Khin San Win

Khin San Win
ခင်စန်းဝင်း
Khin San Win at the Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite film press show in January 2020
Born (1965-06-08) 8 June 1965 (age 59)
Yangon, Myanmar
NationalityBurmese
Alma materUniversity of Yangon
Occupation(s)Make-up artist, fashion designer, actress
Years active1983–present

Khin San Win (Burmese: ခင်စန်းဝင်း; born 8 June 1965) is a Burmese make-up artist, fashion designer, hair specialist turned actress after three decades-long experience in the Myanmar makeup industry. For decades she was known by the nickname Ma Gyi San while working as a make-up artist in Myanmar, before her acting debut.[1][2][3][4] Khin San Win featured on The Myanmar Times "Top 10 Make-up artists" list in 2018.[5]

Early life and education

Khin San Win was born on 8 June 1965 in Yangon, Myanmar, and was raised with three brothers and one sister. She favoured a female identity and was constantly misunderstood, discriminated against, abused and treated with violence, even within the family.

She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 2 Dagon and graduated from University of Yangon.[6]

Career

Make-up artist

At the age of 18, she learned from make-up artists Ko Toe and Sandi. When she was aged 21, she opened a hairdressing salon on 34th Street in Yangon. She offered to work for popular movie stars and made a name for herself in the make-up industry. She rose to prominence while working with actresses Htet Htet Moe Oo, Htoo Mon, Myo Thandar Htun and others, arranging their hair and changing their look. She started a dress service when in 1991.[1]

She owns a bridal make-up and wedding dress service, teaches make-up classes and enjoys popularity amongst the country's LGBT community. She then became an actress.[7][8][9]

Acting career

She made her acting debut with a leading role in the film Ma Gyi San and Her Lovers, alongside Htet Aung Shine and Zwe Pyae, directed by Myat Khine. The film was released in 2016.[4]

In 2017, she starred in her second film Tanay Mhar Maung Ko De A Kyaung Tway Pyaw Pya Ya Oo Mal, alongside Aye Chan Maung, directed by Naing Myo Tun (Yangon University ). The film was released on 27 February 2018.[10][11]

In 2018, she took on her first big-screen role in comedy film Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite, where she played the main role with Myint Myat, Min Maw Kun, Nyi Nyi Maung, Linn Linn and Ma Htet.[12][13] The film was directed by Pyi Hein Thiha which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 29 August 2019.[14][15] Her portrayal of the LGBT character earned praised by fans for her acting performance and character interpretation, and experienced a resurgence of popularity.

LGBT support

Khin San Win is a supporter of the LGBT rights in Myanmar, she actively participated in many LGBT rights campaigns in Yangon. She is lobbying for the abolishing of Article 377 of Myanmar's Penal Code.[16]

Filmography

Film (Cinema)

  • Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite (ကျားကျားကြိုက်ကြိုက်) (2019)

Film

  • Ma Gyi San and Her Lovers (မကြီးစန်းနှင့် သူ၏ချစ်သူများ) (2016)
  • Tanay Mhar Maung Ko De A Kyaung Tway Pyaw Pya Ya Oo Mal (တစ်နေ့မှမောင့်ကို ဒီအကြောင်းတွေပြောပြရဦးမယ်) (2018)

References

  1. ^ a b Nandar Aung (22 July 2018). "From behind the scenes to the big screen". The Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 22 September 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  2. ^ Pann Myat Zaw (2 November 2015). "မကြီးစန်းတို့လို အချစ်မျိုးကို လူတွေက အသိအမှတ် မပြုကြဘူး ဆိုတဲ့ မိတ်ကပ် ခင်စန်းဝင်း ဘယ်လို အောင်မြင်လာသလဲ" (in Burmese). Mizzima.
  3. ^ "ဒီဇိုင်နာ ပြည်စိုးအောင်နှင့် မိတ်ကပ်၊ ဆံပင်၊ ဒီဇိုင်နာ ခင်စန်းဝင်း တို့ ပူးပေါင်းပြီး Fashion Show ပွဲ ပြုလုပ်မည်" (in Burmese). Mizzima. 30 December 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Well-known MakeUp Artist, Khin San Win Star In Movie". Myanmar Celebrity. 10 July 2016. Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  5. ^ "ရန်ကုန်မြို့ရဲ့နာမည်အကျော်ဆုံး အလှဖန်တီးရှင်၁ဝ ဦး". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 21 November 2018. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  6. ^ Chit Poe (9 June 2018). ""မွေးနေ့ရောက်တိုင်း သွေးလှူတာ ဒီနှစ်ဆို ၁၂ ကြိမ်တိုင်ပြီ" ဆိုတဲ့ မိတ်ကပ် ခင်စန်းဝင်း" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy.
  7. ^ "ချစ်သူက မင်းသားတစ်ယောက်ပါလို့ ဝင်ခံလိုက်တဲ့ မိတ်ကပ်ခင်စန်းဝင်း" (in Burmese). Popular News Journal. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  8. ^ Zwe Nyan (15 October 2016). "လကုန်ကြည့်ရတော့မယ့် မကြီးစန်းနှင့် သူ၏ချစ်သူများ" (in Burmese). 7Day News. Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  9. ^ Wai Wai Hnin (29 October 2016). "မကြီးစန်းနှင့် သူ၏ချစ်သူများက တကယ့်အချစ်ဇာတ်လမ်း မဟုတ်ဘူးလို့ မိတ်ကပ်ခင်စန်းဝင်း ပြော" (in Burmese). Mizzima.
  10. ^ Yu Phyu Han (26 February 2018). "မကြီးစန်းရဲ့ "တစ်နေ့မှ မောင့်ကို ဒီအကြောင်းတွေ ပြောပြရဦးမယ်"" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy.
  11. ^ "ဒုတိယဇာတ်ကားမှာလည်း ခေါင်းဆောင်မင်းသမီးအဖြစ် သရုပ်ဆောင်မယ့် ခင်စန်းဝင်း" (in Burmese). Sunday Journal. 16 August 2017.[permanent dead link‍]
  12. ^ "မိတ်ကပ်ဖန်တီးရှင်များကို ပွဲထုတ်ရိုက်ကူးမယ့် "ကျားကျားကြောက်ကြောက်" ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားကြီး". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 9 January 2019.
  13. ^ Mahn Thu (26 June 2018). "မိခင်တယောက်အနေနဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင်ဦးမယ့် မိတ်ကပ် ခင်စန်းဝင်း" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy.
  14. ^ "Red Carpet Show". Mizzima. 29 August 2019 – via PressReader.
  15. ^ "Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite". Myanmore Magazine. 28 August 2019.
  16. ^ "ခင်စန်းဝင်း ဦးစီးပြီး အလှအပဆိုင်ရာ ပညာရပ်များ ဝေမျှပွဲပြုလုပ်" (in Burmese). Myanmar Celebrity. 21 March 2018.