Chue Lay

{{short description|Burmese actress}} {{family name hatnote|lang=Burmese|Chue Lay}} {{Infobox person | name = Chue Lay | image = Chue Lay.jpg | caption = Chue Lay in 2020 | native_name = {{lang|my|ခြူးလေး}} | native_name_lang = my | birth_name = San Thaw Tar | known_for = {{plainlist| * Ngwe Yi Hnin Sat in ''Forever Mandalay'' * Cho Myain in ''Sign of Moe Pan Pwint'' * San Win Maw in ''Bodaw King'' }} | height = {{height|ft=5|in=4}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|10|5}} | birth_place = Thandwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar | occupation = Actress | awards = Myanmar Academy Award (Best supporting actress for 2024) | years_active = 2012–present | alma_mater = University of West Yangon | parents = | spouse = | relatives = | website = {{URL|https://www.chuelay.com}} }} '''Chue Lay''' ({{langx|my|ခြူးလေး}}; born '''San Thaw Tar'''; 5 October 1993), formerly known as '''Nay Inzara''' ({{lang|my|နေအဥ္ဇရာ}}) is a Burmese television and film actress of ethnic Rakhine descent who gained popularity after starring in the several MRTV-4 series.<ref>{{cite news |title=Beauty Blogger နေခြည်ဦးလို ယုံကြည်မှု ရှိချင်တဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ခြူးလေး |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2019/10/21/206546.html |work=The Irrawaddy |date=21 October 2019 |language=my |archive-date=7 February 2023 |access-date=22 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207093344/https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2019/10/21/206546.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=ပိတောက်နဲ့အလှချင်းပြိုင်နေတဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင်ခြူးလေးရဲ့ သင်္ကြန်ဖက်ရှင် |url=http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/321123 |work=Democratic Voice of Burma |date=4 April 2019 |language=my |archive-date=23 January 2023 |access-date=22 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123191912/http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/321123 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2025, she received the Myanmar Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as San Win Maw in the 2024 film ''Bodaw King''.<ref name="a">{{cite news|date=19 May 2019|title="Ever man people "လို့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ခြူးလေး ပြော|language=my|work=The Irrawaddy|url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2019/05/19/191746.html|archive-date=23 January 2023|access-date=16 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123162210/https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2019/05/19/191746.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ==Early life and education== Chue Lay was born on 5 October 1993 in Thandwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. She is the eldest child among two siblings, having a younger brother. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 4 Insein. She graduated from University of West Yangon with a degree in English.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Win |first1=Leanne |title=ပရိတ်သတ်တွေမုန်းသွားမှာ စိုးရိမ်နေတဲ့ နေအဉ္ဇရာ |url=https://www.popularmyanmar.com/2017/07/17/%E1%80%95%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AD%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9%E1%80%9E%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9%E1%80%B1%E1%80%90%E1%80%BC%E1%80%99%E1%80%AF%E1%80%94%E1%80%B9%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9E%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%99%E1%80%BD/ |work=Popular News Journal |date=17 July 2017 |language=my |archive-date=14 October 2020 |access-date=12 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014204457/https://www.popularmyanmar.com/2017/07/17/%e1%80%95%e1%80%9b%e1%80%ad%e1%80%90%e1%80%b9%e1%80%9e%e1%80%90%e1%80%b9%e1%80%b1%e1%80%90%e1%80%bc%e1%80%99%e1%80%af%e1%80%94%e1%80%b9%e1%80%b8%e1%80%9e%e1%80%bc%e1%80%ac%e1%80%b8%e1%80%99%e1%80%bd/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Career==

In 2012, she entered the acting industry as a contestant in the talent competition "Pyaw Shwin Sayar Tha Yoke Saung Kabar" (Happy Acting World). Following the competition, she signed a five-year contract with MRTV-4 as an actress. She made her on-screen debut in the film ''Kyal Taeyar Tike Pwe'' (Star War), appearing alongside fellow students from an acting training class. She later starred in ''In Tin Tin Gwin'' and ''Twist''.<ref name="b">{{cite news |title=ဟာသကားတွေ ရိုက်ရင် မရယ်မိအောင် ကြိုးစားနေရသေးတယ်လို့ ပြောတဲ့ ခြူးလေး |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2019/04/29/190014.html |work=The Irrawaddy |date=29 April 2019|language=my}}</ref>

In 2014, she starred in her debut series ''Forever Mandalay'', playing a lead role alongside Aung Min Khant, Han Lin Thant, Aung Yay Chan, and May Me Kyaw Kyaw. The series aired on MRTV-4 in February 2014 and became a major success in Myanmar television. She then appeared in her second drama, ''Pan Nu Thway Season 2'', which aired on MRTV-4 later that year. Her portrayal of the character Chue Lay received positive reviews and brought her wider recognition. Following this, she adopted Chue Lay as her stage name.<ref name="b"/><ref>{{cite news |title=ခြူးလေးဆိုတဲ့နံမည်ပြောင်းလိုက်တာကြောင့်ထူးခြားမူ့တွေရှိလာတဲ့အကြောင်း - နေအဥ္ဇရာ |url=https://www.pyoneplay.com/video/U2eHA4ZTE6ZwlXW0asUNs9ivGoqWtXHH |work=Pyone Play |date=28 January 2019 |language=my |access-date=16 March 2020 |archive-date=1 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001190701/https://www.pyoneplay.com/video/U2eHA4ZTE6ZwlXW0asUNs9ivGoqWtXHH |url-status=dead }}</ref>

She portrayed the female lead in her debut 2018 big-screen film ''Sign of Moe Pan Pwint'', alongside Han Lin Thant and May Myint Mo. The role earned her a nomination for the 2018 Myanmar Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.<ref>{{cite news |title=မိုးပန်းပွင့်ရဲ့ သင်္ကေတ ဇာတ်ကားကြီးမှာ အပြိုင်ဇာတ်ရုပ်အဖြစ် ပါဝင်ခွင့်ရလို့ ပျော်ပါတယ်ဆိုတဲ့ ခြူးလေး |url=https://www.kumudranews.com/news-30048 |work=Kumudra |date=8 September 2018 |language=my |access-date=16 March 2020 |archive-date=1 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001235701/https://www.kumudranews.com/news-30048 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=သရုပ်ဆောင် ခြူးလေး(ရုပ်သံအစီအစဉ်) |url=https://news-eleven.com/broadcast/6038 |work=Eleven Media Group |date=30 April 2019 |language=my}}</ref>

She went on to appear in several television series throughout the 2010s. Her credits include ''Lu Yee Chun'' (Sophisticated Person) in 2015; ''Po Ywae Hla Thaw Ma Net Phyan'' (Prettier Tomorrow) and ''Kan Kan Ei A Kyo'' in 2016; ''Yatha Mawkun Alinkar'', ''Shwe Phoo Sar Sone Yar Myay'' (The Land of Real Love), and ''Happy Beach: Season 2'' in 2018; and ''Chit Ya Par Thaw Nway'' (Lovely Chit Nway) and ''Nway Lel Nya Ye La Min'' (The Moon in a Midsummer Night) in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |title="နွေလယ်ညရဲ့လမင်း" ဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲမှာ ဗီလိန်အနေနဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင်ထားတဲ့ ခြူးလေး |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2019/11/13/208238.html |work=The Irrawaddy |date=13 November 2019|language=my}}</ref> She also played in some films like ''Kyaw Kyar A Mhwe Sein Wi Nyin'' and ''Bar Nyar Bar Nyar'' in 2019, ''Thaung Tike Ka Kyar Say Thar'' (May the Universe Hear It) in 2020. Now she is preparing for her next series ''Tharaphu'' (The Crown), a famous novel by Khin Hnin Yu.<ref>{{cite news |title=ဗီလိန်ဇာတ်ရုပ် ရို်က်ကူးမှုတွေကို ခြူး (ခြူးလေး) ဘာကြောင့် နားထားရသလဲ |url=https://www.popularmyanmar.com/2018/01/16/%E1%80%97%E1%80%AE%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AD%E1%80%94%E1%80%B9%E1%80%87%E1%80%AC%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9%E1%82%90%E1%80%AF%E1%80%95%E1%80%B9-%E1%82%90%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B9%E1%80%80%E1%80%B9%E1%80%80%E1%80%B0/ |work=Popular News Journal |date=16 January 2018 |language=my |archive-date=1 October 2020 |access-date=16 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001084532/https://www.popularmyanmar.com/2018/01/16/%E1%80%97%E1%80%AE%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AD%E1%80%94%E1%80%B9%E1%80%87%E1%80%AC%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9%E1%82%90%E1%80%AF%E1%80%95%E1%80%B9-%E1%82%90%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B9%E1%80%80%E1%80%B9%E1%80%80%E1%80%B0/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

She starred in a military propaganda short film ''Those Who Will Gallop Through History'' (ခေတ်သမိုင်းကို ဒုန်းစိုင်းမည့်သူများ), produced by the junta and released on October 25, 2025. The film depicts events from the 2021 military coup to the planned general election, portraying the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), youth emigration, and armed resistance groups in a critical light. Following its release, she faced public criticism over her involvement in the film. State media reported that legal action would be taken against individuals who publicly criticized the production.<ref>{{cite news |title=ကျနော်ကတော့ နေတိုးကို အံ့ဩတယ် |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/opinion/interview/2025/11/01/407507.html |work=ဧရာဝတီ |date=1 November 2025}}</ref>

==Filmography== {{expand list|date=March 2020}} {{Unsourced section|date=May 2026}}

===Film=== * ''Kyal Taeyar Tike Pwe'' (ကြယ်တာရာတိုက်ပွဲ) (2012) * ''In Tin Tin Gwin'' (အင်တင်တင်ဂွင်) (2013) * ''Twist'' (2013) * ''Kout Kyaung Myinn Pyaing'' (ကောက်ကြောင်းမျဉ်းပြိုင်) (2014)

===Film (Cinema)=== {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Film !Burmese title !Note |- |2018 |''Sign of Moe Pan Pwint'' | မိုးပန်းပွင့်ရဲ့သင်္ကေတ | |- |rowspan=2|2019 |''Kyaw Kyar A Mhwe Sein Wi Nyan''' | ကျော်ကြားအမွှေစိန် ဝိညာဉ် | |- |''Bar Nyar Bar Nyar'' | ဘာညာဘာညာ | |- |2020 |''Thaung Tike Ka Kyar Say Thar'' | သောင်းတိုက်ကကြားစေသား | |- |2022 | ''Kyaw Gyi Ka Chit Tat Tal'' | ကျော်ကြီးကချစ်တတ်တယ် | |- |2026 | ''Yite Pauk'' | ရိုက်ပေါက် | |}

===Television series===

{| class="wikitable" ! width=10|Year ! English title ! Myanmar title ! Network ! Notes |- |rowspan="2" | 2014 | ''Forever Mandalay'' | ထာဝရမန္တလေး | MRTV-4 | |- | ''Happy Beach: Season 2'' | | MRTV-4 | |- |2015 | ''Pan Nu Thway: Season 2'' | ပန်းနုသွေး အတွဲ၂ | MRTV-4 | |- | rowspan="3" |2016 | ''Lu Yee Chun'' | လူရည်ချွှန် | MRTV-4 | |- | ''Po Ywae Hla Thaw Ma Net Phyan'' | ပို၍လှသောမနက်ဖြန် | MRTV-4 | |- | ''Kan Kan Ei A Kyo'' | ကံ ကံ၏အကျိူး | MRTV-4 | |- | 2017 | ''Magical Village'' | ပဉ္စလက်ရွာ | MRTV-4 | |- | rowspan="2" | 2018 | ''Yatha Mawkun Alinkar'' | ရသ ေမာ်ကွန်း အလင်္ကာ | MRTV-4 | |- | ''Shwe Phoo Sar Sone Yar Myay'' | ရွှေဖူးစာဆုံရာမြေ | MRTV-4 | |- | rowspan="2" | 2019 | ''Chit Ya Par Thaw Nway'' | ချစ်ရပါသောနွေ | MRTV-4 | |- | ''Nway Lal Nya Yae La Min'' | နွေလယ်ညရဲ့လမင်း | MRTV-4 | |- | 2022 | ''Tharaphu'' | သရဖူ | MRTV-4 | |}

==Awards, nominations and recognition== On March 2, 2026, she was conferred the Medal for Excellent Performance in Social Field (First Class), one of the highest national medals awarded by the Government of Myanmar for exceptional contributions to social welfare.<ref>{{cite news |title=ဦးအောင်လင်းဒွေး၊ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး ရဲဝင်းဦးအပါအဝင် စုစုပေါင်း လူပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ၃၀၂ ဦးကို ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင်ဘွဲ့နှင့် ဆုတံဆိပ်များ ချီးမြှင့်|url=https://news-eleven.com/article/310232|work=Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd|language=my}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Htein |title=တောင်သူလယ်သမား‌နေ့ အထိမ်းအမှတ်အဖြစ် အနုပညာရှင်တွေနဲ့ မီဒီယာသမားတချို့ကို ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင်ဘွဲ့၊ ‌တံဆိပ်တွေ ချီးမြှင့် |url=https://voiceofmyanmarnews.com/news/2026/03/02/%E1%80%90%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9E%E1%80%B0%E1%80%9C%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9E%E1%80%99%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%94%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B7-%E1%80%A1%E1%80%91%E1%80%AD%E1%80%99/ |work=Voice of Myanmar |date=2 March 2026}}</ref>

===Academy Awards=== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%" |- ! Year ! Award ! Category ! Nominated work ! Result |- | 2018 | Myanmar Academy Award | Best Supporting Actress | ''Sign of Moe Pan Pwint'' | {{nominated}} |- | 2024 | Myanmar Academy Award | Best Supporting Actress | ''Bodaw King'' | {{won}} |}

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Category:1993 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century Burmese actresses Category:People from Rakhine State Category:Rakhine people Category:Burmese film actresses