13 things about Mister International 2022 Manu Franco

Emmanuel “Manu” Franco represented the Dominican Republic in the 14th edition of Mister International. He is the first Dominican man to win the international beauty pageant founded by Alan Sim.

BIOGRAPHY

Franco is a Dominican actor, model, party animator, television host and beauty king from Moca, Espaillat, Dominican Republic. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He speaks Spanish and English.
2. He was born in 2001.
3. In 2017, his father declined a contract offered to him by a professional baseball team.
4. In 2020, he joined Teleperformance in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic as a call center agent.
5. In 2022, he visited the Philippines and Venezuela.
6. He is Mister International Dominican Republic 2022.
7. He won Mister International 2022.
8. He was a Caballero Universal 2022 judge.
9. He was a Mister Global 2022 judge.
10. In 2023, he visited Thailand.
11. He was a Mister Supranational Dominican Republic 2023 guest.
12. He was a Mister Beauty International Puerto Rico 2023 judge.
13. In 2025, he graduated from the Universidad Acción Pro-Educación y Cultura (UNAPEC) in Santo Domingo.

TIMELINE

Franco is 5’10¹⁄₂” tall. He loves sports particularly basketball, baseball, softball and volleyball.

2020

• In October 2020, he became a Teleperformance employee.
• In December 2020, he visited Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic.

2021

• In March 2021, he visited Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo.

2022

• In January 2022, he walked the runway in a fashion at Grand Bávaro Princess in Bavaro, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and he visited Jarabacoa, La Vega, Dominican Republic.
• On July 21, 2022, he was officially appointed as Mister International Dominican Republic 2022 while he was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in international business.
• On October 30, 2022, he represented the Dominican Republic at Mister International 2022 and competed against 34 other candidates at the new Frontier Theater in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. He won the title.
• On November 26, 2022, he and Dominicano Internacional president Anthony Santana paid a courtesy visit to the office of the Dominican Republic’s minister of youth Rafael J. Féliz García.
• On December 1, 2022, he served as one of the judges at the Caballero Universal 2022 coronation ceremony at the Teatro Luisela Diaz in Caracas, Venezuela.

2023

• On February 8, 2023, he met Mister Global 2021 Danh Chiếu Linh and on February 11, 2023, they served as judges at the Mister Global 2022 coronation ceremony at the Royal Park Rajapruek in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• On March 10, 2023, he went live on Instagram with Mister Supranational 2022 Luis Daniel Galvez and Mister Global 2022 Juan Carlos Ariosa.
• On March 15, 2023, he met Miss Universe 2022 first runner-up Amanda Dudamel at Parque Colon in Zona Colonial.
• On March 30, 2023, he went live on Instagram with Mister International 2013 Jose Anmer Paredes.
• On April 22, 2023, he and Galvez attended the Mister Supranational Dominican Republic 2023 coronation ceremony at the Auditorio Patrick N. Hughson in Santo Domingo as special guests.
• On June 20, 2023, he attended the fifth edition of the Dominican Film Festival at the Palacio del Cine of Blue Mall in Santo Domingo.
• On July 30, 2023, he served as a judge at Mister Beauty International Puerto Rico 2023 at the municipal theater of Cayey, Puerto Rico.
• On September 17, 2023, he crowned his successor Mister International 2023 Kim Goodburn at the Crystal Design Center Ballroom in Khwaeng Khlong Chan, Bangkok, Thailand.

2024

• On August 29, 2024, he attended the CNB Dominican Republic Miss Earth and Miss Cosmo Dominican Republic 2024 coronation ceremony.

2025

• On March 6, 2025, he graduated from UNAPEC.