Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino (locally [ˌkɾis ʔɐˈxiː.no]; born February 14, 1971) is a Filipino retired television presenter, actress, talent manager and film producer. She is a recipient of 42 PMPC Star Awards for Television, 10 Golden Screen Awards and a FAMAS Award.

Dubbed the Philippines' "Queen of All Media", Aquino has hosted numerous talk shows and game shows, starred in several films and television series, and is active in social media. She is the youngest daughter of Benigno Aquino Jr. and Corazon Aquino, who served as the 11th president of the Philippines while her brother Benigno Aquino III served as the 15th president of the Philippines.

Her debut film appearance was in Pido Dida: Sabay Tayo and she is also known for her roles in horror films Feng Shui and Sukob, the highest-grossing Filipino films of 2004 and 2006 respectively. She is also widely known as a celebrity product endorser and a philanthropist who advocates for lupus awareness, children's rights, LGBT rights, culture and art appreciation, freedom of expression, and democratic reforms.

Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino was born in Quezon City, Philippines, to Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino and Benigno Aquino Jr. who was, at the time, a senator of the Ferdinand Marcos regime. The youngest of five children, her siblings are Maria Elena "Ballsy" Aquino-Cruz, Aurora Corazon "Pinky" Aquino-Abellada, former Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III, and Victoria Elisa "Viel" Aquino-Dee. She is the cousin of actress and equestrienne Mikee Cojuangco, and the niece of former Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose "Peping" Cojuangco Jr. When she was a baby, her father was arrested and jailed; her mother raised Aquino and her siblings.

During the 1978 parliamentary elections when her jailed father was a candidate, the seven-year-old Aquino was a stand-in for him at campaign rallies. She was featured on the front page of The New York Times and on the cover of Time Magazine. Aquino spent most of her elementary school days in the United States, where the Aquino family was in exile. When she was 12 years old, her father was assassinated on the tarmac of Manila International Airport. Kris Aquino returned to the Philippines and attended rallies against the Marcos regime.

After the Philippine Revolution of 1986, which removed Ferdinand Marcos from his 21-year regime, the teenage Aquino began guesting stints on television dramas and comedies, as well as talk shows. She made her film debut with actor-comedian Rene Requiestas in Pido Dida, which was a blockbuster hit. Aquino had a commercially steady career, and managed to score an acting nomination for The Fatima Buen Story. She starred in a film based on a true-to-life murder, the Vizconde massacre. Its financial success and numerous starring appearances in crime films of the same vein, earned her the nickname "Massacre Queen" by newspaper critics.

Aquino finished her elementary school education at the Poveda Learning Center (now Saint Pedro Poveda College) in Quezon City. She went to high school at the Colegio San Agustin-Makati, where she was batchmates with Pinky Webb and Karen Davila.

After graduation from high school in March 1988, she proceeded to the Ateneo de Manila University for college, earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature in 1992.