Chanda Romero is a Filipino actress. She is mostly seen on GMA Network. She played supporting roles and leading roles in many films during the early and late 1970s. Her prolific work in sexy comedies and dramas caught the attention of many directors, and in the 1980s, showed her serious work as an actress in the Ishmael Bernal's Working Girls and Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin?, both in 1984. She showed a different side in what may be considered as her most underrated work in Kapag Tumabang ang Asin with Daria Ramirez, and Pag-ibig na Walang Dangal with Dindo Fernando and Charo Santos.
Biography
Chanda V. Romero is the daughter of Enrique Villanueva Romero of Bais, Negros Oriental and Remedios Valenzuela of Cebu City. She grew up in a family of politicians, sugar planters, artists and cultural workers in Negros Oriental. She is the niece of award-winning film director Eddie Sinco Romero, and is also related to Yasmin Romero, a character actress in the 1960s and 70s. Film director and MTRCB Director Joey Romero and fashion designer Raymund A. Villanueva are her cousins, as well. Chanda is the niece of Milagros Valenzuela 1937 Cebu Carnival Queen and great granddaughter Francisca Gomez Baena Negros Oriental Carnival Queen 1909
Career
In the 1970s and the 1980s, she had a staple of films in which she starred with award-winning actresses such as Elizabeth Oropesa, Hilda Koronel, Gloria Diaz and Daria Ramirez. As a result, she caught the attention of directors Celso Ad Castillo, Ishmael Bernal, Danny Zialcita and Lino Brocka. Her leading men include Philip Salvador, Eddie Garcia, Christopher de Leon, Dindo Fernando, Joel Torre, etc. In the 1990s, her work in television also brought her success. Shows such as Villa Quintana. She was also praised for her role in the 1997 movieLigaya Ang Itawag Mo Sa Akin which was directed by Carlos Siguion-Reyna.
In the 1970s Chanda Romero starred in both Award-Winning Films Pag Puti Ng Uwak Pag Itim Ng Tagak which transitioned her from more daring roles such as skin flicks through the 1970s and 1980s she has also done films with VIVA Films entirely she even starred with bigger actors in numerous films such as Christopher De Leon and Gabby Concepcion and even Aga Muhlach she even did numerous antagonist roles
