Xyriel Manabat

Manabat's screen career kicked off in earnest around 2010, when she appeared in Ang Tanging Ina Mo (Last na 'To!), the sequel to one of the highest-grossing Filipino comedies ever made (TMDB). Landing a role in that kind of production — a broad, star-studded holiday film — at six years old isn't a fluke. It suggests she was already someone casting directors trusted with material that needed to land in front of millions of viewers. The previous internal records for this page point to a dense run of television work throughout the early 2010s, including roles in ABS-CBN productions that reportedly earned her recognition from Filipino award bodies — though those specific wins should be independently confirmed before being cited as settled fact. What the confirmed TMDB record shows is a career that's stayed active across a fifteen-plus year span, which is genuinely rare for someone who started as a child performer. Most don't make it past the awkward middle years. She did. Her more recent film slate tells the clearest story of where she is now. Sunshine (2024) and Kontrabida Academy (2025) show a performer who's moved firmly into lead or prominent supporting territory in theatrical releases — not just a legacy name coasting on childhood recognition. And 18th Rose (2026) suggests the momentum isn't slowing. The through-line across all of it is a willingness to take on genre work — comedy, drama, what looks from the titles like action-adjacent material — rather than protecting a single carefully managed image. That's a career built to last.