Gillian Akiko Thomson

Gillian Akiko Thomson (born October 8, 1974 in Washington, D.C., USA) is a Filipina television host, journalist and retired swimmer. She is the youngest of three children born to a American father, Marshall Thomson, and a Japanese mother from Hiroshima, Hiroko Nakamura. Her older siblings are Julia and Joshua. When she was still quite young, she and her family moved to Manila where her father, who had previous experience with the United States Office of Naval Intelligence, became the Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines in the latter years of the Marcos dictatorship.