Iyah Mina

In 2009, Mina started working as a stand-up comic in Punchline, where he would eventually meet Vice Ganda. Vice Ganda would later on cast Mina as one of his jesters/sidekicks in the late-night comedy talk show Gandang Gabi, Vice!.^[1]

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 he awarded Best Actor 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 Actor award in the Philippines.^{[2][3][4][1][5][6]}

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

In 2020, he 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.

In 2024 and 2025, h e appeared in the ABS-CBN Studios' game show Rainbow Rumble on Kapamilya Channel, A2Z, All TV and TV5.

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