Naw Phaw Eh Htar (S'gaw Karen: နီၢ်ဖီအဲၣ်ထါ, Burmese: နော်ဖောအယ်ထား; born 19 January 1996) is a Burmese actress and model.[1] She gained popularity after starring in the 2019 thriller drama series The Missing Truth which brought her wider recognition.[2][3]
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နော်ဖောအယ်ထား | |
 Naw Phaw Eh Htar at the signing event of The Missing Truth series | |
| Born | Naw Phaw Eh Htar January 19, 1996 Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar |
| Nationality | Karen |
| Other names | Putu |
| Alma mater | Mandalay University of Foreign Languages SHRM College |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, Model |
| Years active | 2018–present |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
| Parent(s) | Khun Tin Lynn Naw Hsar Po |
Early life and education edit
Naw Phaw Eh Htar was born on 19 January 1996 in Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar, to parents Khun Tin Lynn and Naw Hsar Pho, who are of ethnic Pa'O and Karen descent. She is the middle child among three siblings, having an older brother and a younger sister.[4] She finished her primary and higher education in Taunggyi. She went on to attend Mandalay University of Foreign Languages. She graduated with a B.A. (French language) from MUFL in 2018 and also earned the Diploma in Business Management from SHRM College in Singapore in 2019.[5]
Career edit
She was crowned campus beauty queen during her freshman year at the university. Since then, she has seized every opportunity that came her way, nurturing her dream of pursuing a career in the entertainment industry. Following her graduation, she participated in numerous music video productions, photo shoots, and wedding fairs. Additionally, she acted in an educational web series targeted at youth. She was chosen as the brand model for SAI Cosmetix by Sai Sai Kham Leng. Her dedication to modeling and acting in commercials caught the attention of the film industry, leading to a stream of casting offers.[6][7]
She made her acting debut in the MRTV-4 series The Missing Truth, alongside Kaung Myat San, Htoo Aung, Aung Ye Htike, and May Myint Mo. The series aired on MRTV-4 in 2019.[8] Her portrayal of the character Thudra garnered praise from fans for her acting performance and character interpretation, experiencing a resurgence of popularity.[9] The same year, she starred in the documentary series Mythical Myanmar Bagan, alongside May Toe Khine. The documentary explores the exotic ancient city of Myanmar, Bagan, delving into its culture, heritage, and beauty.[10]
In 2019, she was cast in the horror film Ma Phae Wah, a collaborative project with Thailand and directed by Pakphum Wonjinda, based on the story of Ma Phae Wah.[11][6][12][13]
She ventured into the big screen with her debut role in the 2023 film Deli Taxi Love, sharing the screen with Hlwan Paing and Shin Mway La.
Brand Ambassadorships edit
In 2019, she was appointed as brand ambassador for Telenor Myanmar, Sunkist and Free Fire in Myanmar.[6][14]
Political activities edit
Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Naw Phaw Eh Htar 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][17]
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.[18]
On 29 June 2021, the state-owned MRTV News reported that charges against a total of 24 artists, including Naw Phaw and others, had been dropped.[19]
Filmography edit
Film (Cinema) edit
| Year | Title | Director | Co-Stars | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Deli Taxi Love | Pyi Hein Thiha | Hlwan Paing, Shin Mway La | Moe Thae |
| TBA | Ma Phae Wah | Pakphum Wonjinda | Khar Ra, Kohtee Aramboy, Naraphat Stary, Patricia | Khin Thandar |
Television series edit
| Year | English title | Myanmar title | Role | Network | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Mythical Myanmar Bagan | "ဒဏ္ဍာရီမြန်မာ" ပုဂံသို့ | herself | Iflix | documentary |
| 2019 | The Missing Truth | ပျောက်ဆုံးနေသောအမှန်တရား | Thudra | MRTV-4 | |
| 2022 | Yin Htae Dan Dar Yee | ရင်ထဲကဒဏ္ဍာရီ | Wadi | Channel K | |
| Crying Forest | အိပ်မက်ငိုတော | Phoo Phoo | Canal+ Zatlenn | ||
| 2023 | Izzatta Mee Eain (lit. Lamp of Inner Mind) | အဇ္ဈတ္တမီးအိမ် | Shin Thant | Fortune TV | |
| Mingalar Shi Tae Eain Ka Lay | မင်္ဂလာရှိတဲ့အိမ်ကလေး | Mahar TV | |||
| My Husband's Secret | ကျွန်မခင်ပွန်း၏လျှို့ဝှက်ချက် | Htv |
References edit
- ^ "ပထမဆုံး ရုပ်သံ ဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲ ရိုက်နေတဲ့ မော်ဒယ် နော်ဖောအယ်ထား". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 14 February 2019.
- ^ "ခဏတာ သုဒြာဖြစ်ခဲ့တဲ့ အမှတ်တရတွေကို ပြောပြလာတဲ့ နော်ဖောအယ်ထား". Momolay (in Burmese). 17 October 2019.
- ^ "မြောက်ကိုရီးယား ဗိုလ်ကြီးထက် ပိုရင်ခုန်စရာ ကောင်းတဲ့သူ ရှိနေတဲ့ နော်ဖောအယ်ထား". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 26 February 2020.
- ^ "အေးချမ်းတဲ့ အပြုံးလေးများကို ပိုင်ဆိုင်ထားသူ မော်ဒယ်သရုပ်ဆောင် နော်ဖောအယ်ထား၏ ငယ်ဘ၀ အမှတ်တရဖြတ်သန်းရာ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 19 July 2018.
- ^ "မွေးနေ့လက်ဆောင်အဖြစ် အမြဲတမ်းဘေးကနေရှိနေပေးမယ် ဆိုပြီး သရုပ်ဆောင်မေတိုးခိုင်အတွက် မွေးနေ့ ဆုတောင်းစကားဆိုခဲ့တဲ့ နော်ဖောအယ်ထား". Eleven Media Group. 9 May 2019.
- ^ a b c "A peek into Naw Phaw Eh Htar's life". Eleven Media Group. 22 July 2019.
- ^ "May; Girl of the Month". Moda Magazine. 28 November 2017.
- ^ ""ပျောက်ဆုံးနေသောအမှန်တရား" ဇာတ်ကားရဲ့ Premiere Show ပွဲမှာ ချစ်စရာကောင်းနေတဲ့ နော်ဖောအယ်ထား". Zeekwat News (in Burmese). 15 September 2019.
- ^ "အသက် ၁၃နှစ်အောက် မကြည့်ရ လို့သတ်မှတ်ထားတဲ့ "ပျောက်ဆုံးနေသောအမှန်တရား " ရုပ်သံဇာတ် လမ်းတွဲ". Eleven Broadcasting (in Burmese). 17 September 2019.
- ^ "Mythical Myanmar Bagan". Iflix.
- ^ ""ယုံကြည်ရတဲ့ သူငယ်ချင်းက လက် ၅ ချောင်းတောင် မပြည့်ဘူး"လို့ နော်ဖောအယ်ထား ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 30 January 2020.
- ^ "ထိုင်းနှင့် မြန်မာ ပူးပေါင်းရိုက်ကူးသည့် 'မဖဲဝါ' ဝိညာဉ်ဇာတ်ကား စတင်ရိုက်ကူးလျက်ရှိပြီး နိုင်ငံတကာတွင်ပြသရန်စီစဉ်ထား". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 13 May 2019.
- ^ "ခါရာ၊ မေသဥ္ဇာဦး၊ ပတ်ထရစ်ရှာ တို့ ရိုက်ကူးမယ့် "မဖဲဝါ" ရုပ်ရှင်ကား ကန်တော့ပေးပွဲ". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 7 May 2019.
- ^ "LU LU Nationပွဲကို တက်လာတဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် နော်ဖောအယ်ထား". Eleven Broadcasting (in Burmese). 1 September 2019.
- ^ "รู้จัก Cacerolazo ยุทธการ เคาะหม้อประท้วง ไม่ได้มีครั้งแรกในเมียนมา!". อีจัน (in Thai). 8 February 2021.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Charges dropped for 24 artists, entertainers". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd. 30 June 2021.