Biographies: Rustica Carpio - Actor

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Filipino actress, scholar, and writer. She was born on August 9, 1930 in Paombong, Bulacan, Philippines. She started to sing in an operetta at age 10. She pursued a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English, at Manuel L. Quezon University, where she graduated with a magna cum laude. After winning Fulbright and International House scholarships, she chose New York University in the United States for her graduate work, earning a Master of Arts in education and a major in speech education in 1956 at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She obtained her PhD in literature at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila in 1979. She was a UNESCO fellow in dramatic arts at the National School of Drama and Asian Theatre Institute in New Delhi, India. Her debut was in Speck in the Water (1976). She is also known for Grandmother (2009), Ano ang kulay ng mga nakalimutang pangarap? (2013), and Menor de edad (1979). She passed away on February 1, 2022, at the age of 91 in Imus, Cavite, Philippines.

• 17 July 2022
• Salma El-Sharkawy