Dawn Zulueta

Acting

Dawn Zulueta

Born 1969-03-04 · Manila, Philippines

Dawn Zulueta (born Marie Rachel Salman Taleon on 04 March 1969) is a Filipina actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Hihintayin Kita Sa Langit (1991), Una Kang Naging Akin (1991), Saan Ka Man Naroroon (1993), Patayin Sa Sindak Si Barbara (1995), Filipinas (2003), She's Dating the Gangster (2014), and The Love Affair (2015), among others.

Acting credits

Lahar: Paraisong Abo poster
5.5

In the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano dormant for more than 400 years, the residents of the whole town of San Simon in Pampanga was engulfed by dust and thick mudflow called lahar. The whole surviving residents of the devastated community are relocated to transitional evacuation center, a tent city, where different and unique personalities meet: Sheila, a migrant worker from Germany who is struggling to keep her family intact at all costs; Sonia who is looking for her missing husband while pretending as a handicapped so she can beg on the streets; Ditas, who returns in Pampanga after getting pregnant in Manila; and Elena, a mother who lost her whole family in the eruption, yet she keeps a positive outlook in life that as long as she remembers her relatives no amount of tragedy could keep her from reminiscing of their once peaceful lives.

Lahar: Paraisong Abo

1997

She's Dating the Gangster poster
7.5

Seventeen-year-old Athena Dizon unwittingly plays a trick on resident heartthrob and bad boy Kenji de los Reyes. All of a sudden, she finds herself pretending to be his girlfriend to make an ex jealous; however, she falls in love with him.

She's Dating the Gangster

2014

Wherever You Are poster
8.0

A bereaved wife searches for her lost husband, only to be found with no memory of her and a new woman in his life.

Wherever You Are

1993

The Love Affair poster
4.7

Often in the backseat and a second priority to her partner, a lawyer decides to end her relationship and focuses on herself with a help of a man out of her league.

The Love Affair

2015

Bondying: The Little Big Boy poster
9.0

Comedy legend and veteran actor Jimmy Santos stars as Bondying, a large adult man that acts and thinks like a child. Based on the comic book character created by the legendary graphic novelist and "King of Philippine Komiks" Mars Ravelo.

Bondying: The Little Big Boy

1989

I Will Wait for You in Heaven poster
8.7

Carmina begins to doubt her future with poor Gabriel when another suitor dazzles her with expensive gifts. Overhearing Carmina's sentiments, Gabriel is heartbroken and goes away to return a wealthy man to prove his worthiness to Carmina.

I Will Wait for You in Heaven

1991

One Bullet, One Life poster
8.0

Daniel is a hired assassin of Roman who is the leader of a criminal group. Daniel is torn between choosing to start a new life with Dolores or returning Roman's favors.

One Bullet, One Life

1989

Iisa Pa Lamang poster
8.0

Arman is torn between two women, a woman who came from a decent family or the one who kept it a secret of being a first-class prostitute.

Iisa Pa Lamang

1992

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

Alias Batman and Robin poster
5.0

Alyas Batman en Robin is a 1991 Filipino Batman comedy film produced by Regal Films spoofing the 1960s Batman television series. The movie was initially an unauthorized production, set to capitalize on the then in-production 1989 Batman film starring Michael Keaton. Warner Brothers threatened legal action and the release of the film was delayed until legal entanglements could be sorted out. The film was released in 1991, two years later than the intended 1989 release.

Alias Batman and Robin

1991

What Isn't There poster
5.5

Gibson Bonifacio stopped speaking when he was a child. Now twenty, he returns home to Manila for Christmas. While always festive in the Philippines, for his family it is tinged with sadness, marking the anniversary of his twin brother’s death.

What Isn't There

2012

Bound Heart poster
7.0

A young woman who all her life has lived under the shadow of her sister, a sister who is not only older but more assertive more intelligent and more appreciated. She knows that even with her best effort she cannot compete with her. Everything is fine with her she is after all more at peace with her kind of uncomplicated existence. But even the most submissive and most patient of people can only take so much. The day comes when she realizes that for her to live her own life she must end her meekness and learn to speak up.

Bound Heart

1986

Sana'y Laging Magkapiling poster
9.0

Starring Dawn Zulueta,Gardo Versoza and Gloria Romero

Sana'y Laging Magkapiling

1994

Catch Me... I'm in Love poster
6.5

An advocate for the poor begins a rocky romance with the president's spoiled son while accompanying him on an immersion trip to a rural community.

Catch Me... I'm in Love

2011

Filipinas poster
9.0

Florencia, the matriarch of the Filipinas family, is in poor health, and Yolanda, the eldest of the Filipinas children, finds herself in the unenviable position of keeping her bickering family from disintegration. As the tension rises, Yolanda seeks refuge in a local church. She is critically injured trying to break up a nasty fight between brothers Emman and Samuel, forcing her family to make a life-changing decision.

Filipinas

2003

Buhay Ng Buhay Ko poster
10.0

Hard life, oppressive, and unjust...the kind of world where two sisters revolve their lives in.

Buhay Ng Buhay Ko

1994

Akin ang Pangarap Mo poster
7.0

Leo is engaged to Anita out of convenience since her father and her parents are long time friends. It was never an issue until Leo meets Gigi during his stay in the family farm. Leo loves Anita but he cannot get enough of Gigi's seduction. He later finds himself craving for more. Little does he know that Gigi's tempting invitations are more than that Gigi has other selfish plans and she is adamant to get him not afraid to cause havoc over Leo and Anita's solid relationship.

Akin ang Pangarap Mo

1992

Kill Barbara With Panic poster
7.8

Barbara loves her little sister Ruth deeply. When Ruth becomes devilishly manipulative by threatening to kill herself if her sister doesn't break up with her boyfriend Nick . The sisters end up engaging in black magic to get back at each other.

Kill Barbara With Panic

1995

One Day, Isang Araw poster
9.0

The story follows a neighborhood hero who champions the helpless children in a predominantly adult world.

One Day, Isang Araw

1988

Love Me Tomorrow poster
6.8

A journey of a young man named JC, a conflicted young woman Janine, and Christy a woman on the verge of renaissance.

Love Me Tomorrow

2016

Wanted: Perfect Father poster
7.3

With the arrival of Lily and her two children, the new neighbors, Roy, a company employee, decides to look after them.

Wanted: Perfect Father

1995

Hindi Pahuhuli Ng Buhay poster
8.0

An assassination attempt by rebels on a police officer was foiled by ex-convict.

Hindi Pahuhuli Ng Buhay

1989

Kasalanan Bang Sambahin Ka? poster
6.8

A woman had a one-night stand with soon-to-be-married man and becomes obsessed with him, stalking him to the point of threatening suicide to get his attention.

Kasalanan Bang Sambahin Ka?

1990

Apoy sa Puso poster
7.0

A story of love, passion and infidelity.

Apoy sa Puso

1992