James Reid

Robert James Marquinez Reid (born 11 May 1993) is a Filipino-Australian singer-songwriter and actor.

Reid was born in Sydney, Australia, on 11 May 1993 to an English Australian father, Robert Malcolm Reid and a Filipino mother, Maria Aprilyn Marquinez.

He has four half-brothers and two half-sisters from his father's side (including model Lauren Reid), and one half-sister from his mother's side.

His parents separated when he was two years old, and Reid lived in Australia until he was fifteen.

With his father, Reid moved to the Philippines due to financial issues.

Reid has stated before that he found it difficult to adjust to his new life in the Philippines, especially due to the different academic and social skills required, as well as language difficulties.

Back in Australia, he was a gymnast and swimmer.

He was enrolled in Makati Science High School, but his father enrolled him in Karabar High School Distance Education Centre, an Australian distance-learning center located in Karabar, New South Wales, Australia.

He began his professional acting career in the early 2010s after being named the Big Winner of Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010.

Reid was only 17 years old when he entered the Pinoy Big Brother house as one of the 10 "Teenternational" housemates on 30 April 2010 (Day 22).

The first one occurred on 21 May 2010 (Day 43) when Reid was brought to the hospital due to chest pains, discoloration, and shortness of breath while the second one happened on 1 June 2010 (Day 53), when he was again brought to the hospital for the same health issues but this time together with fellow housemate Angelo Pasco.

At first, the doctors diagnosed Reid with costochondritis, but during his second visit at the hospital, the doctors found a hole in one of his lungs causing him difficulties in breathing.

After the complications, Reid was able to return to the Big Brother house but needed to rest frequently as well as constantly wearing an oxygen tube for one week.

One 8 June 2010 (Day 60), Reid was notified by the producers of Big Brother that he was no longer required to use the oxygen tube except while sleeping.

On 26 June 2010 (Day 78), he was crowned as the Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010 Big Winner after receiving 179,294 (19.75%) of the total votes, just 1.05% ahead of the total votes received by the runner-up Ryan Bang who got 169, 697 (18.70%) of the total votes.

He also starred in the Philippine TV series Good Vibes (2011), On the Wings of Love (2015–16), and Till I Met You (2016–17).

Reid is popularly referred to as the country's “Multimedia Prince” by multiple media outlets and has bagged a FAMAS Award, an MTV Europe Music Award and two SBS Pop Asia Awards.

On 24 July 2011, Reid, together with Pinoy Big Brother housemate Bret Jackson, launched their first digital EP entitled We Are Whatever on ASAP Rocks.

Reid and Jackson recorded four original songs,including "Can't Dance" featuring their co-housemates Ann Li and Fretzie Bercede.

Right after winning PBB, Reid was paired with his co-housemate Devon Seron in some ABS-CBN shows like Shoutout! and Good Vibes.

He was offered a two-year Star Magic contract with ABS-CBN.

He was also paired with Yen Santos in Pintada.

In 2012, Reid left Star Magic and signed with Viva Artists Agency.

A year later, he launched his first solo release, a self-titled EP, with two covers and four original songs, two of which composed by Reid himself.

He came into prominence for his leading role in the film Diary ng Panget (2014).

Reid has since starred in Filipino movies such as Talk Back and You're Dead (2014), Para sa Hopeless Romantic (2015), This Time (2016) and Never Not Love You (2018).

In 2014, he starred in the movie Diary ng Panget together with Nadine Lustre, Yassi Pressman and Andre Paras.

The movie was released on 2 April 2014 and became a box-office hit earning at least 119.5 million pesos during its 5-week run.

He also lent his voice to the official soundtrack of the film.

On 2 June 2014, it was confirmed that he and Lustre would star in another film titled Talk Back and You're Dead together with Yassi Pressman and Joseph Marco.

The film is also based on the best-selling book of the same name by Alesana Marie.

The movie was released two months later, on 20 August 2014, co-produced by Viva Films and Skylight Films.

During its 4-week run the movie has grossed 79.8 million pesos according to Box Office Mojo.

Just like in his previous film, he also lent his voice to the official soundtrack of the film.

On 22 October 2014, it was announced that he and Lustre will do another movie entitled Para sa Hopeless Romantic together with Julia Barretto, Iñigo Pascual, AJ Muhlach and Shy Carlos.

He has released two studio albums: Palm Dreams (2017) and lovescene: (2022), both self-produced under his own record label, Careless; and three EPs: We Are Whatever (2011) with Bret Jackson, James Reid (2013) and Reid Alert (2015).

Reid is also the founder of independent record label Careless.

He celebrated his 17th birthday inside the house with his co-teenternational housemates giving him a surprise pool party.

Reid was the only teenternational housemate who had Filipino blood.

Reid was almost evicted twice during his stay inside the house.