Pauleen Luna (born November 10, 1988 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipina actress and television personality, who is one of the hosts in the Philippine television program Eat Bulaga! and is well known as Baby Poleng. She appears in several GMA Network programs.
Luna started her showbiz career when she joined in the Little Miss Philippines contest of Eat Bulaga! in 1995. She then started acting at the age of 13 and becoming a member of ABS CBN's Star Circle Batch 11 before transferring to GMA Network. Her biggest break came when she got the role of Odessa in the second of Encantadia trilogy called Etheria. In 2006, she ranked #9 in the FHM-Philippines list of the sexiest women and was featured in the cover of the December 2006 issue of UNO Magazine. She is set to play an important role on the second Koreanovela adaptation in the Philippines, Ako si Kim Samsoon.She recently included in Luna Mystika opposite Heart Evangelista.
At her young age when she joined 1995 Little Miss Philippines of Eat Bulaga, she had her lost front teeth. Despite her teeth loss, she was able to join in showbiz until she had her teeth fully grown.
Luna's grandmother, Mercedita Jimenez, "Ka Baby," of Sta. Cruz, Manila, was shot dead by armed men in Manila, on November 5, 2008.
