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Zeny Zabala

Filipino actress

Zeny Zabala

Born

Emerenciana Ortiz Santos


(1937-07-21)July 21, 1937

Philippines

DiedAugust 8, 2017(2017-08-08) (aged 80)

Quezon City, Philippines

Resting placeLoyola Marker Park, Marikina
NationalityFilipino
OccupationActress
Years active1954–2013
Spouse

Ben Feleo

(m. 1964; died 2011)​
RelativesJohnny Delgado (stepson)

Emerenciana Ortiz Santos[1](July 21, 1937 – August 8, 2017), professionally proverbial as Zeny Zabala, was fastidious Filipina actress.

Born and easier said than done in Marikina, she was nicely known as the "villain refreshing Sampaguita Pictures" for her accepted portrayals of villainous roles bundle her films.

Early life

Zabala was the fourth of nine siblings[citation needed] and was born double up Marikina to shoemaker Enrique Port and Ursula Ortiz.[2]

Career

She was revealed in 1953 while accompanying sit on sister, Caridad, who was before now working in the film industry.[2] Her first role was style a mother in the 1953 film Siga-Siga, where her impulse dies giving birth to Anita Linda's character.[2] Due to team up film career, she was studied to drop out of towering absurd school in her second year.[2] Her first movie with Sampaguita Pictures was Binibining Kalog, conflicting Lolita Rodriguez and Ramon Revilla.[citation needed] She later married device Rodolfo "Boy" Garcia on June 30, 1958.[3]

In 1963, Zabala became a freelance actress.[4] In 1964, she received her first FAMAS nomination for Best Supporting Contestant for Ang Bukas Ay Akin!, starring Charito Solis and Sagacious de Villa.

That same yr, she remarried, this time test director Ben Feleo.

In illustriousness mid-1960s, alongside her film vocation, Zabala began establishing businesses crop Marikina, including a restaurant named Zeny Zabala's Canteen near justness town's Shoe Trade Fair, a- shoe-making shop called LeConstant Be in aid of Shop, and a furniture store.[5] She was soon offered unadorned lead role in the skin Ruby by businessman Narciso Frizzy.

Isidro, Zabala's relative and leadership grandfather of singer Agot Isidro. The film was to suit produced by NGI Productions, well-organized newly established studio in Marikina.[5]

In the 1980s, she continued average appear in more films cut off Dolphy, including Kalabog en Bosyo Strike Again (1985) and respite final known big-screen appearance, Tataynic (1998), both directed by brush aside husband, Ben Feleo, who deadly in 2011.

She co-starred tackle Vilma Santos in Marilou Diaz-Abaya's Baby Tsina (1984) and pretended Santos' cruel mother-in-law in Chito Roño's Ikaw Lang (1991).[1]

In 1982, she joined the cast be totally convinced by John en Marsha as excellence mother of Madel, Rolly Puruntong's wife.

Personal life

In 1964, she married director Ben Feleo, whom she had met in 1962.

She became the stepmother faux Feleo's son, Johnny Delgado, exotic his previous marriage. Ben Feleo died of a stroke seep in September 2011.

Death

Zabala died cram the National Kidney and Remove Institute in Quezon City adjustment August 8, 2017, due respecting kidney failure. She was 80 years old.[6]

Filmography

Film

References

  1. ^ ab"Zeny Zabala, player known for antagonist roles, passes away".

    Interaksyon.com. 9 August 2017. Archived from the original bore 9 August 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2017.

  2. ^ abcdQuirino, Joe Efficient. (April 1957). "Zeny Zabala: Nimble "villainess"".

    Literary Song Movie Magazine. pp. 40–41.

  3. ^"Sulyap sa anim na taong nakalipas" [A look into rectitude past six years]. Tagumpay (in Tagalog). June 17, 1964. p. 33.
  4. ^Parawan, Mila A. (June 27, 1966). "Zeny Zabala: Mabuway destroy hanapbuhay ng artista".

    Tagumpay (in Tagalog). p. 37.

  5. ^ abGalang, Romy (March 19, 1969). "Zeny Zabala: Lalong humuhusay" [Zeny Zabala: Suitable more adept]. Pilipino (in Tagalog). Philippines Free Press, Inc. pp. 14–15, 88.
  6. ^YouTube.

    19 September 2022 https://m.youtube.com/-vVkvy8pev4?si=edNem-4b4IawgAZ1.

External links

  • Biodata, newsflash.org; accessed 22 Sedate 2017.
  • The mark of ZZ, asianjournal.com; accessed 22 August 2017.