Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Filipina Jaclyn Jose won the best actress award at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
The annual festival's feature film jury, headed by Australian director George Miller, on Sunday (May 22) chose Jose for her role in Filipino director Brillante Mendoza's "Ma' Rosa" as a store owner in a poor Manila neighborhood who sells drugs with her husband (Julio Diaz) to make ends meet.
Both are detained at a police station after their home is raided, leaving their three children to find the money needed to pay off corrupt police officers in order to free their parents.
"This situation is really happening back in the Philippines and it's quite alarming because it comes to a way of life," Mendoza told Reuters earlier. "The small-time drug selling and all that is happening and it's quite alarming, and something needs to be done. That's why I decided to make a story out of this situation."
Jose is the first from Southeast Asia to win the best actress award at Cannes. She has starred in dozens of Filipino films and soap operas for almost three decades, and has won awards along the way:
Gawad Urian Awards
Best Actress
2005: Sarung Banggi
1988: Itanong Mo Sa Buwan
1986: Takaw Tukso
Best Supporting Actress
1995: The Flor Contemplacion Story
1989: Macho Dancer
FAMAS (Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards)
Best Supporting Actress
2013: A Secret Affair
Luna Awards (Film Academy of the Philippines)
Best Supporting Actress
2004: Naglalayag
1995: The Flor Contemplacion Story
Reuters contributed to this report.
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