Elijah Canlas Biography – Elijah Canlas Wiki
Elijah Canlas is a Filipino television, film, and theater actor and commercial model. He rose to fame when he took up a lead role in the film Kalel. This film also bagged its director, Jun Robles Lana, the best director award at the Tallinn International Film Festival in Estonia, and his 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. Together with Kokoy de Santos as Gavreel Alarcon, Elijah starred in the thirteen-part web series as Cairo Lazaro, an up-and-coming online game streamer. In late 2020, Netflix released a re-cut version of the series, titled Gameboys Level-Up Edition. There are several groups supporting Canlas, one of which is the Elijah Nation Official Fans Club that was founded on June 1, 2020.
At 14, he debuted as one of the four main characters in the film Sundalong Kanin (2014), a Cinemalaya entry directed by Janice O’Hara. In 2014, he auditioned for the main role of Kalel, when it was still titled Son of God, but got rejected because the role was supposed to be given to someone who resembles a mestizo son of a Spanish friar. Four years later in 2018, he met with director Jun Robles Lana because he was looking for a talent manager. During the meeting, Lana suddenly said Canlas could play the lead in his next film as Kalel. A year after portraying his role in the movie Edward (2019), his acting prowess won him Best Supporting Actor from the Pampelikulang Samahan ng mga Dalubguro (PASADO), alongside other nominees such as Baron Geisler, Joross Gamboa, and Ian Veneracion. He also won Best Acting Ensemble together with the other cast members of the movie Kalel, 15 (2020) in the 2020 PARAGON Critics Choice Awards.
On August 5, 2020, he bagged his first Best Actor award at the prestigious 17th Asian Film Festival in Rome, Italy for Kalel, 15. On December 22, 2020, he was named by CNN as “Actor of the Year”.He went to study at Junior High School, and studied Theater Arts at the Philippine High School for the Arts, and finished Senior High School at MINT College. He is currently taking up his Bachelor of Arts in Philippine Arts at the University of the Philippines Manila while continuously pursuing his acting career.
Elijah Canlas Age
He was born and named Elijah Luiz Madiclum Canlas on August 16, 2000 in Bacolod, Philippines.
Elijah Canlas Family
He was born the second of three siblings. His older brother is known as Jerom, and his younger brother is JM. All of them are actors who played various roles in film, theater, and television. Their mother is a theater actress in Bacolod, and they were exposed to theater at a very young age.
Elijah Canlas Height
He stands at a listed height of 5 feet 9 inches tall.
Elijah Canlas Instagram
He is on Instagram as @elijahcanlas.
