May (actress)
May | |
|---|---|
မေ | |
| Born | May Thu Aung 2 May 1991 |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Alma mater | University of Distance Education, Yangon |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Relatives | Thuzar Wint Lwin (sister) |
| Awards | Star Awards 2018 (Best Theme Song Award) |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Pop |
| Instruments | Vocals |
May Thu Aung (မေသူအောင်; born 2 May 1991), known professionally as simply May (Burmese: မေ), is a Burmese actress, singer, and model.[1] May won the Best Theme Song Award at the 2018 Star Awards for her work in the film Chu Si.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]May was born on 2 May 1991 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is the middle child among three siblings, having an older brother and younger sister. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 2 Lanmadaw. She graduated from University of Distance Education, Yangon with a degree in English in 2011.[3]
Career
[edit]2007–2010: Pageantry and acting debut
[edit]In December 2007, May competed in the Miss Now How 2007 pageant and placed as the 1st runner-up. In 2008, she competed in the Miss Kose 2008 pageant and became the 1st runner-up and won the tile Miss People 2008. In 2009, she entered the film industry and debuted as an actress in the film Tain Tway Thwar Tae Lan alongside senior actors Ye Deight, Htun Eaindra Bo and May Thinzar Oo in 2010. She then starred in the film Lu Zaw, alongside Ye Deight, Zin Wine, Soe Myat Thuzar and Sandy Myint Lwin.[3]
2011–2017: Breaking into the big screen and recognition
[edit]She then made her big-screen debut in the film Daddy Ka Main Ka Lay where she played the main role with Min Maw Kun, Hat Kat, and Phway Phway, which screened in Myanmar cinemas in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, she has temporary retirement from the entertainment industry due to health problems. In 2015, she played a supporting role in comedy film Bhone Ka Nyar Hna Par, which screened in Myanmar cinemas on 21 July 2017.[4] After this film, she starred in comedy film Zoot Kyar where she played the main role with Kyaw Ye Aung, Myint Myat, Moe Aung Yin, Ye Lay, Htet Aung Shine, Khine Thin Kyi, Thandar Bo and Patricia, which screened in Myanmar cinemas on 29 September 2017 and processed huge hit and successes.[5][6]
2018–present: Rising popularity
[edit]In 2018, she portrayed one of the female leads in the film Chu Si alongside Kyaw Htet Aung, Melody, Ei Chaw Po, Aye Myat Thu, and Nan Su Oo, which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 14 September 2018.[7] The same year, she co-starred with A Linn Yaung and Phway Phway in the horror film Tadotamee (The Bride), which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 28 December 2018 and was a commercial success.[8][9] Her portrayal of the character earned praised by fans for her acting performance and character interpretation, and experienced a resurgence of popularity.[10][11]
Music career
[edit]May started singing in 2009 and participated in thingyan group album "April Queens". A song from that album, "Ar Koe Mal Naw" which became one of the all-time hit in her career.[12] She released her debut solo album "Marry Me?" on 23 February 2017 which was officially distributed to all parts of Myanmar.[13][14] She made the theme song "Myat Nar Phone Myar" (The Masks) for the film Chu Si together with May Kyi, which won the Best Theme Song Award at the 2018 Star Awards.[15][16]
May released a lot of single songs "Min Ko Chit Loh" in 2018, "Kyal" (Star), and "Lost" in 2019, "Good Bye" in 2020.[17]
Political activities
[edit]Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, May was active in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, she has taken part in protests since February. She joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.[18][19]
On 4 April 2021, warrants for her arrest were issued under section 505 (a) of the penal code by the State Administration Council for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, she was charged with calling for participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.[20][21]
Filmography
[edit] |
Film
[edit]- Tain Tway Thwar Tae Lan (တိမ်တွေသွားတဲ့လမ်း) (2010)
- Lu Zaw (လူဇော်) (2010)
Film (Cinema)
[edit]| Year | Film | Burmese title | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Daddy Ka Main Ka Lay | ဒယ်ဒီကမိန်းကလေး | |
| 2017 | Bhone Ka Nyar Hna Par' | ဘုန်းကညာနှစ်ပါး | |
| Zoot Kyar | ဇွတ်ကျား | ||
| 2018 | Chu Si | ချူဆီ | |
| Bride | သတို့သမီး | ||
| TBA | Pone Yeik | ပုံရိပ် | |
| Memories of Tomorrow | |||
| Tatiya Htet Bel Bat A Khan | တတိယထပ်ဘယ်ဘက်အခန်း | ||
| Promise[22] | ကတိ |
Discography
[edit]Solo album
[edit]- Marry Me (2017)
Singles
[edit]- Min Ko Chit Loh (2018)
- Kyal (2019)
- Lost (2019)
- Good Bye (2020)
- Phyay Par Baby (2020)
- A Tate Mae Yaw Gar (2021)
- A Yan Lwan Nay P(2022)
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Star Awards | Best Theme Song Award | Chu Si | Won |
References
[edit]- ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင်အလုပ်ထက် ဂီတဘက်ကို ပိုဦးစားပေးနေတဲ့ မေ". Duwun (in Burmese). 15 March 2020.
- ^ "Star Awards 2018 ဆုချီးမြင့်ပွဲအခမ်းအနား". Yangon Life (in Burmese). 6 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Web results သရုပ်ဆောင် မေနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 7 August 2019.
- ^ "ဘုန်းကညာနှစ်ပါး ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားကြီး ဇူလိုင် ၂၁ရက်တွင် ရုံတင်ပြသမည်". Mizzima (in Burmese). 11 July 2017.
- ^ "ဇွတ်ကျား ရုပ်ရှင် ဇာတ်ကားကြီး စက်တင်ဘာ ၂၉ရက်တွင် ရုံတင် ပြသမည်". Mizzima (in Burmese). 20 September 2017.
- ^ "Zoot Kyar". Myanmore Magazine. 29 September 2017.
- ^ "Chu Si". Myanmore Magazine. 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Movie Time: Screenings from October 17 to 23". The Myanmar Times. 17 October 2019.
- ^ "Movies showing in Yangon this week 28th December 2018 to 3rd January 2019". Myanmore Magazine. 27 December 2018.
- ^ "အလင်းရောင်၊ ဖွေးဖွေး၊ မေ တို့ ပါဝင်ထားတဲ့ "သတို့သမီး" ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကား အထူးပွဲ". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 28 December 2018.
- ^ "မော်ဒယ်သရုပ်ဆောင်မေ သတို့သမီးရဲ့လျှို့ဝှက်ချက်ဇာတ်ကားကြီးမှာ ပါဝင်သရုပ်ဆောင်ထား". Kumudra (in Burmese). 22 January 2018.
- ^ "အဆိုတော်အဖြစ်အသိအမှတ်ပြုမှုရချင်တဲ့ မေ". 7Day News (in Burmese). 20 December 2016.
- ^ "ဂယက်တွေအများကြီးထဲက ဖြစ်လာတဲ့ Marry me?". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 17 February 2017.
- ^ "Marry Me? လို့ မေးနေတဲ့ မေ". Yangon Life (in Burmese). 18 February 2017.
- ^ "Star Awards ဆုပေးပွဲမှ Best Theme Song Award ဆုရှင် မေ နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း – Media9". Media9 (in Burmese). 4 May 2019.
- ^ "Star Award ဆုပေးပွဲတွင် ဆုရရှိကြသည့် အနုပညာရှင်များ၏ ဆုရရှိမှုစာရင်း". Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). 5 April 2019.
- ^ Win, Leanne (28 March 2018). "ဒုတိယ တစ်ကိုယ်တော်အခွေထွက်ရှိဦးမယ့်သရုပ်ဆောင် အဆိုတော်မေ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ "တရားမျှတမှု We Want Justice ကန်ပိန်းတွင် အနုပညာရှင်များပါဝင် ဆန္ဒထုတ်ဖော် (ဓာတ်ပုံ)". DVB (in Burmese). 4 February 2021.
- ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 February 2021.
- ^ "လူမှုကွန်ရက်အား အသုံးပြု၍ CDM လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင် ပါဝင်စေရန် လှုံ့ဆော်သည်ဟုဆိုကာ အနုပညာရှင်များ အပါအဝင် ၂၀ ဦးအား ပုဒ်မ၅၀၅(က) ဖြင့် ထပ်မံအမှုဖွင့်ကြောင်း သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 4 April 2021.
- ^ "အာဏာသိမ်းရက်ပေါင်း ၆၀ ကျော်အတွင်း နိုင်ငံတဝန်း ပစ်ခတ် ဖြိုခွဲမှုတွေကြောင့် သေဆုံးသူ ၅၇၀ ထိရှိလာ". BBC News (in Burmese). 6 April 2021.
- ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင် မေနှင့်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". The Standard Time Daily (in Burmese). 6 August 2019.