Dubbed the “Queen of Philippine Movies, ” beloved actress Susan Roces has died, according to her daughter Senator Grace Poe. She was 80 years old.
According to Poe, her mother died peacefully Friday (May 20) evening surrounded by family and close friends. She would have turned 81 on July 28.
Born in 1941 to a French-American mother and to a Filipino father of Spanish-Chinese descent, Roces was a member of the Locsin family of Negros Occidental.
Roces was the second among four children – all girls – of Dr. Jesus Sonora and Purificacion Levy.
Her showbiz career spanned 70 years and had remained active until recently as Lola Flora in the long-running primetime series “FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano.” Her joining the series was a loving tribute to her husband, Fernado Poe, Jr.
FPJ was Roces’ first and only boyfriend before he bacame her husband. After the action king died in 2004, Roces remained single up to the time of her death.
“When I fall in love, it will be forever,” Roces quoted the popular line in the Joni James song to a friend, when she married FPJ on December 25, 1968.
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