23 Facts About Vilma Santos

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

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

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

Vilma Santos 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 was elected as the Representative for the Lone District of Lipa, Batangas in 2016.

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

Vilma Santos is widely considered as the most lastingly successful Filipino film and television actress of all time.

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

When Vilma Santos was in the studio, she noticed a long line of little girls.

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

Vilma Santos 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 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 the province 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 of Batangas.

Governor Vilma Santos-Recto was reelected Governor of Batangas during the May 2010 elections defeating incumbent Santo Tomas Mayor Edna Sanchez, who substituted her husband Arman Sanchez who died on April 27,2010, and again, reelected as Governor of Batangas during the May 2013 elections and her last term being a Governor.

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

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

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

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