Celia Rodriguez

Acting

Celia Rodriguez

Born 1938-03-17 · Bulan, Sorsogon, Philippines

Maria Cecilia Rodriguez (born March 17, 1938) is a multi-awarded Filipina actress. She appeared in more than 130 movies and television shows. She won four FAMAS Awards in the films Kulay Dugo Ang Gabi, The Passionate Strangers, Lilet and Magnifico. She also received an award for Best Supporting Actress in the Metro Manila Film Festival for the movie Bulaklak Sa City Jail (1984). Rodriguez joined the movie industry in the late 1950s, appearing in Sa Ngalan Ng Espada (1958), and Shirley, My Darling (1958). She performed in movies such as Lilet, released in 1971, Super Gee (1973) and Mrs. Eva Fonda, 16 (1976). She was known as the original Valentina in Darna movies. She was included in the GMA-7 TV sitcom Who's Your Daddy Now? (2007) and the romantic-comedy series I Heart You, Pare! (2011) starringDingdong Dantes and Regine Velasquez.

Acting credits

Lilet poster
7.7

An unstable young woman finally blows the cover of her repressive family's dark secrets when her memories where unlocked with the help of an ardent suitor.

Lilet

1971

Iskandalo poster
NR

A love story about a guy with and a broken family a girl who slept with her professor.

Iskandalo

1979

Kontrabida Academy poster
6.8

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

Anak poster
4.0

A daughter defies her mother to pursue her passionate yet ill fated relationship.

Anak

1982

Fourteen poster
10.0

She's a child, a woman and a mother at 14.

Fourteen

1980

Ligalig poster
1.0

A series of murders takes place in the Metropolis in a span of three weeks, the latest of which happens on the night Junior, a taxi driver, makes love to a prostitute...

Ligalig

2006

Angkinin Mo Ako poster
NR

A young woman desperately long intimacy.

Angkinin Mo Ako

1983

Tamawo poster
NR

A family transfers into an isolated town where the family man tends to his blind wife and illegitimate son. Soon they find out that extraordinary creatures lurking outside their house are looking for something they claim stolen from them.

Tamawo

2011

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

The Blood Drinkers poster
5.6

Dr. Marco's most beloved Katrina has died. As a vampire, Marco has devised a plan to bring her back from the dead. It requires large amounts of human blood and will eventually necessitate the transplantation of a human heart.

The Blood Drinkers

1964

Aguila poster
7.5

Flashbacks encompass the history of the Philippines as well as the life story of the elderly Daniel Aguila. The Aguila family gathers to celebrate Daniel's 88th birthday, but the old man is nowhere to be seen--he has been missing for a decade. Suspecting that his father is in Mindanao, one of his sons takes off for that region in a determined search. Along the way, his memories of the nation and his father's life tell the story of 80 tumultuous years of personal and historical development.

Aguila

1980

Hayop sa Sarap poster
4.3

A story of a Family that was been broken for the reason of the mother making an affair with her boss. Their Father became paralyze. The main character Irma Alegre decided to be a prostitute and so is her sister Angela Perez but their father suicides.

Hayop sa Sarap

1984

Flowers of the City Jail poster
6.2

A pregnant woman arrested for frustrated murder is sent to the Manila City Jail where she meets several women with shocking pasts.

Flowers of the City Jail

1984

Bagets poster
5.7

Experiencing the forbidden. Experiencing rejection. Hating your parents. Hating the world around you. Discovering what's hot. Discovering what's cool. Discovering your first true love. Discovering who you are. Growing up can be such a wild time. But not when you've got the best guys to hang out with. Five chaste young men immerse themselves in the superficialities and superfluity of adolescence over the course of their last year in high school. But as they make their gradual transition from boyhood to manhood, they realize it is their formidable bond that stands as the real deal.

Bagets

1984

Ganito Kami Muli poster
NR

A documentary produced by Cinema One that sees through fully restored film in the eyes of young filmmakers.

Ganito Kami Muli

2013

Angela Markado poster
6.1

Angela Delmar works as a waitress for one of the seedier bars in Manila. There she meets five patrons of the bar, who also turn out to be a gang specializing in drugging and raping girls and later on selling them to prostitution.

Angela Markado

1980

Wanted: Johnny L poster
NR

The biggest anti-crime picture of the year.

Wanted: Johnny L

1966

Shake, Rattle & Roll 13 poster
4.3

An old man Lando (Ronnie Lazaro) has buried something under his house. When he is finished, he encounters a group of white people. The chieftain (Manu Respall) demands Lando to give back something that belongs to them which he refuses. Angered, he and his tribesmen savagely killed him.

Shake, Rattle & Roll 13

2011

Sumigaw ka hanggang ibig mo! poster
NR

Filipino horror movie from 1974.

Sumigaw ka hanggang ibig mo!

1974

Ikaw Pala Ang Mahal Ko poster
9.0

A Filipino romance drama film directed by Jose Javier Reyes.

Ikaw Pala Ang Mahal Ko

1997

Mother Dear poster
7.0

This film probes into the minds and hearts of illegitimate children and their mothers.

Mother Dear

1982

Kapitan Kidlat poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kapitan Kidlat

1981

Tonyong Bayawak poster
8.7

Story of Tonyong Bayawak who was given strong powers but in return turns him into a wild boar whenever he gets angry.

Tonyong Bayawak

1979

Mudrasta: Ang Beking Ina poster
NR

Victor "Beki" Labrador and Enrique Santillanes were once high-school sweethearts. Years later, Beki is shocked to discover that Enrique's final will grants him half of the estate and control of the family business— with one outrageous condition: he must move into a mansion and live with Enrique's orphanes sons and their sharp-tongued grandmother. What more could possibly go wrong?

Mudrasta: Ang Beking Ina

2025