Occupation Actress, caregiver Name Rebecca Rio | Record label DreamWorks Records Movies Rabbits | |
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Born January 31, 1929 ( 1929-01-31 ) Sierra Bullones, Bohol, Philippine Islands Died March 11, 2010(2010-03-11) (aged 81) Role Singer · rebekahdelrio.com Albums Love Hurts Love Heals, All My Life Genres Soft rock, Easy listening, Latin jazz Similar People David Lynch, Angelo Badalamenti, The Section Quartet, Joe Melson, Laura Harring Profiles | ||
Rebecca Busbus Buslon-Tushinsky (January 31, 1929 – March 11, 2010) better known as Rebecca del Rio was a Filipino actress typecasted as a glamorous contravida or villain in Sampaguita Pictures who is the first Filipino Asia’s Best Actress award.
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She made numerous movies under Sampaguita and in 1955 she signed a contract to LVN Pictures and made her first movie Dinayang Pagmamahal aka Foolish Love, a Jaime de la Rosa and Charito Solis movie.
Personal life
Rebecca del Rio hailed from Sierra Bullones, Bohol, Philippines. She’s the daughter of former congressman Atty. Teofilo Buslon and his wife Demetria Busbus, a nurse and former mayor of Pilar, Bohol. She is also the sister of the late former provincial board member Dra. Socorro Tallo, aunt of fashion designer Maximiel Tallo and grandmother of Miss Bohol 1997 lawyer Socorro Tallo-Inting.
Rebecca graduated from Holy Spirit School and went to the Philippine Women's University in Manila to study and was discovered by Sampaguita Pictures.
She was the First Filipino to receive the Best Actress Award in Asia. She personally received the award in Japan. She was also FAMAS’ Best Supporting Actress in 1958.
According to Leo Udtohan, a journalist who wrote an article about Del Rio at the Philippine Star in 2005, in the peak of her career being a premier and classic Sampaguita Star, she left Philippines after she married a Sony executive and resided in the US.
As the Cherie Gil of her time, she appeared on several films Ang Ating Pag-ibig (1953), Kurdapya (1955) with Gloria Romero, Dolphy, Ric Rodrigo, Ramon Revilla, Aruray and Eddie Garcia; Mister; Kasintahan, Pilya ( 1954 ) with Gloria Romero, Ric Rodrigo, Lolita Rodriguez, Luis Gonzales, José de Villa and Horacio Morelos; Pitong Krus ng Isang Ina (1968 ) with Rosemarie, Ramil Rodriguez, Edgar Salcedo, Alicia Alonzo, Rosa Aguirre; Sabungera(1954)- Lolita Rodriguez, Ric Rodrigo, Dolphy, Rosa Mia, Boy Alano and Horacio Morelos; Mariposa(1955) with Gloria Romero, Ric Rodrigo, Rosa Mia, Panchito Rudy Francisco, Norma Vales, Aruray, Bella Flores; and Lollipop and Roses with Nora Aunor and Tirso Cruz III.
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Rebecca Tushinsky died March 11, 2010.