Lotis Key

Lotis Melisande Key is a former Filipino-American professional film and theater actress who starred in 85 major films in Asia. She was born and lives in the United States, although she spent her childhood traveling the world with her family. She was Vice President of the Minnesota Christian Writers Guild. She is the author of the novels The Song of the Tree, A Thing Devoted, and A Song for the Wide Place. Career She received FAMAS Award nominations as Best Supporting Actress for the movies Dalawang Mukha Ng Tagumpay (1973) and Ibigay Mo Sa Akin Ang Langit (1975). She worked with the likes of Ramon Zamora in Ang Mahiwagang Daigdig Ni Pedro Penduko (1973), Tony Ferrer in Kung Fu Master (1974), Chiquito in Enter Garote (1974), Eddie Garcia in Lady Luck (1975), George Estregan in Bamboo Trap (1975), and Dante Varona in Silakbo (1975). Key made about 11 movies with Comedy King Dolphy including Captain Barbell (1973), Fung Ku (1973), Facundo Alitaftaf (1978), Darna, Kuno? (1979), Max En Jess (1979) and Bugoy (1979). In 1986, she moved to the U.S. and worked in industrial video, trade shows, TV commercials, theater, radio and on camera narration. She became a Christian theater director and writer. She wrote and produced plays that traveled all over the US and Canada. In 2007, she also took a large team to the Philippines to present shows in under-privileged areas. From directing and producing theater she moved on to writing and apart from numerous magazine and newspaper articles has published two literary novels: The Song of the Tree and A Thing Devoted.