Filipina dancer, actress, Shaina Magdayao | Photos

For more than a decade, Philippine TV viewers have witnessed the blossoming of Filipina model, dancer and actress Shaina Magdayao from a cute little girl to a well-endowed and talented woman.

She was born Shaina Garcia Magdayao on November 6, 1989 in Quezon City. At a tender young age in 1996, she played the lead role in the drama series Lyra. Shaina then ventured into comedy (Ang TV and Kaybol) before she played Rina in the afternoon soap Marinella.

Miss Magdayao also had a self-titled debut album with Star Records in 2000. In 2002, she was dubbed the Most Popular Child Actress by the Guillermo Mendoza Awards.

2003 proved to be a really good year for our featured Filipina girl. She bagged the Best Child Actress in the FAMAS awards (the Philippine equivalent of the Oscars) for her role in the film Tanging Yaman.

Since then, she has ventured into mature roles which was showcased her versatility in character portrayals. Movie pundits and critics sometimes compare her to talented veteran Filipina celebrity Maricel Soriano. I completely agree!

Her “star quality” has prompted various commercial brands to get her as their endorser (as shown in photo below where she models the Bench clothing wear brand)

More photos of our featured Pinay celebrity!

Source: Wikipedia
Photos: Screenshots from Websites

Photos of Real Asian (Non-Celebrities) from a Facebook page called “Modern Filipina Beauties”

I stumbled upon a Facebook community called “Modern Filipina Beauties”, a page that contained lots of photos of Pinay girls. Ah the wonders of walking through various social networking sites!

I am featuring a few of them, which has come to my liking – particularly giving attention to “real Asians” who are non-celebrities.

Here we go! Hope you like these photos.


[UPDATE 6-5-2012: An anonymous reader said - see comments below - that some of our featured girls in this post are not Pinays. I believe he/she is right. I was misinformed by the website where I got the data from. As a sign of good faith, I am not altering this post. I'm issuing this update as an "errata".]

Of course we do not mean that Filipina celebrities are “fake” or not “real Asians”. They are as real as Asian beauties could be. With this post, I intend to prove that Pinay non-celebrities could be as beautiful as their counterparts in movies and television!