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Maritoni Fernandez (born Antonita Moynihan on March 31, 1965 ) is a Filipina character actress, model and entrepreneur.
She is the daughter of an English father, Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan, and a Filipina mother. She is niece to Colin Moynihan, the current Baron Moynihan and head of the British Olympic Committee. Antonita was reared by her grandmother in York, England during her childhood years and later moved to the Philippines to accompany her father who became a close friend of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and a successful food critique and restaurant owner in Manila in the 1980s. She is mother to actress Lexi Fernandez, who is a GMA Network contract artist.
As an adult, Antonita became a commercial model and actress in the Philippines, adopting the screen name Maritoni Fernandez. She has had considerable success as a screen actress, figuring in many movies with the respected Filipino actor Fernando Poe, Jr. and appearing in the award-winning Hong Kong film Days of Being Wild by acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai.