Thandar Bo

Thandar Bo (Burmese: သန္တာဗိုလ်; born 1 January 1993) is a Burmese actress, model and singer. She gained popularity after starring in the 2017 film Zoot Kyar which brought her wider recognition. Thandar Bo has released an album "Nar Lal Pay Par Ko" in 2013.[1]

Thandar Bo
သန္တာဗိုလ်
Born	Thandar Bo 1 January 1993 Yangon, Myanmar
Nationality	Burmese
Alma mater	Dagon University
Occupation	Actress, model, singer
Years active	2010–present
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Parent(s)	Paw Shan (father)
Relatives	Chaw Yadanar (sister)
Musical career
Genres	Pop, pop rock
Instruments	Vocals

Early life and education

Thandar Bo was born on 1 January 1993 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is the youngest child among three siblings, having two older sisters. Her older sister is a Myanmar Academy Award winning actress Chaw Yadanar. Her father is a musician, Paw Shan. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 2 Bahan. She graduated from Dagon University with a degree in History.[2]

Career

Beginnings as a model

Thandar Bo joined John Lwin's model training. Since then, she took professional training in modelling and catwalk. She began her entertainment career as a runway model as part of the John Lwin's John International Modeling Agency with countless advertising shows and runways that had been walked on. Since then, she started walking the runway at the Myanmar International Fashion Week every year.[3] Then came the offers for TV commercials and has appeared in many music videos and as fashion model on magazine cover photos. Her hardwork as a model and acting in commercials was noticed by the film industry and soon, movie casting offers came rolling in.[4]

2010–2014: Film debut, solo debut and recognition

She made her acting debut in 2010 with a main role in the film Yun, alongside Kyaw Ye Aung and Soe Myat Thuzar, directed by Ko Zaw (Arr Yone Oo). She has since appeared in 12 films. In 2012, she made her big screen debut in film A Phyu Yaung Ye Dike (The White Castle), where she played the main role with Nay Toe, Pyay Ti Oo, Kaung Pyae and Eaindra Kyaw Zin, which screened in Myanmar cinemas in 2013. She launched her debut solo album "Nar Lal Pay Par Ko" on 19 September 2013 was a commercial success, gaining her a large following.[5][6][7] She performed in the first MTV EXIT LIVE in Myanmar, held in October 2013 at People Square.[5]

2015–present: Rising popularity and breakthrough

In 2015, she starred in the big-screen film Zoot Kyar where she played the main role with Kyaw Ye Aung, Myint Myat, Moe Aung Yin, Ye Lay, Htet Aung Shine, Khine Thin Kyi, Patricia and May, which screened in Myanmar cinemas on 29 September 2017 and processed huge hit and successes.[8][9] After this film, she starred the main role in drama film A Way Chit, alongside Aung Ye Lin, Tun Ko Ko, Thet Mon Myint and Soe Myat Thuzar which screened in Myanmar cinemas on 12 October 2018.[10][11][12]

She then starred in her debut series Moe Saung Nway where she played the main role with Tyron Bejay, Kyat Pha, Kyaw Kyaw, Phue Sone and Hsu Myat Noe Oo, which aired on Lar Lar Kyi in 2019.

Filmography

Film

• Yun (ယွန်း) (2010)
• Nal Yote Ka Lay Hnit Yoke (နယ်ရုပ်ကလေးနှစ်ရုပ်) (2013)
• Father's School (အဖေ့ကျောင်း) (2016)[13]
• Yway Ya Khet Gyi (ရွေးရခက်ကြီး) (2016)
• 3 In 1 (သရီးအင်ဝမ်း) (2017)
• Mayar Ta Yay Noe (မာယာတရေးနိုး) (2017)
• Wi Yaw Di Phat Ser (ဝိရောဓိ ဖတ်စာ) (2017)
• Ga Htay Shit Se Thu Ba Yarzar (ကုဋေရှစ်ဆယ် သုဘရာဇာ) (2017)

Film (Cinema)

Year	Film	Burmese title	Note
2013	A Phyu Yaung Ye Dike	အဖြူရောင်ရဲတိုက်
	Ko A Htar Nae Ko[14]	ကိုယ့်အထာနဲ့ကိုယ်
2017	Zoot Kyar	ဇွတ်ကျား
2018	A Way Chit	အဝေးချစ်
	Pin Lal Gyi Ka Bar Pyaw Lal[15][16]	ပင်လယ်ကြီးကဘာပြောလဲ

Television series

Year	English title	Myanmar title	Network	Notes
2019	Moe Saung Nway	မိုးဆောင်းနွေ	Lar Lar Kyi

Discography

Solo albums

• Nar Lal Pay Par Ko (နားလည်ပေးပါ...ကို) (2013)

Personal life

Thandar Bo has been in a relationship with actor Kaung Pyae since 2012.[17][18]

References

1. "ရေကူးဝတ်စုံဝတ်ပြီး အလှမယ်ပြိုင်ပွဲတွေ ဝင်ပြိုင်ရမှာကြောက်တဲ့ သန္တာဗိုလ်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 3 May 2018.
2. "အသက် ၂ရ နှစ်ပြည့်မှာ မွေးနေ့အလှူလုပ်ခဲ့တဲ့ သန္တာဗိုလ်". Momolay (in Burmese). 5 January 2020.
3. ""နားလည်ပေးပါ…ကို" MTV အမြန်ဆုံးထွက်ရှိဖို့ပြင်ဆင်နေပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ သန္တာဗိုလ်". Trend Magazine (in Burmese). 5 May 2014.
4. "မော်ဒယ် သန္တာဗိုလ် အိမ်သာဝင်နေချိန် ကြောက်လန့် ဝမ်းနည်းမိအောင်ဘာကြုံခဲ့ရလဲ". Kumudra (in Burmese). 9 December 2018.
5. ""နားလည်ပေးပါ...ကို" သီချင်းနဲ့ မိန်းကလေးပရိသတ် အားပေးမှုများနေတဲ့ သန္တာဗိုလ်". 7Day News (in Burmese). 7 November 2013.
6. ""နားလည်ပေးပါ...ကို" အတွက် အလုပ်ရှုပ်နေတဲ့ သန္တာဗိုလ်". 7Day News (in Burmese). 10 September 2013.
7. "နားလည်ပေးပါ ဗီစီဒီကိုပိုက်ဆံစုပြီး ရိုက်ကူးနေတဲ့ သန္တာဗိုလ်". Kumudra (in Burmese). 24 August 2016.
8. "ဇွတ်ကျား ရုပ်ရှင် ဇာတ်ကားကြီး စက်တင်ဘာ ၂၉ရက်တွင် ရုံတင် ပြသမည်". Mizzima (in Burmese). 20 September 2017.
9. "Zoot Kyar". Myanmore Magazine. 29 September 2017.
10. "Movie Time: Screening from October 12 to 18". The Myanmar Times. 11 October 2018.
11. "အောင်ရဲလင်း၊ သက်မွန်မြင့်ပါ၀င်သည့် အဝေးချစ်ရုပ်ရှင် ကြည့်ရှုသူ ၁ သန်းခွဲခန့်ရှိပြီ (နမူနာ)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 10 October 2018.
12. "အဝေးချစ်". Yangon Life (in Burmese).
13. "ရလာတဲ့ဝင်ငွေကို ထိုင်း FED ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းကိုလှူဒါန်းမယ့် အဖေ့ကျောင်း". Kumudra (in Burmese). 6 August 2016.
14. "တစ်ပတ်အတွင်း ရုပ်ရှင်". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 18 October 2013.
15. ""ပင်လယ်ကြီးကဘာပြောလဲ" ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားကြီး စာနယ်ဇင်းမိတ်ဆက်". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 19 June 2018.
16. "Pin Lal Gyi Ka Bar Pyaw Lal". Myanmore Magazine. 27 June 2018.
17. ""အိမ်ထောင်ကျသွားရင် စိတ်ညစ်ရမယ်ဆိုတဲ့ အတွေးမျိုး မတွေးဘူး"လို့ ပြောတဲ့ ကောင်းပြည့်တို့ စုံတွဲ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 18 January 2020.
18. "ချစ်သူသက်တမ်း(၇)နှစ်ရှိပြီဆိုတဲ့ မော်ဒယ် သန္တာဗိုလ်". Eleven Broadcasting (in Burmese). 1 September 2019.

External links

• Thandar Bo on Facebook
• Thandar Bo on Instagram