
Ali King
BIOGRAPHY
Alonzo Raphael Elequin (born May 15, 1996), who works as Ali King, is a Filipino actor and online video creator. He plays Key Kalunsod in Boys’ Lockdown (2020), described in the press at the time as an introvert, sensitive and close to the people around him. It was his first professional acting job.
He did not come from the industry. He took a Tourism Management degree at Far Eastern University and then worked as a creative at one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies in the Philippines. When the pandemic moved that work home he was already building an audience online, in vlogs and short video, and it was there that the producers at Ticket2Me found him and invited him to audition.
The series was directed by Jade Castro, written by Danice Mae P. Sison and produced by Ticket2Me Bit by Bit Company, running to six episodes on the Ticket2Me platform, on YouTube and later on the Heart of Asia Channel. He and his co-lead Alec Kevin were promoted as KeyChen, and a second season was later developed with a different cast.
He writes songs and plays guitar, which published coverage mentions alongside his online work rather than as a separate career. No release has been documented, so no music credit is claimed on this page.
Where this record is thin: no screen credit after 2020 could be verified, so the years-active field is left empty; no agency, birthplace or official social account was confirmed; and there is no encyclopaedia article for him. His birth date rests on a single press feature, which is stated openly here rather than presented as settled.
He is the clearest example in this batch of a casting route that barely existed ten years ago.
King was an advertising creative with a following, working from home in 2020, and a production company watching for people with audiences found him there. There was no agency, no audition circuit and no drama training in the sequence at all. Boys’ Lockdown was his first acting job of any kind, and he was carrying half of it.
The genre’s economics explain the choice. A series made for a ticketing platform and YouTube has to bring its own audience, and someone who already has one is not a risk, he is the distribution plan. That logic put several people in this catalogue on screen for the first time in the same year.
One consequence shows up in the record itself. His character was listed wrongly on this site until this pass, because a performer without an encyclopaedia entry or an agency page has nothing authoritative for a cast list to be checked against.
PROFILE DETAILS
- Real Name
- Alonzo Raphael Elequin
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Born
- (Age 30)
- Gender
- Male
- Profession
- Nationality
- Debut
- 2020 · Boys' Lockdown (2020) as Key Kalunsod, his first professional acting role



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