Andre Tiangco

Andre Tiangco is an actor from the Philippines. Born on November 30, 1970 in San Fernando, Pampanga, he is the only child of Armando Tiangco, an enterpreneur, and Amelia Garcia. Early education was at St. Scholastica's Academy. In high school he attended Don Bosco Academy, an exclusive boy's school. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1991 from the Ateneo de Manila University majoring in Communications. Tiangco trained at the Lee Strasberg Film and Theater Institute in Los Angeles, California. Some of his theater credits include Crime and Punishment (where he played the lead role of Rodion Raskolnikov), Hamlet, The Iceman Cometh, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, and Once On This Island. He also studied with the renowned Japanese Noh Master Naohiko Umewaka. Tiangco started his television career in 2001 in the ABS-CBN drama series Recuerdo de Amor. It was followed by other shows such as Hiram, Ysabella, and May Bukas Pa (currently in production). His first movie outing was in the 2006 film Pandanggo opposite Chinchin Gutierrez.