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Coco Martin is known for:

  • Butchered
    A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
  • Captive
    A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
  • Service
    A struggling family owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business.

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Biography

Rodel Pacheco Nacianceno (professionally known as Coco Martin) is a Filipino actor, director, and film producer. He is best known for playing the lead roles in television series, such as Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin, Walang Hanggan, Ikaw Lamang, Juan dela Cruz, FPJ's Ang Probinsyano and FPJ's Batang Quiapo. With a career spanning two decades, Martin is regarded as the country's "Ultimate Superstar". He has won 2 FAMAS Awards, 2 Gawad Urian Awards and 3 Golden Screen Awards. As of 2021, Martin has grossed 2.3 billion at the box-office, making him one of the top earning actors of the last ten years. At the 34th Gawad Urian Awards, he was recognized as the "Actor of the Decade". He is also recognized as the most awarded actor of his generation, with 119 awards and recognitions and 40 nominations from various award-giving bodies since 2006. In 2017, Martin starred as the titular character in the Ang Panday reboot, while also serving as the director, marking his directorial debut. He is credited under his real name, Rodel Nacianceno for his roles as director. Martin is the chairman of his own production company, CCM Film Productions, a company that he established in 2017. Coco Martin is dubbed as "The Indie Prince of Philippine Independent Cinema" having been cast in numerous critically acclaimed or award-winning independent films. Martin started out in showbiz as a model appearing in several TV commercials before breaking into acting with his debut film "Masahista" (Masseur), an acclaimed erotic gay film, which won him the Young Critics Circle Best Actor Award in 2006. Though he's straight, Martin has impressed director Brillante Mendoza playing gay characters so convincingly that he coaxed him to play for another gay role in "Serbis", which won many awards in Cannes. More gay films soon followed such as "Daybreak" and "Jay". TV executives in the Philippines quickly noticed his acting talent and soon he had many jobs lined. His first -- a big role in the drama series "Tayong Dalawa" which became the number TV show in the Philippines in 2009.