Denli Chavez is an actor from Bacolod City, Philippines. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of St. La Salle and is in her final year of the BA Acting program at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

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Her artistic voice is shaped by themes of memory, community, and care. In Bacolod City, she helped lead SheHerIProject, a community-based initiative that offered spaces for women to gather and share their stories. The project ran for several years and continues to influence her work with a foundation of empathy and social awareness.
 

Denli began her creative journey as a filmmaker, exploring lived experience and community narratives. Her films have screened at CineKahirup, SineNegrense, Gawad CCP Para Sa Alternatibong Pelikula, the Josiah Media Festival in Texas, and VivaExCon in Japan. She has earned multiple awards, including Best Actress for Happy Birthday (2017) and Best Script and 2nd Best Picture for Suba sang Malogo (2017). She also represented Region VI at VIVA ExCon 2021.

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At WAAPA, she trained extensively across stage and screen under Bagryana Popov, Mel Cantwell, Humphrey Bower, Shane Anthony, and the internationally renowned Cheek by Jowl. She also collaborated with Filipino director Ana Valdez-Lim  through Theater Space’s real-time virtual productions.

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Beyond acting, Denli continues to explore filmmaking, video art, pole dance, and creative modelling.