Elijah Canlas
Acting • Born 2000-08-16
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.
Filmography
41 credits
Tony
Movie
Tony
Keys to the Heart
Movie • 2023
Jayjay
Blue Room
Movie • 2022
Troy
GomBurZa
Movie • 2023
Paciano Mercado
New Queer Visions: Seeing is Believing
Movie • 2020
Rice Soldiers
Movie • 2014
LiveScream
Movie • 2022
Exo
About Us But Not About Us
Movie • 2023
Lance
EDJOP
Movie
Edgar "Edjop" Jopson
In Case They Don't Arrive
Movie • 2016
Benjie
Contestant #4
Movie • 2016
Sunshine
Movie • 2025
Miggs
The Flaming History of the Dela Cruz Family
Movie • 2018
Tonio Dela Cruz
Kalel, 15
Movie • 2019
Kalel
Gameboys: The Movie
Movie • 2021
Cairo Lazaro
The Real Enemy
Movie • 2020
Himself
Gasping for Air
Movie • 2016
Rey
Edward
Movie • 2019
Renz
LSS
Movie • 2019
He Who Is Without Sin
Movie • 2020
Martin
How to Die Young in Manila
Movie • 2020
Young Boy
Babae at Baril
Movie • 2019
Jun
Water Sports
Movie • 2024
Jelson
Uninvited
Movie • 2024
Tofy
Is this desire?
Movie
Paging Elise
Movie • 2025
Raging
Movie • 2025
Eli
KMJS' Gabi Ng Lagim: The Movie
Movie • 2025
Kain (segment "Berbalang")
Salvageland
Movie • 2025
Jules
Manila's Finest
Movie • 2025
Ano Ba Talaga Tayo - a short film by the Juans
Movie
Joms
Senior High
TV • 2023
Archie Aguerro
The Iron Heart
TV • 2022
Conrado Reyes
Misis Piggy
TV • 2022
Jeffrey Martinez
Unconditional
TV • 2019
Arthur
Gameboys 2
TV • 2022
Cairo Lazaro
High Street
TV • 2024
Archie Aguerro
Paano ang Pasko?
TV • 2020
Noel
Gameboys
TV • 2020
Cairo
Almost Paradise
TV • 2020
Dealer #1
Maalaala Mo Kaya
TV • 1991
Sofronio Vasquez