[3] Bernardez began her career in production, having become curious about her work through her interactions on the sets of projects where her mother acted.
[5] Her acting debut in Gusto Kita with All My Hypothalamus was a major role[1] which she got despite originally joining the film as a talent coordinator.
When other members of the production realized who she was, and that the concept for the character was "a younger" version of Bernardez' own mother, they encouraged her to apply for the role.
She had to be reminded by her mother that she should stop this practice, since she already had significant acting experience.
[6] She received the Cinema One Originals Best Supporting Actress award in 2019 for Metamorphosis, an intersex coming of age story which had nearly been given an X rating by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), which only agreed to give the film an R-16 rating after an appeal.