Coco Martin

PROFILE
Coco Martin (born Rodel Nacianceno on December 6, 1983) is a Filipino actor dubbed as the "Prince of Philippine Independent Cinema" having been cast in numerous critically acclaimed or award-winning Full Time independent films.He started out in showbiz as one of the members of Star Circle Batch 9 in ABS-CBN. Although managed by ABS-CBN’s talent management agency, Star Magic, his career didn’t really take off as he decided to finish his education of Elementary Grades 1-6, 1st-4th year High School and 1st-4th year College.
Martin's first cameo film appearance was way back 2001 in Luv Txt topbilled by Judy Ann Santos and the late Nida Blanca where in he was credited with his real name Rodel Nacianceno. After that he took a brief hiatus in acting.
Since then he has appeared in several TV commercials (i.e., BPI, Globe, Smart) before breaking back into showbiz with his lead debut film Masahista (Masseur) which won him the Young Critics Circle Best Actor Award in 2006. He also starred in Kaleldo (Summer Heat) in 2006.
Early in 2007, Coco became an exclusive artist of GMA Network, and appeared in several GMA TV shows starting with Daisy Siete. He also became a member of the boy-group The Studs.

Martin was also seen in independent gay-oriented films Daybreak with Paolo Rivero and Jay with Baron Geisler .

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