Arjo Atayde

Arjo Atayde is a multi-awarded Filipino film and television actor best known for his starring role as Benjo in the action-thriller digital series Bagman (2019), for which he won Best Actor In a Leading Role at the 2020 Asian Academy Creative Awards (AACA) – the only Filipino artist to date to ever receive the recognition.His first foray into the spotlight was for Ang TV (1992) when he was only nine years old. This jump-started an illustrious and prolific career in show business. Atayde is a versatile actor who has appeared in over 20 top-rating television drama series on ABS-CBN, his home network in the Philippines. His body of work ranges from some of ABS-CBN’s top-rating prime-time TV series such as Ang probinsyano (2015) and The General’s Daughter (2019); to critically acclaimed independent films that would land him international acclaim – the most notable among these is his role as Biggie Chen on BuyBust (2018).In 2021, Atayde was announced to top-bill the upcoming crime-thriller series Cattleya Killer (2022), directed by award-winning filmmaker Dan Villegas, and produced by the Philippine co-producers of Almost Paradise (2020) Season 1, the first U.S. TV series entirely shot in the Philippines.