Beyond her beauty and having come from a family of veteran actors, Julia Barretto even on her own is an artist who is fully committed to her craft. She made her showbiz debut as a child actress, appearing in various Kapamilya series, and in her teens, she started take on more challenging roles in more drama series. But it was in the mid-2010s when her career took a whole new level, as she began to star in romance and drama films that earned box-office successes.

In 2024, she continued to show her brilliance in Star Cinema’s “Un/Happy For You”, alongside Joshua Garcia, where she played the role of Zy Angeles, a strong-willed food writer who confronts a messy past with her former partner while trying to move on to pursue her dreams. Here’s a rundown of six of her previous films that you need to see, to better appreciate her amazing journey so far as a young and gifted actress.

Julia plays the role of Yanni, daughter of single mother Patty (played by the Megastar Sharon Cuneta). In this film, Yanni fights for her independence and longs to join her long-distance boyfriend Kurt (Jameson Blake) in London.

If you love forced proximity and enemies-to-lovers tropes, you’ll enjoy this romcom movie! Here, Zoey (Julia Barretto) and Joko (Joshua Garcia) compete to earn the job of personal assistant to social media mogul Sasha Imperial (Kris Aquino).

 Washed-up actress Hazel (Julia Barretto) spontaneously books a trip to Japan after an argument with her parents (Yayo Aguila, Christian Vasquez). There she meets and falls in love with Louie (Gerald Anderson), an Overseas Filipino Worker.

 Watch Julia figuratively and literally slay as medical student PJ! In this suspenseful film, a deadly viral outbreak unites a group of students to fight for their lives against the undead. See a whole new side of Julia here!