Zymic Jaranilla

Zymic Demigod Lara Jaranilla (born 20 May 2004) is a Filipino actor. Jaranilla is a GMA Network contract artist. His first appearance in TV was on ABS-CBN's May Bukas Pa, where he played as Junjun.

Personal life

Jaranilla is the youngest and the third sibling within the Jaranilla family. He lives with his father, his grandmother, and his two older brothers.^[1] He is the youngest brother of Zaijian who has primary media company allegiance with ABS-CBN Corporation under its talent agency Star Magic while having secondary ones concurrently and conditionally on other companies GMA Network (Zymic's current company since 2013; 2011, 2019, 2025–present) and TV5 (2021–present) through an agreement between ABS-CBN and the latter two to work with them. He was homeschooled under Angelicum College in his elementary years.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Career

Taking inspiration from his eldest brother, Jaranilla became an actor at a young age, initially signing and briefly working with ABS-CBN Corporation to play as Junjun on May Bukas Pa of the media company's namesake TV network. During behind the scenes of the series production that lasted until February 5, 2010, he is often along with Zaijian.

He further signed with TV5 Network for the series Felina: Prinsesa ng mga Pusa in 2011, playing the role of Young Joaquin. The series aired from February 27 to May 25, 2012.

After his short stints at ABS-CBN and TV5, he is currently signed with GMA's Sparkle. His first role with GMA was as the younger version of Aljur Abrenica's character in Prinsesa ng Buhay Ko.^[2] In 2014, he was cast alongside other child actors in the series Yagit, a remake of a popular series back in the 1980s.^[9] His performance and the rest of the young cast's was praised as "emotional and solid".^[10]

Filmography