Ei Chaw Po (Burmese: အိချောပို; born 3 January 1990) is a Burmese actress, model and singer of Mon descent. She is one of the most successful actresses in Burmese cinema and is among the highest-paid performers in the industry. She has received three nominations for Best Actress at the Myanmar Academy Awards in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Over the course of her film career, she has appeared in more than 250 films..[1][2][3]
Ei Chaw Po | |
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အိချောပို | |
Born | Ei Chaw Po 3 January 1990 Paung, Myanmar |
Nationality | Myanmar |
Other names | Suu Suu |
Alma mater | National University of Arts and Culture, Yangon |
Occupations |
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Years active | 2006–present |
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
Spouse | Moses Mone |
Parent(s) | Cho Maung Thida San |
Early life and education
editEi Chaw Po was born on 3 January 1990 in Paung, to ethnic Mon parents Cho Maung and Thida San. She is the second child among three siblings, having an older brother, Ye Min Oo and a younger sister, Ei Thiri Cho Maung. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 2 Kamayut. She was picked the "Queen" (beauty queen) as a freshman at the university. She graduated with a BA cinematography and drama in 2010, and Music diploma in 2012 from National University of Arts and Culture, Yangon.[4][5]
Career
editEi Chaw Po initiated her modeling career in 2006, gracing numerous local magazine covers. In 2008, she participated in local pageant contests, securing victories in various competitions and attaining continental titles, including Miss TRI 2008, Miss Sick & Shine 2008, Miss Smooth E 2008, and Miss Seven Days 2008.
In 2010, she was selected as an actress in the new face actor choice contest TV program Anu Phin Nyar Pyo Khin. She made her acting debut with a main role in the film Hla Pa Thaw Wut (Pretty Karma) in 2010. She then starred in the film York Kyar Ko Yaung Sar Mal (I Gonna Sell My Husband!), where she played the leading role for the first time with Pyay Ti Oo. The film was both a domestic hit and led to increased recognition for Ei Chaw Po.[6][7][8]
In 2014, she embarked on her first major leading role on the big screen in the romance film Shwe Dingar Ko Htwe Khinn Ka Sar Mal, alongside Nay Toe.[9] She has been nominated three times for Best Actress at the Myanmar Academy Award for the years 2016, 2017, and 2018. From 2010 to the present, she has featured in over 50 big-screen films and a total of over 200 films.[10]
In 2017, she took on the female lead role in the big-screen film Kyway alongside Hlwan Paing and Tyron Bejay.[11][12][13] In 2018, she starred in the big-screen film Houk Ser, playing the lead role alongside Myint Myat and Kyaw Kyaw Bo.
Music career
editEi Chaw Po is also actively involved as a solo singer. She began her singing career in 2013 and contributed to group albums such as "Shwe Thachin Myar Nae Pyan Than Chin" (Flying with the Golden Songs) in 2015 and "VeVe 20th Anniversary" in 2016. A notable song of hers from the VeVe group album is "A Lo Chin Sone Sanda" (The Most Desire).[14][15]
Later on, she released her inaugural single, "Gypsy Boy", in 2018. The single, performed in collaboration with her younger sister, Ei Thiri Cho Maung, gained widespread popularity on the day of its release on her official Facebook page and YouTube channel. Since 2016, Ei Chaw Po has actively participated as a singer in Thingyan music concerts annually. She is currently working towards producing and distributing her solo album, which is anticipated to be released soon.[16]
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editIn 2014, Ei Chaw Po was featured in a video advertisement for Myanmar Awzar Fertilizer alongside actor Nay Toe. She became a brand ambassador for VeVe in 2016.[17]
Personal life
editEi Chaw Po is married to Moses Mone, a mixed Chin-Kachin businessman and the son of former police lieutenant chief Yahlyan Mone (ရာလ်လျန်မှုန်း). The wedding took place on 17 November 2023, on Phuket Island, Thailand.[18]
Filmography
editFilm (Cinema)
editOver 50 films, including
- Shwe Dingar Ko Htwe Khinn Ka Sar Mal (ရွှေဒင်္ဂါးကိုထွေခင်းကစားမယ်) (2014)
- 3Girls (သရဲမ၊ဘီလူးမနှင့်မိန်းမပျို) (2017)
- Kyway (ကြွေ) (2018)
- Tasay Par Lar Pyi (တစ္ဆေပါလာပြီ) (2018)
- Chu Si (ချူဆီ) (2017)
- Houk Ser (ဟောက်စား) (2019)
- LadyBoy (2019)
- A Chit Sone Crush? (အချစ်ဆုံးCrush?)(2019)
- Players (ပလေယာ) (2020)
Film
editOver 200 films, including
- Hla Pa Thaw Wut (လှပသောဝဋ်) (2010)
- York Kyar Ko Yaung Sar Mal (ယောက်ျားကိုရောင်းစားမယ်) (2010)
Television series
edit- Pin Lal Gyi Yae A Pyone (2022)
Discography
editSingles
edit- Gypsy Boy (2018)
Songs from collaborative albums
edit- Dar Thwar Htet Ka Pyar Yay Sat (Shwe Thachin Myar Nae Pyan Than Chin) (2015)
- A Lo Chin Sone Sanda (VeVe 20th Anniversary) (2016)
References
edit- ^ Khin Swe Thet (20 May 2018). "အချစ်ရေးက အေးဆေးပဲဆိုတဲ့ အိချောပို" (in Burmese). 7Day News. Archived from the original on 23 May 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Chit Poe (13 July 2018). ""တက္ကသိုလ် ကျောင်းတုန်းက ကောင်လေးတွေကို ပညာပေးတာမျိုး မရှိပါဘူး" ဆိုတဲ့ အိချောပို" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Lin Lin Khine (31 January 2018). "သူတို့ ဘာလုပ်နေလဲ၊ ဘာလုပ်ဖို့ ရှိလဲ-အိချောပို". Weekly Eleven. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Khin Swe Thet (30 October 2017). "Body Shaming လုပ်သူတွေ ကိုယ်ချင်းစာစိတ်ထားပေးဖို့ ပြောလိုက်တဲ့ အိချောပို". 7Day News. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Phyu Phway Thant (13 September 2015). "စင်ကာပူမှာ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးပြဇာတ်ကမယ့် အိချောပို". 7Day News. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Mann Thu (25 June 2018). ""လက်ရှိမှာ ဟာသကားတွေပဲ ရိုက်ဖြစ်နေတယ်" ဆိုတဲ့ အိချောပို" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Thiha Toe (20 October 2017). "ခေတ်နဲ့ စနစ်ကို သရော်ထားတဲ့ "အော်တိုဘုရင်" ရုပ်ရှင်" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Zwe Nyan (15 January 2018). "ပြည့်တန်ဆာဇာတ်ရုပ်ပီပြင်ဖို့ ပြောမထွက်တဲ့ ဒိုင်ယာလော့တွေ ကြိုးစားပြောခဲ့တဲ့ အိချောပို". 7Day News. Archived from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Zwe Nyan (11 June 2018). "ရိုက်ဖူးတဲ့ ဇာတ်ရုပ်ဆိုရင် လက်မခံတဲ့အကြောင်း ရှင်းပြတဲ့ အိချောပို". 7Day News. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ "အရာရာသာ စီမံပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိရင် ကားတွေကို မိုးပေါ်ပျံစေချင်တယ် အိချောပို" (in Burmese). The Yadanabon. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ "Kyway". Myanmore. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Zwe Nyan (6 July 2018). "ပွဲဦးထွက်ခေါင်းဆောင်မင်းသားဇာတ်ရုပ်အတွက် လွှမ်းပိုင်ရဲ့ရင်ခုန်သံ". 7Day News. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Zwe Nyan (2 October 2016). "'အရှုပ်'ရုပ်ရှင်ကားမှာ မလိမ်းခြယ်ဘဲ သရုပ်ဆောင်ထားတယ်ဆိုတဲ့ အိချောပို". 7Day News. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ "ကိုယ်ပိုင်သံစဉ် သီချင်းတွေ စုထားတဲ့ အိိချောပို". myanmaspectrum.com (in Burmese). 11 October 2013.
- ^ "အနီရဲရဲနဲ့ Ve Ve ရဲ့ နှစ် ၂၀ ပြည့် စီးရီးပရိုမိုးရှင်း". Yangon Life. 8 December 2016.
- ^ "သီချင်းအယ်လ်ဘမ်ထွက်ဖို့ပြင်ဆင်နေတဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် အိချောပို" (in Burmese). Akhayar. 14 July 2017.
- ^ "Nay Toe and Ei Chaw Po star in a video advertisement for the Myanmar Awzar Fertilizer companydirected". Mizzima. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Naing, Ei (12 October 2023). "မကြာခင် မင်္ဂလာပွဲ ကျင်းပတော့မယ့် မင်းသမီး အိချောပို - Myanmar Transparency News". MT News.