Dawn Zulueta

Dawn Zulueta

Birth : 1969-03-04,

History

Marie Rachel Salman Taleon (born March 4, 1969) is a Filipino film-television actress, host and commercial model. Zulueta holds the distinction of winning both the Filipino Academy of Movies Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) awards for Best Lead Actress (Hihintayin Kita sa Langit) and Best Supporting Actress (Una Kang Naging Akin) in 1991. She also bagged the Supporting Actress of the Year in the Film Academy of the Philippines for Una Kang Naging Akin. She was also declared by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Foundation Entertainment Award as the Box Office Queen of 1994 for starring in that year's highest-grossing film: The Maggie Dela Riva Story...God Why Me? Her other Best Actress honors include the 1993 Metro Manila Film Festival for Kung Mawawala Ka Pa; 1993 FAMAS for Kung Mawawala Ka Pa; and 1994 Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) Star Awards for Movies for Buhay ng Buhay Ko. Further, she has received multiple nominations (for both lead and supporting roles) from the prestigious Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (MPP) Gawad Urian. In 1996, Zulueta starred with 90's rising star and former child star Sheryl Cruz and 1994 Beauty Queen Charlene Gonzales in the hit Drama-Vengeance film Ikaw Naman Ang Iiyak for Viva Films as a lead role as Elaine which became a career booster as a lead actress. In 1996, Zulueta was cited in a Manila Times article as the 10th Best Filipino Actress from 1970 to 1996. In addition, a 1999 Manila Standard article named her as one of the Top 10 Actresses of the 1990s. In 2010, Zulueta took the lead role in a stage musicale, A Little Night Music.

Profile

Dawn Zulueta

Movies

Family History
May
A heartwarming story that seeks to teach family values, life, and marriage.
Meant to Beh
Andrea Balatbat
A family is on the brink of disintegration because its core foundation is missing.
Love Me Tomorrow
Cristy
A journey of a young man named JC, a conflicted young woman Janine, and Christy a woman on the verge of renaissance.
The Love Affair
Trisha
Often in the backseat and a second priority to her partner, a lawyer decides to end her relationship and focuses on herself with a help of a man out of her league.
She's Dating the Gangster
Athena Dizon
Seventeen-year-old Athena Dizon unwittingly plays a trick on resident heartthrob and bad boy Kenji de los Reyes. All of a sudden, she finds herself pretending to be his girlfriend to make an ex jealous; however, she falls in love with him.
What Isn't There
Esme Bonifacio
Gibson Bonifacio stopped speaking when he was a child. Now twenty, he returns home to Manila for Christmas. While always festive in the Philippines, for his family it is tinged with sadness, marking the anniversary of his twin brother’s death.
Catch Me... I'm in Love
First Lady / Erick's Mom
Two young adults search for that something that could complete their existence. The two would fall in love but conflict would arise to try to break their special bond.
Sigwa
Dolly
A former student activist returns to the Philippines to find the daughter she was forced to leave behind.
Magkaibigan
Two lifelong friends have their lives shaken up when one of them discovers that he has cancer. Quick to lose hope in the face of his deteriorating health, it's left to his best friend to help him get through these troubled times.
Filipinas
Gloria Filipinas
Florencia, the matriarch of the Filipinas family, is in poor health, and Yolanda, the eldest of the Filipinas children, finds herself in the unenviable position of keeping her bickering family from disintegration. As the tension rises, Yolanda seeks refuge in a local church. She is critically injured trying to break up a nasty fight between brothers Emman and Samuel, forcing her family to make a life-changing decision.
Lahar: Paraisong Abo
Sheila
In the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano dormant for more than 400 years, the residents of the whole town of San Simon in Pampanga was engulfed by dust and thick mudflow called lahar. The whole surviving residents of the devastated community are relocated to transitional evacuation center, a tent city, where different and unique personalities meet: Sheila, a migrant worker from Germany who is struggling to keep her family intact at all costs; Sonia who is looking for her missing husband while pretending as a handicapped so she can beg on the streets; Ditas, who returns in Pampanga after getting pregnant in Manila; and Elena, a mother who lost her whole family in the eruption, yet she keeps a positive outlook in life that as long as she remembers her relatives no amount of tragedy could keep her from reminiscing of their once peaceful lives.
To Saudi with Love
Cynthia
Why Is There a Yesterday?
Leah
Bakit may Kahapon Pa? (Why Is There a Yesterday?) is a 1996 Filipino drama film directed by Joel Lamangan. It is about a village girl who is mysteriously spared when a platoon of soldiers led by Colonel Valderamma (Garcia) massacres her family along with peasants accused of sympathizing with the communists. When the girl has grown up, her body has healed but her mind is yet to recover from the horrible experience. She continues to thirst for revenge and crafts a scheme to exact retribution. She eyes the head of the military mission who instigated the carnage that she survived. He is now a well-admired retiring general who is about to cap his career with the service's highest honors.
Ikaw Naman ang Iiyak
Elaine killed her stepfather while trying to defend her boyfriend Santi. After serving in prison for years, she is now out to fight and try to bring back her life, including Santi who already married another woman.
Wanted Perfect Father
Lily
A Filipino comedy drama directed Efren Jarlego.
Patayin sa Sindak si Barbara
Ruth
Barbara loves her little sister Ruth deeply. When Ruth becomes devilishly manipulative by threatening to kill herself if her sister doesn't break up with her boyfriend Nick . The sisters end up engaging in black magic to get back at each other.
Anabelle Huggins Story: Ruben Ablaza Tragedy - Mea Culpa
She was a popular actress during the 1960s who starred with Jack Nicholson in “Back Door To Hell”. Unfortunately, she meets a man in a billiard hall who kidnapped her twice.
Lagalag The Eddie Fernandez Story
Dulce Lukban
Filipino action star Eddie "Lagalag" Fernandez is convicted and jailed for his role in a homicide.
The Maggie dela Riva Story (God... Why Me?)
Maggie dela Riva
The 1967 story of young rising actress Maggie De La Riva's abduction and rape, and the trial against her 4 abductors.
The Cecilia Masagca Story: Antipolo Massacre (Jesus Save Us!)
Possessed by an evil spirit lurked into his soul Winifredo (Cesar Montano) brought misery and affliction to his once happy and contented family life. Cecilia (Dawn Zulueta) tried to save his husband from committing murder but it was too late the jungle bolo seemed to have ruled his being thus a bloody and gory ending. It was thought that the spirit lives in the bolo with its dark past used in hacking the victims.
Buhay Ng Buhay Ko
Hard life, oppressive, and unjust...the kind of world where two sisters revolve their lives in.
Kung Mawawala Ka Pa
A story of a married couple brought together by the ilness of their child.
Paniwalaan Mo
A woman, who is in a relationship, develops a friendship with a painter. Later, they realized they want each other more than friends, that made the relationship complicated.
Wherever You Are
Amanda
A bereaved wife searchs for her lost husband, only to be found with no memory of her and a new woman in his life
Apoy sa Puso
A story of love, passion and infidelity.
Ikaw Pa Lang Ang Minahal
Adela's Mother
Adela is the sheltered daughter of successful Dr. Maximo Sevilla. She has spent her life crocheting alone in the big house, and disappointed her father for failing to qualify for a career in law or medicine, and for lacking the confidence of her departed mother. Adela vainly struggles to cultivate elegance, until she meets and falls for the charms of striking David Javier.
Iisa Pa Lamang
Clara
Arman is torn between two women, a woman who came from a decent family or the one who kept it a secret of being a first-class prostitute.
Akin Ang Pangarap Mo
Leo is engaged to Anita out of convenience since her father and her parents are long time friends. It was never an issue until Leo meets Gigi during his stay in the family farm. Leo loves Anita but he cannot get enough of Gigi's seduction. He later finds himself craving for more. Little does he know that Gigi's tempting invitations are more than that Gigi has other selfish plans and she is adamant to get him not afraid to cause havoc over Leo and Anita's solid relationship.
Una Kang Naging Akin
Vanessa
Tragedy strikes when the helicopter that Nickis riding suddenly crashed in a remote island and authorities reported no survivor. The apparent death of Nick caused great grief to Vanessa, a socialte already betrothed to the young man. On the remote island, Nick meets Dr. Mallari, a marine biologist. Because of his memory loss, Nick introduces himself as Darwin. Dr. Mallari takes Darwin to his home where he introduces his daughter, Diosa, a beautiful painter. Darwin admits that he cannot recall his past and Diosa initially doubted his story. However, as time passes by, the two develop feelings for each other and have a child together. Darwin becomes involved in another accident that triggers the return of his past memories. He remembers that he is a wealthy businessman named Nick who is about to marry his beloved girlfriend Vanessa. With the return of his memory, Darwin's identity as well as Diosa and their child no longer exist in Nick's recollection.
Alias Batman and Robin
Angelique Legarda
Alyas Batman en Robin is a 1991 Filipino Batman comedy film produced by Regal Films spoofing the 1960s Batman television series. The movie was initially an unauthorized production, set to capitalize on the then in-production 1989 Batman film starring Michael Keaton. Warner Brothers threatened legal action and the release of the film was delayed until legal entanglements could be sorted out. The film was released in 1991, two years later than the intended 1989 release.
I Will Wait for You in Heaven
Carmina
Carmina begins to doubt her future with poor Gabriel when another suitor dazzles her with expensive gifts. Overhearing Carmina's sentiments, Gabriel is heartbroken and goes away to return a wealthy man to prove his worthiness to Carmina.
Robin Good (Sugod Ng Sugod)
a film by Tony Y. Reyes.
Kasalanan Bang Sambahin Ka?
A woman had a one-night stand with soon-to-be-married man and becomes obsessed with him, stalking him to the point of threatening suicide to get his attention.
Pangarap na Ginto
Daisy
Pretending to be happy in a high school reunion, Sheila, Daisy, and Sandy find comfort and love with each other when they reveal about the sad realities of their lives.
Isang Bala Isang Buhay
Daniel is a hired assassin of Roman who is the leader of a criminal group. Daniel is torn between choosing to start a new life with Dolores or returning Roman's favors.
Hindi Pahuhuli Nang Buhay
An assassination attempt by rebels on a police officer was foiled by ex-convict.
Bakit Iisa Lamang Ang Puso?
The death of tycoon Ernesto Benitez left behind two daughters by different mothers.
Bondying: The Little Big Boy
Flora
Jimmy Santos as the innocent Bondying.
Paano Tatakasan ang Bukas?
Desiree and Gilbert are in love but no one seems to believe it. Desiree's friends thinks Gilbert is just using her. Gilbert is studying to become a doctor and Desiree is financing his tuition fee and daily expenses. Gilbert's family thinks Desiree is interested in the family fortune. Gilbert is a rich kid but he left home when his girlfriend committed suicide after being insulted by his mother Gracia.
One Day Isang Araw
Nakagapos na Puso
Meldy
A young woman who all her life has lived under the shadow of her sister, a sister who is not only older but more assertive more intelligent and more appreciated. She knows that even with her best effort she cannot compete with her. Everything is fine with her she is after all more at peace with her kind of uncomplicated existence. But even the most submissive and most patient of people can only take so much. The day comes when she realizes that for her to live her own life she must end her meekness and learn to speak up.