where she was cast as
a medical doctor who also happens to be the First Daughter of the
Republic of the Philippines. The role is a departure from the teen
and youth-oriented roles that Humphries has portrayed since her
launch as a Star Magic artist in 2003.[citation needed]
• After Palos ended, Humphries also appeared on Ligaw na
Bulaklak, an afternoon drama series that began airing on the ABS-
CBN network in May 2008.

12. • Humphries was handpicked to play Joanna Bonifacio
in Smaller and Smaller Circles, based on the crime novel
of the same name.[7][8]
• In 2019, she appeared in the Greenpeace
Philippines short film Before We Disappear where she
was first credited using her current screen name.

13. Print and on-cam modelling
• In 2003 shortly after her launch, Humphries began appearing in local style and
fashion magazines intended for the teen market.[9]
• In 2004, she landed her first magazine cover with Pink[10] and appeared for the first
time in Metro Weddings, an upscale magazine targeted at the bridal market.[11] Also
in the same year, Humphries appeared in her first TV commercial for Globe
Telecom's GenTxt club.
• In 2006, she landed her first multi-country TV commercial for Sunsilk shampoo. Her
commercials were aired in 6 countries in the Asian region.
• In 2009, she appeared in another Globe TV commercial. featuring the mobile
company's postpaid phone plans.
• In 2011, she was on the cover of the January issue of FHM Philippines.

14. Personal life
• Education
• Humphries studied in French schools until her mother transferred her to the ABS-
CBN Distance Learning Center (DLC) in Manila, where she obtained her high
school diploma.
• She enrolled and attended one year at the University of Santo Tomas to study
fine arts,[12][13] before transferring to the Centre for International Education
(CIE)[14] to study entrepreneurship,[15] whose more flexible schedule allowed her
to pursue her acting career without giving up her studies.
• Humphries also holds a Gemology Institute of America (GIA) Jewelry Design
Certificate after completing the 9-week Jewelry Design class at the GIA in
Bangkok, Thailand

15. Interests
• Humphries dabbles in both music and art, and at one point
entertained the idea of working in a museum or a gallery.[12] She
has been painting since she was eight years old: "I have always
loved drawing and was always best in drawing in school. After that,
I did after-class painting workshops. I love painting abstracts and
landscapes. My works either reflect me, or they're sceneries. But I
don't consider myself a professional."