AS EDS in the five-year old Sunday youth drama, Tabing Ilog, Kaye Abad may be quintessential simpleng probinsiyana on the outside, but inside, she is long-suffering young mother with the usual season-long, 13-episode affair once in a while. It is the role she is most associated with, and for which she has been nominated at the Star Awards for TV. While she seen weeknights these days as the fourth of the quartet (with Jericho Rosales, Kristine Hermosa and Marvin Agustin) that headlines the teleserye Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas, Kaye's most recent tour de force was playing Carol Banawa in the recently retired singer's heart rending life story in Maalaala Mo Kaya. Oh, and she's also good at portraying a neophyte in the flesh trade—in the self-important social drama Mila in 2000, the image of Kaye learning how to smoke like a true prosti was unanimously praised by critics, and in the “Aklat” episode of Maalaala in 1998, she bagged a runner-up citation for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama at the Asian Television Awards.