Amy Austria

Amy AustriaVentura is a FAMAS and Gawad Urian Awardwinning Filipino film and television actress.

Esmeralda Tuazon was the second to the eldest among six children born in 1961 to an impoverished family. She helped the family by selling chewing gum. She studied at the Rajah Soliman High School. She was introduced to the producer Baby Martinez of MBM Productions through a common friend. She was then cast in Bitayin Si Baby Ama , the movie that made a star of Rudy Fernandez. After her second film, Alas , with Jun Aristorenas, she was given minor parts in several other pictures then dropped out of the movie scene for almost a year. When she came back in mid1977, s contract star of Jesse Ejercitos Seven Star Productions. She became quite visible in the 1970s, in such films like Dabiana , Miss Dulce Amor, Ina , Atsay , Menor de edad , Gabun Ama Mo, Ama Ko , Bedspacers and Swing It, Baby . After acting in two very relevant films for 1979, Ishmael Bernals Aliw and Lino Brockas Jaguar, Ms Austria was finally a lead star in Nang Bumuka Ang Sampaguita . At a time when female parts in Filipin

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