Jose Sixto Raphael Gonzalez Dantes III, popularly known as Dingdong Dantes, is a director/actor and model, born on August 2, 1980 in Quezon City, Philippines.
He is the son of Jose Dantes, Jr. and Angeline Gonzalez Dantes. Dantes began his career as a child model, appearing in a dairy product commercial when he was two years old. Several other commercials followed before he became part of an all-male dance group called Abztract Dancers, with his friend, actor Dino Guevarra, and his cousin, actor, Arthur Solinap. Their group became regulars on Eat Bulaga! and That's Entertainment.
As an actor, his first movie appearance was in the movie Shake,Rattle and Roll V in an episode entitled "Anino". After 3 years, he debuted on GMA Network's youth-oriented T.G.I.S. when he was 17, under the name Raphael Dantes playing the role of Iñaki. He appeared in films like Honey My Love So Sweet and I'm Sorry My Love, and television programmes including Anna Karenina and did a few guesting stints on ABS-CBN such as a F.L.A.M.E.S. episode, a youth-oriented romantic-drama anthology with different love teams and stories that aired from 1996 to 2002.
In 2011, Dantes has done Comedy Primetime TV Series entitled I Heart You, Pare! with his leading lady Regine Velasquez as he plays a obnoxious heterosexual Masculine man who falls with a Heterosexual female played by Velasquez, who after a chance encounter will meet again as she plays a drag who tries to run away from the law but both will fall in love unexpectedly, Until she reveals her secret, Regine Velasquez, left 7 weeks before the series came to a close due to her revealed pregnancy to husband Ogie Alcasid, Dantes, leading lady is former TV and Film leading lady Iza Calzado who replaced Regine Velasquez in the series.
He will be also part of a Star Cinema suspense film Segunda Mano with Kris Aquino and Angelica Panganiban for the 2011 Metro Manila Film Festival, this marks Dantes', first project with rival station and film archive Star Cinema a division of ABS-CBN this marks his first time to work with Kapamilya stars he stated that he signed a one film contract with Star Cinema in order to do the film and work with Kris Aquino.
