Khin San Win

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]

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
Yangon, Myanmar
NationalityBurmese
Alma materUniversity of Yangon
OccupationMake-up artist, fashion designer, actress
Years active1983–present

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. Nandar Aung (22 July 2018). "From behind the scenes to the big screen". The Myanmar Times.
  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. "Well-known MakeUp Artist, Khin San Win Star In Movie". Myanmar Celebrity. 10 July 2016.
  5. "ရန်ကုန်မြို့ရဲ့နာမည်အကျော်ဆုံး အလှဖန်တီးရှင်၁ဝ ဦး". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 21 November 2018.
  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.
  8. Zwe Nyan (15 October 2016). "လကုန်ကြည့်ရတော့မယ့် မကြီးစန်းနှင့် သူ၏ချစ်သူများ" (in Burmese). 7Day News.
  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.
  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.
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