★ M.A.R.A.★

famousfilipinos:

Du Juan

born September 15, 1982, in Shanghai, China, is a Chinese fashion model who is currently featured in campaigns for designer Giorgio Armani, jeweler David Yurman and Swedish fashion chain H&M. ^[4]

A former Miss China 2003, Du made her runway debut in Spring 2006, walking for prominent designers such as Valentino and Jean-Paul Gaultier. For the Fall 2006 season, Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazine, declared her one of the top ten models to watch.^[2] That same season she appeared in ad campaigns for Louis Vuitton, Gap, Roberto Cavalli, and Yves St. Laurent.


Du shared the cover of Paris Vogue with top model Gemma Ward in 2005 and graced the cover of the premier issue of Vogue China.^[3] She has also appeared on the cover of the 2006 TIME Style&Design with fellow model Coco Rocha, and is one of the models featured in the 2008 Pirelli Calendar, which was shot in her native Shanghai.

Du trained at the prestigious Shanghai Academy of Dance but eventually grew too tall to find a partner. (5’10”)

famousfilipinos:

Denyce Lawton

born in Seoul May 2, 1978, is an American actress and model of Korean and Africa-American descent, and plays a series regular, Dana, on Tyler Perry’s House of Payne.

Denyce has modeled for Kemi Oil, FUBU, ADIDAS, Enyce, Karl Kani and Baby Phat. While pursuing her acting and modeling career, she also appeared in several Hip Hop/R&B music videos; “Rockstar” by N*E*R*D,”Peaches & Cream” by 112, “One Mic” by Nas, and “Anything” by Jaheim.

Other film credits include the films Soul Plane, Go for Broke, and It Ain’t Easy. Denyce has also appeared in television shows such as Entourage, Scratch & Burn, Half & Half, The Parkers, the action auto thriller Redline, and 7eventy 5ive.

famousfilipinos:

Jane March

Born March 20, 1973 is a Chinese / Vietnamese (mother), English / Spanish (father) film actress and former model.  She is well known for the female lead opposite Bruce Willis in The Color of Night (1994).

She also had lead roles in The Lover (1992) and The Stone Merchant (2006)

famousfilipinos:

Gorgeous Malia Jones, yo…she part Filipino…model and pro-surfer from Cali…born March 27, 1977.  Hawaiian, Spanish-Filipino, and German descent.

Jones began to surf competitively in her early teens, and at age 15 won the girls division of the United States Amateur Surfing Championship. While competing, Surfing Magazine spotted her and asked her to model for their swimsuit issue, and thus a second career was born.

Since then, she has appeared on the cover of over a dozen magazines, and has been named one of the “50 Most Beautiful People” by People magazine, and one of America’s “10 Sexiest Athletes” by Esquire. She has also been a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. Jones has done TV commercials for American Express, Capri Sun, Coca-Cola, Corona Beer, and VO5 shampoo.  Jones was a consultant for the Disney movie Lilo & Stitch.

She is married to the Aussie WCT Pro Surfer Luke Stedman.^[1] Currently she divides her time between Hawaii, France, and Sydney, Australia, and designs a line of swimwear for Mambo Graphics sportswear.

famousfilipinos:

Michael Copon

Michael Sowell Copon (born November 13, 1982) is an American actor, model and singer. He is perhaps best known for his role of Felix Taggaro in the television series One Tree Hill and as Vin Keahi in the television series Beyond the Break. He also starred as Lucas Kendall in Power Rangers: Time Force.

Copon was born in Chesapeake, Virginia on November 13, 1982; his father is Filipino-American and his mother is German-American.

famousfilipinos:

Frieda Pinto

is Gorgeous!

Born October 18, 1984, Pinto is an Indian actress and professional model, best known for her performance as Latika in her debut film Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2009. Pinto won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

famousfilipinos:

Takeshi Kaneshiro

(Japanese and Chinese: 金城 武, romaji: Kaneshiro Takeshi, Pinyin: Jīnchéng Wǔ), born October 11, 1973, is a famous Asian actor of mixed heritage – his father is an ethnic Japanese Okinawan and his mother is a Taiwanese.  Kaneshiro was born and raised in Taipei, and is a Japanese citizen (nationality).

He is well known for his leading role as Jin in the House of Flying Daggers, also starring Zhang Ziyi.

His first movie was Executioners (1993) and this was followed by the critically acclaimed Wong Kar-Wai film Chungking Express (1994) and a string of other Hong Kong movies. Later, Kaneshiro starred in the highly successful Japanese TV mini-series God, Please Give Me More Time (1998), allowing him to branch into Japanese movies such as Returner (2002).  Kaneshiro’s work, however, is more heavily concentrated in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.


He also became well known in the video game industry portraying the samurai warrior Samanosuke in the Capcom hit Onimusha. In a June 2007 article on the movie site Ain’t It Cool News, it was revealed that Kaneshiro will be in the Onimusha movie, reprising his role as Samanosuke and for a 2011 release.^[6][7][8]

Outside of the entertainment business, Kaneshiro has acted as a spokesperson and model for Emporio Armani Underwear (2008) as well as, Prada (1998), Lifecard credit card company, VAIO personal computer, Honda, Lipice lips moisturizer, SonyEricsson, Pocari Sweat soft drink, Morinaga chocolate, Volvic, GEOS (eikaiwa) (language school), Petronas oil company, Japan Asia Airways, Hyundai Motor Company, Toyota MarkX ZiO, Mitsubishi Galant, NTT docomo the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan, NTT Yellow Pages, Shiseido, Lycos, UCC Ueshima Coffee Co., Kadokawa Shoten a well-known Japanese publisher based in Tokyo, Rice Burger, Roasted barley tea, One2Free (HK), and Kiwi cold drink.

Kaneshiro has been quoted as saying “If one day I get married and have kids, I will probably be one of those men who really care for the family. I will eat at home every day, and help with the chores and take care of the children.”^[9]

Seriously? That’s way too dreamy…get outta here with that Takeshi…don’t tease us.