page_title: Grace Poe
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Grace Poe / Personal life / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of President Benigno Aquino III with Grace Poe-Llamanzares, who he swore in as chairman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), and her family on October 21, 2010. The official description is as follows: “ President Benigno S. Aquino III poses with newly-installed Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) Chair Mary Grace Poe Llamanzares (4th from left), daughter of the late Philippine Movie King Fernando Poe Jr., and her family Thursday (October 21, 2010) at the Bonifacio Hall, Premier Guest House, Malacañang. Llamanzares has set her sights on fighting film piracy, providing incentives to producers who come up with exceptionally good movies and reducing the tax burden of film outfits. (Photo by Ryan Lim/Malacañang Photo Bureau/PNA) ”
context_page_description: Mary Grace Poe-Llamanzares is a Filipina senator, businesswoman, educator, and philanthropist. She is the adopted daughter of actors Susan Roces and Fernando Poe Jr. She served as chairperson of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board from 2010 to 2012 and in the Philippine Senate since 2013.
  Poe studied at the University of the Philippines Manila, where she majored in development studies, but moved to Boston College in Massachusetts, United States where she finished a degree in political science and has spent much of her adult life in Fairfax, Virginia. In 2004, her adoptive father ran for the Philippine presidency against the incumbent, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, but was defeated; he died months later. On April 8, 2005, Grace returned to the Philippines after learning that her father had died. She began pursuing her father's rights over the results of the election and campaigned against alleged electoral fraud.
  Poe ran for a seat in the Philippine Senate during the election in 2013 as an Independent affiliated with the Team PNoy coalition of Aquino.
context_section_description: Poe has two adoptive half-siblings through her father Fernando Poe Jr. Both of these half-siblings are actors: Ronian, born to actress Ana Marin; and Lourdes Virginia (Lovi), born to model Rowena Moran. Though she did not grow up with her half-siblings, even admitting that she met Lovi for the first time only after their father died.
  Poe married Teodoro Misael Daniel "Neil" Vera Llamanzares on July 27, 1991.
   Llamanzares is a natural-born Filipino who held American citizenship since birth until April 2016. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force who served from 1988 to 1991 and later worked for Science Applications International Corporation. He worked for San Miguel Corporation after the return of his wife to the Philippines.
  On April 16, 1992, Poe gave birth to her son, Brian, a journalist who worked as a reporter for CNN Philippines. She later gave birth to two daughters: Hanna in 1998, and Nika in 2004. Her family lived in Fairfax, Virginia, for 12 years.
caption: Grace Poe-Llamanzares and her family posing with President Benigno Aquino III at her oathtaking as MTRCB chairwoman in 2010.
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