Iyah Mina

Acting

Iyah Mina

Born 1976-07-10

Iyah Mina is a Filipina actress and comedienne at the Laffline Comedy Bar in Quezon City, Philippines. In 2018, she won the Cinema One Best Actress Award for her debut role in Mamu; And A Mother Too. She was also nominated for FAMAS and Gawad Urian for the same role. She is the first transgender woman to receive the Best Actress award in the history of Philippine cinema.

Acting credits

Multwoh poster
NR

When a college queer dies suddenly in their dorm, they return as a ghost — not to seek revenge, but to say the one thing they never found the courage to say in life: "I love you".

Multwoh

2026

Dreamboi poster
NR

A trans woman becomes entranced by the voice of an underground audio porn star. Torn between fantasy and reality, she drifts through the neon haze of Quezon City on a journey of desire, pain, and self-discovery.

Dreamboi

2026

Call Me Mother poster
6.5

Twinkle is a single queer mother whose dream of officially adopting her son gets shaken when the boy's biological mother, Mara, unexpectedly reappears.

Call Me Mother

2025

Third World Romance poster
7.0

An outspoken cashier and laidback grocery bagger navigate the path to being happy despite the challenges of their blue-collared living in a world where nothing comes for free.

Third World Romance

2023

The Hallowed poster
NR

The mysterious death of a family patriarch during Holy Week forces his three estranged granddaughters to return to their ancestral home, where their simmering resentments explode just as a vengeful supernatural presence—anchored to a sinister religious statue known as the 13th Apostle—begins to terrorize them, exposing a truth far more terrifying than any ghost.

The Hallowed

2026

Ayuda Babes poster
2.3

A hilarious look at the altered lifestyles of people in quarantine in need of doleouts.

Ayuda Babes

2021

The Boy Foretold By the Stars poster
6.8

The Boy Foretold By The Stars is a romantic comedy movie about two senior high school boys who, through the help of a fortune-teller, find each other at an optional school retreat called Journey with the Lord.

The Boy Foretold By the Stars

2020

Broken Hearts Trip poster
NR

Five brokenhearted LGBTQ individuals will be given a chance to heal in the most beautiful places, and there’s a million-peso prize at the end. Can they stay single and prove to everyone that their lives will still go on? Or will their hearts open up to loving once more?

Broken Hearts Trip

2023

Regal Studio Presents: Once A Dad poster
NR

Manley's Dad came back as a woman.

Regal Studio Presents: Once A Dad

2022

Here Comes the Groom poster
6.5

Rodrigo Sr., his wife Salve, their children Rodrigo Jr and Blesilda are on their way to Junior's wedding in the midst of a solar eclipse and cruising on a magnetic field when their vehicle hits the van of a family of gay pageant konteseras Mama Wendy, Wanda, Winona, Whilhelmina and their trainee, Whitney when a soul swapping happens. How long will they need to stay in their swapped bodies before the next solar eclipse?

Here Comes the Groom

2023

Mamu (and a Mother Too) poster
4.2

A transgender sex worker in her late 40s along Fields Avenue whose only aspiration is to have breast implants for her profession unexpectedly assumes the role of a mother to her orphaned niece, a transgender youth who is only beginning to discover her own sexuality. As she works more shifts to save for her implants, troubles arise when she begins to feel the weight of her struggles – being an aging sex worker in fast-evolving society, a partner to her young fiancé, and a parent to a teenager she just met. Her difficult confrontations eventually lead her to a new attitude towards life, and a unique recipe to a famous Kapampangan dish, Sisig.

Mamu (and a Mother Too)

2018