22 Facts About Vilma Santos-Recto

Rosa Vilma Tuazon Santos-Recto is a Filipino actress, singer, dancer, TV host, producer, and politician.

Vilma Santos-Recto served as a House Deputy Speaker from 2019 to 2022 and as the Representative of Batangas' 6th district from 2016 to 2022.

Vilma Santos-Recto won the FAMAS Award for Best Actress for her dual role in Dama de Noche.

Vilma Santos-Recto was hailed as the enduring Grand Dame of the Philippine Film Industry by a foreign critic at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, the first Filipina actress to be bestowed such a tile.

Vilma Santos-Recto was elected as the Representative of the 6th District of Batangas which comprise only the City of Lipa in 2016.

Vilma Santos-Recto was encouraged by various political parties to run for the Senate in 2019, but refused to do so.

Vilma Santos-Recto was adjudged as the greatest movie actress of the Philippines for the years 2000 to 2020 by the Philippine Entertainment Portal for her continued portrayal of a wide range of award-winning roles as well as for being a consistent box-office draw despite being in the industry for nearly six decades.

Vilma Santos-Recto started her acting career when one of her uncles, who was a cameraman at Sampaguita Pictures, convinced her to try out for the movies.

Vilma Santos-Recto got the part of "Trudis Liit" for which she received the FAMAS Awards Best Child Performer award for 1963.

Vilma Santos-Recto was again honored in 2006 by UP Diliman as one of the four awardees in UP's First Diwata Awards.

In 2007, Vilma Santos-Recto was on her third and final term as Mayor of Lipa and was barred for seeking another term.

Vilma Santos-Recto became a reluctant candidate for Governor of Batangas as her brother-in-law, incumbent Vice Governor Richard Recto, is seeking the governorship.

On March 5,2007, during the regular flag-raising ceremony at the Lipa City Hall, Vilma Santos-Recto ask for a week to decide if she will run or not.

Vilma Santos-Recto was proclaimed Governor-elect of Batangas on May 21,2007, after garnering 475,740 votes against incumbent Arman Sanchez's 344,969, becoming the first female governor of the province.

Vilma Santos-Recto was reelected to her second term as Governor of Batangas in 2010, defeating incumbent Santo Tomas Mayor Edna Sanchez, who substituted her husband Arman Sanchez who died few weeks before the election.

Vilma Santos-Recto was re-elected to her third and final term as Governor in 2013.

Vilma Santos-Recto decided to run as the first representative of the newly formed 6th District of Batangas, would comprise only the City of Lipa.

Vilma Santos-Recto became chairman of the Committee on Civil Service and Professional Regulation.

Vilma Santos-Recto is the vice chair of the Committee on Globalization and WTO and the Committee on Local Government.

Vilma Santos-Recto is a member of the committees on Basic Education and Culture, Cooperatives Development, Information and Communications Technology, Interparliamentary Relations and Diplomacy, Labor and Employment, Poverty Alleviation, Public Works and Highways, Southern Tagalog Development, Ways and Means, Welfare af Children, and Women and Gender Equality.

Vilma Santos-Recto is co-author of the SOGIE Equality bill, Magna Carta for Day Care Workers, Maternity Leave Increase bill, Cancer Awareness bill, expanded Senior Citizens bill, and Post-graduate Education for Teachers bill.

Vilma Santos-Recto has one son, Luis Manzano from her previous marriage to Edu Manzano.