Lorna Tolentino

Victoria Lorna Perez Aluquin-Fernandez, better known by her stage name Lorna Tolentino, sometimes known as L.T., an abbreviation of her screen name (born December 23, 1961), is a Filipino actress, host, executive producer and widow of actor Rudy Fernandez. Together, they bore two sons named Ralph and Renz.

Life and career She was born on December 23, 1961 in Concepcion, Tarlac and later moved to Manila. Her dad is from Liliw, Laguna. She is also the stepmother of actor Mark Anthony Fernandez. She is first cousin to actress Amy Perez, Zsa Zsa Padilla and a niece of actor Jerry Pons. She was married to actor Rudy Fernandez from 1983 till his death in 2008. They have two children.

Education She attended the elementary grades at St. Anthony School where she also finished high school She took up a Bachelor of Arts course at St. Paul College in Quezon City, and also at the University of Santo Tomas and Maryknoll College (now Miriam College).

Career She started her career as a child actress. Later, she portrayed the young Susan Roces in Divina Gracia and has a total of at least 60 movies. She has won eight film awards and garnered 20 nominations (mostly for Best Actress in FAMAS).

Awards She's also one of the Grand-slam actresses in the Philippine Cinema together with Nora Aunor, Vilma Santos and Sharon Cuneta. She won her Grand-slam Best Actress for Narito Ang Puso Ko (1993). She went back to her original network (GMA Network) to star in the upcoming heavy drama series Pahiram ng Sandali.

Tolentino is also known for her heavy dramatic portrayals in Prime-time Award Winning TV Dramas in 2002-2003 she was cast in The Phenomenal Suspense Drama Series Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay as Lorrea/Lorrinda Guinto/Red Butterfly a lead role which successfully set Prime-time TV Standards and also had a Phenomenal Finale.

In 2009-2010 after she stopped doing TV work and mostly did films and TV Stints as a TV Host she came back to reclaim her throne as she played the role of Atty Tessa Ramirez in the Phenomonal Soap Dahil May Isang Ikaw which won her more accolades in the New York Television Awards for Best Telenovela

in 2011 she did the Action-Military Drama Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin where she played Antagonist as Alondra Sebastiano. In 2011, of the same year she left the network and did a heavy Primetime Drama Glamorosa In 2012, Tolentino did the soap "Pahiram Ng Sandali" with GMA-7 with actor Dingdong Dantes and Christopher De Leon and Max Collins In 2013, she was included in the cast of Valiente and the weekly series Third Eye both airing on TV 5 In 2014, Tolentino had a small part in the GMA series Genesis again with Dingdong Dantes In 2015, She starred with Ruffa Gutierrez and Gelli De Belen in Misterless Misis on TV 5

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Lorna Tolentino Active - 1996 - 2003 | Born - Dec 23, 1961 in Concepcion, Tarlac, Philippines | Genres - Drama - Factsheet - started her career as a child actor in the movie Uhaw Sa Kalayaan (1969). - Romance between her and her late husband was kindled on the sets of Sa Init ng Apoy (1980). - After a civil marriage in 1983, the couple renewed their vows 10 years later at a church wedding in Quezon.

Won the Grand-slam in the Best Actress category for Narito Ang Puso Ko (1993); the Grand-slam title is a distinction given to an actor who wins the same award across Philippines' four major award-giving bodies in the same year.

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