Mona Lisa (actress)
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| Born | Florida Lerma Yapco June 22, 1922 Tondo, Manila, Philippines |
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| Other name(s) | Fleur de Lis | ||||||
| Years active | 1938 - present | ||||||
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Florida L. Yapco, better known as Mona Lisa (born June 22, 1922) is a FAMAS award-winning Filipino film actor. One of the most popular Filipino actresses of the 1940s,[1] she resumed her film career in the 1970s after a two-decade long absence and remained active in the industry well into her eighties.
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[edit] Biography
She was born Florida Lerma Yapco in Tondo, Manila.[1] Her father was a sailor with the United States Navy,[1] and she received her schooling in the United States. Her film career began in the late 1930s under the stage name Fleur de Lis, in such films as Ang Pagbabalik (1938) and Giliw Ko (1939), the first ever film production of LVN Pictures.[1]
By 1940, she had changed her screen name to Mona Lisa. Her popularity grew during the decade. She was frequently cast as the leading lady opposite Fernando Poe, Sr.[1] They appeared together in such films as Viuda Alegre (1941), Intramuros (1947) and Sagun (1949).
In the early 1950s, Lisa retired from acting, and she did not appear in another movie until the 1970s. Her most famous role upon her return to film was as Tonia in Lino Brocka's Insiang (1975), the first Filipino film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival.[1] For that role, Lisa received the 1975 FAMAS Best Supporting Actress Award, as well as a nomination for Best Supporting Actress from the Gawad Urian.[1] Lisa would frequently portray maternal, and later grandmotherly roles for some of the country's leading directors. She was again cast by Brocka in Cain at Abel (1982) and in Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim (1985). She also appeared in Mike de Leon's Itim (1976), and in Peque Gallaga's Oro, Plata, Mata (1982). In 1988, Lisa was cast in a small role as a participant in the 1986 People Power Revolution in the HBO mini-series A Dangerous Life.
In the 1990s, Lisa appeared frequently on television, most prominently on the ABS-CBN soap opera Anna Luna. As of 2007, she was slated to co-star with Anita Linda in an independent film to be directed by Dante Mendoza.[2]
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- Galileo Zafra (1994). "Philippine Film". CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (1st) VIII. Ed. Nicanor Tiongson. Manila: Cultural Center of the Philippines. p.271. ISBN 971-8546-31-6. Retrieved on January 2008.
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