Jiro Manio
Born: 1992-05-09 in Metro Manila, Philippines
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jiro Manio (born as Jirō Katakura (片倉次郎 Katakura Jirō?, 9 May 1992), is a Filipino actor at ABS-CBN. He started acting at a very young age and became the youngest multi-awarded actor of his generation. He was born with a Japanese father Yusuke Katakura and Filipina mother Joylene Santos (who died in August 2007). He was raised by his grandfather and had a younger brother named Anjo Santos. Manio graduated from San Felipe Neri Parochial School and plans to study HRM in culinary studies at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. He recently starred in digital film "Tambolista (Drumbeat)" under Cinema One, and his latest film was "Ang Tanging Ina Niyong Lahat" with Ai-Ai de las Alas. In 2004, he won the Best Actor and Gaward Urian plus Best Child Actor at Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award for the movie "Magnifico." On May 18, 2011, news program TV Patrol confirmed that Jiro underwent a rehab for drug addiction. He was a member of ABS CBN's elite circle of homegrown talents named Star Magic from 2000 until June 2009, when the network terminated him for unprofessional behavior. In 2010 Jiro recently transferred to GMA 7 after he recently appeared on GMA Network show Pilyang Kerubin top billed by Angelika dela Cruz. Manio became a father of two daughters named Sisha Calliope and Mishka Caxiopeia from a non-showbiz girlfriend who is 5 years his senior. He had his first child at the age of 16.
Filmography
2010
- Little Star as Joross
- Ang Tanging Ina Mo: Last na 'to! as Shammy
2009
- Tayong Dalawa as Stanley "Stan" D. King III
- Manila as Macky
2008
- Antonio's Secret as Mike
- Ang Tanging Ina N'yong Lahat as Shammy
- Slingshot as Odie
- Manay Po! 2: Overload as Orwell Castello
2007
- Foster Child as Yuri
- Tambolista as Jason
- Bahay Kubo: A Pinoy Mano Po! as JR
- Green Paradise as Marcial
2006
- Komiks
- Pacquiao: The Movie as Young Manny
- Manay Po! as Orwell Castello
2004
- Spirits as Nato
2003
- Basta't Kasama Kita as Hapon
- Ang Tanging Ina as Samuel/Shammy
- Magnifico as Magnifico
- Anghel sa Lupa as Ake
2001
- La Vida Rosa as Enteng
- Mila as Peklat
- New Moon as Francis
2000
- The Child as Jason
1999
- Gimik: The Reunion as Dancing Kid
1991
- Maalaala Mo Kaya as Ambo