Susan Africa

Acting

Susan Africa

Born

1959-08-20 (67)

Place of birth

Quezon City, Philippines

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

Susan Africa (born 20 August 1959) is a Filipino actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Olongapo... The Great American Dream (1987), A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016), The Hows of Us (2018), and Sunod (2019), among others.

Known for

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Batang Quiapo poster
6.9

A young man rises to be one of the biggest outlaws in the neighborhood while he navigates his way in life to survive in Quiapo. Hoping to earn the affection of his parents, his feat draws him closer to the truth about his identity.

Batang Quiapo

2023

The Heiress poster
5.6

The story of Romina, a secretary turned wife of business tycoon, Robert, who married her despite the fact that she was raped and is carrying the child of the assailant. Unknown to Romina, it was Daniela, Robert’s daughter, who had orchestrated her abduction, right before seducing Romina’s fiance, Carlos. With Romina's and Daniela's lives intertwined, their daughters, Cassandra and Margaret, are made to fight as to who among them is the rightful heiress to the Mondragon empire.

The Heiress

2018

Dirty Linen poster
6.6

To exact vengeance, a young woman infiltrates the household of an influential family as a housemaid to expose their dirty secrets. However, love will get in the way of her revenge plot.

Dirty Linen

2023

No artwork available
NR

Rubi was a television series in the Philippines that is a remake of Televisa's Rubí and produced by ABS-CBN which premiered February 15, 2010.

Rubi

2010

The Broken Marriage Vow poster
5.9

A seemingly perfect home gets shattered by broken trust and infidelity, bringing forth catastrophic effects into the lives of the couple, their son, and everyone else involved. This is a story about a woman scorned.

The Broken Marriage Vow

2022

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Kontrabida Academy poster
6.5

When 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

First Taste poster
5.4

Yuna, a woman engaged with her long time boyfriend, Nicco, starts to have second thoughts when she meets again her first love, Becca. Now she is torn between the man she loves and the woman she first loved.

First Taste

2024

A Tale of Filipino Violence poster
9.0

With the imminent death of his autocratic grandfather, coinciding with the burgeoning oppressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Servando Monzon III, inheritor of the hacienda and businesses of his powerful clan, agonises on becoming the new feudal lord and capitulating with Marcos’ designs to control the Philippines. Aware of his clan’s long history of violence, Monzon knows the very violent history of his county and foresees a very violent future with the dictatorship.

A Tale of Filipino Violence

2022

Noontime Drama poster
NR

In the confines of her own kitchen, a single mother struggles to prepare Kare-Kare with her daughter.

Noontime Drama

2020

How To Get Away From My Toxic Family poster
NR

A hardworking and loyal OFW, a chef from Dubai, returns home hoping to pursue his dream of owning his restaurant and starting his own life. However, he finds himself at odds with his family and their toxic tendencies, making him question “Where does sacrifice end and selfishness begin?"

How To Get Away From My Toxic Family

2025

Moneyslapper poster
NR

In dreary Porac Pampanga, a young man, Daniel, abandons his motherland after winning the biggest cash prize in the history of Philippine lottery. Five years later, he is searching for home and redemption through the people that make up his past. With each visit, his story unfolds like the last digit of a winning combination.

Moneyslapper

2024

Gameboys: The Movie poster
8.2

The story of gamers turned lovers Cairo and Gavreel, to spend time together in Gavreel's house, a few weeks before Cairo returns to his province. What starts out as a romantic holiday for the young couple turns into a relationship test that they have to overcome. Cairo is faced with the reality of his imminent departure while Gavreel is compelled to make a life-changing decision. After defying distance and even the pandemic, will Cairo and Gavreel be able to prove once again that their love for each other is strong enough to withstand fate and circumstance?

Gameboys: The Movie

2021

2010s · 11 titles

A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery poster
7.8

Andrés Bonifacio is celebrated as the father of the Philippines Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. This eight-hour epic examines this myth, undertaking an expedition into history through various interwoven narrative threads, held together by an exploration of the individual’s role in history.

A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

2016

Dalaw poster
6.9

For the sake of her son, Paolo, Stella is re-married to another man, Anton, in the hopes of a having a whole and peaceful family life. However, after the wedding, she experiences major haunting that endangers her life and the people around her. All the clues are pointing to her dead husband. Feeling guilty of her ex-husband’s death, Stella tries to save her family from the ghost’s wrath. Along the way, secrets start to unravel and Stella is now unsure of who is haunting her and why she is being haunted.

Dalaw

2010

The Hows of Us poster
6.8

A young couple dream of growing old together as they deal with the struggles of being in a long-term relationship.

The Hows of Us

2018

The Halt poster
6.4

Madmen control Manila in 2034 after massive volcanic eruptions have plunged Southeast Asia into darkness.

The Halt

2019

The Mall, The Merrier poster
5.0

After the death of their parents, two estranged sisters must come together to save their family mall from ending up on evil hands.

The Mall, The Merrier

2019

Follow poster
6.9

A woman is desperate to find the cure to her daughter's illness. She takes a job at a call center, only to be haunted by the ghost in it.

Follow

2019

Bahay Bata poster
NR

Sarah is a nurse at a Public Maternity Hospital. The hospital is abuzz with pregnant mothers of all shapes and sizes in different stages of labor. The hospital is short on staff on Christmas Day so Sarah is forced to put in a double shift. Sarah observes the women coming and going in her ward, noting who is a first-timer and who is a veteran. Meanwhile, the wards are overcrowded : two women and their babies sharing single beds while those in labor are spilling unto the hallways. Sarah takes these all in stride, her heart and mind laboring over her own personal pains.

Bahay Bata

2011

Posas poster
6.0

Stealing a middle-class woman’s smartphone is the biggest mistake in the petty-criminal life of Jestoni "Jess" Biag . It not only gets him locked up and waterboarded, but also gives him a crash-course in the workings of the deeply corrupt system personified by his nemesis Inspector Domingo. The phone’s memory contains an embarrassing video, which makes the owner Grace Rosuello determined to get it back; her persistence lands Jess in custody.

Posas

2012

Singing in Graveyards poster
6.0

Pepe, a 68-year-old impersonator of a Filipino rock legend, lives alone on the borders of reality, imagination and mysticism. One day, he is finally given the chance to open for the rock legend’s concert but he must do something neither of them has done before – write a love song.

Singing in Graveyards

2016

Ma poster
7.0

After his mother dies suddenly, Samuel goes into a mysterious cave that claims to grant wishes and asks for his mother’s life back.

Ma

2019

No artwork available
NR

An American woman hopes to have a happy reunion with her long-lost Filipino father and finds instead an aloof and unforgiving stranger who hasn't gotten over the painful past.

Lure of the Nest

2010

2000s · 10 titles

Krocodylus poster
4.5

A sleazy producer develops a concept he dubs "blood surfing" -- tossing bloody fish remains into the water to lure sharks and then surfing through the animals as they chomp about. Along with his camerawoman, the producer brings two thrill-seeking surfers to the coast of Florida to capture some gnarly footage. But, as they blood surf, they encounter something even more deadly: a colossal prehistoric crocodile intent on devouring them.

Krocodylus

2000

Butchered poster
6.2

A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.

Butchered

2009

You Are the One poster
4.9

Sally Malasmas applies for a US visa. There she meets the young and dashing vice-consul Will Derby with a wide, warm and inviting smile. Sally feels it's her lucky day! But Will thinks Sally does not have enough ties to the Philippines that will make her come back. He denies her visa, beams one last sweet smile at her and turns his back before she could protest. It isn't Sally's lucky day anymore. Sally Malasmas is a Care Officer at the National Statistics Office. She's smart and is a genuinely caring person who always has a hand to help other people.

You Are the One

2006

Bcuz Of U poster
6.9

This movie encloses three intertwining love stories of six different people through a vintage car: Ria and RJ share the perfect relationship until she chickens out on their wedding. Years after, she decides to win him back. But the indecisive and the new RJ is now the most sought-after model in town. He wants nothing of her anymore. Will their love prevail over the pain they cause each other? Cara never takes a chance on falling in love because she believes that it will only break her heart. That was until she meets Roni but only to find out that he is the kind of man she's been trying to avoid. Will she take the risk this time? Louie, a tourist guide, meets April a Korean girl who gets lost in the city and is left with no choice but to pretend that she is a famous actress in her hometown only to survive. Will it be possible for two very different individuals find home in one another?

Bcuz Of U

2004

Magnifico poster
7.8

A boy builds a coffin for his terminally ill grandmother, while raising money to buy a wheelchair for his sister.

Magnifico

2003

My First Romance poster
7.0

The first episode is entitled One Love. Jackie is the campus queen, rich, beautiful and liked by everyone except Che, who thinks that Jackie is just a shallow brat. After being forced to work together for school activities, Jackie made it a personal goal for Che to like her. Two Hearts is the second episode. Enzo is a star soccer player at school who loves the attention that he gets. However, he takes many things for granted, this changes when he gets a heart problem and doctors say that only a transplant can save his life.

My First Romance

2003

Tarot poster
4.7

A young woman uses her grandmother's tarot cards to find her missing boyfriend.

Tarot

2009

Soliloquy poster
2.7

A bus takes-off from urban Manila to the rural southeastern side of the country, carrying a group of mixed passengers from all walks of life, each one has a personal story to tell and they are telling it in their own voice. During the long journey, as the passengers mentally sort out their past & their future, things happen in the present, by choice or by providence, that make their journey memorable—the bus blows a tire, a song elicits tears, a butterfly causes commotion, a picture gets lost, someone's head is stoned, some hearts are broken, some mended. The bus ride poetizes the life journey and poses questions on issues of life and death and where exactly the line is drawn between free will and destiny.

Soliloquy

2009

Tambolista poster
NR

Jason and Billy struggling to fulfill their unlikely dream, and having their world crumble around them as a consequence.

Tambolista

2007

Masamang Ugat poster
3.3

Separated as children, two brothers find themselves on opposing sides of the law as adults, with one working as a cop trying to take down the drug lord for whom his brother works.

Masamang Ugat

2003

1990s · 11 titles

McBain poster
4.4

Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the Vietnam War. McBain agrees to help, recruits his old war buddies, raises some cash by killing a few drug dealers, then leads an attack to topple the Colombian government.

McBain

1991

DNA poster
4.1

A mad scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life, and only his former assistant Ash Mattley and CIA operative Claire Sommers can stop it.

DNA

1997

Mara Clara: The Movie poster
8.3

Almira and Susan give birth at the same time in the same hospital. Gary steals Almira’s newborn child and switches the infant to one of his newborn twins; in revenge to Almira’s decision of rejecting him, Gary concocts the wicked plan with his friend Kardo to switch the babies. However, one of the twins dies in the process of switching and the Del Valles are made to believe that the stillborn child is theirs. Gary then persuades Amante to adopt one of his twins to spare Almira from despair and sorrow. Amante agrees for a fee and Gary hands one of his twins to Amante. Kardo, feeling remorseful documents every detail of the event on his diary. Susan names her daughter Mara while the Del Valles name their child, Clara.

Mara Clara: The Movie

1996

No artwork available
3.8

It has been 23 years since a world war during which combatants unleashed a lab-created virus that has made life no fun at all. Civilization has broken down into forcibly celibate, warring male and female tribes. Any co mingling, even rape, is punished by both sides with summary execution, for victim and perpetrator alike. A paramilitary fanatic on a vague religious mission leads his gunmen to massacre a peaceful scientific community where men and women committed the blasphemy of co-ed habitation.

Terminal Virus

1995

Gimik: The Reunion poster
7.0

A year after college, seven friends Diane Villaruel, Ricky Salveron, Ese Aragon, Joey Fajardo, Gina de Leon, Garry Ballesteros, Melani Suntay, and Brian Lorenzo get together to take a memory down the lane and attempt to relive the past filled with challenges, victories and problems. Things are not anymore as they seemed to be as each of them treads on different path to self-discovery and accomplishment. Gina and Gary are preparing for their wedding when they learn about Gina’s troublesome reproductive system. On the other hand, just when Melanie finally gave her yes to Brian, the latter met an accident and fell in coma. Ese and Joey learned to be sweeter with each other until Joey got his dream car. And lastly, Ricky, who has been long waiting for his Diane lacked the enough courage to confess when Diane came in.

Gimik: The Reunion

1999

No artwork available
7.5

When it is time for her to give birth, Andrea, a communist insurgent seeks refuge in the city to her best friend Joyce. When Andrea's husband is reportedly killed, she temporarily leaves her son to their care. But before Andrea could return to her baby, she is arrested by the military. With no news of Andrea's whereabouts and presuming her to have been dead, the childless couple decided to keep the child and bring him to the United States. Upon returning to the country after seven years for a visit, Andrea confronts them and tries to claim his son back.

Andrea, How Is It Like to Be a Mother?

1990

Notoryus poster
8.0

Toryo Liwanag is a born trouble maker. He sees no difference between being in jail and out of it saying that once he gets out he is basically only in a different much larger enclosure. A cage of crime and poverty. One day he meets Liway, a college student looking to interview and put into study the behavior of troublemakers, the likes of Toryo. He is released from prison. But trouble seems to have a crush on Toryo.

Notoryus

1998

Why Is There a Yesterday? poster
8.0

The story follows a village girl who is mysteriously spared when a platoon of soldiers led by Colonel Valderamma massacres her family, along with peasants accused of sympathizing with the communists. When the girl has grown up, her body has healed, but her mind is yet to recover from the horrible experience. She continues to thirst for revenge and crafts a scheme to exact retribution. She eyes the head of the military mission who instigated the carnage that she survived. He is now a well-admired retiring general who is about to cap his career with the service's highest honors.

Why Is There a Yesterday?

1996

Asero poster
7.5

Childhood friends Victor and Narding built their friendship in the street. At a very young age, they were partners performing dangerous activities. However, Narding heeds his foster parents’ request for him to enter the seminary to become a priest. Victor is left alone without any parental support. Later on, he grows up to be a criminal. His wayward ways eventually got him imprisoned. Meanwhile, Narding became a good priest. He visits his old friend Victor in the prison and supported him until he finished his term. Narding accompanies Victor to their hometown where Narding works as a parish priest. Albeit their friendship has rekindled, Victor and Narding argue because of their different ways of raising homeless kids. Victor trains them the rough and dangerous ways, while Narding wants them to settle everything in a peaceful manner.

Asero

1995

One and Only Star poster
9.0

Miggy is not an ordinary boy. He grew up as a learning, mentally challenged person. He becomes the center of his brother's life. A psychiatrist gives her time and attention to help Miggy. Together, they face the odds and joys of bringing up Miggy in his different world.

One and Only Star

1994

Kailan Dalawa Ang Mahal poster
NR

A 1993 Filipino film starring Snooky Serna, Gabby Concepcion, Ruffa Gutierrez, and Miguel Rodriguez.

Kailan Dalawa Ang Mahal

1993

1980s · 8 titles

Wrenched From Heaven poster
9.5

A woman is thinking of abortion, against her firm faith and family's wants.

Wrenched From Heaven

1985

Saigon Commandos poster
5.7

A series of drug-related murders haunt Saigon. Ex-Green Beret Mark Stryker and his MP's must find the culprits. With the help of Jean Lassiter, a nosey reporter covering the crime beat, Stryker uncovers the involvement of corrupt politicians in the heroin trade and in the killings. But before he can pin them down, Stryker is framed for the murder of his commanding officer and now he must clear his name, free Lassiter from her captors, and stop his men from carrying out their own kind of vengeance before it is too late.

Saigon Commandos

1988

Moonchild poster
7.3

A robbery goes wrong and the bank's teller Josie is abducted by the gunman Angelito Asuncion. A few weeks pass and Josie escapes to tell a tale of terror and mayhem. She asserts to have faked falling for him in order to win his trust while Angelito surfaces to claim otherwise.

Moonchild

1988

Olongapo: The Great American Dream poster
10.0

The musty smell of a dingy hostess bar in Olongapo is an unlikely and dangerous place for dreams to come true.

Olongapo: The Great American Dream

1987

Boatman poster
5.2

An erstwhile boatman wants to do a little more than paddle his own canoe in the town famed for its waterfalls. He leaves the village of his roots for the city and lands a job as a live sex performer called toro. Quick successes in his newfound profession delude him into regarding that the measure of a man is in his trousers. He has a partner on stage and off. Despite her cynicism and tough veneer, she sees in him a way out of the slums and the red light district.

Boatman

1985

I Love You, I Hate You poster
NR

Maricel Soriano plays the role of a young woman pursued by two suitors whose respective qualities make it difficult for her to choose one over the other.

I Love You, I Hate You

1982

Teenage Marriage poster
9.0

Two teenage couples realize that marriage isn't child's play and takes maturity and selflessness, as well as love, to make it work.

Teenage Marriage

1984

No artwork available
9.0

A Filipino dancer performing for the US Filipino community

Birds of Prey

1988

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Batang Quiapo poster
6.9

A young man rises to be one of the biggest outlaws in the neighborhood while he navigates his way in life to survive in Quiapo. Hoping to earn the affection of his parents, his feat draws him closer to the truth about his identity.

Batang Quiapo

2023

The Heiress poster
5.6

The story of Romina, a secretary turned wife of business tycoon, Robert, who married her despite the fact that she was raped and is carrying the child of the assailant. Unknown to Romina, it was Daniela, Robert’s daughter, who had orchestrated her abduction, right before seducing Romina’s fiance, Carlos. With Romina's and Daniela's lives intertwined, their daughters, Cassandra and Margaret, are made to fight as to who among them is the rightful heiress to the Mondragon empire.

The Heiress

2018

Dirty Linen poster
6.6

To exact vengeance, a young woman infiltrates the household of an influential family as a housemaid to expose their dirty secrets. However, love will get in the way of her revenge plot.

Dirty Linen

2023

No artwork available
NR

Rubi was a television series in the Philippines that is a remake of Televisa's Rubí and produced by ABS-CBN which premiered February 15, 2010.

Rubi

2010

The Broken Marriage Vow poster
5.9

A seemingly perfect home gets shattered by broken trust and infidelity, bringing forth catastrophic effects into the lives of the couple, their son, and everyone else involved. This is a story about a woman scorned.

The Broken Marriage Vow

2022

The Story of Us poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Story of Us

2016

Blood vs Duty poster
NR

In the world of crime and injustice, dangerous missions force those on opposite sides of the law to choose between protecting family and doing their duty.

Blood vs Duty

2026

Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real

2014

The Promise of Forever poster
NR

Not wanting to feel the pain of losing his loved ones over and over again, Nicolas, an immortal man, keeps himself from falling in love. As he goes through life alone, he meets Sophia, the woman who changes his life forever.

The Promise of Forever

2017

No artwork available
NR

Green Rose is a critically acclaimed Philippine television drama that aired on ABS-CBN. from February 14, 2011 to May 27, 2011 It is a remake of the Korean drama of the same title aired by SBS.

Green Rose

2011

Noli Me Tangere poster
NR

Eddie Romero's miniseries adaptation of the novel from Filipino writer and activist Jose Rizal, published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines in 1887. Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") explores perceived inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late nineteenth century.

Noli Me Tangere

1993

Prinsesa ng Buhay Ko poster
NR

Prinsesa ng Buhay Ko or Princess of My Life is a Filipino drama series to be broadcast by GMA Network starring Kris Bernal, Aljur Abrenica, LJ Reyes and Renz Fernandez It is set to premiere on September 23, 2013 replacing Binoy Henyo and on the network's GMA Telebabad block and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV on September 24, 2013.

Prinsesa ng Buhay Ko

2013

Huwag Ka Lang Mawawala poster
NR

Huwag Ka Lang Mawawala is a Philippine television drama broadcast on ABS-CBN and worldwide on TFC from June 17, 2013 replacing Ina, Kapatid, Anak. It served as a comeback for The Queen of Philippine Soap Opera, Judy Ann Santos, with Sam Milby and KC Concepcion in their first antagonist roles. It is a dark melodrama involving women fighting adversity in life and marriage

Huwag Ka Lang Mawawala

2013

Rod Santiago's The Sisters poster
NR

Rod Santiago's The Sisters is the first TV adaptation of the classic Pinoy comic series written by Rod Santiago, which is the third dramaserye aired in Philippines by TV5 and starred by Nadine Samonte along with Leandro Muñoz and is directed by Joyce Bernal and Argel Joseph. The show marks Nadine Samonte's first project in TV5.

Rod Santiago's The Sisters

2011

Krystala poster
3.8

Krystala was a daily fantasy/sci-fi/adventure/soap opera serial from the Philippines, where it was produced by and aired on ABS-CBN from October 11, 2004 to April 22, 2005. The show also aired simultaneously on The Filipino Channel and on a one-week delay on International Channel in the United States.

Krystala

2004

No artwork available
NR

Mukha is a Philippine television drama and the first installment of Now and Forever series. The story of Mukha revolves around two girls and how their lives are intertwined because of the evil schemes of one wicked woman.

Mukha

2005

No artwork available
NR

Palimos ng Pag-ibig is a Filipino drama series aired by ABS-CBN in 2007. It is a remake of the 1985 film of the same name. The series is the first installment of Sineserye Presents.

Palimos ng Pag-ibig

2007

No artwork available
NR

You're Mine, Only Mine is the seventh installment of the Precious Hearts Romances Presents TV series. Denise Laurel and Will Devaughn was the star.

You're Mine, Only Mine

2010

Mommy Guard poster
NR

A single mom takes a security job at an elite academy, but her new life grows complicated as an unexpected romance blooms and school chaos escalates.

Mommy Guard

2026