Aunor has also appeared in several stage plays, television shows, and concerts. She is known as Philippine cinema's Superstar. Aunor started her career in the Philippine entertainment industry as a singer after she won an amateur singing contest.
Aunor transformed herself into a serious actress and came to be regarded as an acting heavyweight, performing in films such as Tatlong taong walang Diyos , Himala , Bona , The Flor Contemplacion Story and Thy Womb which gave her international and local awards and nominations.
She is the most nominated actress of Gawad Urian Awards with 17 nominations, winning seven. She was the only film actress included in the list of awardees. Her parents are Antonia Cabaltera and Eustacio Villamayor, she has 9 more siblings including Eddie Villamayor a former actor. When Nora was growing up, it was her grandmother Lola Theresa who taught her how to sing and the first song she learned was The Way of a Clown.
Mamay Belen aunt on the other hand, taught her the right diction, interpretation and expression while singing and took her under their custody and from whom she got her screen name.
Nora entered the national singing contest Tawag ng Tanghalan where she was defeated on her first try and became a champion on her second try.
She made her first T. Aunor also joined the evening program "Oras ng Ligaya. Alpha Records took a chance on the young singer and waxed the first Nora disc. It flopped. Alpha tried again and the second Nora recording did better. Inevitably, The doors of movies opened for Aunor, Dr. Jose Perez of Sampaguita Pictures asked comedian German Moreno to ask her if she would like to try the movies. Aunor wondered if this was a joke but she also wondered how she would look in the movies.
On October 2, , Aunor signed an eight-picture non-exclusive contract with Sampaguita Pictures, with the assurance that she would be given a singing part. She is, after all, the one who singlehandedly changed the face of Philippine entertainment, a landscape once reflective of our inferiority complex as a long colonized country until Nora made it possible for the Gina Alajars and the Amy Austrias and the Judy Ann Santoses to achieve fame and acclaim.
Seen close up, her complexion shows fine gold tints, her features reveal a delicacy of outline, and her large liquid eyes are lovely. At the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel press conference hosted by TV5 to welcome Nora and announce the special miniseries that she will be doing for them, Nora, reacting to a query about being the second choice for the historical movie that she will be doing with Laguna Gov.
Will something equally seminal result from this new collaboration? It will be a day dedicated to her fans and supporters.
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