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Jose Sixto "Dingdong" Gonzalez Dantes III (born August 2, 1980) is a Filipino actor, filmmaker, and television personality. He is known for his acting versatility and played dramatic and fantasy-action roles in movies and television. His accolades include 10 times Box Office Entertainment Awards, 5 times PMPC Star Awards for Television, 3 times EdukCircle Awards, 2 times FAMAS Award, 2 times The EDDYS, 2 times Metro Manila Film Festival for Best Actor, 1 time Manila International Film Festival for Best Actor, a Seoul International Drama Awards Asian Star Prize, an Asian Academy Creative Awards for Best Entertainment Host, a Nickelodeon, a Gawad Pasado Award and a Gawad Tanglaw Award and a PMPC Star Awards for Movie including nominations from Gawad Urian Award, Golden Screen Awards for Movie, Luna Award and an Asian Television Awards nomination.
He gained prominence in the early 2000s when he co-starred with Tanya Garcia in the drama series Sana ay Ikaw na Nga (2001) and Twin Hearts (2004). He achieved greater recognition in the late 2000s for his role opposite Marian Rivera in the television adaptation of Marimar (2007). His other notable television appearances include Stairway to Heaven (2009), Endless Love (2010), and I Heart You, Pare! (2011). In addition to acting, Dantes has established himself as a television presenter, hosting several programs such as StarStruck (2003–2019), Family Feud (2009–present), Amazing Earth (2018–present), and The Voice Generations (2023). Dantes has produced his own films under his production company, AgostoDos Pictures, including Segunda Mano (2011), (2012), (2014), and Rewind (2023), the latter of which became the highest-grossing film in the Philippines. He is married to Marian Rivera, and the couple has two children.
Dantes studied at San Beda University but moved to Ateneo de Manila University to finish high school. He pursued higher education while juggling his showbiz career. He enrolled college at West Negros University with a degree in Business Administration majoring in Marketing and he graduated from college in 2014.
He was enlisted as member of Philippine Naval Reserve Command in 2006 and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in 2020. He graduated as part of Naval Combat Engineer Officer Class in 2023 and had his field training as military reservist.
As an actor, his first movie appearance was in the Shake, Rattle & Roll V episode "Anino". After three years, he debuted on GMA Network's youth-oriented T.G.I.S. when he was 17, under the name Raphael Dantes playing the role of Iñaki. He was first paired with Antoinette Taus. Dantes and Taus became one of the most memorable Love team in Philippine entertainment industry, especially in the '90s. He appeared in films like Honey My Love So Sweet, Kiss Mo 'Ko and I'm Sorry My Love, and television show Anna Karenina.
In 2007, Dantes portrayed the lead role Sergio to Marian Rivera's character, Marimar in Marimar. During the same year, he was named No. 1 Bachelor of 2007 by Cosmopolitan magazine (Philippines). He won the USTV Students’ Choice Award for "Most Popular Actor in a Drama/Mini-series." In 2008, he was cast by his home studio to play the role of Fredo, a love interest of Dyesebel in Dyesebel. In March 2008, he debuted as the Bench image model. Also in 2008, Dantes starred in One True Love. The Cinema Evaluation Board of the Philippines rated the film a B.
In early 2009, Dantes appeared on Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa Aking Tadyang. He was chosen as Myx guest VJ in August 2009 to promote his album The Dingdong Dantes Experience. The album turned gold one week after it was released on the variety show SOP. Dantes was chosen to portray the role of "Cholo" in the 2009 Philippine adaptation of the Korean drama Stairway to Heaven. He also replaced Richard Gomez as the new host for Family Feud.
Dantes founded YesPinoy Foundation on August 21, 2009. It helped bridged the resources gap in education, and assisted out-of-school youth and children of fallen soldiers.
In 2011, Dantes did a comedy primetime TV series titled, I Heart You, Pare! with his leading lady Regine Velasquez. He plays an obnoxious Machismo guy who falls with a heterosexual woman played by Velásquez who, after a chance encounter, met again as she plays a drag who tries to run away from the law. Unfortunately Regine Velasquez left seven weeks before the series came to a close due to her pregnancy with husband Ogie Alcasid. Iza Calzado replaced Velasquez in the series.
He was part of the Star Cinema suspense film Segunda Mano with Kris Aquino and Angelica Panganiban as he played the main antagonist role, Ivan. This marked Dantes' first project with the rival station and film archive Star Cinema, a division of ABS-CBN. It was also his first time to work with Kapamilya stars. He stated that he signed a one-film contract with Star Cinema to do the film and work with Kris Aquino.
He did a primetime TV series, My Beloved which aired on February 13, 2012. In June 2012, he was chosen to star in another MMFF Entry for 2012 in the film One More Try starring Kapamilya actors Angelica Panganiban, Angel Locsin and Zanjoe Marudo. It was Dante's second film with rival Star Cinema of ABS-CBN and was a comeback for Ruel S. Bayani after his critically acclaimed successful blockbuster film No Other Woman hit the box-office last year. In November 2012, Dantes was set in a primetime TV series Pahiram ng Sandali with Lorna Tolentino, Christopher de Leon and Max Collins.
In 2013, Dantes and Marian Rivera joined PETA in their campaign to free the elephant Mali from the Manila Zoo, where she has been kept for the majority of her life alone in a tiny enclosure and in need of proper care. Marian Rivera And Dingdong Dantes Join PETA In Calling For The Transfer of ‘Mali’ The Elephant From Manila Zoo, theglobaldispatch.com, July 17, 2013
On May 5, 2014, Dantes was appointed and sworn in by President Benigno Aquino III as commissioner-at-large of the National Youth Commission. Two years later, he decided to resign as the NYC commissioner to give way for his endorsement for Grace Poe as president and Leni Robredo as vice president in the 2016 national elections.
In April 2017, he visited Calapan, Oriental Mindoro to inaugurate the Mindoro State College of Agriculture and Technology (MinSCAT) Grandstand. A day later, he became the guest speaker during the 43rd Commencement Exercises of Mindoro State College of Agriculture and Technology-Calapan Campus.
In 2022, Dantes hosted the game show as the second time on GMA Network, Family Feud. During the season break, he appeared in his drama Royal Blood and hosted The Voice Generations.
His next films were part of the 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival: Rewind, where he co-starred with Marian Rivera in a lead role, and Firefly, where he played an adult version of a character played by Euwenn Mikaell.
On October 30, 2023, Dantes joined Mowelfund Board of Trustees.
On December 30, 2014 (Rizal Day), Dantes married Rivera in the Cubao Cathedral, Cubao, Quezon City. Both Dantes and Rivera are exclusive artists of GMA Network. After years of hard work and proven successes of their television projects, both individually or together, GMA gave them the honor of the title as their network's primetime king and queen. Thus, their wedding was given the title "The Royal Wedding". They announced an expected first child in April 2015; Rivera gave birth to Maria Letizia on November 23, 2015, and later gave birth to their second child Jose Sixto IV (Sixto) on April 16, 2019, Holy Tuesday of the Holy Week.
He is the cousin of fellow actors Carlo Gonzalez, Arthur Solinap, and also the cousin of former sports anchor and current TV host Bianca Gonzalez.
| 1987 | Forward March | Small Boy |
| 1992 | Takbo Talon Tili | German |
| 1993 | Makati Avenue Office Girls | Marco |
| Edgardo Gang: Santa Rosa Daang | Ben Santa Rosa | |
| 1994 | Hindi Magbabago | Ritchie |
| Shake, Rattle & Roll V | Elmer | |
| 1998 | I'm Sorry, My Love | Butch |
| 1999 | Honey, My Love, So Sweet | Paco |
| Kiss Mo 'Ko | Aaron Vincent Nakpil | |
| 2002 | Akala Mo | Eric |
| Magkapatid | Mike | |
| 2003 | Pangarap Ko ang Ibigin Ka | Kevin |
| Malikmata | Alvin | |
| 2004 | Annie B. | Fernando |
| Spirit of the Glass | Choppy | |
| 2005 | Bahay ni Lola 2 | Rupert |
| Ybrahim | ||
| Moments of Love | Marco | |
| 2006 | Eternity | Crisanto |
| 2007 | Resiklo | Angelo |
| 2008 | One True Love | Miguel "Migs" Mijares |
| 2009 | Johnson | |
| 2010 | You to Me Are Everything | Raphael Benítez |
| Noy | Himself/Cameo | |
| 2011 | Cameo | |
| Segunda Mano | Ivan Gálvez | |
| 2012 | Kimmy Dora and The Temple of Kiyeme | Johnson |
| Cameo | ||
| Makoy | ||
| One More Try | Edward | |
| 2013 | Dance of the Steel Bars | Inmate |
| She's the One | Wacky Delos Reyes | |
| Johnson | ||
| 2014 | Makoy | |
| 2016 | The Unmarried Wife | Geoff Victorio |
| 2017 | Seven Sundays | Bryan Bonifacio |
| 2018 | Sid | |
| Fantastica | Dong Nam | |
| 2019 | Family History | Ronaldo Reyes |
| 2021 | A Hard Day | Detective Edmund Villon |
| 2023 | Rewind | John Nuñez |
| Firefly | Antonino "Tonton" Alvaro | |
| 2025 | Only We Know |
| 1996–2002 | Anna Karenina | Brix | Supporting role | |
| 2001–2003 | Sana ay Ikaw na Nga | Carlos Miguel Altamonte | Leading role with Tanya Garcia | |
| 2003–2004 | Twin Hearts | Adrian Asuncion | ||
| 2005 | Encantadia | Ybrahim / Ybarro | Main cast | |
| 2005–2006 | Ybrahim / Ybarro / Alexus | |||
| 2006 | Haring Ybrahim / Ybarro | |||
| 2006–2007 | Atlantika | Aquano | Leading role with Iza Calzado | |
| 2007–2008 | Marimar | Sergio Santibañez | Leading role with Marian Rivera | |
| 2008 | Dyesebel | Fredo Legaspi | ||
| 2009 | Ang Babaeng Hinugot sa Aking Tadyang | Homer Alcaraz | ||
| Stairway to Heaven | Pocholo "Cholo" Fuentebella | Leading role with Rhian Ramos | ||
| 2010 | Diva | Himself | Cameo role | |
| Endless Love | Johnny Dizon | Leading role with Marian Rivera | ||
| 2011 | I ♥ You, Pare! | Kenneth Castillo | Leading role with Regine Velasquez/Iza Calzado | |
| 2012 | Amaya | Ferdinand Magellan | Cameo role | |
| My Beloved | Benjamin "Benjie" Castor / Arlan | Leading role with Marian Rivera | ||
| 2012–2013 | Pahiram ng Sandali | Alex Santiago | Leading role with Lorna Tolentino, & Max Collins | |
| 2013 | Genesis | Isaak Macalintal | Leading role with Rhian Ramos | |
| 2014 | Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real | Juan Antonio "Anthony" V. Real III | Leading role with Maricel Soriano, & Lovi Poe | |
| 2015 | Pari 'Koy | Father Jericho "Kokoy" Evangelista | Leading role with David Remo | |
| Yagit | Cameo role; Crossover character from Pari 'Koy | |||
| 2016 | Poor Señorita | Rafael Buenaventura | Special Participation | |
| Encantadia | Prinsipe Raquim† | Special Participation with real-life wife, Marian Rivera. originally by Richard Gomez | ||
| 2016–2017 | Alyas Robin Hood | Jose Paolo "Pepe" De Jesus / Crisostomo "Cris" Bonifacio / Alyas Robin Hood | Leading role with Megan Young, Solenn Heussaff and Andrea Torres | |
| 2018–2019 | Cain at Abel | Daniel Anthony Larrazabal | Leading role with Dennis Trillo, Sanya Lopez and Solenn Heussaff | |
| 2020 | Descendants of the Sun | Capt. Lucas Manalo (a.k.a. Big Boss) | Leading role with Jennylyn Mercado | |
| 2023 | Royal Blood | Napoleon "Napoy" Terrazo-Royales | Leading role | |
| 2025 | Pres. Frederico Macalintal | Special Participation |
| 1997–1999 | T.G.I.S. | Iñaki Torres | |
| 1997–2010 | SOP | Himself / Co-host / Performer | |
| 2003–2004 | StarStruck | Himself / Host | |
| 2004–2005 | StarStruck Season 2 | ||
| 2004–2006 | Wag Kukurap | ||
| 2005–2006 | |||
| 2006–2007 | |||
| 2009–2010 | |||
| 2009–2010 2022–present | Family Feud | ||
| 2010–13 | Party Pilipinas | Himself / Co-host / Performer | |
| 2011 | Mind Master | Himself / Host | |
| 2012 | Protégé: The Battle for the Big Artista Break | ||
| 2015 | StarStruck VI | ||
| 2015–2016 2018–2019 | Sunday PinaSaya | Himself / Regular guest (later a co-host and performer) | |
| 2017 | Case Solved | Himself / Host | |
| 2018–present | Amazing Earth | ||
| 2019 | StarStruck VII | ||
| 2020; 2023; 2024; 2025 | All-Out Sundays | Himself / Guest / Performer | |
| 2022; 2024 | Jose & Maria's Bonggang Villa | Jose | |
| 2023 | The Voice Generations | Himself / Host | |
| 2024–present | The Voice Kids |
| 1998 | TEXT (The Extreme Team) | Lance | ||
| 2000 | GMA Mini-Series | Gerald | Tuwing Kapiling Ka | |
| 2005 | Kakabaka-Boo! | |||
| 2007 | Magic Kamison | Rudy | Little Big Rufo | |
| 2011 | Spooky Nights | Bongbong | The Mommy Returns: Ang Mama Kong Mamaw | |
| Franco | Da Mami | |||
| Alfonso | Bampirella | |||
| 2016 | Magpakailanman | Rev. Ricardo Manlapaz / Boy Bonus | The Rev. Ricardo Manlapaz Story: Ang Kriminal na Binuhay ng Diyos | |
| 2022 | I Can See You | Nate / Michael | AlterNate |
| 1998 | T.G.I. X-Mas | Iñaki Torres | T.G.I.S. Christmas TV special | |
| 2000 | Binibining Pilipinas 2000 | Himself / Host | Host with Ralion Alonso and KC Montero | |
| 2001 | Binibining Pilipinas 2001 | Host with David Bunevacz, Ruffa Gutierrez and China Cojuangco | ||
| 2004 | Binibining Pilipinas 2004 | Host with Ariel Rivera and Miriam Quiambao | ||
| 2006 | Binibining Pilipinas 2006 | Host with Dennis Trillo and Pia Guanio | ||
| 2008 | MariMar: Isang Pasasalamat | Sergio Santibañez | MariMar farewell special | |
| 2009 | Dantes Peak | Himself / Host / Performer | His 29th birthday celebration special | |
| 2010 | GMA @ 60: The Heart of Television | GMA Network 60th anniversary special | ||
| 2011 | Report Card: Antas Ng Edukasyon Sa Pilipinas | Himself / Host | GMA News and Public Affairs documentary special | |
| Kwentong Dabarkads (30 Dekada ng Eat Bulaga!) | Eat Bulaga! documentary special | |||
| 2015 | 2°: Panahon Na | GMA News and Public Affairs climate change special | ||
| 2017 | Selda 1430 | Argel Corpuz | APT Entertainment holy week special. (aired im Black Saturday) | |
| 2025 | Beyond 75: The GMA 75th Anniversary Special | Himself / Host / Performer | GMA Network 75th anniversary special |
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