Iyah Mina

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Iyah Mina
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Born (1976-07-10) July 10, 1976 (age 47)
Occupation(s)Actress, stand up comic
Years active1999–present

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! . [1]

Contents

In 2018, Mina appeared in the 2018 Cinema One Originals 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. [2] [3] [4] [1] [5] [6]

The following year, Mina appeared in Wagas Presents: Throwback Pag-ibig .

In 2020, she appeared in the iWant miniseries My Single Lady [7] [8] and appeared in the coming-of-age romantic drama The Boy Foretold by the Stars .

Personal life

Mina came out to her family as a transgender woman when she was 20 years old while she was still attending college. [9]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleChannel/Streaming platformNotesSource
2019 Throwback Pag-ibig Mama Ru GMA News TV
2020My Single Lady iWantTFC [7] [8]
2021Love Beneath The StarsBaby R
2022Sino'ng Manok MoHerself/Referee PIE Channel

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesSource
2018Mamu; And a Mother TooMamu [2] [5]
2020 The Boy Foretold by the Stars Baby R
2021 Ayuda Babes Pinky
2023 Here Comes the Groom Mama Wendy
Third World Romance

Awards and nominations

YearWorkAwardCategoryResultSource
2018 Mamu; And a Mother Too Cinema One Originals Film Festival Best ActressWon [3] [2] [5]
2019 FAMAS Awards Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading RoleNominated [10] [11]
Gawad Urian Awards Best ActressNominated [12]
PMPC Star Awards for Movies New Movie Actor of the YearNominated [13]

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