Are there any popular actors or actresses in the Philippines with dark skin?

Almost all of the actors and actresses have light skin. I guess that is why there are so many skin whitening products out here. And why light skin is looked at so highly upon especially with the entertainment industry.

Just curious, are there any popular actors or actresses with dark skin in the Philippines? If so, who are some of the attractive actors and actresses with dark skin?

bianca gonzales
richard gomez
zanjoe marudo
will devaugh
nikki gil
michelle madrigal
anjanette abayari
derek ramsey
jericho rosales
rainier castillo
rico yan
patricia javier
cesar montano
alssandra de rossi

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15 Responses to Are there any popular actors or actresses in the Philippines with dark skin?

  1. it takes time says:

    Richard Gomez is dark skinned and Angel Locsin is kayumanggi.
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  2. delive_rance says:

    Yes of course. Not all actors or actresses in the previous years have light skin or fair complexion. It is only now that most production or movie outfit or television required those fair or light complexion. Because now a days it is commercialized. It is not what the talent of the person have but it is how they look in the camera.

    There is so many skin whitener products in the Philippines because Filipinos are in the true sense of the word are dark or brown skin not white. It is only through the years that mixed marriages like Filipino and Americans, Fil-French, Fil-German, Fil-Pakistani, Fil-Indian, Fil-Bangladeshi, Fil-Thai, Fil-Chinese etc. has evolved. That is why most children have fair skin complexion and doesn’t look Filipinos anymore.

    The actors like Vic Vargas, Vic Silayan, Fred Panopio, Chiquito,Dindo Fernando, Johnny Delgado, Efren Reyes Sr. etc. have dark skin. Actresses like Elizabeth Oropesa, Liberty Ilagan etc mostly from the 60′s have one way or another brown skinned but not too dark. Being light skin complexion now a days is the IN THING so time is changing. So we have to change with time. This is what the audience or the looks they like right now. So everybody loves to buy a whitening soap, a whitening cream etc…or even go to medical clinic to get the desire they want. It is 2009 now not 1920′s.
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  3. _smile_'s guacamole says:

    Dawn Zulueta.. the only one I can think of.

    =)
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  4. pero♥agni says:

    hmmm….do you think the media has to do something about it?
    cuz it would be more universally acceptable than those shows with almost all filipino casts. Acceptable in the sense that it would be bought by other countries so that it would be featured in their television shows.
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  5. wilma m says:

    Popular actresses with dark skin: Elizabeth Ramsey, Wilma Doesnt,
    daughter of Elizabeth Ramsey and others
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  6. guRl says:

    Richard Gomez
    Bianca Gonzales
    Piolo Pascual
    Tetchie Agbayani (first Filipinas to cover or pose for Playboy mag!)
    Precious Lara Quigaman
    Maja Salvador
    Philip Salvador
    Ana Capri
    Angel Locsin
    Sarah Geronimo
    Nora Aunor
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  7. LOL says:

    Wilma Doesnt

    P.S. Sorry I don’t know how to spell her last name…
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  8. PINOYKURAKOT says:

    NORA AUNOR
    PWITNEY TYSON
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  9. ellophunk says:

    ZANJOE MARUDO
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  10. Moby Dick says:

    bianca gonzales
    richard gomez
    zanjoe marudo
    will devaugh
    nikki gil
    michelle madrigal
    anjanette abayari
    derek ramsey
    jericho rosales
    rainier castillo
    rico yan
    patricia javier
    cesar montano
    alssandra de rossi
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  11. ragdefender says:

    If you’re asking for more than just kayumangi like Angel Locsin, there is also supermodel Wilma Doesnt. And until recently when she became an endorser of a whitening cream, the comedian Jinky Oda.

    Another lets not forget, Chocolate!

    There are actually a lot. But I think these are not the people you are referring to right? There are none at all I can think of who are actually matinee idols. They are actors and actresses but not teenage hearthrobs. For me personally, Angel Locsin is no. 1 though. She’s not too pale and not too dark. Just right.
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  12. Kabarkads says:

    Pokwang is dark skinned but not too dark like the Africans.
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  13. carl says:

    actors – Richard Gomez, Chocoleit and Bentong
    actresses- Pokwang and Whitney Tyson
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  14. 2108 says:

    not actually dark but more tanned than others

    i saw her once, alessandra da rossi, she’s pretty and admire her skin tone
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  15. BARRIO LASSPAG NA LASSPAG NA says:

    Maej has dark skin. ( Magaling syang artista — pang Drama. She played the part of Linda Lovelace perfectly. She can also play the part of the pregnant girl in Agnes of God.)
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