Aung Min Khant

Aung Min Khant (Burmese: အောင်မင်းခန့်; born 25 November 1990) is a Burmese actor and model. He gained recognitions for his roles in television series Forever Mandalay (2014), Wit Nyin Shite Than (2015), Wingabar San Eain (2015) and Magical Village (2017).[1][2]

For the Burmese footballer, see Aung Min Khant (footballer).

Aung Min Khant
အောင်မင်းခန့်
Born	Aung Min Khant (1990-11-25) November 25, 1990 Yangon, Myanmar
Nationality	Burmese
Alma mater	University of Distance Education, Yangon
Occupation	Actor • Model
Years active	2008–present
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Parent(s)	Tun Oo Win Win Kyi

Early life and education

Aung Min Khant was born on 25 November 1990 in Yangon, Myanmar. He is the youngest son of Tun Oo and his wife Win Win Kyi. He has an elder brother.[3] He is a cousin of actor Naing Naing. He attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 2 Dagon. He graduated from University of Distance Education, Yangon with a degree in History in 2011.[4]

Career

2008–2012: Beginnings as a model

Aung Min Khant joined John Lwin's model training in 2008. Since then, he took professional training in modelling and catwalk. He began his 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. And then he competed in the male model contests and became the winner of Mr. Maxamin Forte in 2011, and runner up of Manhunt 2 in 2012. Then came the offers for TV commercials and then DVD ones. His hardwork as a model and acting in commercials was noticed by the film industry and soon, film casting offers came rolling in. He entered a five-year contract with MRTV-4 Talent Center in 2011.[5]

2014–2016: Acting debut and recognition

He made his acting debut in 2014 with a leading role in the television drama Forever Mandalay, alongside Han Lin Thant, Aung Yay Chan, Chue Lay and May Me Kyaw Kyaw, aired on MRTV-4 in February 2014 and received positive reviews for his portrayal of Phone Moe Thun, which led to increased popularity for him. He then starred in his second television series Wit Nyin Shite Than, where he played the leading role with Han Lin Thant, Kyaw Htet, May Me Me Kyaw, Hsaung Wutyee May and Khin Sandar Myint which aired on MRTV-4, on 1 April 2015.

In 2015, he starred the male lead in the television series Wingabar San Eain, alongside Poe Kyar Phyu Khin and Hsaung Wutyee May. Aung's portrayal of the character Dr Sao Khun Hmaing earned praised by fans for his acting performance and character interpretation, and experienced a resurgence of popularity.[6]

The same year, he took on his first big-screen leading role in the film Myaing Yazar Tut Pi Nae Yan Pone Ngwe Pyauk Shar Pone Taw.[7] He was cast in film Taninganway Nya Kaung. The two films will be screen in 2020. In 2016, he starred in drama Better Tomorrow, where he played the leading role with Aung Yay Chan, Net Khat and Chue Lay, aired on 12 October 2016.[8]

2017–present: Big success

Aung Min Khant gain increased attention and popularity with his role as Dragon King Nay Thura in the popular historical series Yadanar Htae Ka Yadanar alongside Kaung Myat San and Myat Thu Thu, aired on MRTV-4, on 30 January 2017 which was a huge commercial success, topping television ratings and becoming the most watched Burmese television drama at that time.[9] The same year, he co-starred in the series Magical Village alongside Thu Riya, Chue Lay and Nan Sandar Hla Htun which aired on MRTV-4, on 14 September 2017.

His film Myitta Htar Tar A Hoke Ko Pal, was screened in Myanmar cinemas on 25 May 2018.[10] In 2018, Aung starred in the hit crime-action series It was on Yesterday 2, playing the role of serial killer Thuta.[11]

Filmography

Film (Cinema)

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• Myitta Htar Tar A Hoke Ko Pal (မေတ္တာထားတာ အဟုတ်ကိုပဲ) (2018)
• Fraud Of Brother (ကွီးတို့၏မာယာ) (2019)
• Myaing Yazar Tut Pi Nae Yan Pone Ngwe Pyauk Shar Pone Taw (မြိုင်ရာဇာတွတ်ပီနဲ့ရန်ပုံငွေပျောက်ရှာပုံတော်) (2020)
• Taninganway Nya Kaung (တနင်္ဂနွေညကျောင်း) (2020)
• Beyond The Law (နိယာမအလွန်)(2020)
• Who are you? (မင်းဘာကောင်လဲ ငါဘာကောင်လဲ၊ ဘယ်သူဘာကောင်လဲ) (2020)
• General Aung San (‌အောင်ဆန်းရုပ်ရှင်) (TBA)
• Pieces Of Broken Mirror (ကွဲအက်သွားသော မှန်ချပ်များ)

Television series

Year	English title	Myanmar title	Role	Network	Notes
2014	Forever Mandalay	ထာဝရမန္တလေး	Phone Moe Thun	MRTV-4
2015	Wit Nyin Shite Than	ဝိညာဉ်ရှိုက်သံ	Hein Htut Khaung	MRTV-4
	Wingabar San Eain	ဝင်္ကပါစံအိမ်	Dr Sao Khun Hmaing	MRTV-4
2016	Better Tomorrow	ပို၍လှသောမနက်ဖြန်	Mg Wann Thar	MRTV-4
2017	Yadanar Htae Ka Yadanar	ရတနာထဲကရတနာ	Dragon King Nay Thura	MRTV-4
	Magical Village	ပဉ္စလတ်ရွာ	Yoe Sitt	MRTV-4
2018	It was on Yesterday 2	မနေ့ကဖြစ်သည် ၂	Thuta	MRTV-4
2019	Myetlone Mhar Alwan Nhotekhan Mhar Marna	မျက်လုံးမှာအလွမ်း နှုတ်ခမ်းမှာမာန	Aung Mhann	MRTV-4

References

1. Aung, Nandar (22 December 2017). "What are their plans for the holidays?". The Myanmar Times.
2. "သရုပ်ဆောင်သစ်များအတွက် အခွင့်အလမ်းဖြစ်လာသည့် ရုပ်သံဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲများ". 7Day News (in Burmese). 24 May 2018.
3. "ကျန်ရှိနေသေးတဲ့ သက်တမ်းတစ်လျှောက်အတွင်းမှာ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
4. "ပရိသတ်တွေရဲ့ Surprise ကြောင့် ပျော်ရွှင်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ အောင်မင်းခန့်". Duwun (in Burmese). 14 December 2018.
5. ""ဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲတွေက သရုပ်ဆောင်သစ်တွေအတွက် လုပ်ပြခွင့်ရတယ်" ဆိုတဲ့ အောင်မင်းခန့်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 21 June 2018.
6. Poe, Chit (30 April 2019). ""အချစ်ဆိုတာ ရှော့ပင်းစင်တာမှာ ပစ္စည်းဝယ်သလို ကောက်ဝယ်လို့ မရဘူး"လို့ ပြောတဲ့ အောင်မင်းခန့်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese).
7. "အောင်မင်းခန့်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 13 May 2018.
8. "အောင်မင်းခန့်နဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 1 November 2016.
9. Thant, Phyu Phway (11 January 2017). "ထူးခြားတဲ့ ဇာတ်ရုပ်နဲ့ တွေ့ရမယ့် အောင်မင်းခန့်". 7Day News (in Burmese).
10. "မေတ္တာထားတာအဟုတ်ကိုပဲ". Yangon Life (in Burmese).
11. "ပရိသတ်ကပေးလိုက်တဲ့ အကောင်းဆုံးလူသတ်သမားဆုကို ထိုက်တန်စွာရရှိခဲ့တဲ့ အောင်မင်းခန့်". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 26 October 2018.

External links

• Aung Min Khant on Facebook