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Claudine Barretto: An
Actress of Real Force When Claudine Barretto was introduced as one of the many teeny-boppers in ''Ang TV'' almost a decade ago, audiences saw a younger and fresh generation of the famous Barretto sisters. But the path she treat is different from what her contemporaries did. Claudine has metamorphosed from teen star to Soap Opera Queen! Though now bearing a lady-like mien the 21-year-old former Whisper image model still has maintained her youthful glow. Now the main star of the country’s most popular primetime soap “Saan Ka Man Naroroon,” Claudine has repeatedly proven her versatility on screen. Playing three different characters who are sisters, Claudine has distinguished that Rosenda (scheming), Rosario (sympathetic) and Rosemarie (smart) are people who we run across with everyday of our lives. But then her versatility has always been embedded in her screen portrayals. She is subtle but convincing as Aga Muhlach’s brushed aside sister in “May Minamahal” (1994). Then came Sharon Cuneta’s melancholic stepdaughter in “Madrasta” and the prospect of a fledgling athlete in “Mangarap Ka” (1996). Eventually she’s outgrown her teeny bopper mien by churning out a remarkable take as a rape victim in “Calvento Files the Movie” (1997) and the aggressive college female jock in “Dahil Mahal Na Mahal Kita” in 1998. We now remember well the apprehensive wedding store of Maricel Soriano in “Soltera” (1999) and the intense rebellious daughter of Vilma Santos in the colossally successful gem “Anak” (2000). We are now treated to the real versatility Claudine in her first hard action–romantic–comedy thunderbolt “Ooops, Teka Lang…Diskarte Ko ‘To!” with Robin Padilla, another set blockbuster from Star Cinema and under the direction of Joe Carreon. In a screenplay by Ricky Lee and Mel Mendoza del Rosario, Claudine this time plays a novice whose belligerence comes out in desperation to rescue her sister from drugs and white slavery syndicates. Here is a role too irresistible to pass out and will set off another of her marked screen performance. Claudine has garnered recognitions that suffice to the flourishing of her acting career, Starting off in the early ‘90s, Star Awards for TV named her the Best New TV Personality. The Annual Parangal Ng Bayan chose her as the country’s Best Young Actress and was nominated as Best Actress in the Asian TV Awards in Singapore (1999). Just last year, the Starlight Cultural Foundation proclaimed her the Most Popular Movie/TV Teen Star of the Year and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the Film Academy Awards for “Soltera.” In this year’s 17th Star Awards for Movies, Claudine again made it to the finals. She was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress race for her performance in the movie “Anak.” Claudine never had a single qualm on various roles she slips in on screen. Neither does she have the propensity to play choosy with leading men. “I always make it a point to bond well with my leading men and even also with other co–stars of the movies I’m doing. Kasi naman, lahat naman tayo may kakayahan, merong limitations. What’s important is you feel comfortable with the role you are going to play, you are sure you can pull off the character. Then I try to perfect my acting. Iyon ang mga bagay na talagang priority ko when I do a movie,” which is perhaps the real reason why the 23–year–old pretty cancer always had a healthy relationship with her co–workers on and off screen. Now fully established in the leading actress league, Claudine can hope that more opportunities will come her way but that she is willing to take in moderation. Already an acting gem in the local moviedom, tots, teens and twenty–somethings and the young at heart alike will surely find a favorable person in her and a role model they can be inspired by
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