Kyaw Kyaw Bo

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Kyaw Kyaw Bo
ကျော်ကျော်ဗို
Kyaw Kyaw Bo and Aung San Suu Kyi.jpg
Kyaw Kyaw Bo meets with the State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi in 2019
Born
Kyaw Kyaw Bo

(1978-04-17) 17 April 1978 (age 43)
Yangon, Myanmar
EducationYangon University
OccupationActor, singer, traditional dancer, comedian
Years active1988–present
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Spouse(s)
Zar Zar
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(m. 2008)​
Children1
Parent(s)
Khin Than Myint
RelativesShwe Man Tin Maung (grandfather)
Nyunt Win (uncle)
AwardsMyanmar Academy Award (Best Supporting Actor for 2018)

Kyaw Kyaw Bo (Burmese: ကျော်ကျော်ဗို; born 17 April 1978) is a Myanmar Academy Award winning Burmrese actor, singer, traditional dancer and sometime comedian with the Burmese traditional anyeint troupe Htawara Hninzi.[1] He won the 2018 Myanmar Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor with the film Clinging with Hate.[2] He is best known for his role in the film A Story Long Ago (2010) and The Dark Cinema (2019).[3] Throughout his career, he has acted in over 300 films.[4]

Early life and education[]

Kyaw Kyaw Bo was born on 17 April 1978 in Yangon, Myanmar. He comes from the thabin family, most of his family members are traditional anyeint dancers and actors. His grandfather Shwe Man Tin Maung, was a respected traditional dancer who was awarded the highest medal of honor "Alinkar Kyaw Swar".[5] His father Win Bo, was a traditional dancer and actor.[6] He is the nephew of the seven-times Myanmar Academy Award winner Nyunt Win, and anyeint actors San Win, Win Maung, and Chan Tha. He is the eldest child among two siblings, having a younger brother. He studied in chemistry majoring at Yangon University for second years.[7]

Career[]

Kyaw Kyaw Bo started his career as a child actor when he was 10 years old. He first appeared in the film Chit Yin Myat Yay Ma Kya Nae. He then appeared in the films Atar Yay Nae Say Pa Mal and Moe Nae Lay Nae Mone Tine Nae, as a child actor. In 1996, at the age of 18, he worked as a singer of the Mr Guitar Cafe in Yangon for 4 years. In 2001, he debuted as an anyeint dancer in his uncle's anyeint troupe Thitsar Myittar Shwe Man Thabin for 4 years.[8]

In 2006, he signed with Min Film Production as their lead actor. He made his acting debut with a leading role in the film Bal Thu Pyaw Lal Ta Taw Lone Kyway, alongside Kyaw Hein and Thet Mon Myint, directed by Kyi Phyu Shin. He then starred in his second film Ka Ka Ka, alongside Dwe, Soe Myat Thuzar and Myat Kaythi Aung, directed by Nyo Min Lwin in 2007. The film was both a domestic hit, and led to increased recognition for Kyaw Kyaw Bo. He gained increased attention and popularity with his performance in the film Shwe Nar Taw Thwin Chit Chin Sa Kar. From 2006 to present, he has acted in over 200 films and 100 big-screen films.[9][10]

Eternal Rose group performed as comedians in Singapore
Kyaw Kyaw Bo performing as a comedian in the Eternal Rose Anyeint in Singapore on March 6, 2011.

Since 2007, Kyaw Kyaw Bo has made a name on the stage with the Htawara Hninzi (Eternal Rose) anyeint troupe in which he is one of the supporting comedians along with Nay Toe, Tun Tun, Moe Moe, and Ye Lay. The director of the show is Maung Myo Min. Their shows have been hugely accepted by the resident Burmese audiences as well as Burmese migrants around the globe. Their shows reflect current socio-economic situations.[11]

In 2009, he took on his first big-screen leading role in the drama Chit Kan Pwint Nhint Ma Chaw Lay Se, alongside Eaindra Kyaw Zin, which screened in Myanmar cinemas in 2010. He has been presenting in the popular travel documentary program called Ride on Europe in 2017. The program was aired on and Channel 9.[12][13]

In 2018, he starred in the big-screen film Houk Ser where he played the lead role with Myint Myat and Ei Chaw Po which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 11 January 2019 and received critical acclaim and positive reviews for his portrayal of the character. Kyaw Kyaw Bo co-starred with Nay Toe, Min Thway, Phway Phway and Aye Wutyi Thaung in the religious drama film Clinging with Hate, which won him the 2018 Myanmar Academy Award for Best Actor. The film was premiered in Myanmar cinemas and also screened in Singapore at the same day and became one of highest-grossing films in Myanmar.[14][15]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Over 200 films, including

  • Chit Yin Myat Yay Ma Kya Nae (ချစ်ရင်မျက်ရည်မကျနဲ့) (1988)
  • Atar Yay Nae Say Pa Mal (1988) (အတာရေနဲ့ဆေးပါ့မယ်)
  • Moe Nae Lay Nae Mone Tine Nae (မိုးနှင့်လေနှင့်မုန်တိုင်းနှင့်) (1988)
  • Bal Thu Pyaw Lal Ta Taw Lone Kyway (ဘယ်သူပြောလဲ တတောလုံးကြွေ) (2006)
  • Ka Ka Ka (က က က) (2007)
  • Shwe Nar Taw Thwin Chit Chin Sa Kar (ရွှေနားတော်သွင်း ချစ်ခြင်းစကား) (2008)

Film (Cinema)[]

Over 100 films, including

TV series[]

Awards and nominations[]

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
2018 Myanmar Academy Award Best Supporting Actor Clinging with Hate Won

Personal life[]

Kyaw Kyaw Bo married to Zar Zar in 2008. They have a daughter.[28]

References[]

  1. ^ "The 2019 Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards". The Myanmar Times. 29 March 2019.
  2. ^ "အကယ်ဒမီကျော်ကျော်ဗိုလ်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 26 March 2019.
  3. ^ "The Newest Academy Award Winner - Kyaw Kyaw Bo". Yangon Life. 27 March 2019.
  4. ^ ""မဟူရာရုပ်ရှင်ရုံ" နဲ့ "ပြုံးရွှင်ရေပျော်ရဲ့လား" ဇာတ်ကား နှစ်ကားအကြောင်းပြောပြတဲ့ ကျော်ကျော်ဗို". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 23 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Family talents on stage commemorate 80 years of Shwe Man Tha Bin". The Myanmar Times. 17 June 2013.
  6. ^ Zaw, Pann Myat (11 January 2016). "အင်္လကာကျော်စွာ ရွှေမန်းတင်မောင်၏ သား ဇာတ်သဘင်နှင့် ရုပ်ရှင် မင်းသားကြီး ဦးဝင်းဗိုလ် အစာအိမ် ရောဂါဖြင့် ကွယ်လွန်". Mizzima (in Burmese).
  7. ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင် အကယ်ဒမီကျော်ကျော်ဗိုလ်၏ ငယ်ဘဝအမှတ်တရဖြတ်သန်းရာ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 4 April 2019.
  8. ^ ""အနုပညာနဲ့ပတ်သက်ရင် လိပ်ပြာလုံဖို့ အရေးကြီးတယ်"လို့ ကျော်ကျော်ဗို ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 14 November 2019.
  9. ^ ""Lady Boy" ရုပ်ရှင်မှာ ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ် ပြန်ကြည့်ရမှာ ရင်ခုန်နေတဲ့ ကျော်ကျော်ဗို". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 4 June 2019.
  10. ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင်ကျော်ကျော်ဗို ရဲ ့အကယ်ဒမီ ရင်ခုန်သံစကား (ရုပ်သံအစီအစဉ်)". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 5 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Eternal Rose Group and their parody have becoming popular in Myanmar". The Irrawaddy. 25 November 2010. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  12. ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင်ကျော်ကျော်ဗိုလ် တင်ဆက်သူအဖြစ် ဆောင်ရွက်မည့် ဥရောပ ၆ နိုင်ငံသို့ ခရီးသွားအစီအစဉ်". Mizzima (in Burmese). 20 June 2017.
  13. ^ "ခရီးသွားခြင်းအနုပညာနဲ့ ကျော်ကျော်ဗိုလ်". Yangon Life (in Burmese). 19 June 2018.
  14. ^ "Mone Swal: A rare treat for Myanmar moviegoers". The Myanmar Times. 6 December 2018.
  15. ^ ""အကယ်ဒမီကို အားလုံးထိုက်တန်လို့ ရကြတယ်"လို့ မှတ်ယူတဲ့ ကျော်ကျော်ဗို". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 25 March 2019.
  16. ^ "Min lal Bo-K Ngar lal Bo-K (2016 Burmese Movie)". Myanmore Magazine. 28 November 2016.
  17. ^ "Honey Moon (2017 Burmese Movie)". Myanmore Magazine. 3 February 2017.
  18. ^ "Kabar Kyaw Ywar". Myanmore Magazine. 16 February 2018.
  19. ^ "Cinema: Movies now showing in Yangon from 11th to 17th May 2018". Myanmore Magazine. 11 May 2018.
  20. ^ "Tacky jokes and tedious plots still conquer the hearts of comedy moviegoers". The Myanmar Times. 30 August 2018.
  21. ^ "Movies showing in Yangon this week 6th to 12th July". Myanmore Magazine. 5 July 2018.
  22. ^ "Movie Time: Screenings from May 16 to 22". The Myanmar Times. 16 May 2019.
  23. ^ "Movie Time: Screenings from October 10 to 16". The Myanmar Times. 10 October 2019.
  24. ^ "Movie Time: Screenings from January 11 to 17". The Myanmar Times. 10 January 2019.
  25. ^ "Movie Time: Screenings from September 12 to 18". The Myanmar Times. 12 September 2019.
  26. ^ "Two Weeks Notice". Myanmore Magazine. 21 June 2019.
  27. ^ "Golden Princess". Myanmore Magazine. 13 February 2020.
  28. ^ "ကျော်ကျော်ဗို ရဲ ့ ဇနီး ဇာဇာ Life Partner (ရုပ်သံအစီအစဉ်)". Eleven Broadcasting (in Burmese). 26 April 2019.

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