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Paing Takhon
ပိုင်တံခွန်
Born
Sit Ko Paing

(1996-09-17) 17 September 1996 (age 28)
Khamaukgyi, Kawthaung, Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar
NationalityBurmese
EducationUniversity of Distance Education, Yangon
OccupationModel • Actor • Singer • Entrepreneur
Years active2014–present
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1]
Musical career
GenresPop
InstrumentVocals • Guitar • Violin

Paing Takhon (Template:Lang-my; born Sit Ko Paing (စစ်ကိုပိုင်) on 17 September 1996) is a Burmese model, actor and singer.[2][3] He began his entertainment career in 2014 as a runway model.[4][5]

In 2018, Paing Takhon featured on the BuzzFeed's "23 Stunning South Asian Men That Are Too Gorgeous For Words".[6][7] In 2019, he was listed on The Myanmar Times "Top 10 Actors".[8]

Early life and education

Paing Takhon was born on 17 September 1996 in Kawthaung, Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar to parent Tun Moe and his wife Khin Kyu. But he grew up in Khamaukgyi.[9] He is the fourth child of six siblings, having an elder brother, two elder sisters and two younger brothers.[10] He graduated high school from Basic Education High School No. 1 Khamaukgyi. In 2014, Paing moved to Yangon to become a model. He is currently studying at University of Distance Education, Yangon, majoring in Psychology.[11]

Career

2014–2016: Beginnings as a model

He joined John Lwin's model training in 2014. 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 Star & Model International Modeling Agency with countless advertising shows and runways that had been walked on. Then came the offers for TV commercials and then DVD ones. He has appeared in many music videos and as fashion model on magazine cover photos. His hardwork as a model and acting in commercials was noticed by the film industry and soon, movie casting offers came rolling in.[12]

In 2016, he attended to Indonesia to take part in "Asean Celebrity Explore Quest Malaysia 2016" (ACEQM) together with Nan Su Yati Soe as a representative from Myanmar which is held with famous celebrities and models from South East Asia countries. They performed together U Shwe Yoe and Daw Moe dance at the event.[13]

2017–present: Acting debut and rising popularity

Rising to fame in 2017, he became an actor.[14] He made his acting debut with a leading role in the film Midnight Traveller alonsige Nang Khin Zay Yar.[15] He then starred in drama film Bad Boys 2 (Angel of Bad Boys), where he played the main role.[16][17] In 2018, he portrayed the male lead in action horror film Thaman Kyar (Weretiger) alongside Angel Lamung.[18][19]

In March 2019, it was announced that he has been cast as the male lead of the documentary drama series Kha Yee Thwar Kauk Kyaung (Traveller's Notes) alongside Thinzar Wint Kyaw.[20] In April 2019, he was cast in the horror film Thu Bal Thu Lae (Who is he?) alongside Nyein Thaw, Cham Min Ye Htut and Thinzar Wint Kyaw.[21]

On 3 August 2019, he held a grand fan meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, where a huge crowd of many fans gathered.[22][23] He is an ASEAN Economic Community ambassador.[10] On 21 September 2019, he was appointed as Myanmar's tourism ambassador to Thailand by the Myanmar Tourism Marketing Association together with the Myanmar Tourism Federation.[24][25]

Music career

Paing Takhon started singing in 2017. He launched his debut solo album "Chit Thu" (Lover) on 16 September 2017.[26] He donated all his money from selling his albums to orphan children from Ananda Metta orphan school.[27]

Brand ambassadorships

He is also known as the face of many brands. His first brand worked as the ambassador for Pond's Myanmar in 2014. In 2019, he started working as brand ambassador for major brands such as Oppo Myanmar, Telenor Myanmar, Sunkist Myanmar, T247 energy drink and Sailun Tire Myanmar.[28][29]

Business

Paing Takhon is a business partner and share holder of the United Amara Bank. He is also the founder of a beauty product company.[30][31]

Filmography

Film (Cinema)

Year English title Burmese title Co-stars Notes
2017 Midnight Traveller သန်းခေါင်ယံခရီးသည်များ Nang Khin Zay Yar
Bad Boys 2 လူဆိုးလေးများ ၂ Zay Ye Htet, Patricia
2018 Thaman Kyar (Weretiger) သမန်းကျား Angel Lamung
TBA Thu Bal Thu Lae (Who is he?) သူဘယ်သူလဲ Nyein Thaw, Cham Min Ye Htut, Thinzar Wint Kyaw

Television series

Year English title Burmese title Co-stars Notes
TBA Kha Yee Thwar Kauk Kyaung (Traveller's Notes) ခရီးသွားကောက်ကြောင်း Thinzar Wint Kyaw

Discography

Solo albums

  • Chit Thu (Lover) (ချစ်သူ) (2016)

References

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  4. ^ "မကြာမီမှာ ရုံတင်ပြသတော့မယ့် "Bad Boys 2" ရုပ်ရှင်ကား". The Voice Weekly. 7 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Myanmar actor Paing Takhon shaves head for monk stint, goes viral on Internet". The Straits Times. 15 January 2021.
  6. ^ "အာရှက စွဲမက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းတဲ့ အမျိုးသားစာရင်းမှာ ပါဝင်တဲ့ ပိုင်တံခွန်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 23 April 2018.
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  17. ^ "လူဆိုးလေးများရဲ့ နတ်မိမယ် Angel of bad boys shooting – ဇေရဲထက်၊ ပိုင်တံခွန်၊ ပက်ထရစ်ရှာ". Myanmar Cele Crazy. 5 January 2017 – via YouTube.
  18. ^ Lu, Daung (30 May 2018). "သမန်းကျား ဝိညာဉ်ဗီဒီယိုဇာတ်ကား အွန်လိုင်းတွင် အခမဲ့ဖြန့်ဝေသွားမည်". Mizzima (in Burmese).
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  22. ^ Jirayu, Eddie (31 July 2019). "Myanmar Model That Won Thai Girls' Hearts Will Be Hosting First Meet And Greet in Bangkok". The Smart Local.
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  26. ^ Hein, Kyaw Zaw (13 September 2017). "မကြာခင် တွေ့ရမည့် ပိုင်တံခွန်၏ ချစ်သူ". Mizzima (in Burmese).
  27. ^ "သီချင်းခွေ ရောင်းရငွေကို ပရဟိတလုပ်မယ်ဆိုတဲ့ ပိုင်တံခွန်". Kumudra (in Burmese). 18 September 2017.
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  29. ^ "ပိုင်တံခွန်၊ ယွန်းယွန်း တို့ တက်ရောက်ခဲ့တဲ့ "T247" ခွန်အားဖြည့် အချိုရည် မိတ်ဆက်ပွဲ". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 25 May 2019.
  30. ^ "မြန်မာမော်ဒယ် ပိုင်တံခွန် ထိုင်းမလေးတွေအကြား ရေပန်းစားနေ (ရုပ်သံ)". DVB (in Burmese). 18 July 2019.
  31. ^ "လက်ရှိရေပန်းစားဆုံး မင်းသားပိုင်တံခွန်ရဲ့ Exclusive ၅ ခု". Myanmar Live News (in Burmese). 11 July 2019.
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