Madeleine Humphries appeared on the January 2011 cover of FHM Philippines Magazine.
23 Facts About Madeleine Humphries
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Madeleine Humphries was a member of Star Magic, ABS-CBN's circle of homegrown talents from 2003 to early 2009.
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Madeleine Lauren Humphries was born in San Francisco, California to a Filipina mother and a French-American father of Italian descent.
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Madeleine Humphries is the second of four children; she and older brother Alec were born in the United States, while her two younger siblings Nicolas and Samantha were born in France and the Philippines, respectively.
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Madeleine Humphries was discovered in 1999 at the age of 11 by Johnny Manahan, the director of the ABS-CBN Talent Center She was invited to join the Talent Center's acting workshops and audition as a Talent Center artist after Manahan saw her perform in her school's Recognition Day program.
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Madeleine Humphries attended workshops in various disciplines, including acting, singing, and personality development over the course of two years.
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Madeleine Humphries was accepted and launched as a member of Star Circle Batch 11 in May 2003.
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Madeleine Humphries's first recurring guest role came in late 2003, when she was cast as a fashion model named "Paris" in the youth-oriented TV show Berks.
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The role would be the first time Madeleine Humphries is paired with a comedian, a pattern that is later repeated in the TV show Qpids.
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In 2004, Madeleine Humphries appeared in a supporting role in her first movie, My First Romance, as a friend of the lead character portrayed by Heart Evangelista.
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Madeleine Humphries was cast that same year in her first primetime recurring guest role as "Penelope" in the TV series Sarah the Teen Princess where she was positioned as a romantic rival of the show's lead character portrayed by Sarah Geronimo.
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In 2005, Madeleine Humphries was cast in ABS-CBN's Reality Loveteam Search Qpids in 2005, where she and her loveteam partner Janus del Prado emerged as the Qpids Voter's Choice for receiving the most votes from viewers through phone calls and SMS text messages.
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Qpids was where the stage name "Carla Madeleine Humphries-Loren" was first used, with the intent to eventually transition her stage name to "Carla Loren" ostensibly to improve her name recall among Filipino viewers.
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Madeleine Humphries appeared that same year in supporting roles in two well-received Star Cinema movies, D' Lucky Ones and First Day High.
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Madeleine Humphries was cast as one of the four lead characters in the youth-oriented TV series Star Magic Presents: Abt Ur Luv, which began airing in November 2006.
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The role is a departure from the teen and youth-oriented roles that Madeleine Humphries has portrayed since her launch as a Star Magic artist in 2003.
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Madeleine Humphries was handpicked to play Joanna Bonifacio in Smaller and Smaller Circles, based on the crime novel of the same name.
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In 2003 shortly after her launch, Madeleine Humphries began appearing in local style and fashion magazines intended for the teen market.
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Also in the same year, Madeleine Humphries appeared in her first TV commercial for Globe Telecom's GenTxt club.
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Madeleine Humphries's commercials were aired in 6 countries in the Asian region.
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Madeleine Humphries studied in French schools until her mother transferred her to the ABS-CBN Distance Learning Center in Manila, where she obtained her high school diploma.
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Madeleine Humphries enrolled and attended one year at the University of Santo Tomas to study fine arts, before transferring to the Centre for International Education to study entrepreneurship, whose more flexible schedule allowed her to pursue her acting career without giving up her studies.
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Madeleine Humphries holds a Gemology Institute of America Jewelry Design Certificate after completing the 9-week Jewelry Design class at the GIA in Bangkok, Thailand.