Thea Tolentino

Thea Louise Señerez-Tolentino (born 13 August 1996) is a Filipina actress known for her role as Ashley Mercado Alcantara in the GMA Network television drama The Half Sisters. Born and raised in Brgy. Halang, Calamba City, Tolentino started her career as one of the winners of the second season of the reality show, Protégé, a reality based artista search, created by GMA Network. Since then, she became a contract artist of GMA and began appearing on their television dramas such as Teen Gen, Anna Karenina, and Pyra: Ang Babaeng Apoy.

Early life

Tolentino was born in Calamba City, Laguna, Philippines.

Prior in joining Protégé, Tolentino stated that she had never been separated from the family. Her nephew is former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Francis Tolentino.David Archuleta and Marian Rivera are her favorite celebrities, Crazy Little Thing Called Love is her favorite film, and Lie To Me is her favorite TV series.

Tolentino is studying at Saint Benilde International School (Calamba) Inc. in Real as a high school senior. She did not stop her studies in high school even though she was still competing in Protégé. She will try to balance her time between her studies and commitments on television. If she has to go under home study, Tolentino is willing as long as she can finish her studies.

Tolentino

Tolentino is a town and comune of about 20,000 inhabitants, in the province of Macerata in the Marche region of central Italy.

It is located in the middle of the valley of the Chienti.

History

Signs of the first inhabitants of this favorable and fertile coastal zone, between the mountains and the Adriatic, date to the lower Paleolithic.

Numerous tombs, from the 8th to the 4th centuries BCE, attest to the presence of the Piceni culture at the site of today's city, Roman Tolentinum, linked to Rome by the via Flaminia. Tolentinum was the seat of the diocese of Tolentino from the late 6th century, under the patronage of the local Saint Catervo. The urban commune is attested from 1099, assuming its mature communal form between 1170 and 1190, settling its boundaries through friction with neighboring communes like S. Severino and Camerino. From the end of the 14th century, the commune passed into the hands of the da Varano family and then the Sforza, before becoming part of the Papal States until the arrival of Napoleon.