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Jiro Manio

ActorBorn May 9, 1992 (32 years)
Jiro Manio (born as Jirō Katakura (片倉次郎 Katakura Jirō?, 9 May 1992), is a Filipino actor at ABS-CBN. He started acting at a very young age and became the youngest multi-awarded actor of his generation. He was born with a Japanese father Yusuke Katakura and Filipina mother Joylene Santos (who died in August 2007). He was raised by his grandfather and had a younger brother named Anjo Santos.

Manio graduated from San Felipe Neri Parochial School and plans to study HRM in culinary studies at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. He recently starred in digital film "Tambolista (Drumbeat)" under Cinema One, and his latest film was "Ang Tanging Ina Niyong Lahat" with Ai-Ai de las Alas. In 2004, he won the Best Actor and Gaward Urian plus Best Child Actor at Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award for the movie "Magnifico." On May 18, 2011, news program TV Patrol confirmed that Jiro underwent a rehab for drug addiction.

He was a member of ABS CBN's elite circle of homegrown talents named Star Magic from 2000 until June 2009, when the network terminated him for unprofessional behavior.

In 2010 Jiro recently transferred to GMA 7 after he recently appeared on GMA Network show Pilyang Kerubin top billed by Angelika dela Cruz.

Manio became a father of two daughters named Sisha Calliope and Mishka Caxiopeia from a non-showbiz girlfriend who is 5 years his senior. He had his first child at the age of 16.

Known For

  • Magnifico
  • Slingshot
  • Foster Child
  • La Vida Rosa
  • Manay po!
  • Drumbeat
  • Ang tanging ina mo: Last na 'to!
  • Manay po 2: Overload
  • New Moon
  • Bahay kubo: A Pinoy mano po!
  • The Two of Us
  • Pacquiao: The Movie

Filmography

2010
2009
Manila · as Macky
2009
The Two of Us (TV Series) · as Stanley "stan" D. King Iii
2008
2008
Manay po 2: Overload · as Orwell Castello
2008
Antonio's Secret · as Mike
2007
2007
Drumbeat · as Jason
2007
Foster Child · as Yuri
2007
2006
More Than Love (TV Series) · as Young Pong (2006)
2006
Pacquiao: The Movie · as Young Manny
2006
Manay po! · as Orwell Castello
2003
Ang tanging ina · as Samuel/shammy
2003
Magnifico · as Magnifico
2001
New Moon · as Francis
2001
La Vida Rosa · as Enteng
2001
Mila · as Peklat
2000
Promise to You (2000) (TV Series) · as Kokoy Dela Merced
2000
Anak · as Jason
1999
Gimik: The Reunion · as Dancing Kid
1991
Memories (TV Series) · as Dodong

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