| Ya Wai Aung | |
|---|---|
| ရဝေအောင် | |
| Born | Ya Wai Aung (1976-09-22) 22 September 1976 (age 48) Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Alma mater | University of Distance Education, Yangon |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, model |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Parent(s) | Aung Than Tun Khin May Kyi |
Ya Wai Aung (Burmese: ရဝေအောင်; also spelled Yawai Aung, born 22 September 1976) is a Burmese actor and model who was popular in the 1990s. Once he was one of the most successful actors in Myanmar.
Early life and education
Ya Wai Aung was born on 22 September 1976 in Myitkyina, Kachin State. He is the grandnephew of a former Prime Minister of Burma Thura Tun Tin. He graduated from University of Distance Education, Yangon with a degree in Physics.
Career
In 1994, he began his career as a photo model and appeared on local magazine cover photos. Then, he joined Tin Moe Lwin's model training agency Talent & Models in 1997. Since then, he took professional training in modelling and catwalk. He appeared as a runway model as part of the Talent & Models International with countless commercial shows and runways that had been walked on. In 1998, he appeared on many calendars and his photos took place on the calendars of every house. Then came the offers for TV commercial advertisements and music videos. His hard work as a model, and acting in music videos and TV commercials was noticed by the film industry and soon, film casting offers came rolling in.
He made his debut with the film Takhar Ka Ayeyarwaddy Nya Myar alongside Lwin Moe, Htun Eaindra Bo and May Than Nu. He then starred in his second film Thamee Mike alongside Lwin Moe and Htet Htet Moe Oo, screened in Myanmar cinemas on 22 December 2000 which led to increased recognition for him. He is noted for his leading roles in several Burmese films such as Ei Mhan Thaw Thitsar Sakarr Kyaung, Myit Hna Sin Ye Pinle, Myat Yay Ta Khar, Ma Ma Maung Maung Moht Moht, Fisher Village Story, Ngwe Pyaing Phyu, Shwe Ou, Thain Mwe and many others.
Selected filmography
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Film
- Takhar Ka Ayeyarwaddy Nya Myar (တစ်ခါကဧရာဝတီညများ)
- Thamee Mite (သမီးမိုက်) (2000)
- Ei Mhan Thaw Thitsar Sakarr Kyaung
- Myit Hna Sin Ye Pinle (မြစ်နှစ်စင်းရဲ့ပင်လယ်)
- Myat Yay Ta Khar (မျက်ရည်တံခါး)
- Ma Ma Maung Maung Moht Moht (မမ မောင်မောင် မို့မို့)
- Fisher Village Story (တံငါရွာပုံပြင်)
- Ngwe Pyaing Phyu (ငွေဗျိုင်းဖြူ)
- Shwe Ou (ရွှေအိုး)
- Thain Mwe (သိမ်မွေ့)
- Mway Shin (မွေးရှင်)
- Shwe Pyithu (ရွှေပြည်သူ)
- Mi Khin (မိခင်)
- Bhone Paw La Aw (ဗုံးပေါလအော)
References
- ^ "တစ်ချိန်က ပရိသတ်တွေကြားမှာနာမည်ကြီးခဲ့တဲ့ ရဝေအောင် ရဲ့ ပြက္ခဒိန်ပုံရိပ်များ". Momolay (in Burmese). 16 August 2019.
Ya Wai Aung is an actor who was once encouraged by a female audience.
- Thant, Shin (11 May 2018). "MTV သီချင်းတစ်ပုဒ်မှာ ပါ၀င်သရုပ်ဆောင်ဖြစ်တဲ့အကြောင်း ပြောပြခဲ့တဲ့ ရဝေအောင်". Mizzima (in Burmese).
- "အေးမြတ်သူရဲ့ (၃၄)နှစ်ပြည့် မွေးနေ့လေးမှာ ဆုမွန်ကောင်းတောင်းပေးလာတဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် မင်းသားချော ရဝေအောင်". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 8 June 2020.
- "ရဝေအောင်ရဲ့ တစ်ခေတ်တစ်ခါက ပြက္ခဒိန်ပိုစတာများ". Momolay (in Burmese). 11 June 2019.
- "ခိုးကူးတွေကြောင့် ထုတ်လုပ်ရေးကို နားလိုက်တဲ့ ရဝေအောင်". Popolay Media (in Burmese). 27 October 2016.
- "တစ်ချိန်က ပရိသတ်တွေကြားမှာနာမည်ကြီးခဲ့တဲ့ ရဝေအောင် ရဲ့ ပြက္ခဒိန်ပုံရိပ်များ". Momolay. 16 August 2019.
Calendar photos of Ya Wai Aung, once popular among the audience.
- "တစ်ခေတ်တစ်ခါက ကိုလူချောတွေ". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 5 August 2017.
- "အောင်မြင်ခဲ့စဉ်တုန်းက အမှတ်တရတွေ ပြောလာတဲ့ ရဝေအောင်?". Myanmar Celebrity (in Burmese). 4 June 2020.
What did he say about him when he was successful?
- "လွမ်းမောတမ်းတမိတဲ့ ရဝေအောင်နဲ့ တစ်ချိန်က စူပါမင်းသမီးများ". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 23 August 2017.