Dennis Trillo

Abelardo Dennis Florencio Ho was born on May 12, 1981, in Quezon City, the son of Abelardo Leslie Ho, a Chinese Filipino from Dumaguete, and Florita Florencio. He attended Ateneo de Manila University for his early schooling and later earned a degree in international studies from Miriam College. He began his entertainment career with ABS-CBN's Star Circle Batch 10 in 2001 before moving to GMA Network in 2003, where he took his first lead role as Gabriel in the fantasy series Mulawin (2004).

Trillo's film breakthrough came with Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita (2004), in which he played a transgender woman during World War II, winning Best Supporting Actor at the Metro Manila Film Festival. He went on to star in the prison drama Temptation of Wife and the gay-themed series My Husband's Lover (2013), and won Best Actor at the 2015 PMPC Star Awards for Movies for Felix Manalo. In 2021 he starred in Legal Wives as a Maranao Muslim with three wives, and played a hitman opposite John Arcilla in Erik Matti's On the Job: The Missing 8. His performance as a prisoner in Green Bones (2024) earned him Best Actor at the Gawad Urian, Metro Manila Film Festival, and Asian Academy Creative Awards, making him the first Filipino actor to win the Asian Academy Creative Award for Best Actor.

Trillo has been married to actress Jennylyn Mercado since November 2021; the couple have a daughter, Dylan Jade, born in 2022, and he has a son from a previous relationship with Carlene Aguilar, born in 2007. Together with Mercado he runs the production company BrightBurn Entertainment and the DYLN Style Lounge salon business in Quezon City.