Lorna Tolentino - Life and Career

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 and a niece of actor Jerry Pons. She was married to actor Rudy Fernandez from 1983 till his death in 2008. They had two children.

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).

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).

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

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