Hsu Pan Htwar (Burmese: ဆုပန်ထွာ; MLCTS: hsu pan thwa), born Ye Nanda Thu (Burmese: ရဲနန္ဒသူ; MLCTS: rai nanda su) on 10 June 1978, is a Burmese actress and singer.[1] She is considered one of the most successful actresses in Burmese cinema, achieving fame as a singer as well. Throughout her career, she has acted in over 700 films and released two music albums.[2] Su Pan Htwar was nominated as Best Actress at the 2002 Myanmar Academy Awards for her performance in the film Dat Khe.
Hsu Pan Htwar | |
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ဆုပန်ထွာ | |
 Su Pan Htwar in 2019 | |
| Born | Ye Nanda Thu 10 June 1978 |
| Other names | Pan Pan |
| Alma mater | Dagon University West Yangon Technological University |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 1999–present |
| Spouse | Oakar Kyaw |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) | Ye Myint Aung Cho Zin Thein |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Pop |
| Instruments | Vocals |
Early life and education edit
Su Pan Htwar was born on 10 June 1978 in Myanaung, Myanmar, to her father Ye Myint Aung, a government official who served as the director general of Electric Power Corporation (EPC), and her mother Cho Zin Thein. She is the third daughter among five siblings. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 6 Alone. She graduated from Dagon University with a degree in zoology and a part-time evening diploma in EP from West Yangon Technological University.[3]
Career edit
1999–2000: Acting debut and recognition edit
She began her career in 1999 as a singer and competed in local music contests and won a prize at the Mild Seven, a singing competition. Shortly after, she was first contacted to release an album by Zaw Win Htut, a rock singer. However she turned to films industry and became an actress. She made her first appearance in the 1999 film Kyan Taw Naint Chit Thaw Main Ka Lay Myar, directed by Maung Thi. After a short time she made her leading role debut in film Tain Tway Ngo Loh Moe Phit Tar, alongside Nay Htet Lin and Min Oak Soe, directed by Mg Myo Min in 2000. She then starred in the film Thin Ka Chit Ywei Thin Ko Chit Thaw where she played the leading role for a first time with Dwe. The film was both a domestic hit, and led to increased recognition for Su Pan Htwar.[4]
2001–2010: Breaking into the big screen and success edit
Su Pan Htwar took on her first big-screen leading role in the film Bar Ayay Gyi Sone Lae, alongside Kyaw Thu, Lu Min and Zarganar, which screened in Myanmar cinemas in 2001. She then starred in the film Dat Khe, where she played the leading role with Byight and Okkar, which screened in Myanmar cinemas in 2002. Her portrayal of the character Hla Hton earned praised by fans for her acting performance and character interpretation, and also earned her a nomination for the 2002 Myanmar Academy Award for Best Actress.[5] Ever since then she had starred in over 700 videos/films and countless more advertisements, music videos and so on.
2011–present: Back to music scene and breakthrough edit
Su Pan Htwar released her debut solo album "Ma Tae Ah Tuu Nay" on 3 December 2011, which was officially distributed to all parts of Myanmar.[6][7] In 2014, she starred in the Myanmar's first TV series about justice and rule of law issues called The Sun, The Moon and The Truth where she played the main role with Bhone Thike, Nay Yan, Moe Yan Zune and Khin Zarchi Kyaw, aired on MRTV-4 on 13 February 2015 and received positive reviews for her portrayal of a lawyer Mya Hnin Si.[8][9]
In 2015, Forever Group surveyed and decided to continue The Sun, The Moon and The Truth as season 2, according to the audiences' wants after they made surveying. So she continued shooting season 2 and aired in 2018 on MRTV-4. In 2016, she released her second solo album "Thay Laut Aung Chit Tal" (I Love You to Death). The follow-up video album on 18 May 2019 was a commercial success.[10][11] In 2018, she starred in the hit thriller series It was on Yesterday 2, playing the role of Daw Thida, aired on MRTV-4 in September 2018.[12]
In 2020, she takes part as a judge in the Shwe Kyo selection contest for Myanmar Academy Awards.[13]
Brand Ambassadorships edit
Su Pan Htwar has been appointed brand ambassador for Mi Seoul, Grand Esta Yangon Clinic and JW Plastic Surgery Korea in 2017.[14]
Selected filmography edit
Film edit
Over 700 films, including
- Kyan Taw Naint Chit Thaw Main Ka Lay Myar (ကျွန်တော်ချစ်သော မိန်းကလေးများ) (1999)
- Tain Tway Ngo Loh Moe Phit Tar (တိမ်တွေငိုလို့မိုးဖြစ်တာ) (2000)
- Thin Ka Chit Ywei Thin Ko Chit Thaw (သင်ကချစ်၍ သင့်ကိုချစ်သော) (2000)
- Ma Gyi San and Her Lovers (မကြီးစန်းနှင့် သူ၏ချစ်သူများ) (2016)
Film (Cinema) edit
- Bar Ayay Gyi Sone Lae (ဘာအရေးကြီးဆုံးလဲ) (2001)
- Dat Khe (ဓာတ်ခဲ) (2002)
- Khoe Khoe Khit Khit (ခိုးခိုးခစ်ခစ်) (2014)
- Shin Upa Goat Ta Ma Htai Myat Kyi (ရှင်ဥပဂုတ္တ ရဟန္တာမထေရ်မြတ်ကြီး) (2019)[15]
Television series edit
| Year | English title | Myanmar title | Role | Network | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Sun, The Moon and The Truth | နေရယ် လရယ် အမှန်တရားရယ် | Mya Hin Si | MRTV | |
| 2018 | The Sun, The Moon and The Truth: Season 2 | နေရယ် လရယ် အမှန်တရားရယ် ၂ | Mya Hin Si | MRTV | |
| It was on Yesterday 2 | မနေ့ကဖြစ်သည် ၂ | Daw Thida | MRTV-4 |
Discography edit
Solo album edit
- Ma Tae Ah Tuu Nay (မတည့်အတူနေ) (2011)
- Thay Laut Aung Chit Tal (သေလောက်အောင်ချစ်တယ်) (2016)
Awards and nominations edit
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Myanmar Academy Award | Best Actress | Dat Khe | Nominated |
Personal life edit
Su Pan Htwar married to Oakar Kyaw, a businessman[16] and they celebrated their wedding reception in Santa Monica State Beach on Valentine's Day February 14, 2015. They also held a wedding reception in Myanmar in March 2016 at the Novotel Hotel in Yangon.[17] She gave birth to their first son named Roar Roar Kyaw on 15 September 2016.[18][19]
References edit
- ^ "What are their plans for the holidays?". The Myanmar Times. 22 December 2017.
- ^ "အနုပညာနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ရင် အိုက်တင်တွေပဲ လုပ်ချင်နေတဲ့ ဆုပန်ထွာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 12 July 2019.
- ^ Fame, Asian (28 March 2017). "သားကို အနုပညာအမွေပေးချင်တဲ့ ဆုပန်ထွ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ ""မြန်မာကားတွေ ဟာသရုပ်ရှင် ရိုက်တယ်ဆိုတာ ခေါ်လို့ ရိုက်ကြရတာပါ"". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 10 September 2018.
- ^ "ဗီဒီယိုဇာတ်ကားတွေထက် ရုပ်သံဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲတွေ နောက်ပိုင်း ပိုခေတ်စားလာမယ်လို့ ဆိုလိုက်တဲ့ ဆုပန်ထွာ". Trend.com.mm (in Burmese). 30 June 2014.
- ^ "Su Pan Htar's Solo Album Promotion Event". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Indonesian). 5 December 2012.
- ^ "အမ်တီဗီ တစ်ပါတည်း ထွက်မယ့် ဆုပန်ထွာရဲ့ ဒုတိယဂီတခြေလှမ်း". 7Day News (in Burmese). 26 April 2015.
- ^ "The Sun, The Moon and The Truth". Yangon Life. 28 January 2015.
- ^ "တရားစီရင်မှုနှင့် တရားဥပဒေစိုးမိုးရေးအကြောင်း ရိုက်ကူးထားသော နေရယ် လရယ် အမှန်တရားရယ် မြန်မာရုပ်မြင်သံကြားဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲ အပတ်စဉ် သောကြာနေ့ ညတိုင်း မြန်မာ့ရုပ်မြင်သံကြားမှ ပြသမည်". NPE (in Burmese). 28 January 2018.
- ^ "Su Pan Htwar's New Album Releasing". MIRadio. 15 May 2019.
- ^ ""သီချင်းတွေကို နားထောင်ပြီး ခံစားသွားရတာနဲ့တင် ကျေးဇူးတင်မိမှာပါ"လို့ ပြောတဲ့ ဆုပန်ထွာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 15 May 2019.
- ^ "ဆုပန်ထွာနဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". The Voice Weekly. 1 December 2019.
- ^ "အကယ်ဒမီ ရွှေကြို ရွေးချယ်ပွဲမှာ ဒိုင်အဖြစ် ပါဝင်ဖြစ်ပုံကို ပြောပြတဲ့ ဆုပန်ထွာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 27 January 2020.
- ^ "Su Pan Htwar with more improved looks". Yangon Life. 7 August 2017.
- ^ "Movie Time : Screenings from December 18 to 25". The Myanmar Times. 19 December 2019.
- ^ "သားယောကျ်ားလေး မွေးမယ့် သရုပ်ဆောင် ဆုပန်ထွာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 5 August 2016.
- ^ l (17 March 2015). "Oakar Kyaw and Su Pan Htwar Wedding Photos". Papawady.
- ^ Media, Asian Fame (27 September 2018). "သားလေးရှိရင် အရာရာပြည့်စုံပါပြီကိုဥက္ကာကျော် နဲ့ ဆုပန်ထွာ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ Myat, Ei (24 February 2020). "အနုပညာကို ဝါသနာပါတဲ့ သားလေးအကြောင်း ပြောပြလာတဲ့ ဆုပန်ထွာ". Duwun (in Burmese).