May Thet Khine

In this Burmese name, the given name is May Thet Khine. There is no family name.

May Thet Khine
မေသက်ခိုင်
May Thet Khine at the Myanmar Academy Awards Ceremony
Born	(1989-09-24) 24 September 1989 (age 35) Yangon, Myanmar
Nationality	Burmese
Education	Yangon University of Economics
Occupation(s)	Actress, model, singer
Years active	2007–2013; 2017
Height	5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Parent	Moe Moe Yee

May Thet Khine (Burmese: မေသက်ခိုင်; born 24 September 1989) is a Burmese actress, model and singer who was one of the most popular actresses around 2000s.^[1] Throughout her career, she has acted in over 200 films.^[2][3]

Early life and education

May Thet Khine was born on 24 September 1989 in Yangon, Myanmar to parents Tint Lwin and his wife Moe Moe Yee.^[4] She is the only daughter and niece of actress May Thinzar Oo. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 2 Latha. She enrolled at Yangon University of Economics, and then she dropout of university at the first year.^[5]

Career

2005–2006: Beginnings

May Thet Khine started acting when she was four years old thanks to her aunt May Thinzar Oo, whose acting her reportedly hopes to emulate. She has no formal training in acting; however she says her aunt and director Wyne, have taught her a lot. In 2006, she appeared on local magazine cover photos, and as commercial model for many advertisements. Her hard work as a model and acting in commercials was noticed by the film industry and soon, film casting offers came rolling in.

2007–2012: Acting debut, recognition and retirement

She officially entered the film industry in 2007 and acted in music videos. She earned the notice of the audience when she starred in the music video for the song "Moe" by singer Ye Lay. Then came the offers for TV commercials and then DVD ones. Her hardwork as a model and acting in commercials was noticed by the film industry and soon, film casting offers came rolling in. She made her acting debut with a leading role in the film Kyan Taw Ama Ma Kyar Nyo (My Sister Ma Kyar Nyo), alongside Tun Tun, Wyne Su Khaing Thein and Nawarat in 2007. She then starred in the film Ho Lu Gyi, where she played the leading role for a first time with actor Dwe. The film was a domestic hit, and led to increased recognition for May Thet Khine.^[6]

May Thet Khine is performing in a concert

In 2008, she took on her first big-screen role in the film Dhamma Thawka Innwa Yarzar, alongside Lu Min which screened in Myanmar cinema in 2009. She then starred in her second big-screen film Amone Mee Tauk (The Flames of Hatred), where she played the leading role^[7] with Hein Wai Yan, Swan and Khant Si Thu, which screened in Myanmar cinema in 2012.^[8] The film was nominee in the shortlist of seven films for Myanmar Academy Awards 2012.^[9] She completely disappeared from the screens for four years when she was busy with her business.

2017–present: Return to screen

In 2017, May returned to the film industry with a starring role in the military television film Pyi Daung Zu Thitsar. The film, which was based on the Battle of Mongkoe, was directed by Tin Aung Soe (Pann Myo Taw), aired on Myawaddy TV on 27 March 2017 to commemorate the 72nd Myanmar Armed Forces Day, and theatrically screened on 27 March 2018.^[10][11]

Selected filmography

Film

• Dhamma Thawka Innwa Yarzar (ဓမ္မသောကအင်းဝရာဇာ) (2009)
• The Flame Of Hatred (အမုန်းမီးတောက်) (2009)
• Union Loyalty (ပြည်ထောင်စုသစ္စာ) (television film, 2017)

Year	Film	Co-Stars	Note
2007	Kyan Taw Ama Ma Kyar Nyo	Htun Htun, Wyne Su Khaing Thein, Nawarat
2007	Ho Lu Gyi	Dwe
2007	Nway Ayate	Aung Ye Lin, Myint Myat, Yan Aung
2007	Mitta Lon Pwe	Swan Zarni, Nay San, Myat Kay Thi Aung	[12]
2007	May May Thate Khar	Htike Tan, Soe Moe Kyi
2007	Yin Twin Myitta	Maung, Soe Myat Thuzar	[13]
2008	A Seain Yint Yaung Dannayi	Kyaw Kyaw Bo
2008	A Htar Nat Yin Myat Tal	Tet Nay, Dane Daung, Khin Hlaing	[14]
2008	Arr Lone Achit No. 1	Si Phyo, Ye Aung	[15]
2008	Myint Mo Ei At Kyoung	Hein Wai Yan, Na Wa Rat, Zin Wine
2009	Sue Kyoe Khat Tae Aden Oo Yin	Kyi Zaw Htet, Min Oo	[16]
2009	Myint Sone Dannayi	M Lan Bawm, Min Oo	[17]
2009	Nay Tayar Moe Ta Pyay	Min Oo, Wine Min Lu	[18]

References

1. "ခွေးချစ်တတ်တဲ့ မေသက်ခိုင်". Yadanarpon Journal (in Burmese). 23 May 2013.
2. Poe, Chit (20 April 2019). ""အနုပညာအလုပ်တွေ လာငှားရင် ပြန်လုပ်ချင်တယ်"လို့ ပြောတဲ့ မေသက်ခိုင်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
3. "Films of May Thet Khine". Burmese Video Directory.
4. "Death Body လှုဒါန်းခဲ့တဲ့ မေသက်ခိုင်". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 1 June 2017.
5. "အနုပညာအလုပ်တွေနဲ့ရော ပရိသတ်တွေနဲ့ပါ ဝေးကွာနေလို့ အလွမ်းပြေပုံလေးတွေတင်လိုက်တဲ့ မင်းသမီးချောလေး မေသက်ခိုင်". Global Myanmar Media (in Burmese). 31 March 2019.
6. "ပြိုကွဲခဲ့တဲ့ မိသားစုအကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြောခဲ့တဲ့ မေသက်ခိုင်". Celenow (in Burmese). 23 May 2018.
7. "ဒီတစ်ပတ် ရုံတင်ပြသနေသော ရုပ်ရှင်ကားများ". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 25 April 2013.
8. "၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ်အတွက် အကောင်းဆုံးမြန်မာ့ရုပ်ရှင်ထူးချွန်ဆု ချီးမြှင့်ပွဲအတွက် စိစစ်အကဲဖြတ်ရေးအဖွဲ့များ ဖွဲ့စည်း၍ ရွေးချယ်လျက်ရှိ" (in Burmese). moi.gov.mm.
9. Han, Kyu Kyu (23 September 2013). "၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ် အကယ်ဒမီဆုအတွက် ဆန်ခါတင်ရုပ်ရှင်ခုနစ်ကား ရွေးချယ်". 7Day News (in Burmese).
10. "ပြည်ထောင်စုသစ္စာဇာတ်ကား အကြိုအထူးပွဲ ပြသ". Kumudra (in Burmese). 22 March 2018. Archived from the original on September 1, 2019.
11. Zwe Nyan (23 March 2017). "မုံးကိုးတိုက်ပွဲကို အခြေခံရိုက်ကူးထားတဲ့ 'ပြည်ထောင်စုသစ္စာ'" (in Burmese). 7Day News.
12. "Mitta Lon Pwe". Burmese Video Directory.
13. "Yin Twin Myitta". Burmese Video Directory.
14. "A Htar Nat Yin Myat Tal". Burmese Video Directory.
15. "Arr Lone Achit No. 1". Burmese Video Directory.
16. "Sue Kyoe Khat Tae Aden Oo Yin". Burmese Video Directory.
17. "Myint Sone Dannayi". Burmese Video Directory.
18. "Nay Tayar Moe Ta Pyay". Burmese Video Directory.

External links

• May Thet Khine on Facebook
• May Thet Khine on Instagram