Iyah Mina is a
Filipino actress.
Career
In 2009, Mina started working as a stand up comic in Punchline, where she would eventually meet
Vice Ganda. Vice Ganda would later on cast Mina as one of her jesters/sidekicks in the late-night comedy talk show ''
Gandang Gabi, Vice!''.
In 2018, Mina appeared in the 2018
Cinema One Originals
The Cinema One Originals Film Festival, a division of ABS-CBN Films commonly known as Cinema One Originals, is an independent film festival in the Philippines held annually in the month of November in Quezon City. Its primary goal is to showcase ...
entry ''
Mamu; And a Mother Too'', playing an aging transgender sex worker forced to take the responsibility of being a mother to her sister’s orphaned transgender daughter, for which she awarded Best Actress in the Cinema One Originals Film Festival and became the first transgender to win such award in the said festival and the first transgender to win a Best Actress award in the
Philippines.
The following year, Mina appeared in ''
Wagas Presents: Throwback Pag-ibig''.
In 2020, she appeared in the
iWant miniseries ''My Single Lady''
and appeared in the
coming-of-age romantic drama ''
The Boy Foretold by the Stars
'' The Boy Foretold by the Stars '' is a 2020 Filipino coming-of-age romantic drama based on the play ''Ang Hangal'' by the film writer and director, Dolly Dulu, during his college days. It was produced by Derick Cabrido and Jodi Sta. Maria. T ...
''.
Filmography
Television
Film
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Living people
Filipino television actresses
Filipino film actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
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