Nyi Nyi Maung (Burmese: ညီညီမောင်; also known as Thu Thu, born 30 June 1981) is a Burmese make-up artist turned actress after two decades-long experience in the Myanmar makeup industry.[1][2] For decades she was known by the nickname Nyi Nyi Maung - San Chaung while working as a make-up artist, before her acting debut. Nyi Nyi Maung featured on The Myanmar Times "Top 10 Make-up artists" list in 2018.[3]
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 Nyi Nyi Maung at her film press show | |
| Born | Nyi Nyi Maung 30 June 1981 Yangon, Myanmar |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Alma mater | University of West Yangon |
| Occupation(s) | Make-up artist, actress |
| Years active | 2000–present |
Early life and education
editNyi Nyi Maung was born on 30 June 1981 in Yangon, Myanmar. She was the only son in the family and favoured a female identity and was constantly misunderstood, discriminated against, and abused, even within the family. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 2 Kamayut (St.Augustine) and graduated from the University of West Yangon with a degree in Botany.[4][5][6]
Career
editIn 2000s, she learned doing make-up from make-up artist Aung Aung (Taunggyi). At age 27, she opened a beauty salon in Yangon. She offered to work for popular movie stars and made a name for herself in the make-up industry.[7] She rose to prominence while working with actresses Nandar Hlaing, Pa Pa Win Khin, Chaw Yadanar and others, arranging their hair and changing their looks. She was active an advocate for LGBT community.[8]
In 2018, she had posted dozens of sit-com style comedy videos to Facebook. Her posted comedy videos on Facebook was noticed by the film industry and soon, film casting offers came rolling in.[9] She made her big-screen debut with the main role in the comedy film Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite, alongside Myint Myat, Min Maw Kun, Khin San Win, Linn Linn and Ma Htet.[10][11] The film was directed by Pyi Hein Thiha which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 29 August 2019.[12][13] Her portrayal of the LGBT character was praised by fans for her acting performance and character interpretation, and experienced a resurgence of popularity.[1] She then starred in her second film A Htein Taw where she played the main role with Myint Myat, Shin Mwe La, Linn Linn and Ei Chaw Po.[14]
Filmography
editFilm (Cinema)
edit| Year | Title | Director | Co-Stars | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite | Pyi Hein Thiha | Myint Myat, Min Maw Kun, Khin San Win, Linn Linn, Ma Htet | Main |
| 2020 | A Htein Taw | Khin Hlaing | Myint Myat, Shin Mwe La, Linn Linn, Ei Chaw Po | Main |
References
edit- ^ a b Poe, Chit (22 August 2019). ""မင်းသမီး မဖြစ်ချင်ဘူး၊ သရုပ်ဆောင်ပဲ ဖြစ်ချင်တာပါ"လို့ ညီညီမောင် (စမ်းချောင်း) ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
- ^ "မြူးဇစ်ဗီဒီယိုမှာ စော်ကြည်ဘဲပုံစံတွေ့ရမယ့် ညီညီမောင်". 7Day News (in Burmese). 12 September 2019. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "ရန်ကုန်မြို့ရဲ့နာမည်အကျော်ဆုံး အလှဖန်တီးရှင်၁ဝ ဦး". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 21 November 2018. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "မိတ်ကပ် ညီညီမောင် (စမ်းချောင်း) ရုပ်သံအစီအစဉ်". Eleven Broadcasting (in Burmese). 2 July 2019.
- ^ "ငယ်ဘဝပုံရိပ်ကို ဝေမျှလိုက်တဲ့ ညီညီမောင် (စမ်းချောင်း)". Yangon News. 23 November 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Makeup Artist သုသု (ညီညီမောင်-စမ်းချောင်း) နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 4 June 2018. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "make-up artists in Yangon". The Myanmar Times. 23 November 2018. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ Aung, Zaw Win (4 October 2018). "ဝေဖန်သူတွေကတော့ ကိုယ့်ကိုပိုချစ်လို့ ဝေဖန်ပေးကြတာပါညီညီမောင်(စမ်းချောင်း)". Popular News Journal (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ Poe, Chit (1 February 2019). ""ရုပ်ရှင်ရိုက်တော့မှ မင်းသမီးတွေကို ကိုယ်ချင်းစာတတ်နေပြီ"လို့ ပြောတဲ့ ညီညီမောင် (စမ်းချောင်း)". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
- ^ "မိတ်ကပ်ဖန်တီးရှင်များကို ပွဲထုတ်ရိုက်ကူးမယ့် "ကျားကျားကြောက်ကြောက်" ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားကြီး". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 9 January 2019.
- ^ "အချစ်ရေးထုတ်မပြတော့ဘူးဆိုတဲ့ ညီညီမောင် (စမ်းချောင်း)". Kumudra (in Burmese). 29 July 2019. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Red Carpet Show". Mizzima. 29 August 2019 – via PressReader.
- ^ "Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite". Myanmore Magazine. 28 August 2019.
- ^ ""တတိယမြောက်ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားကြီးကို ရိုက်ကူးတော့မယ့် လင်းလင်းနဲ့ သုသု"". Lo Ta Ya Daily (in Burmese). 8 January 2020. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2020.