Smile (actress)

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In this Burmese name, the given name is Smile. There is no family name.
Smile
စမိုင်းလ်
Burmese actress Smile.jpg
Smile in 2019
Born
Than Thar Htoo

(1986-07-22) 22 July 1986 (age 35)
Rangoon, Burma
NationalityBurmese
Alma materUxbridge College
OccupationActress, model, singer, writer, businesswoman
Years active1998–present
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Musical career
GenresPop rock
InstrumentsVocals
Years active2012–present

Smile (Burmese: စမိုင်းလ်; born Than Thar Htoo on 22 July 1986) is a Burmese actress, singer, former model, writer and businesswoman. She is one of the popular actresses around 2000s and achieved fame and success as an actress and singer.[1] Throughout her career, she has acted in over 100 films.[2]

Early life and education[]

Smile was born on 21 June 1986 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is the granddaughter of famous actress .[3] She is the youngest daughter of two siblings, having an elder sister. She went to study in London at Uxbridge College.[4]

Career[]

Smile began her modeling career in 1998 at the age of 14. She also appeared on magazine cover photos and as commercial model for many TV advertisement. Then came the offers for TV commercials and then DVD ones. Her hardwork as a model and acting in commercials was noticed by the film industry and soon, movie casting offers came rolling in. She started acting in films at age 16. She made her film debut with a leading role in the film A Chit The Laypyay (Love is the wind) alongside Dwe and Eaindra Kyaw Zin. The film was a domestic hit, and led to increased recognition for her.[5]

In 2002, she starred in the big-screen film Kyar Mee Swal Ko Ko Myauk Muu Lae Ma Ma, where she played the leading role with Wai Lu Kyaw and Nandar Hlaing, which premiered in Myanmar cinemas in 2002. She moved to England in 2003. Thereafter she completely disappeared from a film career from the time of her marriage and had children.[6]

Smile returned in 2012 and started a music career following a 10-year absence from the public eye. And then she started endeavoring to be able to produce and distribute her first solo album. She launched her debut solo album "New Me" on 15 October 2013 which turned out to be a success creating her a place to stand in Myanmar music industry.[1] In 2017, she starred in 4 films, including Gayat Tway Par Hal.[7] She published a biography book about body shaming and fitness called "Sharing Is Caring" on 10 February 2019.[8][9] From 2000 to present, she has acted in more than 125 video/films.

Business[]

She is one of the most successful businesswomen in Myanmar and owns VMG Telecoms and Ytalk under the .[10]

Filmography[]

Film (Cinema)[]

(Over 25 films)

  • A Chit The Lay Pyay (အချစ်သည်လေပြေ) (2002)
  • Kyar Mee Swal Ko Ko Myauk Muu Lae Ma Ma (ကျားမှီးဆွဲကိုကို မျောက်မူးလဲမမ) (2002)
  • Gayat Tway Par Hal (ဂယက်တွေပါဟယ်) (2017)

Film[]

(Over 100 films)

Discography[]

Solo albums[]

  • New Me (2013)

Books[]

  • Sharing Is Caring (2019)

Personal life[]

Smile married to Pyae Maung, a businessman and she has two daughters, Su Nadi Maung and Su Yati Maung.[11] Her eldest daughter, Su Nadi Maung (Portia) is a model.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Aung, Nandar (19 January 2014). "Former model showcases singing chops". The Myanmar Times.
  2. ^ "စမိုင်းရဲ့ ပွဲဦးထွက်အယ်လ်ဘမ် New Me". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 12 March 2014.
  3. ^ "မြေးဖွားနှစ်ယောက်အချစ်ပိုနေကြတဲ့ ဒေါ်ခင်လေးဆွေနှင့် စမိုင်းလ်". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 13 November 2018.
  4. ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင်စမိုင်းလ်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 13 February 2019.
  5. ^ "စမိုင်းလ်နဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 21 February 2019.
  6. ^ Win, Leanne (23 April 2018). "သမီးတွေရဲ့ ဝါသနာအကြောင်း စမိုင်းပြောပြ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
  7. ^ "ပွဲဦးထွက် ဇာတ်ကားကြီး ပြန်လည်ရိုက်ကူးလာတဲ့ စမိုင်း". Kumudra (in Burmese). 13 October 2017.
  8. ^ "ခန္ဓာကိုယ်ဝတဲ့ အမျိုးသမီးများ စိတ်ဓာတ်မကျသွားဖို့ ပြောတဲ့ စမိုင်းလ်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 11 February 2019.
  9. ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင် စမိုင်း ရေးသားသည့် Sharing is Caring စာအုပ် မိတ်ဆက်". Myanmar Digital News (in Burmese). 20 February 2019.
  10. ^ "ဦးဆောင်သူ အမျိုးသမီးတွေဆွေးနွေးကျမယ့် Power Women ပွဲမှာ ပါဝင်မယ့် စမိုင်းလ်". Cele Gaber (in Burmese). 8 August 2019.
  11. ^ "Helicopter နဲ့ မင်္ဂလာပြန်ဆောင်ခဲ့တဲ့ စမိုင်းလ်တို့ ဇနီးမောင်နှံ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese). 26 June 2017.
  12. ^ "အမိုက်စား Pose တွေ ဆွဲဆောင်မှု ရှိရှိလှနေတဲ့ စမိုင်းလ် သမီးလေး Portia (ပေါ်ရှာ)". Momolay (in Burmese). 15 October 2019.
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