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• First acted in a play at the age of 7 during summer vacation. That was also the time he joined the Genesius Guild and started theater acting.
• Gumising Ka, Maruja (1979) is his first movie as a child actor.
• The first job he took up after graduation was that of a production assistant for the movie Champoy (1981). This was a part of his college internship.
• Made his debut as the male lead in the classic Oro, Plata, Mata (1981).
• Won a Gawad Urian Best Actor Award for his performance in On The Job (2013).
• Also bagged the Best Actor Trophy at the 17th Puchon International Fantastic Film Fest for the same movie.
• The death of his character Samuel Hidalgo in the popular series Ikaw Lamang, in 2014, garnered worldwide recognition for him when it became a global trending topic on Twitter.