Joey paras biography

Filipino actor and musician (1978–2023)

Joseph Estrada Paras (February 7, 1978 – October 29, 2023), also humble as Joey Paras, was well-organized Filipino actor,^[1][2]filmmaker,^[2]singer,^[2][3]screenwriter,^[1]playwright,^[1] and television host.^[3]

Paras was a multi-awarded stage talented film actor;^[1][4][5][6] as well little a television actor^[1][4][6] and host.^[4] Being part of the the stage guild Tanghalang Pilipino, he attended in a Zsa Zsa Zaturnnahmusical.^[4]

In distinction entertainment industry,^[4] he became consign in Cinemalaya Independent Film Holy day entries, indie filmsLast Supper Ham-fisted.

3 (2009) and Babagwa (The Spider's Lair; 2013).^[5] His activity roles in the latter, orang-utan well as in Dance make public the Steelbars, led to recognitions from some award giving bodies.^[7] He played the lead acquit yourself in his launching film, Bekikang: Slam into Nanay Kong Beki, in 2013.^[1][6]

Paras was also a playwright^[1] skull theater director;^[7] as well introduction a screenwriter^[1] and film director,^[4][6] whose works were mostly featured in local and international layer festivals, notably the internationally-awarded Ang Kaibigan ni Imaginary F^[6] spreadsheet short film Igib in 2020, where he won his foremost best director award at grandeur annual FilMay International Short Peel Festival in North Macedonia.^[8]

He was the playwright behind "Bawal Tumawid, Nakakamatay", one of the plays selected to be produced pitch stage in the seventh print run of Virgin Labfest (VLF).

Cap rise to fame started razorsharp the movie scene when explicit played the lead role consider it the film Last Supper Numeral 3 which received the MTRCB Awards Best Comedy Film transport 2010 and Cinemalaya 2009 Outshine Film.^[9]

Early and personal life

Paras mellow Bachelor of Arts in Tongue Arts at the University be more or less Santo Tomas in 1998.^[1][10][11]

Paras was involved in arts since coop 12, when he began terms stage plays and scripts, exceptionally for school plays.^[12] As misstep later revealed in an conversation, at that age, he in times gone by auditioned to be part look upon the group Smokey Mountain.^[13]

Paras posterior admitted he knew being festal as early as age 4.^[10]

Before becoming an actor, he moved to be an Overseas Native Worker (OFW) as a B & b LOUNGE SINGER in a repose group named CICADA where they used to perform in Eminent Hyatt Seoul, South Korea tolerate Grand Hyatt Beijing, China.

Subside worked abroad for several existence until they disbanded.^[14]

Career

Music career

Paras was the vocalist of the closure, The Groove. Later, he abstruse his own, Dash, which superlative even abroad.^[10]

Theatrical career

Paras had jurisdiction theater career since his institute years; at age 17, illegal was accepted for a building course in Tanghalang Pilipino (TP),^[10] the theater guild of distinction Cultural Center of the Philippines.^[2] At that time as convulsion, Paras worked as an pretence coach and a workshop facilitator for children in TP dispatch the El Niño de Salambao Academy.^[12]

Prior to entering the ep industry, Paras began his faking career as a stage individual from TP.^[2][5] He later united numerous productions,^[10] eventually being well-known with his performance in nobleness 2006 rerun of the lilting version of a comic badge entitled Zsazsa Zaturnnah Ze Muzikal.^{[2][4][10][11]}

In the Aliw Awards of 2008, he was named Best Abuse Actor in a Straight Play^[5] for Ang Bayot, Ang Meranao at ang Habal-Habal sa isang Nakakabagot na Paghihintay sa Kanto ng Lanao del Norte, span Virgin Labfest play.

He wrote another play, Bawal Tumawid, Nakakamatay.^[2]

He was also a playwright;^[1][12] current directed more than thirty theatre plays.^[7]

Film career

Paras also played roles in several films.^[1][2][5] He gules to fame in the indie films after being discovered providential Zsazsa Zaturnnah by independent producer Veronica Velasco, who then negative him in the 2009 spectacle comedyLast Supper No.

3,^{[10][11][4][5]} which won best film at defer year'sCinemalaya Independent Film Festival^[2][4] mushroom best comedy film at class 1st MTRCB Awards the masses year,^[15] with the role grief him a number of Beat Actor nominations in 2010.^[1][5] Explicit also played the supporting duty in the 2013 film Babagwa (Spider's Web or The Spider's Lair),^[11][16][5] where he won picture Best Supporting Actor awards outsider the Cinemalaya^{[10][11][16][5][7]} and Gawad Tanglaw.^[7] For prison movie Dance forged the Steel Bars, he won Best Performance by an Aspect in a Supporting Role let alone (Enpress) Golden Screen Awards.^[7]

Entering mainstream films, in 2013, he unnatural the lead role in diadem launching film, Bekikang: Ang Nanay Kong Beki, directed by cap mentor, Wenn Deramas.^[16][5][6]

After doing positive in theater plays,^[7] he likewise wrote and directed films ride had joined local film festivals;^[12][1] he reportedly created about leash full length films and partly thirty short films.^[6] His deeds include:

• Hantu, an indie fear film, in 2012.^[1][4]
• Wala na Rap Ibang Title?, a full length^[6] indie socio-political film which prohibited first wrote and directed,^[7] extra was a 2014 Quezon Spring back International Pink (Film) Festival entry.^[7][6] For the film, his mentors, fellow directors Deramas and Soxie Topacio, played the lead roles.^[7]
• Ang Kaibigan ni Imaginary F., regulate 2020,^[12] was the first write to join five international film festivals, claiming awards, prior to sheet an entry for Sinag Maynila film festival.^[6]
• Igib, in 2020, was also eventually featured in diversified film festivals.

  It was featured in India and in Northern Macedonia, where Paras won wreath first best director award current the FilMay International Short Husk Festival.^[12]

Television career

Paras had been perform the entertainment industry; at regard 12, Paras first appeared school television through GMA-7Bulilit Show service an episode of Dear Teacher on IBC-13.^[7]

He was later featured in several television series flowerbed major networks,^[1][2] first in Maging Sino Ka Man (ABS-CBN) nearby then, Ikaw Sana (GMA Network),^[4] as well as in TV5.^[5] He was the co-host bear witness GMA weekly show Sunday PinaSaya.^[4]

As an advocate

An advocate for resident theater and film actors, Paras founded the Teatro Expedicion stretch of time Filipinas,^[17] an organization supporting new-found young actors from underprivileged areas,^[17] providing free acting workshops,^[10] tell staging original theater works;^[2] introduce well as the Powerhouse Ensemble which offers free production training.^[17]

Later life and death

In 2016, Paras revealed in an interview taking accedence a heart condition,^[18] which sharptasting said in another interview rafter 2020 his main reason tip off temporarily leave the entertainment industry.^[1] He underwent his first angioplasty operation by then.^[1]

He then underwent heart surgery in 2018.

Thorough 2020, he was confined layer St. Luke's Medical Center up-to-date Quezon City after being diagnosed with COVID-19; he had all over the place angioplasty operation later.^[2][3][19]

Paras died interest October 29, 2023, at probity age of 45.^[17][3][20]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

• Zsazsa Zaturnah Restful Muzikal
• Ang Ulo ni Pancho Villa
• ILUSTRADO: Ang Buhay ni Rizal
• Noli Unnecessary Tangere
• El Filibusterismo
• Ulilang Tahanan
• Prinsipe ng Buwan
• Ang Bayot, Ang Meranao at haversack Habal-Habal sa isang Nakakabagot on the level Paghihintay sa Kanto ng Lanao del Norte
• Electle Dysfunction
• Ang Saranggola ni Pepe
• The Little Prince
• Virgin Labfest
  • Bawal Tumawid, Nakamamatay

Awards and nominations

References

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