
Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines
Gloria Sevilla was an award-winning Filipino film actress. Sevilla is widely regarded as the "Queen of Visayan Movies" for her contributions in Visayan-made movies in the Philippines in the 50’s and 60’s. Sevilla received her first FAMAS Award Best Supporting Actress in the movie Madugong Paghihiganti (1962). She won the FAMAS Award Best Actress for the movie Badlis Sa Kinabuhi (1969). Sevilla appeared in movies such as Dyesebel (1978), Guhit Ng Palad (1988), Matud Nila (1991), The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995), Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay (2002), Lapu-lapu (2002), Bida si Mister, Bida si Misis (2002), and El Presidente (film) (2012). Sevilla also appeared in the Philippine television drama Be Careful With My Heart. Her first husband was Mat Ranillo Jr., a movie actor who died in a plane crash in 1969. They had six children. She got married the second time to Amado Cortez, a movie actor and director who also served as the country's ambassador to the U.S. until his death in 2003. They had one daughter. She is the mother of actress Suzette Ranillo, actor Mat Ranillo III, and singer-composer Dandin Ranillo. She died on April 16, 2022 at the age of 90 in Oakland, California.
as Lola Nitz

as Fe Marcelo
2012
as Doña Conchita La Fuente
2001

as Lola Nitz
2016
as Susana
2010
as Cedes
2007

as Esther Dagohoy
2013

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1961

1979

as Reyna Bauga
2002

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as Nang Em
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2016
as Herself
2015

as Lola
2015
as as
2014

2014

as Lola Alice
2014

as Aling Puring
2013

as Angeling
2013

as Maria Agoncillo's mother
2012

as Nanay Parcon
2006

as Reyna Bauga
2002

as Bising
1999

as Manang Vi
1998

1998

as Liza
1997

1997

1997

as Luming
1997

1995

as Flor's mother
1995
as Susana
100 ep.