







The Most Famous
Actors from Philippines
This page contains a list of the greatest Filipinos Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 13,578 Actors, 32 of which were born in Philippines. This makes Philippines the birth place of the 36th most number of Actors behind Netherlands and Israel.
Top 10 Filipino Actors
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Filipinos Actors of all time. This list of famous Filipinos Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Filipinos Actors.
- #1

Fernando Poe Jr.
1939 - 2004
HPI 56.7620 langsFilipino actor, director and politician
- #2

Regine Velasquez
b. 1970
HPI 55.2932 langsFilipina singer and actor
- #3

Lou Diamond Phillips
b. 1962
HPI 55.0233 langsFilipino American actor and film director
- #4

Brenda Marshall
1915 - 1992
HPI 54.8319 langsAmerican actress (1915-1992)
- #5

Dolly de Leon
b. 1969
HPI 54.5424 langsFilipino actress (born 1969)
- #6

Reggie Lee
b. 1975
HPI 52.8329 langsFilipino actor
- #7

Nora Aunor
1953 - 2025
HPI 49.2322 langsFilipina actress, recording artist, and film producer
- #8

Lea Salonga
b. 1971
HPI 48.7141 langsFilipina singer and actress
- #9

Eddie Garcia
1929 - 2019
HPI 44.6915 langsFilipino actor (1929-2019)
- #10

Sayaka Akimoto
b. 1988
HPI 44.3020 langsJapanese actress and singer
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Filipinos Actors grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
1990s(8)
1980s(10)
1950s(1)
1940s(1)
1930s(1)
1920s(1)
1910s(1)
Overlapping Lives
Which Actors were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 5 most globally memorable Actors since 1700.






















