Ida Nerina's career in TV and films began in the early 1990s.
In 1992, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 10th Malaysian Film Festival for her portrayal of E.J.
Ida Nerina has since been nominated and awarded several times, including the Best Actress award at the 13th Malaysian Film Festival for her portrayal of Ena Manja Lara in Shuhaimi Baba's 1997 film Layar Lara,[1] which also won awards at the Brussels Independent Film Festival in 1997.
Ida Nerina's other Malay film roles include Mimpi Moon, Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam, Sepet, Gubra, and most recently 1957: Hati Malaya, a Shuhaimi Baba film depicting the struggle of the Malaysian founding fathers to free the country from British colonial rule, in which Ida Nerina plays Datin Halimah, wife of Dato Onn Jaafar.
On 21 June 2009, Ida Nerina fractured her spine in a fall at a condominium in Persiaran Syed Putra.