Nash Aguas

Aeign Zackrey "Nash" Victoriano Aguas (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈʔaɡwas]; born October 10, 1998) is a Filipino actor and politician. Since 2022, he has been serving as a councilor of Cavite City.

In 2004, Aguas won the first season of the televised talent competition Star Circle Kid Quest on ABS-CBN. As a child actor on the network, he was a mainstay of the sketch comedy series Goin' Bulilit (2005–2011) and appeared in the 2007 teleserye Maria Flordeluna. As a teenager, he appeared in the teen sitcom Luv U (2013–2016) and played a teenage father in Bagito (2014). For his role in The Good Son (2017–2018), he received a PMPC Star Award nomination for Best Drama Actor. As a young adult, he appeared in A Soldier's Heart (2020).

In film, Aguas appeared in the Shake, Rattle & Roll horror film series and won the Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Child Performer twice—for Shake, Rattle and Roll 8 (2006) and Shake, Rattle and Roll 9 (2007). He also appeared in Shake, Rattle and Roll 12 (2010). Aguas was nominated for the FAMAS Award for Best Child Actor for his roles in Love Me Again (Land Down Under) and Kamoteng Kahoy (both 2008) as well as Larong Bata (2013). He starred opposite Sharlene San Pedro in the teen thriller Class of 2018. Aguas was also a member of the boy band Gimme 5, active from 2013 to 2017 and had released two studio albums. He is married to actress Mika dela Cruz.

At the age of five, Aguas made his television debut on the noontime variety show MTB, after joining the program's Batang F4 contest. In 2004, he joined ABS-CBN's talent search Star Circle Quest, where he won the title "Grand Kid Questor" and also won most of the special awards including "Darling of the Press" in the Finals Night. He was known as a mainstay in the Sunday comedy gag show Goin' Bulilit. In 2011, Aguas voiced the main character Joey Jones in the Tagalog-dubbed version of the anime series, Heroman.^[1]

In the previous years, Aguas was paired with Alexa Ilacad. They starred together in the Sunday teen sitcom show Luv U and the afternoon drama series Doble Kara. He also has a boy band group called "Gimme 5" with Joaquin Reyes, John Bermundo, Grae Fernandez and Brace Arquiza. In the 2014–2015 season, Aguas and Ilacad starred together in their first leading roles in the primetime drama series Bagito, alongside the rest of Gimme 5 members and Ella Cruz. Aguas and was paired again in the Dreamscape Production teleserye, The Good Son along with Loisa Andalio, Jerome Ponce, McCoy de Leon, Elisse Joson and Joshua Garcia.

In 2018, he starred in the teen suspense-thriller film, Class of 2018, opposite former Goin' Bulilit co-star Sharlene San Pedro.^[2]

In 2020, he started streaming Valorant. He also shout cast several tournaments including international championships (including Sentinels (esports) tournament) such as VCT and participated in several tournaments.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, Aguas made a comeback in TV shows by portraying the life of Apollo, a supporting character and an orphan in the series Huwag Kang Mangamba alongside several casts.^[3]

In 2022, he ran for a seat in the Cavite City Council^[4] and won.^[5]

On May 18, 2024, Aguas and Mika Dela Cruz revealed that they were married. The couple celebrated an intimate ceremony with the bride's sister Angelika Dela Cruz at the Adriano's Events Place and Prayer Garden in Tagaytay.^[10][11] The couple first met as children in 2007 on the set of Tiyanaks and later co-starred on Goin' Bulilit, starting off as friends until they began dating in October 2018.^[12][13]