Аватар персоны Jake Macapagal

Jake Macapagal

Actor
As a seasoned actor with over 35 years of experience in the entertainment industry, Jake Macapagal has had the privilege of taking on numerous lead roles in both stage and film productions. One of his career highlights was his BAFTA-nominated critically acclaimed film, Metro Manila, which went on to win several awards including the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and Best British Independent Film Award at the BIFAs. For his outstanding portrayal of Oscar, Jake was even nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer award by BIFA. Since then, he has been fortunate enough to work on a range of exciting projects, such as HBO Asia's Halfworlds, Ben Rekhi's Watch List, and the highly anticipated Paramount+ original U.K. drama series, No Escape. Despite these accomplishments, Jake remains grounded and continues to work hard to hone his craft and bring his best to every project he takes on.

-

Birthday

-

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

14

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Manila - Philippines

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

14 Works

producer

1 Works

director

1 Works

writer

0 Works

other

0 Works

The Monsters Without

The Monsters Without

When an ancient rogue monster threatens existence, only the scrappy multi-national team P.H.A.S.E. can stop him. But their newest recruit holds a stunning secret. Against impossible odds, this lonely, conflicted, difficult, and altogether human team must band together to save the world.
6.8

Year:

2023

Rabid

Rabid

Rabid is an anthology film that probes into our everyday reality of anxiety, uncertainty and paranoia. It features distinct but interwoven stories that revolve around the different ways this world can drive us human beings to the brink of madness.
0.0

Year:

2021

Watch List

Watch List

Set against the drug wars in the Philippines, Maria's husband is murdered in mysterious circumstances and is left to fend for her three children in a police state. As she delves into Manila’s dark underworld of cops, criminals, and drugs to find answers, she realizes the truth is never black and white, and that she must explore her own darkness to keep her family safe.
7.3

Year:

2019

Sa Gabing Nanahimik Ang Mga Kuliglig

Sa Gabing Nanahimik Ang Mga Kuliglig

A priest is caught up in a situation, which will compel him to choose between the mandate of the church and his obligations as a citizen under the law of the people.
10.0

Year:

2017

Buhay Habangbuhay

Buhay Habangbuhay

In death, the ghost of a dutiful housewife learns to move on and discovers a new life in the afterlife.
0.0

Year:

2016

Kid Kulafu

Kid Kulafu

Before he became one of the world's greatest boxers, Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao was a young boy living a hand-to-mouth existence, trying to survive from one day to the next. When he discovers his natural talent for boxing, he embarks on a brutal and intense journey that takes him from the mountains of the Philippines to the streets of Manila, and must risk everything to become a champion - for himself, his family, and his country.
6.0

Year:

2015

Metro Manila

Metro Manila

Looking for a brighter future in metropolitan Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family leave their miserable life in the rice terraces of Banaue, in the northern Philippines. In the sweltering capital, where all kind of perils lurk in every corner, Oscar catches a lucky break when he is offered a steady work for an armored truck company and the senior officer Ong takes him under his wing.
7.3

Year:

2013

Shackled

Shackled

Stealing a middle-class woman’s smartphone is the biggest mistake in the petty-criminal life of Jestoni "Jess" Biag . It not only gets him locked up and waterboarded, but also gives him a crash-course in the workings of the deeply corrupt system personified by his nemesis Inspector Domingo. The phone’s memory contains an embarrassing video, which makes the owner Grace Rosuello determined to get it back; her persistence lands Jess in custody.
6.0

Year:

2012

Pi7ong Tagpo

Pi7ong Tagpo

Seven stories with no connection at all but with a common universal theme of doing good deeds and making the right decision.
0.0

Year:

2007

Foster Child

Foster Child

Thelma, together with her husband Dado and teenage sons Gerald and Yuri, are a poor urban family hired by a local foster care facility to provide temporary home and care to abandoned babies pending the latter's formal adoption.
7.0

Year:

2007

Double

Double

Doble Vista begins where the relationship between writer-videographer Javier and Lola, his object of romance, meets its end. The film explores a metafictional treatment taking its influences from Peter Wollen’s definition of CounterCinema as best exemplified by the films of Jean-Luc Godard.
0.0

Year:

2007

Pandanggo

Pandanggo

Pandanggo has three stories with parallel themes converging in one event, the Kasilonawan Festival in Obando: a career woman learning to dance tango who is torn between her dance partner and live-in partner has to choose the man who will satisfy her dream of raising a family; a wife whose wish to conceive a baby boy to make her husband happy brings her feet to the festival, but fate has other plans of bringing the child into her life; and a modern woman who, amidst her medical condition that might render her childless for the rest of her life, finds connection with an ancient lore about fertility.
0.0

Year:

2006

Chateau de Roses

Chateau de Roses

0.0

Year:

2005

Sakay

Sakay

Sakay is a 1993 Filipino historical drama film directed by Raymond Red. The film stars Julio Diaz, Tetchie Agbayani, and Leopoldo Salcedo. The film covers the life of Filipino patriot and hero Macario Sakay, who was declared an outlaw and a criminal for continuing hostilities against the United States after the "official" end of the Philippine Insurrection.
0.0

Year:

1993