Francisco "Kiko" Manabat Perestelo De Matos is a Filipino-Portuguese actor. He is also an aspiring mixed martial arts fighter currently signed with Universal Reality Combat Championship (URCC).

Kiko Matos was born in Macau on September 22, 1990 to a Portuguese father and a Filipino mother. He has a brother named Gonzalo Matos, who played Arnold in Jason Paul Laxamana's Love is Blind.

Raised in Parañaque, Kiko attended Ann Arbor Montessori when he was in high school. When he was young, he would travel every year to his father’s hometown in Lisbon, Portugal.

Kiko's career on television started in 2004 when he joined the ABS-CBN talent competition TV Idol where he became one of the finalists along with Ahron Villena, AJ Dee, JE Sison and Marc Cortez. Among the actresses he has worked with as a young actor were Shaina Magdayao and Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach, who was then using the screen name Pia Romero. Kiko was introduced as a film actor in 2013 in Laxamana's Babagwa (Spider's Lair), and in 2014, he starred in Mumbai Love opposite Solenn Heussaff.

Since Babagwa and Mumbai Love, Kiko has been a regular in independent films, most of which were entries to local and international film festivals. His manager is veteran entertainment journalist Mell T. Navarro.

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