Filipino celebrity Alden Richards, born Richard R. Faulkerson Jr. on January 2, 1992 in Santa Rosa, would become one of the most popular figures in his home country before his 30th birthday. Encouraged into acting by his mother, he began his career as a model. He landed his first acting break in 2010 on the soap opera Alakdana and took his stage name at that time. Film roles followed that led to him capturing a number of awards in 2011 as a new scree presence. He landed his first lead role on television in the series One True Love, and earned a Best Actor nomination for it in 2013. That same year he launched a music career with the single “Haplos” and a self-titled album that garnered him a nomination for Best New Male Recording Artist. All the while he starred in a string of television series, eventually becoming a presenter on the variety program Eat Bulaga! in 2015, the same yeah he released his sophomore LP, Wish I May. He remained on Eat Bulaga! for a few years, performing different functions on the program and becoming part of a very popular duo with fellow TV personality Maine Mendoza. They would go on to star together in the 2017 series “Destined To Be Yours”. After a three year break from movies he returned with 2019’s Hello, Love, Goodbye, and the movie became the biggest homegrown hit in Filipino film history. He began the next decade with the same relentless pace winning several industry awards for Hello, Love, Goodbye, and releasing a new single, “Goin’ Crazy”.
