She was widely known for playing Miss Tapia in the sitcoms Baltic & Co. (GMA) and Iskul Bukol (IBC).
[1][2] Tagasa was raised in La Paz, Tarlac, and Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
At age 9, her family moved to Manila following the end of World War II.
Her eldest daughter Gina Marissa Tagasa is a writer for movies and television in the Philippines.
[4] Under a month shy of her 83rd birthday, Tagasa died of stroke on 24 March 2018, aged 82, after being in a coma for two weeks.