Angelica Dela Cruz-Pretty Girl From ABS-CBN

Angelica Dela Cruz-Pretty Girl From ABS-CBN

Sunshine Lourdes Egger Dela Cruz-Casareo, better known by her screen name Angelika Dela Cruz (born October 29, 1981), is a Filipina actress and singer of Italian-Austrian-Filipino descent. She started her career in 1995, and has since appeared in television shows and movies, mostly with GMA-7, as well as recorded several of albums. She is currently star and contract artist of GMA Network since she decided to transfer and leave her mother station ABS-CBN Network last 2007.

Early success
Angelika de la Cruz started her career in 1995 as a struggling singer. She went on to perform in different singing contests and eventually auditioned to sing the theme song of the canned cartoon series Sailor Moon. With the help of her father, who had knack for performing, she made it. That became her ticket to show business.
At 15, de la Cruz landed a role in the sexy flick Nights of Serafina, where she played the sister of one of the leads. Her performance in the said movie gained her a Best New Actress Award from the Metro Manila Film Festival. Her success in acting was spotted by ABS-CBN who cast her in their top-rated soap opera Mara Clara alongside Judy Ann Santos. After her stint in Mara Clara, the station gave her a more challenging role in Esperanza, which also starred Judy Ann Santos.
In the series, she was paired with Jericho Rosales, who became her on and off screen lover. Their love team was accepted by the viewers as reason why ABS-CBN made them a regular in the teen horror series Oka Tokat and cast them as one of the leads in the horror movie Magandang Hatinggabi.
Dela Cruz, whose main passion is singing, made two albums under BMG Records and one album under Imperial Records, which succeeded in selling her album in Japan. She also made several movies from different movie outfits and was featured in different commercials. [3]

Angelika Dela Cruz was born of a Filipino father and an Italian-Austrian mother. She is 5 feet and 1.5 inches tall and has dark brown hair and eyes. She has a younger sister, Mika, who is now a child star, and two brothers, Edward and Erick, the former being the lead singer for the boy band “Freshmen”. She currently resides in Malabon, Metro Manila. Dela Cruz is also the owner of Starz Bar and restaurant.
During her stay in the show business, she dated fellow actors Jericho Rosales, Victor Neri and the late Miko Sotto. She was also linked to co-actor Derek Ramsay and Keempee de Leon who did admit that he courted the actress but it was not the right time for them.
October 12, 2008 in an episode of Showbiz Central, Angelika revealed on national television that she is already married to her non-showbiz boyfriend Orion Casareo since August 2008 and is expecting a child.[1]
On March 20, 2009 at 10:06 in the morning, Angelika gave birth to Gabriel “Gabby” Casareo via caesarian operation at UERM Hospital. [2]

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