
Barbie Forteza
Actor · b. 1997 · Biñan City, Laguna, Philippines
Barbara Ambas Forteza (born July 31, 1997, in Biñan, Laguna, Philippines) is a talented Filipina actress and successful commercial model. Rising to fame with her portrayal of young Jodi in GMA Network's adaptation of the hit Koreanovela Stairway to Heaven, Barbara "Barbie" Forteza has captivated audiences with her acting prowess and charm. In 2011, she took on the role of Cyndi Gomez in the popular series First Time, further cementing her status as a versatile and accomplished actress in the Philippine entertainment industry. Barbie Forteza's exceptional talent was recognized at the prestigious 26th PMPC Star Awards, where she was awarded New Movie Actress of the Year for her outstanding performance in the indie film Puntod. This accolade is a testament to her dedication and skill in her craft, as well as her undeniable ability to connect with audiences. Adding to her list of accomplishments, Barbie Forteza has recently ventured into the world of music with the release of her debut single, Meron Ba. This catchy and heartfelt track was chosen as the theme song for GMA's adaptation of the Koreanovela Big, showcasing her versatility as an artist and her passion for creative expression. As a rising star in the Philippine entertainment industry, Barbara Ambas Forteza continues to captivate audiences with her acting, modeling, and musical talents. Her award-winning performances and dedication to her craft make her a standout talent, and her future in the industry looks exceptionally bright.
Movies22
Movie6.5ComedyFantasyWhen a mysterious TV transports her to a school for on-screen villains, a restaurant worker finds new purpose — and a way to get back at her enemies.
Kontrabida Academy
2025 · 25 votes
MovieTV MovieHorrorSpirits are believed to roam around in limbo as they seek to close unfinished business, to finally walk into the light, to move on. But what if they're bound in this plane because it's the living that can't move on? A fake seer who has no love for anything and anyone but her sister gets a run for her money when she wakes up one day and sees ghosts for real. Seeking to close her 'eye', she and her sister help the spirits move on while learning to let go of her living ghosts too - her anger for their father, her grief with the loss of her mother, her lack of faith. Follow the story of the two sisters as they toe the line between the living and the dead, how they find redemption in love, and how they find God in the midst of pain.
Elehiya
2018
MovieDramaRomanceWhen a struggling high school student is confronted with the painful fracture of her family, she seeks refuge far from the noise of her parents’ world. In the company of her grandmother and an old friend, she begins to see life from a distance---both tender and selfless. Her lessons and realizations are things that cannot be learned from books, but only from a life lived.
Movie6.0HorrorComedyVictor is a single father who falls in love with Elisa who turns out to be an Aswang. But even so, Victor love Elisa so much that he accepted who she is and even live with her as his second wife. But the problem comes when the leader of the Aswang clan finds out that Elisa and her mother are not eating humans anymore. She sends out other Aswangs to hunt down Elisa and her mother, and also for Victor and his family. Victor then will face the leader of the Aswang clan to save his beloved Elisa.
Ang Darling Kong Aswang
2009 · 1 votes
MovieHorrorA young girl has her first brush with romance. Unluckily for her, her paramour bears a dark, monstrous secret that will soon prove to be a challenge for their young love.
Full Moon
2014
Movie8.9FantasyComedyThere is trouble brewing in the world of Agimat and monsters are scaring and kidnapping children. The monsters seem capable of travelling in other worlds and Agimat is able to crossover with them to Encantasia, the world of Faye, Ina Magenta and our hero, Enteng Kabisote. The fairies wonder why monsters are able to cross worlds. Agimat is amazed of the other world and hopes that things in his world would turn out better. His dream one day is to have a happy family like Enteng’s.
Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote
2010 · 5 votes
MovieFantasyActionThe story begins with the establishment of the three different worlds apart, bound to meet for an adventure like no other. The humble family-oriented story of Enteng Kabisote, a low-profile technician married to the beautiful fairy princesss of Encantasia, Faye; The battles of the Agimat, the brave village Warrior Hero of Amuleto; and the high tech-yuppie Kingdom of Diwatara ruled by Princess Angelina Kalinisan-Orteza, also known in the world as “AKO” where she leads an environmental advocacy organization.
Movie5.5ThrillerComedyThis ninth installment in the classic horror series offers up a trio of spine-chillers from the Philippines. In Christmas Tree, a rampaging Christmas tree is out for blood as it terrorizes a family during the holidays; next, in Bangungot, three people in a love triangle find themselves ensnared in a supernatural nightmare. Finally, a teenage Goth band is cursed by a temptress's lethal spell in Engkanto.
Shake, Rattle and Roll 9
2007 · 2 votes
MovieComedyRomanceThe story revolves around 3 best of friends. Kara, the cosplayer and online retailer. George the boyish football wannabe, Enzo, the Mr. Fix-It
Movie7.0DramaA Marikina shoemaker's daughter coming to terms with her grief in the wake of her father's suicide.
Mariquina
2014 · 4 votes
Movie6.0RomanceComedyA story about two imperfect people entangled by fate because of their search for love. The Love Coach extraordinaire, who profiles and points out the flaws of a conceited man who deems himself as Mr. Perfect, ends up in a deal to find him a match. As the big-hearted Coach Milagros "Mila" Maharlika and the dashing Corporate Executive Adam De Dios set their course to learn more about each other, unknowingly, love might have already found what they are both looking for.
Movie4.7ThrillerHorrorA cruise ship chambermaid has to quit her job to attend to her sick brother. Only to find out their mother's gone missing and her brother's condition is getting progressively worse. The siblings desperately sneak into an empty condo unit but soon discover that Penthouse 77 is not what it seems...
P77
2025 · 7 votes
Movie4.0ComedyRomanceErika and Tristan fell in love in their younger years. When they meet again, will Erika be willing to risk her heart again?
This Time I’ll Be Sweeter
2017 · 1 votes
Movie2.8ActionComedyWapakman is a Philippine superhero film directed by Topel Lee and starring eight-division world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao.
Wapakman
2009 · 3 votes
Movie5.3CrimeHorrorA 12 year old cold case is reopened when three teens are missing in an old abandoned road where a gruesome murder is left undiscovered for three decades.
The Road
2011 · 39 votes
- Movie5.0AdventureFantasy
Ang Panday 2 begins with Flavio/Panday (Revilla) and Maria settling in the peaceful and quiet town of Matandang Kahoy. All is well until Lizardo returns and captures Maria. On his quest to save his lady love, Flavio crosses paths with Ariana whose father had been killed by Lizardo. As the two join forces, Ariana finds herself falling for Flavio. All this happens in a magical world filled with dragons, fairies and other mythical beings. According to Director Carlo J. Caparas who penned the story, the King of Philippine Movies himself, the late Fernando Poe Jr., would be impressed with the production of Ang Panday 2. FPJ had starred in the original Panday films, and had long been associated with the beloved Pinoy komiks character.
Ang Panday 2
2011 · 1 votes
MovieRomanceThe film follows the long-distance relationship between Baneng (Barbie Forteza) and Iggy (Derrick Monasterio), two childhood friends who grew up in different parts of the world.
Movie2.0ComedyThe problems of 4 rich, beautiful women from Manila.
Sosy Problems
2012 · 3 votes
Movie5.0RomanceDramaA young man struggles with the unwanted attention of his school's crazy, KPOP-obsessed bully.
#EwanKoSau Saranghaeyo
2015 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
A woman chosen to keep an age-old tradition alive must now choose between her granddaughter’s life and a belief that shackled her in solitary confinement.
MovieRomanceDramaA sea gypsies from Zamboanga who are now living in Mabalacat, Pampanga, Nadia of the group called Sama d’Laut. She hopes to marry the man she loves but was forced to leave when things got really difficult for her home province.She ends up in Mabalacat where she is forced to live a new life.
Laut
2016
MovieDramaBaby is a 10-year old deaf mute who was born amidst the stench of poverty. Destitution was her first teacher. The cruel realities of life were magnified to her through her gift of sight.
Puntod
2009
Series21
TVCrimeDramaThe Half-Sisters is a family drama.
The Half Sisters
2014
TV9.5RealityThe latest multi-platform showbiz news and talk show, where the hottest issues in Philippine showbiz will be revealed one by one, as well as amazing hot seat interviews with celebrities including the so-called King of Talk.
Fast Talk with Boy Abunda
2023 · 2 votes
TV7.3DramaComedyKlay, a Gen Z nursing student who wakes up and finds herself in the world of Jose Rizal’s novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.
TV7.2Action & AdventureDramaRed Sun is a family drama that tells stories of courage, sacrifice, and hardships that every Filipino family has. These stories were inspired by the tales of the unsung heroes who defied the odds of World War II and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
Pulang Araw
2024 · 24 votes
TV9.0DramaReel Love: Tween Hearts is a Filipino youth-oriented series created by Kit Villanueva – Langit, under the direction of Gina Alajar and produced by GMA Network. It features the network's homegrown tween stars headed by Barbie Forteza, Joshua Dionisio, Bea Binene and Jake Vargas. The series premiered September 26, 2010. The show has been extend three times and now on its fourth season. Over its course, the cast has been growing and extending compared to the original main cast. Originally slated to air for just 8 episodes, the series was awarded several extensions after its successive victory on the ratings game. It remains to be the No. 1 and most preferred youth-oriented drama of the viewers, consistently defeating the four counterpart programs of its competition in television ratings. The series follows the lives and loves of a close-knit group of teenagers through the fictional Westridge high school. The series' universal theme for all ages transcended into tackling more complicated issues, complex character dynamics and exciting tandems – from first loves to first heartbreaks, from "fitting in" to peer pressure, from bullying to how broken marriage affects the teens. The series concluded on June 10, 2012, with 87 episodes all in all. It replaced by Together Forever, another teen drama on its timeslot.
Reel Love Presents Tween Hearts
2010 · 2 votes
TVDramaAfter years of estrangement, a mother and daughter find themselves on opposite sides of a bitter contest for what each believes is rightfully hers. Old wounds resurface as they weigh whether to confront the past together or let it drive them further apart.
Honor Thy Mother
2026
TV8.7Drama'I Can See You' is a one-of-a-kind anthology that features compelling and thrilling stories every week on GMA Telebabad
I Can See You
2020 · 3 votes
TVDramaIkaw Lang Ang Mamahalin is a remake of the 2001 primetime television series of the same title. Produced by GMA Network, the 2011 version stars Barbie Forteza, Joshua Dionisio, Joyce Ching and Kristofer Martin and directed by Roderick Lindayag. It premiered last October 10, 2011 replacing Sinner or Saint in GMA's Afternoon Prime block. The Series maintains a High-Rating lead on the Afternoon schedule. The series concluded on February 10, 2012, it ran for 18 weeks with 90 episodes in all. It was replaced by The Good Daughter.
TVDramaFamilyFirst Time was a Philippine teen drama series developed by Kit Langit and directed by Andoy Ranay. The series premiered on GMA Network on February 8, 2010 starring Barbie Forteza and Joshua Dionisio, who were previously paired in Stairway to Heaven and Dear Friend: My Christmas List. The show is part of GMA's 60th Year Celebration Offering.
First Time
2010
TV9.0ComedyThe journey of Billie's search for a career, love and a family as four men fight for her affections.
Meant To Be
2017 · 2 votes
TVDramaAnna Karenina is a Filipino drama series created by RJ Nuevas and produced by GMA Network. It premiered on June 3, 2013 on GMA Telebabad block, replacing Indio and June 4, 2013 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV. The series concluded its sixteen-week run on October 25, 2013, with a total of 80 episodes, and replaced by Kahit Nasaan Ka Man on its timeslot. The series features Krystal Reyes, Barbie Forteza and Joyce Ching. It is based on the 1996 original television series of the same title under the production of Viva Television starring Antoinette Taus, Sunshine Dizon, Kim delos Santos and Tanya Garcia.
Anna Karenina
2013
TVDramaComedy
TVDramaSci-Fi & FantasyLuna Blanca
2012
TVComedyDramaThat's My Amboy
2016
TVDramaA weekly anthology of inspiring stories, featuring the life experiences of famous personalities – and ordinary people – who loved and lost on their way to success.
Magpakailanman
2012
TVDramaFamily
TVDramaNita Negrita is a Filipino drama series created by GMA Network. The show stars Barbie Forteza and Joshua Dionisio. Nita Negrita's original premiere date was February 14, 2011 replacing Little Star on GMA Dramarama sa Hapon block. It premiered on GMA Pinoy TV on February 17, 2011, three days after its original premiere. The show ended on June 10, 2011 and was replaced by Sinner or Saint.
Nita Negrita
2011
TVDramaMano Po Legacy: The Family Fortune is a 2022 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the first installment of Mano Po Legacy. Directed by Ian Loreños, it stars Barbie Forteza, Sunshine Cruz and Maricel Laxa. It premiered on January 3, 2022 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on February 25, 2022 with a total of 40 episodes.
TVDramaSci-Fi & FantasyKara Mia
2019
TVDramaIt follows rags-to-riches CEO Noreen Alfonso who is out to take revenge on the people who have wronged her. She stakes her claim as a new beauty industry player, tearing down the empire that her enemies have built. Alfonso goes head-to-head against a crass but famous on social media CEO Shari de Jesus, who is being mentored by a powerful industry veteran Velma Imperial. But as she tears her opponent down on social media and they destroy each other's personal lives, it becomes evident that an invisible player is responsible for the bloodshed happening amidst the ongoing beauty wars.
Beauty Empire
2025
TVDramaMaging Sino Ka Man follows two people from two different backgrounds fated to meet and fall for each other. They share a common past that could either build or tear them apart. Carding is a simple man capable of crossing the line for the sake of his family.