Mara Lopez

Lopez made her acting debut in 2003, playing a younger version of her real-life mother Maria Isabel Lopez, in an episode in GMA's Magpakailanman.^[1]

In 2006 she was launched, along with 23 other aspiring actors and actresses, as a member of Star Magic Batch 13. She then starred in ABS-CBN's Sineserye Presents: Natutulog Ba Ang Diyos?. In 2002, she played the lead role in the indie film Following Rosa, a Sundance Film Festival entry.^[2]

Yokohama was one of the castaways of Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown in November 2011.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015, she was now a freelancer.

Her father Hiroshi Yokohama was the one who taught Mara how to surf. She learned how to surf at age 6 in the coastal barangay of Urbiztondo in La Union.^[3] In 2002 she won the Surfing Championship-Ladies Division at 11 and became the youngest Filipina surfing champion.^{[citation needed]}

Aside from surfing, she also practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu. She was first introduced to the by actor Sid Lucero. She also competed in the 2016 World Championship in jiu-jitsu.^[4]