May Myint Mo

May Myint Mo (Burmese: မေမြင့်မိုရ်; born May Myint Mo Aung 11 May 1995)[1] is a Burmese television and film actress.[2] She gained widespread popularity after starring in the MRTV-4 series Pan Nu Thway (2013) and A Yake (2018).[3]

In this Burmese name, the given name is May Myint Mo. There is no family name.
May Myint Mo
မေမြင့်မိုရ်
Born
May Myint Mo Aung

(1995-05-11) May 11, 1995
Yangon, Myanmar
NationalityBurmese
Other namesMay, May Lay
Alma materUniversity of Yangon
OccupationActress
Years active2012–present
Parent(s)Aung Ko
Myintzu Htut
RelativesShinn Myat (brother)
Awards2018 Star Award for Rising Star Award (Female)

Early life and education

May Myint Mo was born on 11 May 1995 in Yangon, Myanmar to parent Aung Ko and his wife Myintzu Htut. She has one younger sibling Shinn Myat, an actor. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 1 Dagon and graduated from the University of Yangon in 2016 with an LLB degree.[4]

Career

2012–2014: Acting debut and recognition

May began her modeling career in 2012 while a student. She also appeared on music videos, magazine cover photos and as commercial model for many advertisements. She made her acting debut with in the third season of The Sign of Love, after being selected by Forever Group, from among almost 100 amateur actresses.[5]

In 2013, she starred in her second television drama Pan Nu Thway where she played the leading role with Myat Thu Kyaw, aired on MRTV-4 in 2013, and received positive reviews for her portrayal of Pan Nu Thway, which led to increased popularity for her. She then starred in the season 2 of Pan Nu Thway, aired on MRTV-4 in 2014.[5]

2014–2015: Breaking into the big screen

In 2014, she took on her first big-screen role in the historical film Magical Inscription where she played the main role with Myint Myat, Tun Tun, and Shwe Hmone Yati, which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 5 October 2018.[6] In 2015, she portrayed the female lead in the film Moe Pann Pwint Yae Thin-Kay-Ta (The Sign of Sky Flower), alongside Han Lin Thant, which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 14 September 2018.[5]

2016–present: Major roles and rising popularity

In 2016, she co-starred with Sithu Win and Aung Yay Chan in the historical drama Sone See Chin Moe Tain Myar, portrayed the role of Ngwe Lamin, alongside, aired on MRTV-4 in 2017.[5] In 2017, she gain increased attention and popularity with her role as Su Su Hlaing in the hit drama A Yake (Shadow) alongside Hein Htet, Net Khat, Yan Aung, Soe Myat Thuzar, aired on MRTV-4 in May 2018, was a huge success, topping television ratings and becoming the most watched Burmese television drama at that time.[7] May's portrayal of the character earned praised by fans for her acting performance and character interpretation, and experienced a resurgence of popularity.[8] The series is adapted from Ma Sandar's novel A Yake (The Shadow) and a remake of the popular 1997 film A Yake based on the same novel.[9]

In 2018, she starred in the historical drama Bagan Myo Thu alongside Daung and Htoo Aung, aired on MRTV-4 on 28 November 2018. The series is directed by Kyaw Thu and adapted from Mg Thein Sine's novel Bagan Myo Thu.[10] She won the "Rising Star Award (Female)" at the 2018 Star Awards for her performance in the film Moe Pann Pwint Yae Thin-Kay-Ta.[11]

In 2019, she starred in the thriller drama series The Missing Truth alongside Lu Min, Kaung Myat San, Htoo Aung, Aung Ye Htike aired on MRTV-4 on 19 September 2019.[12]

In 2020, she starred in the military series Legends of Warriors with Kyaw Hsu, Aung Yay Chan, Soe Myat Thuzar which aired on MRTV-4 on 13 March 2020.

Filmography

Film (Cinema)
  • Mhaw Kyauk Sar (မှော်ကျောက်စာ) (2018)
  • Sign of Moe Pan Pwint (မိုးပန်းပွင့်ရဲ့သင်္ကေတ) (2018)
  • A Chit Sone Crush? (အချစ်ဆုံးCrush?) (2019)
  • 1014 (၁၀၁၄) (2019)
  • Kyauk Kyauk Kyauk 2 (ကြောက်ကြောက်ကြောက်၂) (2019)
  • Yoma Paw Kya Tae Myet Yay (ရိုးမပေါ်ကျတဲ့မျက်ရည်) (2019)
  • Calling (ခေါ်သံ) TBA
  • Vein Of Love (စတုတ္ထြေမာက်သွေးကြောမျှင်) TBA
  • Blood Debt (သွေးကြွေး) TBA

Television series

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Nominated work Result
2018Star AwardRising Star Award (Female)Sign of Moe Pan PwintWon

References
  1. စပယ် (2018-05-12). "အသက် ၂၃ နှစ်ပြည့် မွေးနေ့အလှူလုပ်ခဲ့တဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ်". Duwun. Archived from the original on 2018-07-22.
  2. "မအိမ်ကံနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး "ရိုက်မယ်၊ မရိုက်ဘူး အစီအစဉ် မရှိသေးဘူး" လို့ မေမြင့်မိုရ်ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 6 September 2018.
  3. ကြူကြူဟန် (2013-11-08). ""ပန်းနုသွေး"ကို အများကြီးမျှော်လင့်ထားတဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ်". 7 Day Daily.
  4. Nyein (November 16, 2017). "ဥပဒေဘွဲ့ ရရှိသွားပြီ ဖြစ်တဲ့ မင်းသမီးချောလေး မေမြင့်မိုရ်". Myanmarload.
  5. Lin, Tun (29 July 2017). "စုစုလှိုင်အဖြစ် ပရိသတ်တွေ လက်ခံနိုင်မလားဆိုတာ ရင်ခုန်နေတဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ်". Moda Magazine (in Burmese).
  6. Zaw, Pann Myat (21 September 2017). "လုလုအောင်ကြော်ငြာတဲ့ မှော်ကျောက်စာ ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကား အောက်တိုဘာလတွင် ရုံတင်တော့မည်". Mizzima (in Burmese).
  7. ""အရိပ်" ဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲဖြင့် ပရိသတ်အားပေးမှု ပိုခိုင်မာလာသည့် မေမြင့်မိုရ်". Democratic Voice of Burma. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  8. Nyan, Zwe (21 April 2018). "ဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲအသစ်နှစ်ခုနဲ့ ရင်ခုန်စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားနေတဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ်". 7Day News (in Burmese).
  9. ""အရိပ်" ဇာတ်ကားမှာ စုစုလှိုင်အဖြစ် မေမြင့်မိုရ်က ပါဝင်သရုပ်ဆောင်မည်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 24 April 2018.
  10. Nwe Mon Phyo (2018-10-03). "ပုဂံမြို့သူဖြစ်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ်". 7 Day Daily.
  11. Poe, Chit (13 April 2019). "ဒီနှစ် သင်္ကြန်အစီအစဉ်တွေ ပြောပြတဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် မေမြင့်မိုရ်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
  12. Thet, Khin Swe (16 September 2019). "ဖေ့စ်ဘွတ်ခ်ဆယ်လီ ကာရိုက်တာ အကြောင်းပြောတဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ်". 7Day News (in Burmese).
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