Riza Santos Biography

Riza Raquel Buenaventura Santos (born August 31, 1986) is a Canadian actress, TV Host and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Earth Canada 2006, Miss World Canada 2011 and Miss Universe Canada 2013.

Personal life

Santos was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. Her parents immigrated to Canada in the 1970s. Santos is of mixed heritage: Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese.

As an advocate for environmental protection, Santos worked with the Canadian International Development Agency upon graduating high school. She also attended Rocky Mountain Bible and the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering.

Television experience and honour(s)

During her participation with Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2, she played for Bantay Bata, ABS-CBN Foundation's charitable institution. On Day 84, she was proclaimed the second-place winner of the show. In 2008 and 2009, she hosted the Asian Poker Tour. She has made several other television and film appearances.

She also landed at #18 in the "FHM's 100 Sexiest Women" in the Philippines in 2008.

Miss Universe Canada 2013

Santos competed at the 2013 edition of Miss Universe Canada held in Toronto where she was hailed 1st Runner up to Denise Garrido. 24 hours later, it was later revealed that she originally won due to a typo error in the ratings of the Top 5 entries, which afterwards, significantly impacted the final results of the competition. A week later, she was officially crowned as the new Miss Universe Canada 2013 in her hometown, Calgary, Alberta. This is the first instance of this type of error in the 11 years that Beauties of Canada (BOC) has produced the Miss Universe Canada pageant. Garrido has actually ranked as third runner-up.

Previous pageant experience

She is a Triple National Pageant winner, having gone on to compete in three of the Big Four international beauty pageants. She competed and won Miss Earth Canada 2006, Miss World Canada 2011 and most recently Miss Universe Canada 2013. She competed in the Miss Earth 2006 pageant, in which she was given the Miss Earth Photogenic 2006, Miss Earth Talent 2006 Finalist, 5 Special Awards. She also competed in Miss World 2011 contest, where she placed 30th out of 120 contestants and she also placed 4th in the Sport Talent competition. . She later represented Canada at the Miss Universe 2013 competition in Moscow, Russia.and failed to place

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role
2011	Road Raiders	Erin
2008	Dobol Trobol	Bonifacia/Bonnie
2008	Ikaw Pa Rin	Miss Canada
2008	When Love Begins	Catherine

Television

Year	Title	Role
2015	The King of Fighters 2000: 10 YEARS AFTER	Bonne Jenet (voice only)
2013	Miss Universe 2013	Herself as Canada's representative; 20th place
2009	Asian Poker Tour	Official Television Host
2008	Asian Poker Tour	Official Television Host
2008	I Love Betty La Fea	Amanda (model)
2008	Miss Earth	Television Host
2008	Philippines Scariest Challenge	Herself/Contestant
2008	Lovebooks Presents	Giselle
2008	Palos	Lady Simona
2008	Wheel of Fortune	Guest
2008	Love Spell	Living Doll
2008	ASAP	Herself (singer/dancer)
2007	Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2	Celebrity Housemate; Runner-up
2006	Deal or No Deal	Guest