Actor

Elijah Canlas

Acting

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Acting credits

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

TMDB popularity

2.5

Moderate attention

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Movies: 27Series: 10Crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 1349626

IMDb ID: nm6652668

Known for: Acting

Born: August 16, 2000

Age: 25

Place of birth: Philippines

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1991 - 2025

Years active: 35

Average TMDB rating: 6.91

Wikidata: Q98203885

Other jobs

Cinematography (1)Co-Producer (1)

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Biography

Elijah Luiz Madiclum Canlas is a Filipino television, film and theater actor and commercial model. His lead and title role in the film Kalel, 15 paved the way for more acting opportunities in his career. This film also bagged its director, Jun Robles Lana, the best director award at the Tallinn International Film Festival in Estonia, and Elijah's first Best Actor award at the 17th Asian Film Festival held in Rome, Italy. In May 2020, he was cast as one of the main actors in the YouTube series, Gameboys. Produced by The IdeaFirst Company, it is a boys love (BL) series in the Philippines that tackles the story of two young men who find each other online amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Second of three siblings, he is fondly called Jelo by his older brother Jerom, and younger brother, JM. The Canlas brothers are all actors who played various roles in film, theater and television. With their mother being a theater actress in Bacolod, they were exposed to theater at a very young age.