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• Started off as a theater actor and caught the eye of director Lino Brocka who casted him in the 1978 film Gumising Ka Maruja.
• For two years, he was a part of the singing group in the tenor section of the Bacolod Glee Club with Joel Navarro.
• Appeared alongside Hollywood actor Chuck Norris in the 1990 movie Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection.
• Played the lead role in the short film Anino which received the Palme d'Or at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
• Displayed his versatility off the camera with his art direction in the 1981 movie Manila By Night/City After Dark for which earned him the Best Production Design Award.
• Self-taught photographer who launched his own photo exhibit at the Museo de la Carcel Real in Caceres, Spain in 2005.
• Received several nominations throughout his career out of which he won the Gawad Urian Award after 27 years in 2009 for Best Actor in the movie Yanggaw.
• Co-founder of the organization Dakila (2005), a group that aims to inspire social transformations.