This Filipina beauty, commercial model and actress was born on August 12, 1984 in Madrid, Spain as Marian Gracia Rivera. She is daughter to Spaniard Franscisco Javier Gracia and Filipina Amelia Rivera from Cavite, a province south of Manila.
She grew up in the Philippines though, which explains her fluency in the local dialect. She was brought to the Philippines after her mother separated from her husband. She is a graduate of BS Psychology in De La Salle University Dasmariñas (also in Cavite).
A product endorser, in photo below, she poses for clothing brand Karimadon.
Here is the hot Filipina beauty on Cosmopolitan April 2012 issue as cover girl (see photo below).
She is a talent of media giant GMA-7, who casted her in various hit Tv series including Marimar, Dyesebel, Darna, Amaya, and currently My Beloved (whose plot, I think, is a copy of "City of Angels", a movie by Hollywood stars Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage).
In 2009, she was also featured as calendar girl of the much awaited Ginebra Calendar (in photo).
She released two studio album recordings: Marian Rivera Dance Hits, which went platinum, and Retro Crazy. Her critics, citing her live performances, allege that the records are on Auto-tune. But who cares about them! As Squidward says, “Everyone’s a critic!” After all, it’s vox populi, vox dei (voice of the people is the voice of god), right?
Her movies such as “Panday 2”, “You to Me are Everything”, and “My Bestfriend's Girlfriend” have grossed more than P100 million at the box office.
More sexy pics of her!
UPDATE: Well, well, well... Talk about really great timing. Kudos to all her fans and her management team. Our featured Pinay celeb is on the cover of the 150th issue of FHM (For Him Magazine) Philippines. People are already tweeting about it, using the hash tags #FHM150 and #MarianRiveraOnFHM150 (just when her role as the sexy and steamy Chantal Gonzales on the soap opera "Temptation of Wife" is heating up the TV primetime scene).
Source: Wikipedia, Marian’s Facebook
