Baby Barredo

Carmen "Baby" Johnson Barredo (April 28, 1941 – May 23, 2021) was a Filipino theater actress and producer known for co-founding Repertory Philippines, a major English-language theater company in the Philippines.

Early life and education Baby Barredo's first involvement in theater was when she was five years old, when she portrayed the angel Gabriel for a school Christmas pageant. She attended the St. Scholastica's College for her elementary and high school education.

Barredo had various people as mentors; she studied voice under Fides Asencio and Ines Zialcita, music under Lucrecia Kasilag, and drama under Daisy Avellana. Barredo attended the University of Indiana in the United States where she studied voice, and later attended the American Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in New York to complete her studies in drama.

She is a recipient of the Gawad Parangal sa mga Tampok na Yaman ng Teatro Pilipino of the International University Theater Association (IUTA).

Death Baby Barredo died on May 23, 2021, at the St. Luke's Medical Center in Taguig due to multiple organ failure caused by sepsis.

Barredo and her Repertory Philippines co-founder, Zeneida Amador, lived together until Amador passed in 2008, each adopting a daughter and son, respectively. It was long rumoured that they were in a relationship, however, Barredo denied these rumours, insisting that the relationship was strictly platonic.