Maricel Soriano

Nicknames:

• Diamond Star
• Maria
• Taray Queen

Birth Place: Philippines

Spouse: Edu Manzano (1989 - 1991)

Sign: Pisces

Profession: Actress

Maricel Soriano is the actress and Diamond star of the Philippine Movies. She is also known as the Taray Queen in the 1980's. Maria Cecilia Dador Soriano in the real life ahe started at a very young age and contributes to strive as one of the Queens of philippines cinema.

She is the aunt of actress Meryl Soriano. Maricel Soriano received her first acting award as Best Child Actress when she was of 9. She also won the same award at the 1974 Ilo-ilo Film Festival.

In the year of 2000 her Abandonada movie was released which was directed by Joel Lamangan. In this film she performed the role of Gemma. This film won the FAP Award for Best Original Song and nominated for the Best Picture.

Apart form successfully conquering the movie scene, Maricel Soriano duplicated her feat on Television with a variety of shows. She has received two awards from the Asian TV Awards as Best Actress in a Comedy shows from the Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) and awards as Best Actress in a Drama.