30/04/2026
has spent her life moving between worlds; working at Reuters as a conflict journalist, pageantry, martial arts, motherhood, and now, the big screen.
Yet somehow, it all makes sense.
For our latest spotlight series, she opens up about navigating the newsroom, the pageant world’s impossible standards, finding herself in martial arts films, becoming a mother, and landing a role in the film adaptation of Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree starring alongside Andrew Garfield, , and Nicola Coughlan , a film her son will one day watch and say, “That’s my mom.”
“My mission has always been to put Asian and Filipino people on the global stage.”
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