Has portrayed two of the Philippines' most famous heroes -- Andres
Bonifacio and
Jose Rizal. He played the revolutionary leader Andres
Bonifacio in
José Rizal (1998), a biography film about the Philippine National
Hero Jose Rizal. The next year, he played Jose Rizal in
Sisa (1999), based
on the novel Noli Me Tangere written by
Jose Rizal.