Poe Mamhe Thar
Poe Mamhe Thar | |
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ပိုးမမှီသာ | |
| Born | Poe Mamhe Thar May 1, 1997 Yangon, Myanmar |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Alma mater | University of Medicine 1, Yangon |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, Model, Physician |
| Years active | 2018–present |
Poe Mamhe Thar (Burmese: ပိုးမမှီသာ; born 1 May 1997) is a Burmese actress, model and physician. She made her film debut in the 2021 film Padauk Musical, which earned her a nomination for the Myanmar Academy Award for Best Actress.
Early life and education[edit]
Poe Mamhe Thar was born 1 May 1997 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is also the elder sister to a 7-years younger sister. She attended Basic Primary School No. (3) Bahan from Kindergarten until Primary 4, moving onto Secondary School No. (2) Bahan from then on towards until she passed her matriculation exams. She is a physician by training, having attended University of Medicine 1, Yangon.[1] She was picked the "Queen" (campus queen) as a freshman at the university.[2]
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar, she, serving as a physician, gathered and effectively managed real-time information to ensure the public remained well-informed about the developments related to COVID-19.[3]
Career[edit]
After her appearance in Sai Sai Kham Leng's music video "Thein Ga Ra Ra Tha" (loosely translated as 'bliss/pleasure'), she initiated her acting career in 2018 and achieved significant recognition. Since that time, she has appeared in numerous advertisements and also starred in music videos for various artists. Subsequently, she received offers for TV and films.[2][4] She was selected brand model for SAI Cosmetix by Sai Sai Kham Leng.[5]
In 2020, she took her first steps into acting with the film Padauk Musical, alongside Sai Sai Kham Leng.[6] Her portrayal of the character garnered praise from her admirers, who lauded her performance and her nuanced interpretation of the role.[7] The movie rose to prominence as one of Myanmar's highest-grossing films, resulting in her nomination for the Myanmar Academy Award for Best Actress and securing four Academy Awards.[8][9][10] In 2023, she was appointed as the brand ambassador for Samsung Myanmar.[11]
Her first TV drama, Sparkle Hearts (ရင်ထဲကြွေတဲ့ကြယ်), in which she played the female lead, was aired on December 11, 2023, on Canal+.[12]
Political activities[edit]
In the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Poe Mamhe Thar emerged as a proactive figure within the anti-coup movement, actively participating in rallies and leveraging social media. She also shared a post on Instagram expressing her strong opposition to the military coup, featuring the statement "Fuck Military Coup" alongside a picture of Aung San Suu Kyi. In her message, she emphasized that she, along with other Myanmar citizens, stands in opposition to the military coup. She further asserted her belief that such actions inflict the most severe suffering on developing countries.[13]
Expressing her condemnation of the military coup, she has been engaged in protests since February. She joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement, which originated on social media and attracted the participation of numerous celebrities. Moreover, she issued a call to both government authorities and civil servants, urging them to join the Civil Disobedience Movement. She has expressed her readiness to participate in the movement and stands in solidarity with doctors, civil servants, and the people of Myanmar, firmly rejecting any form of injustice.[14]
Filmography[edit]
Film (Cinema)[edit]
| Year | Title | Burmese Title | Co-Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Padauk Musical | ပိတောက်ကတဲ့ဂီတ | Sai Sai Kham Leng, Aye Myat Thu |
Television series[edit]
| Year | English title | Myanmar title | Role | Network | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Sparkle Hearts | ရင်ထဲကြွေတဲ့ကြယ် | May Poe Thawtar | Canal+ |
Awards and nominations[edit]
Academy Awards[edit]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Myanmar Academy Award | Best Actress | Padauk Musical | Nominated |
References[edit]
- ^ ""အလုပ်သင်ဆရာဝန်မလေးအဖြစ် ရာထူးတိုးသွားပြီ ဖြစ်တဲ့ ဒေါက်တာပိုးမမှီသာ"". Lotaya (in Burmese). 23 November 2019.
- ^ a b Khine, Lin Lin (28 February 2019). "A chat with beloved and rising star Poe Mamhe Thar". Eleven Media Group.
- ^ ""ရေချိုးလို့ ဗိုင်းရပ်စ်က အဆုတ်ကို ရောက်ပြီး နမိုးနီးယား ဝင်တယ်ဆိုတာ မဟုတ်ပါဘူး"". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 22 July 2021.
- ^ "သိင်္ဂါရရသ သီချင်းဖြင့် ပရိသတ်နှစ်သက် အားပေးစေခဲ့သူ ပိုးမမှီသာ၏ ငယ်ဘဝအမှတ်တရ ဖြတ်သန်းရာ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 4 October 2018.
- ^ ""ပိတောက်ကတဲ့ ဂီတ" ရုပ်ရှင်ကို စရိုက်ကတည်းက စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားခဲ့တဲ့ ပိုးမမှီသာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 3 March 2020.
- ^ "နှုတ်ခမ်းနီမလေးတို့အသည်းစွဲ စိုင်းစိုင်းနှင့် ပိုးမမှီသာတို့ပါဝင်သည့် ပိတောက်ကတဲ့ ဂီတ ရုပ်ရှင်(နမူနာ)". DVB (in Burmese). 26 February 2020.
- ^ "စိုင်းစိုင်းနဲ့အတူ ရိုက်ထားတဲ့ "ပိတောက်ကတဲ့ ဂီတ" ဇာတ်ကားအတွက် ရင်ခုန်နေတဲ့ ပိုးမမှီသာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 20 January 2020.
- ^ "မြန်မာ့ရုပ်ရှင်ထူးချွန်ဆုပေးပွဲမှာ ပိတောက်ကတဲ့ ဂီတဇာတ်ကားက ဆု ၄ ဆုအထိ ရရှိ {At the Myanmar Academy Awards Ceremony, the music film Padauk Musical won 4 awards}". BBC News (in Burmese). 7 May 2023.
- ^ Toe, Tha (2 August 2023). "စိုင်းစိုင်းရဲ့ ပိတောက်ကတဲ့ ဂိတ ဩဂုတ်၄ရက် ပြန်လည်ပြသမယ်". Myanmar Transparency News (in Burmese).
- ^ "သုံးနှစ်စာပေါင်းပြီးပေးတဲ့ နေပြည်တော်က အကယ်ဒမီပွဲ ဆုရသူများ". Voice of Myanmar (in Burmese). 7 May 2023.
- ^ Myanmar, MyBiz. "သန်လျင်သဘာဝတရားရိပ်သာမှ ဘိုးဘွားများအတွက် စုစုပေါင်း ကျပ်သိန်း ၃၃၀ ကျော် တန်ဖိုးရှိ ကျန်းမာရေး စောင့်ရှောက်မှု လှုူဒါန်းငွေ နှင့် Samsung ထုတ်ကုန်များ အား Samsung Myanmar မှ သွားရောက်လှုူဒါန်း". MyBiz Myanmar (in Burmese).
- ^ "ပိုးမမီသာ နဲ့ တက်သစ်စမင်းသမီးလေး မေပိုးတို့ တွေ့ဆုံမှု". CANAL+ (in Burmese).
- ^ "Burmese superstar can't stand it, posts in support of 'civil disobedience' to military power after staged coup". Khaosod (in Thai). 3 February 2021.
- ^ "မှားဝင်လာတဲ့ ဖုန်းနံပါတ်တခုကြောင့် စိတ်မကောင်းစရာ ကြုံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ပိုးမမှီသာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 22 March 2021.