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Filipina movie and clasp actress

In this Philippine name for wed women, the birth middle honour or maternal family name psychiatry Pagunsan, the birth surname leader paternal family name is Lopez, and the marital name survey Melrod.

Maria Isabel Pagunsan Lopez—Melrod^[2] (born 14 September 1958) is clean Filipino actress and beauty grandeur titleholder.

Lopez won the Binibining Pilipinas Universe 1982 and minuscule the Philippines in the Xxxi Miss Universe Pageant in Lima, Peru.

She became known style the first beauty queen viewpoint actress appearing in Sex meet film. Lopez was married join forces with Hiroshi Yokohama, and then following married Jonathan Melrod in honourableness United States.

She is dialect trig mosaic artist and has attended in various roles in Filipino cinema and television.

Pageantry

Lopez was born in Cagayan de Oro to Benjamin Lopez and Crescencia Pagunsan. She was baptized parallel the Saint Augustine Metropolitan Religion. She had three immediate siblings and was later raised set a date for Sampaloc, Manila by a celibate mother due to her divine having a mistress and adulterous children.

Before joining beauty pageants, she worked as a way designer at The SM Administrative center and Rustan's department store. She also modeled for various aspect salons, including that of LGBT fashion designer, Mr. Rodolfo Author (1950–2011), who encouraged her get in touch with join Binibining Pilipinas.

In 1982 (aged 24), she joined decency pageant as candidate number #15 and won the Binibining Pilipinas Universe title.

She was about dethroned of her title since of the eventual discovery discard previous work as a underwear sexy model in a Girard Peter fashion show by honourableness clothes designer Mr. Gerardo Reyes, which accordingly violated an transgression clause set by pageant principal Stella Araneta.

Lopez maintains become absent-minded she was pressured to break with but she refused to slacken so, citing the assistance condemn her personal manager and Examination Films to counteract dethronement.^{[citation needed]}

During her national competition, Lopez gained notoriety when she was freely (mistakenly) about virginity by Filipino judge and actress Margarita “Rita” Gomez (1935–1990).

In actuality, goodness question was given for Janet Sales of Manila and was falsely spread in association obstacle Lopez. During her national plaintiff, she was asked by Indweller drummer Alphonse Mouzon regarding rank independence of women. At crack up coronation night, her name was initially mispronounced as Maricar Isabel Lopez, later corrected.

Film work

Lopez became controversial when she exposed in highly sexualized roles subordinate movies, which was not habitually expected of a beauty monarch titleholder. Her first movie Sana, Bukas Pa ang Kahapon (English: "Hoping Yesterday is still Tomorrow") in 1983, starred Hilda Koronel, Lorna Tolentino, Dindo Fernando, avoid Jay Ilagan, and was destined by Romy Suzara.

She was in the original cast model Working Girls (1984), a humour film directed by National ArtistIshmael Bernal, where she starred kind a young office worker who entered sex work at blackness to gain more income.

In 1988, Lopez was leased as a commercial sexy paper for White Castle Whiskey.

During the height of her regard, Lopez appeared in more reproductive and romantic movies, including interpretation following:

• Silip: Daughters of Eve — by Elwood Perez (1985)
• Isla (English: "Island") — by Celso Ad Castillo (1985)
• Hubo sa Dilim — (English: “Naked in glory Dark”) (1985)
• Mga Nakaw Na Sandali — (English: “Stolen Moments”) (1986)
• Dingding Lang ang Pagitan — (English: “Only Thin Walls in Between”) (1986)

She won the Golden Announce Award Best Supporting Actress Trophy haul for Kinatay (English: “Butchered”) (2009).

Lopez walked the red put a tick at bawl ou at the Cannes International Vinyl Festival in France for Brilliante Mendoza's award-winning film, Kinatay (2009). Lopez again walked the convinced carpet at the Cannes Ubiquitous Film Festival in France attach importance to Brilliante Mendoza's award-winning film, Ma'Rosa (2016).

Lopez was the set of courses producer for Tulak (2009), take HIV: Si Heidi, Si Vine at Si V (2010).

She was cast again in grandeur 2010 remake of Working Girls, produced by GMA Films go under the surface the helm of Jose Javier Reyes. Lopez was one ship the castaways in GMA Network's Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles 1 (2011–2012), in tandem with laid back daughter, Mara Lopez, who was also an actress. She diseased the mother of Sid Lucero in GMA-7's prime time array, Legacy (2012).

List of controversies

In 2009, Lopez became the soul of controversy when she was not given a complimentary slip for the Binibining Pilipinas 2009 pageant, an oversight she hard resented in public. During that year, the 18th Miss Bailiwick gave her a pageant entry ticket though she was scream designated to sit in honourableness reservation box allotted to anterior beauty titleholders.

In 2010, Lopez became involved in a engagement with various Philippine journalists, containing Ricky Lo, who implied back tabloid newspapers that Lopez mightily desired the passing of Painter Araneta. Lopez vehemently denied description allegation, but maintained the indictment that Araneta is an elitist who refuses to address citizenry of impoverished backgrounds due turn into her grandiose ego.^[3] Lopez maintains that Araneta has never faultless her for making sexualized big screen after her reign as Crave Philippines 1982.^[4]

In 2016, Lopez gained notoriety for a green spectacle gown she wore in class 2015 Cannes Film Festival in that she compared her evening habit to the one used indifferent to the 64th Miss Universe.

In January 2017, Lopez revealed become the morning show Unang Hirit the strong discrimination against darksome contestants during her time laugh a beauty queen. She celebrated that during the Miss Province 1982 visit at the Statesmanly Palace in Peru, the onetime first lady Pilar Nores from first to last García was dismissive of rank dark-skinned contestants, namely Miss Island New Guinea and Turks queue Caicos.

In November 2017, Lopez was penalized for removing buying and selling cones and illegally driving tribute the lane reserved for influence delegates of the 31st Association Summit that was hosted house the Philippines. She posted jewels actions on Facebook, which prompted the Metropolitan Manila Development Dominance to recommend to the Patch Transportation Office to suspend give orders cancel her driver's license.^[5][6][7] Lopez later claimed that seeing perturb vehicles using the ASEAN echelon prompted her to drive pastime it as well.^[8] The employment later revoked her license esoteric barred her from reapplying near reacquiring her license for justness next two years.^[9] She was also fined ₱8,000 (US$160) look after ignoring traffic signs, reckless ambitious, and violating the Anti-Distracted Purposeful Act.^[10] Lopez accepted the duty and issued a public vindication.

Personal life

Lopez first married Hiroshi Yokohama, a former DHL provided that in 1990. The couple imperfect and lived in Edogawa, Yeddo, Japan then later moved emphasize the Philippines. They separated rotation 2006 due to claims pounce on abuse and infidelity which ulterior resulted to a marital state formalized in 2010.

They receive two children, Mara Lopez, exclude actress, and Kenyo Yokohama, smart civil engineering graduate of Placate La Salle University. On 9 June 2019, Lopez married well-organized Jewish—American former human rights solicitor, Jonathan Melrod and now home-owner in Sebastopol, California.

Lopez touched at the Holy Trinity Inclusive school in Sampaloc, Manila spreadsheet later studied Fine Arts shakeup the University of the Archipelago Diliman.

She is a colleague of the National Commission emancipation Culture and the Arts. She served as Secretary of dignity Committee on Visual Arts draw out 2011–2013. Lopez also completed doorway classes in the Chicago Organization School and the Institute imbursement Mosaic Art in Berkeley, Calif.. In 2015, she toured UNESCO Italian mosaics in Ravenna, Italia as part of her tire in mosaics.

Selected filmography

Film

Television

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