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Nadine Samonte (born Nadine Burgos Eidloth on March 2, 1988 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany) is a Filipina actress and commercial model of German-Filipino descent. The daughter of a German father and a Filipina mother, she is an Avenger from the first season of StarStruck. She is lasted up to the Final 6 with Dion Ignacio, Yasmien Kurdi, Rainier Castillo, Mark Herras and Jennylyn Mercado. Nadine and Dion were the last contestants to be eliminated and the last avengers for the said season of StarStruck.

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Shortly after the Final Judgment wherein Jennylyn and Mark won, Nadine and Dion were cast to the third season of Love to Love, a Sunday twin bill television program. She starred in the series Kissing Beauty with Angel Locsin, Dennis Trillo, Cogie Domingo, Karen delos Reyes and AJ Eigenmann. Mercado and Herras were also cast with the second half, Duets for Love, starring Jay-R and Toni Gonzaga. After the season ended, she was also cast as the lead star of the new afternoon daily soap Ikaw sa Puso Ko as Sophia, where she was paired with Oyo Boy Sotto and James Blanco.

Later, Nadine and Oyo became real life sweethearts. Their love team achieved high popularity that film production company made a movie for them entitled Forever my Love, a gothic romance-drama. Also, their popularity urged TAPE inc, the producer of the soap, to produce another soap starring Nadine and Oyo which has a fantasy theme in it. It was entitled Leya: Ang Pinakamagandang Babae sa Ilalim ng Lupa (Leya: The Most Beautiful Woman Underground), with Nadine playing the title role. The soap lasted for four months, after that Nadine took a short break.

She received the "Most Promising Actress" award from the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation along with Dennis Trillo who received the male counterpart of the award. After resting for sometime, she was considered to play Darna (Angel Locsin was favored by the management) and as Richard Gutierrez's love interest in Sugo (Isabel Oli was favored by the management). After a long break, she was included in the second installment of GMA's seasonal afternoon soap, Now and Forever with their plot entitled 'Ganti' (Revenge). She was then dubbed as the afternoon soap opera princess. She proved her acting prowess in the said series. She had comebacking actress Sheryl Cruz as co-star for this hard drama. Then, she made another film with Jennylyn Mercado and Mark Herras in the teen-romance flick, Say That You Love Me. She was also included in the comedy film, "Hari ng Sablay" with Bearwin Meily, Rica Peralejo and Jay-R. As Encantadia is about to end, she was offered to play Minea in the prequel/sequel Etheria playing the same role as Dawn Zulueta's character and the mother of the four Sang'gres. She ended the year, or rather started it, with the movie Isusumbong Kita sa Kuya Ko with action star Ronnie Ricketts, which was an official entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival. She was also given her first villain role via Bakekang as Lorraine. Samonte left her character from Bakekang to focus on her biggest break as a superhero along with Jennylyn Mercado in Super Twins. Then, she was then chosen to reprise the role of Hilda Coronel in the TV remake of Kung Mahawi Man Ang Ulap alongside Dennis Trillo. Samonte used to be auditioned for the role of MariMar but she has given a role of Innocencia in that said series in which she worked with Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes. After her character was killed off, she later replaced her StarStruck batchmate, Jennylyn Mercado, in the TV remake of Maging Akin Ka Lamang where she reprised the role of Dina Bonnevie, who ironically was the mother of her former boyfriend, Oyo Boy Sotto and Polo Ravales is her leading man who was Patrick Garcia's replacement..

Her recent soap was Ako si Kim Samsoon, a koreanovela remake, where she plays Hannah, a villain. After Kim Samsoon, she recently worked once again with Dennis Trillo, MariMar co-star Katrina Halili, Glaiza de Castro, Jean Garcia and Maging Akin Ka Lamang co-stars Polo Ravales and Isabel Oli in Carlo J. Caparas' Gagambino. Then, Samonte is recently working with her fellow StarStruck batch 1 alumni and winners Jennylyn Mercado and Yasmien Kurdi in SRO Cinemaserye: Suspetsa. Later, she plays Babaeng Impakta, one of the original villains, in 2009 TV series of Darna, where she works again with Marian Rivera for the third time since MariMar and Super Twins. Samonte has replaced Sunshine Dizon for the role of the new Lorna in her third Sine Novela, Tinik Sa Dibdib after her character Roma from Darna was killed off.

Before joining StarStruck, she was an ABS CBN talent at an early age of 13. Her Batchmates in Star Circle batch 10 are Dennis Trillo, Alfred Vargas, Bea Alonzo and Reggie Curley. Dennis, Alfred and Reggie later followed by Nadine defected to GMA where their careers soared higher to greater heights.

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[edit] Television

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[edit] Awards

• Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation Awardee (2004) - Most Promising Female Artist

[edit] External links

• Nadine Samonte at the Internet Movie Database
• gmanews.tv/video, Showbiz Central Exclusive: Nadine Samonte on her break-up with Oyo Boy Sotto - 01/20/2008