May Myint Mo

May Myint Mo was born on 11 May 1995 in Yangon, Myanmar to Aung Ko and Myintzu Htut. She has one younger sibling, Shinn Myat, an actor. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 1 Dagon and graduated from the University of Yangon in 2016 with an LLB degree.{{Cite news|url=http://www.myanmarload.com/news/14227|title=ဥပဒေဘွဲ့ ရရှိသွားပြီ ဖြစ်တဲ့ မင်းသမီးချောလေး မေမြင့်မိုရ်|last=Nyein|date=November 16, 2017|work=Myanmarload}}

May began her modeling career in 2012 while a student. She also appeared on music videos, magazine cover photos and as a model for many advertisements. She made her acting debut with in the third season of The Sign of Love, after being selected by Forever Group from among almost 100 amateur actresses.{{cite news |title=စုစုလှိုင်အဖြစ် ပရိသတ်တွေ လက်ခံနိုင်မလားဆိုတာ ရင်ခုန်နေတဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ် |url=http://www.moda.com.mm/articles/susulias-pitet-lkiumlaiuta-unente-emmmiu |first=Tun|last=Lin|work=Moda Magazine |language=my|date=29 July 2017}}

In 2013, she starred in her second television drama, Pan Nu Thway, where she played the leading role with Myat Thu Kyaw. It aired on MRTV-4 and she received positive reviews for her portrayal of Pan Nu Thway, which led to increased popularity for her. The show's second season aired in 2014.

In 2017, she co-starred with Sithu Win and Aung Yay Chan in the drama Sone See Chin Moe Tain Myar. In 2017, she gained increased attention and popularity with her role as Su Su Hlaing in the hit drama A Yake (Shadow).{{Cite web|url=http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/270294|title="အရိပ်" ဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲဖြင့် ပရိသတ်အားပေးမှု ပိုခိုင်မာလာသည့် မေမြင့်မိုရ်|website=Democratic Voice of Burma|access-date=2019-03-19}} The series is adapted from Ma Sandar's novel A Yake (The Shadow) and a remake of the popular 1997 film A Yake based on the same novel.{{cite news |date=24 April 2018 |title="အရိပ်" ဇာတ်ကားမှာ စုစုလှိုင်အဖြစ် မေမြင့်မိုရ်က ပါဝင်သရုပ်ဆောင်မည် |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2018/04/24/156929.html |work=The Irrawaddy |language=my}} May earned praise for her performance and character interpretation and experienced a resurgence of popularity.{{cite news |last1=Nyan |first1=Zwe |title=ဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲအသစ်နှစ်ခုနဲ့ ရင်ခုန်စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားနေတဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ် |url=http://www.7daydaily.com/story/124796 |work=7Day News |date=21 April 2018|language=my}}

In 2018, she starred in the historical drama Bagan Myo Thu alongside Daung and Htoo Aung.{{Cite news|url=http://7daydaily.com/video/138338|title=ပုဂံမြို့သူဖြစ်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ်|last=Nwe Mon Phyo|date=2018-10-03|work=7 Day Daily}} She won the "Rising Star Award (Female)" at the 2018 Star Awards for her performance in the film Moe Pann Pwint Yae Thin-Kay-Ta.{{cite news |last1=Poe |first1=Chit |title=ဒီနှစ် သင်္ကြန်အစီအစဉ်တွေ ပြောပြတဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် မေမြင့်မိုရ်|url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2019/04/13/189005.html |work=The Irrawaddy|language=my|date=13 April 2019}}

She took on her first big-screen role in the film Magical Inscription in 2018.{{cite news |last1=Zaw |first1=Pann Myat |title=လုလုအောင်ကြော်ငြာတဲ့ မှော်ကျောက်စာ ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကား အောက်တိုဘာလတွင် ရုံတင်တော့မည် |url=http://www.mizzimaburmese.com/article/32291 |work=Mizzima |date=21 September 2017 |language=my}} In the same year, she portrayed the female lead in the film Moe Pann Pwint Yae Thin-Kay-Ta (The Sign of the Sky Flower).

In 2019, she starred in the thriller drama series The Missing Truth.{{cite news |last1=Thet |first1=Khin Swe |title=ဖေ့စ်ဘွတ်ခ်ဆယ်လီ ကာရိုက်တာ အကြောင်းပြောတဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ် |url=https://7daydaily.com/story/166358 |work=7Day News |date=16 September 2019|language=my}}

In 2023, she received the Myanmar Academy Awards for her work in the film Mone Khwint, winning in the category of Best Supporting Actress.

In 2018, she drove a funeral car for a philanthropic team led by Kyaw Thu.{{cite news |title=နာရေးလုပ်အားကုသိုလ်ယူခဲ့ကြတဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ်တို့ မောင်နှ်မ |url=https://www.duwun.com.mm/article/naelupaakuuilyuekte-emmmuitui-emawm-id10759 |work=Duwun |date=22 January 2019}}

On August 24, 2018, May Myint Mo donated 480 cans of pea oil to a charity supporting flood-affected people in Myanmar.{{cite news |title=နာရေးကူညီမှုအသင်း သို့ ရေဘေး အတွက် လှူဒါန်းခဲ့တဲ့ မေမြင့်မိုရ် |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyeBSrJFJK8&ab_channel=MyanmarCelebrity |work=Myanmar Celebrity |date=25 August 2018 |language=my}}

In 2024, May Myint Mo became a target of anti-junta activists because she began performing in films and TV series produced by junta-linked companies like 7th Sense Creation, owned by Khin Thiri Thet Mon, daughter of junta chief Min Aung Hlaing. As a result, fans and nationals warned her that they would boycott her work if she continued to collaborate with military-linked film production companies. On July 20, 2024, she faced protests from an anti-junta Burmese community in Mae Sot when she attended the opening ceremony of the MLM brand SP Coffee. Reports indicate that May Myint Mo left the event shortly after arriving due to protesters attempting to throw eggs at her.{{cite news |title=အရှက်ကွဲခဲ့တဲ့ MRTV-4 မင်းသမီး မေမြင့်မိုရ် |url=https://www.youtube.com/live/Z2U9D8cYWVA?app=desktop |work=Myo Taw Media |date=July 21, 2024 |language=my}}{{cite news |title=မဲဆောက်မြို့ရှိ SP Coffeeဖွင့်ပွဲသို့ မေမြင့်မိုရ်အပါအဝင် စစ်ကောင်စီ နှင့်ပတ်သက်မှုရှိသည့် အနုပညာရှင်များလာရောက် ဖျော်ဖြေ |url=https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=336582092855668&id=100095116397206&rdid=pbJbNVv2UkHs1kyo |work=Ayeyarwaddy Times |date=20 July 2024 |language=my}}

• Mhaw Kyauk Sar (မှော်ကျောက်စာ) (2018)
• Sign of Moe Pan Pwint (မိုးပန်းပွင့်ရဲ့သင်္ကေတ) (2018)
• A Chit Sone Crush? ({{lang|my|အချစ်ဆုံးCrush?}}) (2019)
• 1014 (၁၀၁၄) (2019)
• Kyauk Kyauk Kyauk 2 (ကြောက်ကြောက်ကြောက်၂) (2019)
• Yoma Paw Kya Tae Myet Yay (ရိုးမပေါ်ကျတဲ့မျက်ရည်) (2019)
• Yee Ywae Moe (ရည်ရွယ်မိုး) (2023)
• Fourth Capillary (စတုတ္ထမြောက်သွေးကြောမျှင်) (2023)
• Lay Pat Car (လေပတ်ကား) (2023)
• Mone Khwint (မုန်းခွင့်) (2023)
• Sarateta (စာရိတ္တ) (2023)
• Calling (ခေါ်သံ) TBA
• Blood Debt (သွေးကြွေး) TBA

• The Sign of Love: Season 3 (2013)
• Pan Nu Thway: Season 1 (2013)
• Pan Nu Thway: Season 2 (2015)
• Sone See Chin Moe Tain Myar (2017)
• A Yake (2018)
• Bagan Myo Thu (2018)
• The Missing Truth (2019)
• Legends of Warriors (2020)
• Ywar Lal Tae Phoo Sar (2022)
• Kar Yan Lwae Myittar (2023)
• Kar Yan Lwae Myittar: Season 2 (2024)

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Category:Living people

Category:1995 births

Category:21st-century Burmese actresses

Category:University of Yangon alumni

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