Khine Hnin Wai

{{Short description|Burmese actress}}

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| caption = Khine in 2019

| native_name = {{lang|my|ခိုင်နှင်းဝေ}}

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| birth_name = Khine Hnin Wai

| birth_place = Rangoon, Burma

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|03|14|df=y}}

| nationality = Burmese

| occupation = Actress, Model

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| years_active = 1999–present

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| alma_mater = Dagon University

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Khine Hnin Wai ({{langx|my|ခိုင်နှင်းဝေ}}; born on 14 March 1981) is a Burmese actress, philanthropist, and activist for victims of child rape.{{cite news |title=Inspiring women of Myanmar |url=https://www.mmtimes.com/news/inspiring-women-myanmar.html |work=The Myanmar Times |date=18 December 2018}} She is considered one of the most successful actresses in Burmese cinema and is best known for her charitable work in Myanmar. She is the founder of the Khine Hnin Wai Foundation, a charity that supports orphanages, flood victims, and other good causes.{{cite news |title=Ten Myanmar Women Who Inspired Us in 2020 |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/specials/ten-myanmar-women-inspired-us-2020.html |work=The Irrawaddy |date=30 December 2020}}{{cite news |title=Actress Khine Hnin Wai – A Charity Organization Founder |url=https://yangonlife.com.mm/en/article/actress-khine-hnin-wai-%E2%80%93-charity-organization-founder |work=Yangon Life |date=2 March 2019 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Resuming immunizations in Kayin State |url=https://www.unicef.org/myanmar/stories/resuming-immunizations-kayin-state |website=www.unicef.org |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2 January 2024 |title=၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ် ကမ္ဘာတစ်ဝန်း အားကျစရာနှင့် လွှမ်းမိုးမှုရှိသော ထူးချွန်ထင်ရှား အမျိုးသမီး ၁၀၀ စာရင်းတွင် ပါဝင်လာသည့် သရုပ်ဆောင် ခိုင်နှင်းဝေ |url=https://news-eleven.com/article/286419 |work=Eleven Media Group |language=my}}

Early life

Khine was born on 14 March 1981 in Myanmar

Career

Khine began her career in 1999. She became popular for her role as the lead in the film, San Ye .{{cite news|title=ပရဟိတ အနုပညာသည် ခိုင်နှင်းဝေ |url=http://www.mizzimaburmese.com/article/26523|work=Mizzima|language=my}} In 2005, she starred in the film Kyun Ma Ka Mahaythi (I'm Mistress) alongside Pyay Ti Oo and Moe Hay Ko. In 2018, she was cast in the drama series Tu Hnine Ma Ya Tae Myittar, alongside Nay Dway and Poe Ei Ei Khant.

Charity work

Khine has founded a charity organization since 2014, which is very active in several places in Myanmar.{{cite news |title=Khine Hnin Wai|url=https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/149981.html |work=Myanmar Times}}{{cite news |last1= |first1=|title=စွန့်ပစ်ကလေးကို ၄၃ ယောက်မြောက် သားအဖြစ် မွေးစားလိုက်တဲ့ ခိုင်နှင်းဝေ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2021/01/06/236029.html|language=my}}{{cite news |last1= |first1=|title=ခိုင်နှင်းဝေ ရင်သွေးဂေဟာမှာ မွေးနေ့အလှူ လုပ်ခဲ့တဲ့ စမိုင်းလ်ရဲ့သမီးငယ်လေး |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2020/06/17/224819.html|language=my}}{{cite news |last1= |first1=|title=ရေဘေးသင့် ရွှေ့ပြောင်းလုပ်သားများကို သရုပ်ဆောင် ခိုင်နှင်းဝေ သွားရောက်လှူဒါန်း|url=http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/342992|language=my}}{{Cite web |date=9 December 2024 |title=“ရေဘေးသင့်ပြည်သူတွေအတွက် ခိုင်နှင်းဝေရဲ့ကျပ်သိန်း(၃၆၀ဝဝ) လှူဒါန်းနိုင်ခဲ့မှု” |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2019/09/15/203918.html |access-date=26 January 2025 |website=Np News |language=my}}{{Cite news |date=26 December 2023 |title=ချက်ကြိုးတန်းလန်းဖြင့်စွန့်ပစ်ခံခဲ့ရသည့် ကလေးငယ် ကွယ်လွန်သွားပြီဟု ပရဟိတမင်းသမီး ခိုင်နှင်းဝေပြော |url=https://www.npnewsmm.com/news/653a0863792fcb791b2ba8a4 |work=Np News |language=my}}

In December 2015, motivated by her charitable efforts for children, she commenced her role as an ambassador for United Act, an educational drama troupe focused on preventing child trafficking. Serving in this capacity, she personally financed and directed a short educational film titled "Help Them". Demonstrating her commitment, she distributed complimentary DVDs of this informative documentary drama. She actively participated in these educational dramas and plays, offering support whenever United Act sought her assistance.{{cite news |title=Honouring outstanding women |url=https://www.mizzima.com/news-domestic/honouring-outstanding-women |work=Mizzima |date=4 March 2017}}

She also established the Khine Hnin Wai Children’s Home in 2018, located in North Dagon Township. The orphanage currently provides a home for 39 children, all aged two or below. Notably, five of these children are survivors of child rape, while others were abandoned by young single mothers.{{cite news |last1=Aung |first1=Pyae Sone |title=Single mothers left with few good options |url=https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/single-mothers-left-with-few-good-options/ |work=Frontier Myanmar |date=12 January 2021}} She co-managed the LGBT-themed My Place café with her ex-partner, Junior Dennis, also known as Mg JD, who is transsexual. Fifty percent of the café's profits are dedicated to supporting the Khine Hnin Wai Foundation.{{cite news |last1=Kyaw |first1=Min Ye |title=LGBT community welcomes charitable Yangon café |url=https://www.myanmore.com/2018/08/lgbt-community-welcomes-charitable-yangon-cafe/ |work=MYANMORE |date=20 August 2018}}

Selected filmography

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=Film (cinema)=

  • San Yay (ဆန်ရေ) (1999)
  • Kyoe Hpyang Chi Htar Thaw Varanasi (ကြိုးဖြင့်ချည်ထားသော ဗာရာဏသီ; lit. “Varanasi tied with [a] rope”) (2017){{cite news|title=ကိုးကွယ်ယုံကြည်မှုကို အလွဲမသုံးရေးကြည့်ကြဖို့ ဗေလုဝတိုက်တွန်းတဲ့ ရုပ်ရှင်|url=https://7day.news/%E1%80%80%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B8%E1%80%80%E1%80%BD%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9A%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B6%E1%80%80%E1%80%BC%E1%80%8A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%99%E1%80%BE%E1%80%AF%E1%80%80%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF-%E1%80%A1%E1%80%9C%E1%80%BD%E1%80%B2%E1%80%99%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B6%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B8%E1%80%80%E1%80%BC%E1%80%8A%E1%80%B7%E1%80%BA%E1%80%80%E1%80%BC%E1%80%96%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B7-%E1%80%97%E1%80%B1%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9D%E1%80%90%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%90%E1%80%BD%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%90%E1%80%B2%E1%80%B7-%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AF%E1%80%95%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9B%E1%80%BE%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA-----93335|language=my}}
  • Sit Ko Mone Yae Tike Khae The (စစ်ကိုမုန်း၍တိုက်ခဲ့သည်; lit. “Hating war, [someone] fought”) (2018){{cite news|title=စစ်ကိုမုန်း၍တိုက်ခဲ့သည်" ရုပ်ရှင်ကို အနုပညာရှင်အနေနဲ့ ရိုက်ခဲ့တာပါဆိုတဲ့ ခိုင်နှင်းဝေ|url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2018/01/05/149125.html|language=my}}
  • Yin Thway (ရင်သွေး) (2024)

Kyun Ma Hka Belain (ကျွန်မကဗီလိန်) (2024)

Awards

In November 2023, Khine was named to the BBC's 100 Women list.{{Cite web |date=November 23, 2023 |title=BBC 100 Women 2023: Who is on the list this year? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-02d9060e-15dc-426c-bfe0-86a6437e5234 |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

References

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