Kris Aquino was born to the late former President Corazon Aquino and Benigno Aquino, Jr., a popular opposition senator during the Ferdinand Marcos regime and now, a national hero. The youngest of five children, her siblings are Maria Elena, Aurora Corazon, Benigno Simeon III (Currently a senator from 2007 to 2013, former congressman of Tarlac), and Victoria Eliza.
In the infamous 1978 parliamentary elections where her father was a candidate, the seven-year-old Kris wooed the crowds as a stand-in for her imprisoned father at campaign rallies. The young campaigner was featured on the front page of NYT and on Time Magazine. Kris spent most of her elementary school days in the United States because the Aquino family was in exile. After the assassination of her father in 1983, she returned to the Philippines and was a precocious presence in rallies against the Marcos regime. In an interview with the documentary Kontrobersyal, Congressman Teddy Locsin Jr. revealed that Ninoy Aquino named his youngest daughter Kris because she was born at the height of a major crisis. and according to an article written by Kris, while living in exile in Boston he was grooming his youngest daughter to seek the presidency via a career in showbusiness so she can carry out the reforms he envisioned for the nation. Little did they knew that it was Cory who was fated to be the first woman president of the republic
After the 1986 revolution that removed President Ferdinand Marcos from power, the teenaged Kris stepped into the limelight, starting with guest spots on television dramas and comedies, as well as talk shows. Finally, she made her film debut with actor-comedian Rene Requiestas in the comedy Pido Dida. This movie was a blockbuster hit and made Kris the box office queen for that year.
Kris Aquino afterwards had a commercially steady, though critically panned career and managed to score an acting nomination for The Fatima Buen Story. She starred in a film based on a true-life murder, the Vizconde Massacre. Its financial success and successive crime films of the same vein in which she starred in gained her the nickname "Massacre Queen" by newspaper critics.
She went to high school at the Colegio San Agustin in Makati and graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1992 with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in English Literature.
Kris Aquino Childhood Life
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