Barbara Perez is a Filipina actress in movies and television in the Philippines. She was tagged as the Audrey Hepburn of the Philippines due to her doe eyes, pixie face, swan-like neck and 19-inch waistline. She did No Man Is An Island, a Hollywood movie in 1962, with Jeffrey Hunter.

Biography

Born Barbara Muñoz Perez III, after her grandmother and mother, she is the eldest among the nine children of Antonio Perez from Urdaneta, Pangasinan and Barbara Munoz of Manila. Her grandfather was a Spanish engineer, who was among the builders of the national landmark, Manila Hotel.

Perez was a journalism junior at University of Santo Tomas before entering showbiz. She married veteran dramatic actor Robert Arevalo, with whom she has three children, Anna, a director of commercials; Georgina, a full-time hands-on mom; and Christian, a student at Xavier School.