# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marilou-diaz-abaya
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:38:05.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marilou-diaz-abaya"
name: "Marilou Diaz-Abaya"
slug: "marilou-diaz-abaya"
description: "Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya was a Filipina film director. She was posthumously conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022, she was the founder and president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo. She was the director of the 1998 film José Rizal, a biographical film on the Philippines' national hero of the same name. She was part of the Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema."
tagline: "Multi-awarded film director in the Philippines"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/tTUsu32rsZfCsl9V01doFlcET5R.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-03-30"
deathDate: "2012-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.08
  momentum:             2.96452194828623
  historical:           8.877616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0246762/"
    handle:    "nm0246762"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ماريلو دياز ابايا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilou_Diaz-Abaya"
    title: "Marilou Diaz-Abaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilou_Diaz-Abaya"
    title: "Marilou Diaz-Abaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilou_Diaz-Abaya"
    title: "Marilou Diaz-Abaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilou_Diaz-Abaya"
    title: "Marilou Diaz-Abaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilou_Diaz-Abaya"
    title: "Marilou Diaz-Abaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilou_Diaz-Abaya"
    title: "Marilou Diaz-Abaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%81-%D0%90%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%83"
    title: "Диас-Абайя, Марилу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marilou Diaz-Abaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q630268"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/254760"
    title: "Marilou Diaz-Abaya"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump