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Gawad Urian for Best Supporting Actress

annual Philippine film award

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ96211900 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Gawad Urian for Best Supporting Actress (officially, Pinakamahusay na Pangalawang Aktres) is a movie award given by the Filipino Film Critics (Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino or MPP) to actresses for their supporting roles in movies partially or wholly created by Filipinos.

Founded on 1 May 1976, the MPP is a group of cinema critics, writers and scholars who seek to bestow special recognition for the best movies of the Philippines. The inaugural Gawad Urian for Best Supporting Actress is shared by Mitch Valdez and Yvonne. Veteran actress Liza Lorena holds the record for the most nominations in this category with eight.

Kakki Teodoro currently holds this award for her role in Isang Himala.

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The public source identifies “Gawad Urian for Best Supporting Actress” as annual Philippine film award. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gawad, Urian and Best.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gawad, Urian and Best providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gawad Urian for Best Supporting Actress” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.