2. Katrina Halili
• 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).
3. • 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 3rd ToFarm 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.
4. 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.
5. • 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
6. Career
• 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. • n 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.
11. • 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.
12. • 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.
13. • 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.
14. • 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.
15. • 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.
