Hsu Eaint San (Burmese: ဆုအိမ့်စံ; born Hsu Myat Thin on 22 March 1994) is a Burmese actress and commercial model.[1] She is best known for her leading roles in several Burmese films. Throughout her career, she has acted in over 40 films.[2][3][4]

Hsu Eaint San
ဆုအိမ့်စံ
Hsu Eaint San at her film promotion event
Born
Hsu Myat Thin

(1994-03-22) March 22, 1994 (age 30)
NationalityBurmese
Other namesHsu Hsu
Alma materDagon University
Occupation(s)Actress, Model
Years active2015–present
Height5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Parent(s)Tun Aung Kyi
Yin Yin Thaung

Early life and education edit

Hsu was born on 22 March 1994 in Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar to parents Tun Aung Kyi, a jade trader and his wife Yin Yin Thaung, who was of Kachin-Rakhine descent.[5] She is the third daughter of five siblings. Hsu moved to Yangon from Hpakant with her family in 2007. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 1 Dagon. She was currently studies in botany at the distance education of Dagon University.[6][7]

Career edit

2015–2016: Acting debut and recognition edit

Hsu officially entered the film industry in 2015 with the film Sate Naung Kyoe (Mind Bond) playing the leading role with Lu Min.[8] She then starred in film Ywar Ko Pyan Kae Arr Luu (Come back to the village, Arr Luu) where she played the main role with Nyi Htut Khaung and Thun Sett in 2016. The film was a domestic hit, and led to increased recognition for Hsu Eaint San.[2][4]

2016–present: Breaking into the big screen edit

 
Hsu Eaint San and actor Thu Riya at the movie press show

In 2016, she took on her first big-screen main role in the comedy-drama film Facebook Ywar (Facebook Village), alongside Lu Min, Khine Thin Kyi and Yu Thandar Tin. The film was popular in Myanmar and which premiered in Myanmar cinemas in 2016 stayed in local theaters for a record five weeks.[2][9]

In 2016, she portrayed her role as Mal Mal Pwa in the popular big-screen film Nga Academy (My Academy) which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 10 March 2017.[10] In 2017, she starred in the big-screen film Facebook Ywar 2 (Facebook Village 2), will be showing in Myanmar cinemas on next year.[11]

In 2018, she starred in the comedy film Baw Baw Ka Htaw, playing her role as Moe Swe alongside Myint Myat, Shwe Thamee and Mone which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 13 July 2018. The film which was a huge commercial hit slot nationally and becoming the most watched film at that time. Hsu's portrayal of the character earned praised by fans for her acting performance and character interpretation, and experienced a resurgence of popularity.[12][4] The same year, she starred in the big-screen film Thaye Thinbaw (Ghost Ship) where she played the main role with co-stars Khant Si Thu, Thu Riya, Khine Thin Kyi and Yu Thandar Tin which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 18 January 2019.[13] From 2015 to present, she has acted in over 40 films and 6 big screen films.[14]

Political activities edit

Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Hsu Eaint San 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.[15][16]

On 5 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.[17][18]

Personal life edit

 
Thu Riya and Hsu Eaint San

Hsu relationship with actor Thu Riya, who was a co-star on the film Facebook Ywar (Facebook Village), became a publicized topic in the "Cele Cele Small" Facebook page. After this news was released, they couple admitted to the public on their relationship had started on early 2017. Hsu Eaint San and Thu Riya co-starred in many more films most notably Kyar Phyu, Naung Bal Tote Mha Ma Mone, and Shin A May Nae Kyaunt Ma, as well as big screen films, Facebook Ywar, Nga Academy and Thaye Thinbaw. In October 2019, they faced some problem and end their relationship.

Filmography edit

Film (Cinema) edit

List of films
Year Title Director Co-Stars Role
2016 Facebook Ywar Yazawin Ko Lu Min, Thu Riya, Khine Thin Kyi, Yu Thandar Tin ?
2017 Ngar Academy Yarzawin Ko Khant Sithu, Thu Riya, Nyi Htut Kung, Khine Thin Kyi, Shwe Hmone Yati Mei Mei Pwa
2018 Baw Baw Ka Htaw Ko Pauk Myint Myat, Khin Hlaing, Jocker, Shwe Thamee Moe Swe
2019 Thayel Thinbaw Yarzawin Ko Khant Sithu, Thu Riya, Nyi Htut Kung, Khine Thin Kyi, Thun Sett Thway Thway

Film edit

Over 40 films, including

  • Sate Naung Kyoe (စိတ်နှောင်ကြိုး) (2015)
  • Ywar Ko Pyan Kae Arr Luu (ရွာကိုပြန်ခဲ့ အာလူး) (2016)
  • Naung Bal Tote Mha Ma Mone (နောင်ဘယ်တော့မှမမုန်း) (2017)
  • Kyar Phyu (ကြာဖြူ) (2018)
  • Shin A May Nae Kyaunt Ma (ရှင့်အမေနဲ့ကျွန်မ) (2018)

Television series edit

  • Laung (လောင်) (2023)

References edit

  1. ^ "ဆရာမလေးအသွင် ဆယ်တန်းဖြေကလေးများကို ဆုတောင်းပေးခဲ့သည့် ဆုအိမ့်စံ(ဓာတ်ပုံ)" (in Burmese). Democratic Voice of Burma. 12 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "လှပချစ်စရာကောင်းသူတစ်ဦးအဖြစ် ပရိသတ်အားပေးချစ်ခင်မှုရရှိထားသူ သရုပ်ဆောင်မော်ဒယ် ဆုအိမ့်စံရဲ့ ငယ်ဘဝဖြတ်သန်းရာ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 3 January 2019.
  3. ^ Chit Poe (23 November 2018). "စပွန်ဆာရှာတဲ့ မိန်းကလေးတွေကို ပညာပေးရိုက်ကူးထားတဲ့ 'သင်' ဇာတ်ကား" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy.
  4. ^ a b c Chit Poe (20 November 2018). "မင်္ဂလာသတင်းကတော့ မကြာမီလာမည်"လို့ ပြောတဲ့ ဆုအိမ့်စံရဲ့ အချစ်ရေး" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy.
  5. ^ Arkar (17 February 2018). "ဘဝကို အမှန်တကယ် ဖြတ်သန်းရမှာ ကိုယ်တွေ နှစ်ယောက်ပဲမို့ ဝေဖန်တာတွေကို စိတ်ထဲမထားဖြစ်ဘူး ဆိုတဲ့ သူရိယ နှင့် ဆုအိမ့်စံ" (in Burmese). Sunday Journal.
  6. ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင်မော်ဒယ် ဆုအိမ့်စံရဲ့ ငယ်ဘဝဖြတ်သန်းရာ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 22 February 2018.
  7. ^ Thae Su Hlaing. "စုံတွဲပုံတွေယူမသုံးဖို့ မီဒီယာတွေကို တားမြစ်လိုက်တဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ဆုအိမ့်စံ" (in Burmese). Popular News Journal.
  8. ^ Myat Moe Pwint. "ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၂၂ ရက်နေ့မှာ ချစ်သူသက်တမ်း တစ်နှစ်ပြည့်ပြီ ဖြစ်တဲ့ ဆုအိမ့်စံ တို့ စုံတွဲ" (in Burmese). Popular News Journal.
  9. ^ Zaw Win Aung. "သရုပ်ဆောင်ပိုင်းမှာ လိုအပ်ချက်တွေ ရှိနေသေးတယ် သရုပ်ဆောင် ဆုအိမ့်စံ" (in Burmese). Popular News Journal.
  10. ^ Zay Thu (13 March 2017). "ကကာရိုက်တာ အပေါ်မှာ အနုပညာအမြင်နဲ့ပဲ ကြည့်စေချင်တဲ့ ဆုအိမ့်စံ". 7Day News.
  11. ^ "အနီနဲ့ အမည်းရဲ့ အလိုက်ဖက်ဆုံး အတွဲအဆက်ကြားက သူရိယနဲ့ ဆုအိမ့်စံ" (in Burmese). www.marry.com.mm. 24 July 2018.
  12. ^ "အိမ်သာရေသောက်ရင်း အမှတ်တရဖြစ်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်များ". Duwun. 9 July 2018.
  13. ^ "ရင်တုန်အောင်လဲကြောက်ရမယ် အူတက်အောင်လဲရယ်ရမယ့် "သရဲသဘောင်္" ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားကြီး". Momolay (in Burmese). 26 December 2018.
  14. ^ "ချစ်သူနဲ့တွဲရိုက်ထားတဲ့ ဇာတ်ကားတွေထွက်ဖို့ရှိတဲ့ ဆုအိမ့်စံ". Kamayut Media. 8 July 2018.
  15. ^ "တရားမျှတမှု We Want Justice ကန်ပိန်းတွင် အနုပညာရှင်များပါဝင် ဆန္ဒထုတ်ဖော် (ဓာတ်ပုံ)". DVB (in Burmese). 4 February 2021.
  16. ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 February 2021.
  17. ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာ၊ အဆိုတော် သားငယ်နှင့် ဂျာနယ်လစ်များအပါအဝင် နောက်ထပ် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 5 April 2021.
  18. ^ "အမှန်တရားဘက်မှာ ရပ်တည်ခဲ့တဲ့အတွက် ဂုဏ်ယူမဆုံးဖြစ်ကြောင်း မြတ်နိုးအေး ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 6 April 2021.

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