Paolo Ballesteros in “Die Beautiful”
Competition, Award for Best Actor goes to Paolo Ballesteros in “Die Beautiful” directed by Jun Robles Lana. #TIFFJP pic.twitter.com/yGa4SM76wA
— 東京国際映画祭 TIFFJP (@tiff_site) November 3, 2016
Television host-actor Paolo Ballesteros bagged the Best Actor award in the 2016 Tokyo International Film Festival.
Ballesteros won the award for his role in Jun Robles Lana’s film “Die Beautiful.”
In his Instagram account, Lana shared that the film also won the Audience Award in the festival.
Ballesteros played the role of a transgender beauty queen named Trisha who, before her death, wished that she remain eternally beautiful.
Ballesteros turned heads in the festival red carpet when he dressed up as Hollywood star Angelina Jolie. YG/JE