Daisy Avellana

Daisy Avellana (January 26, 1917 – May 12, 2013) was a Filipino stage actress and theater director. Avellana was honored as a National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Film in 1999.

Avellana was born Lourdes Genoveva Dolores Pardo Hontiveros on January 26, 1917, in Capiz, Capiz, (now Roxas City). She was the eldest child of Jose Hontiveros and Vicenta Ruiz Pardo.

Avellana was one of the first graduates of the UST Graduate School with Master of Arts (MA) in English.

Her husband was Lamberto Avellana, a film and stage director who was also named a National Artist in 1976. Daisy and Lamberto Avellana co-founded the Barangay Theater Guild (BTG), together with forty-eight colleagues, in 1939. They had four children, the second being actor and director Jose Mari Avellana.

Avellana died on May 11, 2013, at the age of 96.