Mara Lopez

Mara Isabella Yokohama (born May 20, 1991), known professionally as Mara Lopez, is an American and Filipino actress. She is a member of Star Magic Batch 13.

Career

Acting

Lopez made her acting debut in 2003, playing a younger version of her real-life mother Maria Isabel Lopez, in an episode in GMA's Magpakailanman.

In 2006 she was launched, along with 23 other aspiring actors and actresses, as a member of Star Magic Batch 13. She then starred in ABS-CBN's Sineserye Presents: Natutulog Ba Ang Diyos?. In 2002, she played the lead role in the indie film Following Rosa, a Sundance Film Festival entry.

Yokohama was one of the castaways of Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown in November 2011.[citation needed]

In 2015, she was now a freelancer.

Sports

Her father Hiroshi Yokohama was the one who taught Mara how to surf. She learned how to surf at age 6 in the coastal barangay of Urbiztondo in La Union. In 2002 she won the Surfing Championship-Ladies Division at 11 and became the youngest Filipina surfing champion.[citation needed]

Aside from surfing, she also practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu. She was first introduced to the by actor Sid Lucero. She also competed in the 2016 World Championship in jiu-jitsu.

Filmography

Film

Television

Notes

External links

• at IMDb