 Carpio broadened her career into acting with appearances in a number of films, and auditioned for the lead role in Miss Saigon, though this eventually went to Lea Salonga.She was no stranger to live musical theatre, having taken the lead role in the 1979 San Jose, California production of the stage musical "City of Broken Promises", based on the book by Austin Coates, a story set in Macau which won Best Original Musical.Following her second marriage, Carpio moved to Canada and focused her attention on bringing up her family (she has three daughters; the eldest, T. V. Carpio, by her first marriage, also an actor, singer and songwriter).