May Toe Khine

In this Burmese name, the given name is May Toe Khine. There is no family name.

May Toe Khine
မေတိုးခိုင်
Born	(1995-05-07) May 7, 1995 (age 29) Yangon, Myanmar
Nationality	Burmese
Occupation	Actress
Relatives	Eaindra Kyaw Zin (aunt)

May Toe Khine (Burmese: မေတိုးခိုင်) is a Burmese actress and a fashion and commercial model.

She gained widespread popularity after starring in Yuu Aung Chit Mae Lu (2019). Her portrayal of the character Akhayar earned praised by fans for her acting performance and character interpretation, and experienced a surgence of popularity.[1][2]

Acting career and popularity

May starred in the documentary series Mythical Myanmar Bagan, alongside Naw Phaw Eh Htar. The documentary is travel across exotic ancient city of Myanmar, Bagan to discover culture, heritage and beauty.

2018–present: Acting debut and rising popularity

She made her acting debut in the Yuu Aung Chit Mae Lu, alongside the top tier award-winning actor and actress, Eaindra Kyaw Zin and Nay Toe. Her portrayal of the character Akhayar earned praised by fans for her acting performance and character interpretation, and experienced a resurgence of popularity.[3]

Filmography

Film (cinema)

Lists of Films

Year	Film	Director	Co-Stars	Role	Notes
2019	Yuu Aung Chit Mae Lu	Aung Zaw Lin	Nay Toe, Eaindra Kyaw Zin, Min Tharke	Akhayar

Short Film

Year	Film	Director	Co-Stars	Role	Notes
2019	Kalay A Tharr Kharr Thi	-	-	-

Television series

Lists of Series

Year	Series	Director	Co-Stars	Role	Channel	Note
2018	Mythical Myanmar Bagan	-	-	Herself	Iflix
2022	Chit Say	Pwint Theingi Zaw	Ye Yint Thaw, Kyaw Tun, Myo Htut Naing, Kaung Sett Htoo, Bhone Hlyan, Khin Yati Thin, Pyo Pyo May, Aye Thida	Cherry	Fortune TV
2023	Rangoon Nights	Sai Nyan Linn Sett	Nyi Nanda, Myo Sandi Kyaw, Ba Gyan, Thoon Thet Htoo San, U Htun, Nay Htut, Bo Min Khant, Swan Htet, May Barami	Kyi Phyu	Mahar
	The Marriage	Mae Min Bon	Kyaw Htet Aung, Nyi Htut Khaung, Banyar Phone Pyae, Chaw Yadanar, Yadanar Bo, Htet Htet Htun, Thin Thae Bo	Poe Ei Seint	Mahar

Political activities

Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, she participated in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, she took part in protests, starting in February. She joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.

On 2 April 2021, warrants for her arrest were issued under Section 505 (a) of the penal code by the State Administration Council for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, she was charged with calling for participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.[4][5][6]

She has been arrested by the Terrorists on 13 April 2021. Her aunt, Eaindra Kyaw Zin and her uncle Pyay Ti Oo, were also arrested at their home on 9 April 2021.[7] She was released on the evening of June 30, 2021.

References

1. ချစ်ပိုး. "ရုပ်ရှင်ကားကြီးတွေ ဆက်လက်ရိုက်ကူးဦးမယ့် မေတိုးခိုင်".
2. "နေတိုး၊ အိန္ဒြာကျော်ဇင်နဲ့ မေတိုးခိုင်တို့ အားပြိုင်ထားကြတဲ့ ရူးအောင်ချစ်မယ့်လူ ရုပ်ရှင်".
3. "မေတိုးခိုင်ကို ဇာတ်ကားနဲ့ လိုက်ဖက်အောင် သရုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်တဲ့ မင်းသမီးလို့ မြင်တဲ့ နေတိုး". ဧရာဝတီ (in Burmese).
4. "Warrants issued for artists, entertainers that called for CDM participation". Eleven. 3 April 2021.
5. "စစ်ကောင်စီကိုဆန့်ကျင်တဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို ဆက်တိုက်အမှုဖွင့်နေ". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
6. "CDM လှုပ်ရှားသူ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို အာဏာပိုင်တွေ အရေးယူဖို့ကြေညာ". VOA (in Burmese). 4 August 2021.
7. "Myanmar coup latest: Junta rejects visit by UN envoy". Nikkei Asia. 10 April 2021.