Biography
Without any shadow of a doubt, she has made her mark in Philippine cinema with
her sultry sexuality and voluptuous body. As many would agree and many more would
detest, Joyce Jimenez, nicknamed “Ang Pantasya ng Bayan,” has literally
seduced herself free from obscurity and set her name in stone in the form of Filipino
films.
Joyce Jimenez is a Filipino-American actress who has gained fame in the Philippines
through the films that she starred. She was born as Joyce Herrin Reintegrado on
March 21, 1978 to Filipino migrant parents in Los Angeles, California. She is
one of two children in her family, the other one being her brother. She resided
La Puente, California, where she studied in Bishop Amat High School. Very soon,
she was passed the University of California exam. However, Joyce decided not to
pursue it and eventually came to the Philippines. Suffice to say, that decision
to skip college changed her life and paved the way to her unexpected future as
an actress.
During the year 1996, at the age of 18, she joined the Miss Philippines-Hollywood
beauty tilt. She did not win the title, but she did win as Miss Photogenic and
also caught the eye of one of the judges, who was actually also a movie talent
manager. After the said beauty pageant, he approached her and gave her his contact
details and told her to keep in touch with him if she would ever go to the Philippines.
She did so the following year, and the rest, as some people would say, was history.
She started her movie acting career in the year 1997, where she filled supporting
roles at first in more than half a dozen films. Then in 1999, she was featured
in the film “Scorpio Nights 2,” directed by Erik Matti, alongside
leading actor, Albert Martinez, and former beauty queen, Daisy Reyes, as a main
character named Valerie. The role made her a celebrity overnight and shot her
to stardom in the Philippines with her sexual presence and incredible body,
having disrobed in the movie on two occasions, including a frontal nude shot.
Soon after “Scorpio Nights 2,” she starred in even more movies, most
of which she has starred and stripped naked in. These movies became a male audience
magnet due to her overt sexuality and her beautiful body more than her acting
ability, as some Filipino film critics would argue. The sex-laden movies she
subsequently acted in garnered the undivided attention of the Movie and Television
Review and Classification Board, giving a lot of those movies X ratings, which
testifies to how hot and sexually stimulating her movies really were. Due to
this, she cemented her status as an object of fantasies for Filipino men everywhere.
Recently, she attained a college degree from a university in Australia, thus
making up for her skipping college to pursue a career in show business. Also,
she has been acting in television show and keeping herself active in the limelight,
including a recent TV series “Lupin” in GMA 7.
