Acting

Vilma Santos

Born November 3, 1953 · Tondo, Manila, Philippines (age 72)

Rosa Vilma Tuazon Santos-Recto (born November 3, 1953) is a Filipina actress, singer, dancer, TV host, producer, and politician. She has currently serving as Governor of Batangas since 2025, which she previously served from 2007 to 2016. Her career as an actress has spanned more than five decades, beginning when she debuted as a child actress in the 1963 film Trudis Liit, for which she won her fi…

Known For

Uninvited

Uninvited · 2024

MovieThrillerMystery

A woman plots to take down the billionaire responsible for her daughter's death. She decides to attend his lavish party disguised as a charming wealthy donor.

Heaven's Judgment

Heaven's Judgment · 1990

Heaven's Judgment

An oppressed housemaid has transformed herself into a wealthy and powerful business mogul through sheer dint of talent, ambition and driving need to avenge herself on her tormentors.

An Affair

An Affair · 1982

MovieDramaRomance

In a time in the Philippines when the concept of divorce does not exist, a young woman has an affair with a married man. Eventually, they move in together, and that is when the problems start.

The Longest Hundred Miles

The Longest Hundred Miles · 1967

The Longest Hundred Miles

During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.

Baby Tsina

Baby Tsina · 1984

A woman develops feelings for a gang leader and is subsequently jailed for murder. While in prison, she undergoes a transformation, eventually leading her fellow inmates in a movement for penal system reform. Seven years later, she is declared innocent. Based on the true story of Evelyn Duave Ortega, also known as Baby Tsina.

T-Bird at Ako

T-Bird at Ako · 1982

MovieDramaCrime

Stern, intelligent Sylvia, a lawyer, finally met her match. Only that the person is a woman, and was convicted of murder.

Because I Love You

Because I Love You · 1993

Because I Love You

MovieDramaRomance

Dolzura Cortez has had several men in her life. One returns to her as an AIDS researcher and unwittingly, Dolzura becomes his subject. He encouraged her to come out in public so she can dispel the social stigma that comes with the disease.

Anak

A woman returns to the Philippines after working abroad to find that her family has fallen apart in her absence.

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Uninvited

Uninvited · 2024

MovieThrillerMystery

A woman plots to take down the billionaire responsible for her daughter's death. She decides to attend his lavish party disguised as a charming wealthy donor.

Lilia Capistrano / Eva Candelaria

Heaven's Judgment

Heaven's Judgment · 1990

Heaven's Judgment

An oppressed housemaid has transformed herself into a wealthy and powerful business mogul through sheer dint of talent, ambition and driving need to avenge herself on her tormentors.

Florida Blanca Guevarra

An Affair

An Affair · 1982

MovieDramaRomance

In a time in the Philippines when the concept of divorce does not exist, a young woman has an affair with a married man. Eventually, they move in together, and that is when the problems start.

Maria Lourdes 'Marilou' Castañeda

The Longest Hundred Miles

The Longest Hundred Miles · 1967

The Longest Hundred Miles

During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.

Maria

Baby Tsina

Baby Tsina · 1984

A woman develops feelings for a gang leader and is subsequently jailed for murder. While in prison, she undergoes a transformation, eventually leading her fellow inmates in a movement for penal system reform. Seven years later, she is declared innocent. Based on the true story of Evelyn Duave Ortega, also known as Baby Tsina.

Baby Tsina

T-Bird at Ako

T-Bird at Ako · 1982

MovieDramaCrime

Stern, intelligent Sylvia, a lawyer, finally met her match. Only that the person is a woman, and was convicted of murder.

Isabel

Because I Love You

Because I Love You · 1993

Because I Love You

MovieDramaRomance

Dolzura Cortez has had several men in her life. One returns to her as an AIDS researcher and unwittingly, Dolzura becomes his subject. He encouraged her to come out in public so she can dispel the social stigma that comes with the disease.

Dolzura Cortez

Anak

A woman returns to the Philippines after working abroad to find that her family has fallen apart in her absence.

Josie

The Healing

The Healing · 2012

MovieThrillerHorror

A community rushes to a faith healer after learning that one of them was miraculously healed from a deadly disease by the same person. They are torn apart afterwards as the healing brings them a terrible curse that wreaks harm and death.

Seth

Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan?

Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan? · 1982

Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan?

They are two women in love with one man. One is the wife, the other is the mistress. And between them, the man whose love and time they share. But even the most discreet of affairs can be laid open, and the most submissive of wives can lose her patience. Vilma Santos, Hilda Koronel and Dindo Fernando lend their thespic talents to this moving tale of love, betrayal and retribution.

Lily

The Bit Player

The Bit Player · 2013

MovieComedyDrama

A single mother working as a film extra dreams of landing bigger roles while struggling with the harsh realities of the entertainment industry.

Executive Producer

Everything About Her

Everything About Her · 2016

Everything About Her

MovieComedyDrama

Powerful but ill-stricken business woman, Vilma Santos navigates her complicated relationship with her caregiver, Angel Locsin and her estranged son, Xian Lim in this story about acceptance, love and forgiveness.

Vivian Ribaya

King & Queen for a Day

King & Queen for a Day · 1963

King & Queen for a Day

MovieComedyRomance

Charot

A young family breadwinner witnesses a crime and assumes a female identity to elude the criminals who doggedly hunt him down.

Ibulong Mo Sa Diyos

Ibulong Mo Sa Diyos · 1988

Ibulong Mo Sa Diyos

When her boyfriend leaves for Japan on a singing contract, a dancer is so distraught she does not see the car that hits her. The driver pretends to be a helpful passer-by; they fall in love and gets married. Only bringing her to a more complicated life.

All for You

All for You · 1982

MovieRomanceDrama

Strong-willed and sophisticated, Divina takes over the business of her late father Don Ferrer who had requested Divina to ensure that his daughter Nora with his mistress is cared for. But Nora wins the love of Jerry, the only man who has captivated Divina’s discriminating heart. From the start. Jerry is attracted to Nora whose steadfast suitor Oscar respects and honors her chastity, only to find out that she has fallen in love and has given herself to Jerry.

Divina

Begging for Love

Begging for Love · 1986

Begging for Love

MovieRomanceDrama

On the outside it looks like a marriage made in heaven. But inside the thick walls of what they call home theirs is a relationship waiting to crumble. They have been waiting a child for so long but the wife does not have the capacity to bear a child. And when her husband cannot take it any it any longer he decides to end his misery once and for all.

Fina

Lea's Story

Lea's Story · 1998

A fiercely independent and unflinchingly candid woman connected with a women's crisis and survival center has to raise her two kids with different fathers. Her first husband has left her when their career options failed to converge. She is now stuck in an extramarital arrangement with another man who cannot bring himself to respect and commit to their quite unorthodox relationship.

Lea Bustamante

Where Does Love Hide?

Where Does Love Hide? · 1987

Where Does Love Hide?

Made pregnant by Ric, Estella was forced to marry his intellectually disabled younger brother, Val, to save herself from the shame of having an illegitimate child. However, what was intended as a marriage of convenience became a fulfilling relationship that eventually opened the eyes and hearts of everybody to the beautiful soul hidden inside the young man nobody wanted.

Estella

How Is It to Dream?

How Is It to Dream? · 1983

How Is It to Dream?

The story of Lisa and Eric and how they fought for their love. Lisa got pregnant with Benny, Eric's brother. However, Benny died in a motorcycle accident. Eric was kind enough to marry Lisa but Eric's mother disapproved of the relationship and makes life hell for Lisa.

Lisa

Mga Rosas sa Putikan

Mga Rosas sa Putikan · 1976

Mga Rosas sa Putikan

Vilma Santos did Mga Rosas Sa Putikan for her own VS Films where she played a country girl forced into prostitution in the big city. The movie did fairly well at the tills. Good sign…” – Ricardo F. Lo, Expressweek, Jan 19 1978

Darna vs. The Planet Women

Darna vs. The Planet Women · 1975

Darna vs. The Planet Women

MovieActionFantasy

Crippled girl Narda finds her boyfriend paralyzed by a mysterious beam shot from a UFO. Together with her powers and brother Ding, she transforms into Darna and fights against alien women who are trying to make the Earth a colony of their own planet.

Narda / Darna

Bertang Karengkeng

Bertang Karengkeng · 1976

Bertang Karengkeng

MovieComedyDrama

Berta

Haplos

MovieHorrorRomance

Al is a balikbayan who returns to his former hometown where his mother is buried. There he meets his childhood friend Cristy who works as a counselor for family planning. Eventually they develop a romantic relationship and end up as a couple. However, a mysterious lady appears one day while Al tends to his mother’s grave. Al falls in love with the stranger and is now torn between her and Cristy.

Christy