Khin San Win Explained
Khin San Win (my|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 (Burmese: မကြီးစန်းနှင့် သူ၏ချစ်သူများ) (2016)
- Tanay Mhar Maung Ko De A Kyaung Tway Pyaw Pya Ya Oo Mal (Burmese: တစ်နေ့မှမောင့်ကို ဒီအကြောင်းတွေပြောပြရဦးမယ်) (2018)
Notes and References
- Web site: From behind the scenes to the big screen. The Myanmar Times. 22 July 2018. Nandar Aung. 27 August 2018. 22 September 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190922121140/https://www.mmtimes.com/lifestyle/21516-from-behind-the-scenes-to-the-big-screen.html. dead.
- News: မကြီးစန်းတို့လို အချစ်မျိုးကို လူတွေက အသိအမှတ် မပြုကြဘူး ဆိုတဲ့ မိတ်ကပ် ခင်စန်းဝင်း ဘယ်လို အောင်မြင်လာသလဲ. Mizzima. 2 November 2015. Pann Myat Zaw. my.
- News: ဒီဇိုင်နာ ပြည်စိုးအောင်နှင့် မိတ်ကပ်၊ ဆံပင်၊ ဒီဇိုင်နာ ခင်စန်းဝင်း တို့ ပူးပေါင်းပြီး Fashion Show ပွဲ ပြုလုပ်မည်. Mizzima. 30 December 2015. my.
- News: Well-known MakeUp Artist, Khin San Win Star In Movie. Myanmar Celebrity. 10 July 2016. 27 August 2018. 27 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180827174107/http://www.myanmarceleb.com/2016/07/well-known-makeup-artist-khin-san-win.html?m=1. dead.
- News: ရန်ကုန်မြို့ရဲ့နာမည်အကျော်ဆုံး အလှဖန်တီးရှင်၁ဝ ဦး . . my . 21 November 2018 . 23 March 2020 . 4 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200204101341/https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/117815.html . dead .
- News: "မွေးနေ့ရောက်တိုင်း သွေးလှူတာ ဒီနှစ်ဆို ၁၂ ကြိမ်တိုင်ပြီ" ဆိုတဲ့ မိတ်ကပ် ခင်စန်းဝင်း. The Irrawaddy. 9 June 2018. my. Chit Poe.
- News: ချစ်သူက မင်းသားတစ်ယောက်ပါလို့ ဝင်ခံလိုက်တဲ့ မိတ်ကပ်ခင်စန်းဝင်း. Popular News Journal. my. 27 August 2018. 9 February 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190209203506/http://www.popularmyanmar.com/2017/07/03/%E1%80%81%E1%80%BA%E1%80%85%E1%80%B9%E1%80%9E%E1%80%B0%E1%80%80-%E1%80%99%E1%80%84%E1%80%B9%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8-%E1%80%90%E1%80%85%E1%80%B9%E1%80%B1%E1%80%9A%E1%80%AC%E1%80%80%E1%80%B9/. dead.
- News: လကုန်ကြည့်ရတော့မယ့် မကြီးစန်းနှင့် သူ၏ချစ်သူများ. 7Day News. 15 October 2016. Zwe Nyan. my. 28 August 2018. 29 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180829035036/http://www.7daydaily.com/story/78157. dead.
- News: မကြီးစန်းနှင့် သူ၏ချစ်သူများက တကယ့်အချစ်ဇာတ်လမ်း မဟုတ်ဘူးလို့ မိတ်ကပ်ခင်စန်းဝင်း ပြော. Mizzima. 29 October 2016. Wai Wai Hnin. my.
- News: မကြီးစန်းရဲ့ "တစ်နေ့မှ မောင့်ကို ဒီအကြောင်းတွေ ပြောပြရဦးမယ်". The Irrawaddy. 26 February 2018. my. Yu Phyu Han.
- News: ဒုတိယဇာတ်ကားမှာလည်း ခေါင်းဆောင်မင်းသမီးအဖြစ် သရုပ်ဆောင်မယ့် ခင်စန်းဝင်း. Sunday Journal. 16 August 2017. my.
- News: မိတ်ကပ်ဖန်တီးရှင်များကို ပွဲထုတ်ရိုက်ကူးမယ့် "ကျားကျားကြောက်ကြောက်" ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားကြီး . The Irrawaddy. my . 9 January 2019.
- News: မိခင်တယောက်အနေနဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင်ဦးမယ့် မိတ်ကပ် ခင်စန်းဝင်း. The Irrawaddy. 26 June 2018. my. Mahn Thu.
- News: Red Carpet Show . . 29 August 2019. PressReader.
- News: Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite . . 28 August 2019.
- News: ခင်စန်းဝင်း ဦးစီးပြီး အလှအပဆိုင်ရာ ပညာရပ်များ ဝေမျှပွဲပြုလုပ်. Myanmar Celebrity. 21 March 2018. my.