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Birth Name: Nicomaine Dei Capili Mendoza
Place of Birth: Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines
Date of Birth: March 3, 1995
Ethnicity: Filipino [Tagalog]
Maine Mendoza is a Filipina actress, television personality, singer, songwriter, and blogger. She became known for her Dubsmash videos, and for the segment Kalyeserye of the show Eat Bulaga! , where, as the character Yaya Dub (Divina Ursula Bokbokova Smash), she was part of love team AlDub, alongside Alden Richards . She wrote the blog Pessimistic Optimist Bella. She has also starred in the films My Bebe Love: #KiligPaMore and Imagine You & Me , and wrote and sang the theme song for the latter film. She is also known as Menggay.
Maine is the daughter of Mary Ann Capili, an accountant, who ownes gasoline stations, and Teodoro “Teddy” Bernardo Mendoza, Jr., an engineer, who works with road construction. Maine is married to actor and politician Arjo Atayde.
Maine’s paternal grandfather was Teodoro Nicolas Mendoza, Sr. (the son of Demetrio Mendoza and Hipólita C. Nicolás).
Maine’s paternal grandmother was Ana “Anita” de Leon Bernardo (the daughter of Regino Bernardo and Marciana de León).
Sources: Marriage record of Maine’s paternal grandparents, Teodoro Nicolas Mendoza and Anita de Leon Bernardo – https://familysearch.org
Birth record of Maine’s paternal grandmother, Ana de Leon Bernardo – https://familysearch.org