One Filipina actress will give beauty queens a run for their money, as she has been crowned as the world's most beautiful face for 2017.
Liza Soberano has won the battle for TC Chandler's Top 100 Beautiful Faces of 2017, taking the top spot in the competition. Last year, it can be recalled that Soberano nearly bagged the winning spot, landing at second place just behind Jourdan Dunn of the United Kingdom (UK).
Behind the 19-year-old actress was French model and actress Thylane Blondeau in the second spot this year followed by Taiwanese K-pop singer Chou Tzu-yu in the third. It is worth noting that of the three, Soberano was actually the oldest, where Blondeau and Tzu-yu were only 16 and 18 years old, respectively.
Soberano was born Jan. 4, 1998 in Santa Clara, California to a Filipino father and an American mother, where the separation of her parents had her grandparents raising her temporarily until she had to move in with her father in the Philippines along with her other relatives. Since 2015, she has appeared on TC Chandler's annual beautiful faces contest thrice, and in reputable positions nonetheless.
Soberano never exactly learned to speak her native Tagalog tongue up until she was 13 after being discovered by a talent scout. Since then, she made her acting debut back in 2011 in a Philippine kids drama show called "Wansapanataym" and also landed her breakout role as a strawberry farmer, Maria Agnes Calay, in the hit local TV series "Forevermore."
Meanwhile TC Chandler from the UK has been publishing the annual results of the said contest ever since the year 1990 and has complex judging mechanics consisting of a group called "The Independent Critics" along with input from the public as well. They are tasked every year with selecting 100 winners out of a total of 85,000 celebrities worldwide.
Other Filipina celebrities and personalities on the list this year include Kim Domingo (#96), Nadine Lustre (#78), Jessy Mendiola (#71), and Kathryn Bernardo (#60), with the latter three being on the same agency and network as Soberano.
