Victor Neri


Victor Luis Juan Hilado Neri is a Filipino actor, singer, entrepreneur, chef, and public servant.

Personal life

Neri is also a chef and owns a restaurant named Saute. In 2007, Neri took a break from the entertainment industry and spent three years in Bangkok, studying Culinary Arts in Le Cordon Bleu and moonlighting as a cook in a Thai restaurant. He also spent two and a half years in Hong Kong to work for an insurance company and more than a year in Beijing to study Mandarin.
Neri also trained as a bomb disposal technician in the Philippine Coast Guard and briefly worked in the Philippines' Bureau of Immigrations' fugitive search unit.
Neri was a Catholic before joining Iglesia ni Cristo.
He worked in the Department of Social Welfare and Development first as a Driver, then suddenly, Assistant Secretary for Visayas Affairs during the term of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Actor and Ang TV co-star Christopher Roxas is his close friend.

Political career

In October 2024, Neri filed his candidacy to run for mayor of Makati in 2025 as an independent.