I was in the Philippines when I was a sophomore in high school, when I was 15, 16-that was the last time I’d ever gone there. I’m thankful for the chance to do my parents proud by taking the opportunities that they gave me and running with them. Then, I got to be on this show and platform. You know, my mom grew up in a one-bedroom house with her six other brothers and sisters, and I look back to that with gratitude, because my sisters and I were all able to go to school, coming from so little. That’s where I attended high school and college. Then, when I was 2, the hospital that my mom recently retired from sponsored us to go to the States, so we lived in Yonkers for the first three to four years of my life before ultimately moving to New Jersey, where my parents bought a house. My older sister and I were born in Dubai. I was just talking to my mom about this-my parents just celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary yesterday! Through their mutual friends, they met, of all places, in church (laughs). My dad was working for a company in Germany, but was in the Middle East at the time.
She got sponsored to work at a hospital in the Middle East with a bunch of friends. My mom was a nurse, who just retired this year. My mom and dad essentially grew up in the Manila area. They immigrated from the Philippines to the Middle East. My dad’s name is Roger and my mom’s name is Adelfa. Josh (center), Blue (left) and their pals in “Blue’s Clues & You” Our Q&A with Josh: Can you talk about your Filipino roots? So, we’d go over her house, switch the channel to Nickelodeon, and watch ‘Blue’s Clues’ with my cousin Gabby.” “I still remember my Tita’s (aunt’s) pink rug, because she was the only one with cable. “My little sister was 4 at the time, so that would put me around 7 years old when I watched it with her,” Josh recalled, smiling.
The Dubai-born son of homegrown Filipino expats said he has vivid recollections of watching “Blue’s Clues” as a child. Suddenly, it’s like, anything is possible!” Just looking back at where I came from-my family immigrated to the States when I was 2 years old-and now, this. “So, when I came into this opportunity, I felt so honored. “But it didn’t cross my mind that I could be a television actor because I never saw characters who looked like me on TV! It was always caricature- as a villain or a foreigner. I became a theater actor because I saw people onstage like Lea Salonga and BD Wong, so that’s why I thought, ‘OK, I could be a theater actor.’ “I studied theater (he has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Montclair State University).
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Let’s just move on.’ Then, my agent sent me an email about a final callback, and they said, ‘Oh, by the way, they had just auditioned over 3,000 people.’ So I got really excited-I was like, ‘OK, looks like I’m doing well!’ But then, I was terrified because I never thought I’d ever become a TV actor! I didn’t hear back from them for a month, so I thought, ‘Oh, it’s over. “I found out in the middle of my auditions that they saw so many people for this. I got this audition from my agent, and I was like, ‘This is amazing! The show’s coming back on its 25th anniversary!’ I used to watch this with my little sister! “The opportunity to represent Asians, Filipino Americans and Filipinos around the world is so special to me,” Josh admitted to us.
In 2016, he returned to his home network GMA Network.And it couldn’t have started better than seeing a beaming Josh greeting us with “Hello, Kuya (older brother)!”-instantly demonstrating how Pinoy tradition has been heartwarmingly instilled in the value system of this handsome new face in children’s entertainment!
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He appeared in Pilyang Kerubin and playe the role of Michael on the GMA TV series and as Josh in Reel Love Presents: Tween Hearts where he is with Barbie Forteza. He also appeared in GMA Network's primetime TV series First Time in 2010 in the role of Lukas Ynfante. In 2009, he moved to GMA 7 via the drama series Stairway To Heaven, a Korean drama adapted for Philippine television in which he played the role of young Cholo. In 2008, Dionisio won an award at the PMPC Star Awards for Television for the Best Single Performance by an Actor in the "Sako" (Sack) an episode of Maalaala Mo Kaya. He also appeared as Maria's childhood lover in the teleserye series Maria Flordeluna and was also one of the lead characters in Kung Fu Kids where he played Jazz-a boy with an ability to control and manipulate energy blasts through his hands. Television careerĭionisio began his acting career in the kids television action series, Super Inggo, playing Kennedy "Ken" Pamintuan. He made his first TV appearance as the young Nicolai "Nicos" Argos in Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay. He was discovered via modeling by ABS-CBN and Viva Films. Joshua Dionisio began his career as a commercial model at the age of 8. Born on Decemin Quezon City, he has a younger brother, Jacob, his co-star on Super Inggo.
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