Alice Ong

Alice Ong (Burmese: အဲလစ်အုန်း; Chinese: 翁如意; born Cho Cho on 8 August 1994) is a Burmese actress, model and beauty pageant title holder of Shan-Chinese descent. She gained popularity after starring in the 2018 film Dimensions which brought her wider recognition.[1][2][3]

Alice Ong
အဲလစ်အုန်း
Born
Cho Cho

(1994-08-08) August 8, 1994
Taunggyi, Myanmar
NationalityBurmese
Alma materVictoria University College
University of Wolverhampton
OccupationActress, Model, Beauty queen
Years active2013–present
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)

Early life and education

Alice was born on 8 August 1994 in Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar. She was a Shan-Chinese descent. Her father was a chinese from Guangdong, a coastal province of southeast China, and her mother was a Shan-Chinese descent from Shan State. She is eldest daughter of four siblings, having two younger brothers and one younger sister. She graduated with a "HND diploma" from Victoria University College in 2015 and "BA honors" from University of Wolverhampton in 2018. Alice moved to Yangon from Taunggyi with her mother after her parents divorced.[4]

Pageantry

Modeling and local pageant

Alice started modeling in 2013 and also appeared on magazine cover photos as a model.[5] She competed in the many local beauty pageant contests, and have won Miss Suko 2014, Miss Shwe Kann Tharyar and Miss PH Care and brand and appointed as brand ambassador.[6]

Miss Asia Myanmar 2015

Alice competed in the Miss Asia Myanmar 2015 pageant which was held on 14 November 2015 at Ngwesaung beach, Pathein. At the end of the event, she was elected to represent Myanmar at the Miss Asia 2015 pageant. After previously competing in the Miss Asia Myanmar 2015 pageant, a person who recognized her from Miss Asia Myanmar, and got many requests to act the advertisements.[7][8]

Acting career

2016–2017: Acting debut

After previously competing in the Miss Asia Myanmar 2015 pageant, she became an actress. Alice made her film debut in 2016 with a leading role in the film Bella and Me, alongside Khar Ra. The film directed by May Barani and film released in May 2017.[9][10][11]

2017–present: Breaking into the big screen

Alice took on her first big-screen leading role in the action-thriller film Dimensions alongside Khar Ra, directed by Nyan Htin which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 9 February 2018 and also screened in Singapore. The film was a domestic hit in Myanmar, and led to increased recognition for Alice Ong.[12][13]

In 2018, she co-starred with Daung and Angel Lamung in the dance film Wind Up Dancer, directed by Myo Myint Shwe, and written by Nat Khat Ni. It was produced by JATAKA Film Production and premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 9 May 2019.[14][15]

Brand Ambassadorships

Alice was appointed as brand ambassador for Canal+ Myanmar of Cha Tate Channel and Pu Tu Tue Channel in 2017. She also brand model for Vivo smartphone in 2018.[16][17]

Filmography

Film (Cinema)
YearEnglish titleBurmese titleRoleNotes
2018Dimensionsမျက်နှာပြင်များAkariLead role
2019Wind Up Dancerလေဆန်ကကြိုးSin ThiyarLead role

Film
YearEnglish titleBurmese titleRoleNotes
2017Bella and Meဘယ်လာနှင့်ကျွန်တော်BellaLead role
gollark: Demonstrably false, some people adopt children.
gollark: What if the kids collude to do [REDACTED]?
gollark: It sounds unpleasant.
gollark: Oh no.
gollark: I just procedurally generate ideologies as needed.

References
  1. "Dimensions (မျက်နှာပြင်များ)". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 8 February 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  2. Yu Phyu Han (2 March 2018). ""ပရိသတျအတှကျ အစားထိုးလို့ မရတဲ့ ကာရိုကျတာမြိုး ဖွစျခငြျတယျ"ဆိုတဲ့ Alice Ong". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  3. "亚洲小姐ALlCE ONG：我要把多彩贵州风带回缅甸". Toutiao (in Chinese). Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  4. "Alice Ong Learnt About Many Life Lessons When She Was Young". Myanmar Celebrities. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  5. "BARBIE & CUTTIE". People Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-06-23.
  6. ချစ်စရာကောင်းတဲ့ အမူအရာနဲ့ ပရိသတ်တွေကို ဖမ်းစားထားတဲ့ မော်ဒယ်/သရုပ်ဆောင် အဲလစ်အုန်း
  7. "ကြံကြံဖန်ဖန် ထူးထူးခြားခြားတွေ လုပ်ရမှာကို ပိုစိတ်ဝင်စားတယ် Alice Ong" (in Burmese). Yatanarpon News. Archived from the original on 2018-07-13.
  8. Miss Asia 2015 Myanmar Alice Ong Photos Album Special
  9. "သရုပ်ဆောင်တွေထဲမှာ ကိုယ့်ကိုကိုယ်ကံကောင်းတယ်ထင်တယ့် အဲလစ်အုန်း". Popular Myanmar.
  10. "သဘာဝကျတဲ့ ဇာတ်ကောင်မျိုးတွေ သရုပ်ဆောင်ချင်ပေမယ့် Cute ဖြစ်တဲ့ ကာရိုက်တာတွေမှာ သရုပ်ဆောင်ဖို့ ကမ်လှမ်းတာတွေများတယ်ဆိုတဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် အဲလစ်အုန်း" (in Burmese). Weekly Eleven. Archived from the original on 2018-07-12.
  11. "အနုပညာလောကမှာခြေလှမ်းသွက်သွက်နဲ့ နေရာယူလာတဲ့လူငယ် မင်းသမီး Alice Ong". Popular News Journal (in Burmese). 6 August 2018.
  12. "စင်ကာပူမှာ ရုံတင်ဖို့စီစဉ်နေတဲ့ မျက်နှာပြင်များ". 7Day News. 12 July 2018.
  13. "ဦးထုပ်ဆောင်းပြီးလမ်းဘေးဆိုင်လေးတွေမှာ တစ်ယောက်တည်းလျှောက်စားဖြစ်တယ်ဆိုတဲ့ Alice Ong" (in Burmese). Sunday Journal. 17 March 2018. Archived from the original on 12 July 2018.
  14. "အလန်းစားအကတွေနဲ့ ရုံတင်လာတဲ့ 'လေဆန်ကကြိုး'". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 16 May 2019.
  15. "Wind Up Dancer (Myanmar)". Myanmore Magazine. 9 May 2019.
  16. "ကလေးတွေနဲ့ဆိုင်တဲ့ရုပ်သံလိုင်းကိုတာဝန်ယူထားရတဲ့ အဲလစ်အုန်း". Archived from the original on 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
  17. "Smartphoneအသုံးများလာခြင်းရဲ့နောက်ဆက်တွဲဆိုးကျိုးကိုဘယ်လိုကာကွယ်မလဲ Alice Ong". Popular Myanmar.
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