Birth Name: Tirso Silvano Cruz III
Place of Birth: Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines
Date of Birth: April 1, 1952
Ethnicity: Filipino (Ilocano and Tagalog), 1/8 French-Canadian
Tirso Cruz III is a Filipino actor and singer.
Tirso’s father, Tirso Bailey Cruz, Jr. was a club manager, also from Sampaloc, Manila. Tirso’s mother, Elma Acosta Silvano, was born in Wailuku, Hawaii, United States, to Filipino parents.
Tirso is married to Erlinda “Lynn” Erillo Ynchausti.
Tirso’s paternal grandparents were Tirso Cruz y Muñoz (or Tirso Muñoz Cruz, Sr. in Filipino, the son of Félix Cruz and Marcosa Muñoz) and María Loreto Bailey y Lagrosa (or María Loreto Lagrosa Bailey in Filipino, the daughter of Louis, later Lewis Edwin, Bailey and Margarita Lagrosa). Loreto was born in Hong Kong, to an American soldier, from Stowe, Vermont, and to a Filipino mother, from Manila. Lewis was the son of French Canadian immigrants Richard Bilodeau, later Bailey, of Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Quebec, and of Exilda Marie Maillé, later Dora McGee, of Montreal, Quebec.
Tirso’s paternal grandparents were Thomas Silvano and Petra Verzola Acosta (the daughter of Mauro Acosta and Silvina Verzola).
Tirso’s second half-cousin once removed is actress Sunshine Cruz.
Sources: Tirso’s birth record – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJP-F77P
Birth record of Tirso’s paternal great-grandfather, Louis Bailey – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFHS-ZHY
Death record of Tirso’s paternal great-grandfather, Lewis Edwin Bailey – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K377-ZQX
Baptismal record of Tirso’s paternal great-great-grandfather, Richard Bilodeau – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899Q-QX8S