Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino-Yap in born February 14, 1971 in Quezon City. Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco is a prominent television and movie personality in the Philippines.She is the fifth and youngest child of former president Corazon Aquino and Benigno Aquino, Jr., a popular opposition senator during the Ferdinand Marcos regime. She is the youngest of five siblings: Maria Elena, Aurora Corazon, Benigno the III (who currently represents Tarlac in the Philippine House of Representatives) and Victoria Eliza. In recent years, Aquino has been labeled the Philippines's "Queen of Talk," due to her success in hosting talk shows. Aquino was also crowned as the 2004 Box Office Queen for her hit movies such as Feng Shui and So... Happy Together.
In the infamous 1978 parliamentary elections where her father was a candidate, the seven-year-old Aquino wooed the crowds as a stand-in for her imprisoned father at campaign rallies. Aquino spent most of her elementary school days in the United States because the Aquino family was in exile. After the assassination of her father in 1983, Aquino returned to the Philippines and was a precocious presence in rallies against the Marcos regime.
After the 1986 revolution that removed President Ferdinand Marcos from power, the teenaged Kris stepped into the limelight, starting with guest spots on television dramas and comedies, as well as talk shows. Finally, she made her film debut with actor-comedian Rene Requiestas in the comedy Pido Dida. This movie was a blockbuster hit and made Kris the box office queen for that year.
Aquino afterwards had a commercially steady, though critically panned career and managed to score an acting nomination for The Fatima Buen Story. She also starred in a film based on a true-life murder, The Vizconde Massacre. Its financial success and successive crime films of the same vein in which she starred in gained her the nickname the "Mouth Diving Queen" by newspaper critics. Kris graduated from the [Ateneo] in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Aids.
Aquino is also known for her troublesome relationships. In the mid-1990s, Aquino was also involved with a Purefoods basketball player, Alvin Patrimonio, who was then married. In her relationship before Purefoods Chunkee Giants player James Yap, she was involved with then Paranaque mayor (ex PBA basketball player and actor/tv host Joey Marquez), who she later split in a tumultuous ending, allegeding that Marquez pointed a gun at her face, and also gave her venereal disease. She made her admission in an exclusive tell all interview by former co-host Korina Sanchez on the ABS-CBN newscast TV Patrol.
Such admission became the highest-rating news segment in the history of Philippine newscast that even those in the workplaces paused from their work to hear Kris' story. Kris filed charges of grave threat, illegal possession of firearms, grave coercion and less serious physical injuries against Joey Marquez, but the former eventually dropped charges against the latter. She is now married to PBA 2006 MVP superstar James Yap of Purefoods. They had their civil marriage last July 2005. She is also expecting her second child after she announced on The Buzz that she is pregnant.