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Nida Blanca
Gapan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines
Dorothy Acueza Jones, (January 6, 1936 – November 7, 2001) popularly known by her stage name Nida Blanca, was a Filipina actress. She starred in over 163 movies and 14 television…
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Dorothy Acueza Jones, (January 6, 1936 – November 7, 2001) popularly known by her stage name Nida Blanca, was a Filipina actress. She starred in over 163 movies and 14 television shows and received over 16 awards for movies and six awards for television during her 50-year film career. She was named one of 15 Best Actress of all Time by YES magazine. Born as Dorothy Acueza Jones in Gapan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines (then a U.S. territory) to an American soldier father and a Filipina mother, she appeared in her first film at age 14. Actress Delia Razon successfully urged the head of LVN Pictures, Doña Sisang de Leon to hire Blanca. She was screen tested on October 6, 1950 by LVN Pictures where she reigned as queen for more than a decade, doing mostly comedies opposite the late Nestor de Villa. In the movies, she has played everything from a guy-punching lesbian to a nun. She also starred in the hit TV comedy series, John En Marsha, where she played the wife who sticks by her poor husband despite her rich mother's constant harping. In 1958, she appeared opposite her contemporary, noted singer/actress Sylvia La Torre, and Leroy Salvador, in the LVN movie Tuloy ang Ligaya. Blanca was married twice. She separated from her first husband, Victorino Torres when their daughter Kaye was only two years old. She later married her second husband Roger Lawrence Strunk (1940-2007), an American singer and actor, known by his screen name, Rod Lauren in Las Vegas in 1979. The couple relocated to Manila.
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2002
If You Are But a Dream
Movie Fairy
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2001
Ano Bang Meron Ka?
Movie Mother Tering
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2001
Luv Text
Movie Cielito
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2001
Abakada... Ina
Movie Matilda
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2000
Yakapin Mo ang Umaga
Movie
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1999
Soltera
Movie Sandra's Mother
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1999
Mula sa Puso
Movie Carmen
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1998
Wish
Movie Lola Melyang
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1998
Enter Love
Movie Linda Perez
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1998
Mother Ignacia: Ang Uliran
Movie Mother Superior
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1997
Babae
Movie
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1997
Batang PX
Movie Cedes
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1997
Minsan Lamang Magmamahal
Movie Auring
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1996
Ang TV Movie: The Adarna Adventure
Movie Lola Binyang
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1996
The Stepmother
Movie Fides
- 1996
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1995
Hataw Na!
Movie Connie Tejeros
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1995
Ikaw Pa... Eh Love Kita
Movie Karina's aunt
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1995
Redeem Her Honor
Movie Magda de Castro
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1994
Vampira
Movie
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1994
Pinagbiyak Na Bunga: Lookalayk
Movie Dorie
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1994
Geron Olivar
Movie Aling Corazon
- 1993
- 1993
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1993
Kadenang Bulaklak
Movie Elsa Abolencia
- 1993
- 1993
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1992
Shake, Rattle & Roll IV
Movie Dean Bautista (segment "Ang Guro")
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1992
The Teacher
Movie Dean Leticia Bautista
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1992
Mahal Kita, Walang Iba
Movie Fidela
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1992
The Two of Us
Movie Purita
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1992
Kamay ni Cain
Movie
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1991
Darna
Movie Isabel
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1991
Maalaala Mo Kaya
TV show Dolores
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1991
John en Marsha: Ngayong '91
Movie Marsha J. Puruntong
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1990
Mundo Man ay Magunaw
Movie Lydia
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1990
Too Young
Movie Mama Andeng
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1990
Pangako ng Puso
Movie
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1990
Hot Summer
Movie Sonia
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1989
Rosenda
Movie Mameng
