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{{Short description|Burmese actor, model and singer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
{{family name hatnote|lang=Burmese|Khar Ra}}
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| name         = Khar Ra
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| native_name  = {{lang|my|ခါရာ}}
| birth_name   = Myo Htut Naing
| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1993|10|21}}
| birth_place  = [[Mogok]], Myanmar
| nationality  = Burmese
| occupation   = {{hlist|Actor|Model|Singer}}
| years_active = 2013–present
| height    = {{height|ft=6|in=0}}
| awards       =
| alma_mater   = [[Dagon University]]
| father = Myint Oo
| mother = Nang Sein
| spouse =
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'''Khar Ra''' ({{langx|my|ခါရာ}}, also spelt '''Kharra'''; born '''Myo Htut Naing'''; 21 October 1993)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.7daydaily.com/story/111280|title=ချစ်သူပေးတဲ့ မွေးနေ့လက်ဆောင်ကြောင့် ရှော့ခ်ဖြစ်သွားတဲ့ ခါရာ|last=ဇွဲဉာဏ်|date=2017-10-26|work=7 Day Daily}}</ref> is a [[Burmese people|Burmese]] actor, model and singer of ethnic [[Shan people|Shan]]-[[Chinese people in Myanmar|Chinese]] descent.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Min Phyo |first1=Nay |title=အပြင်မှာဖြစ်ပျက်နေသည့် အတိုင်း အချစ်ဇာတ်ကား ရိုက်ကူးရန် ခါရာ ပြင်ဆင်နေ |url=https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/112913.html |work=[[The Myanmar Times]] |date=16 July 2018 |language=my}}</ref> He gained popularity after starring in the 2018 film ''[[Dimensions (2018 film)|Dimensions]]'' which brought him wider recognition.<ref>{{cite news |title=မြန်မာ့အက်ရှင် ရုပ်ရှင်လောကကို ပြန်လည် အသက်သွင်းနိုင်ခဲ့သူ သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာ |url=http://mdn.gov.mm/en/node/18830 |work=Myanmar Digital News |date=12 March 2019|language=my}}</ref><ref name="a">{{cite news |title=ခါရာနဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း |url=http://thevoicemyanmar.com/index.php/entertainment/3637-krn |work=[[The Voice Weekly]] |date=16 November 2016 |language=my}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Khar Ra was born on 21 October 1993 in [[Mogok]], Myanmar to ethnic [[Shan people|Shan]]-[[Chinese people in Myanmar|Chinese]] parent Myint Oo and his wife Nang Sein.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.duwun.com.mm/entertainment/celebrities/cele-yatkwat/8930441|title=ကိုယ့်ရုပ်ကိုယ် ပြန်မကြည့်ချင်တဲ့ အချိန်တွေ ရှိခဲ့တဲ့ ခါရာ|website=Duwun|language=my|access-date=2019-03-20}}</ref> He is the eldest son of three siblings, having a younger sister and younger brother.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.popularmyanmar.com/2018/08/07/%e1%80%9e%e1%82%90%e1%80%af%e1%80%95%e1%80%b9%e1%80%b1%e1%80%86%e1%80%ac%e1%80%84%e1%80%b9-%e1%80%81%e1%80%ab%e1%80%9b%e1%80%ac-%e1%80%9b%e1%80%b2%e1%82%95-%e1%80%87%e1%80%ac%e1%80%90%e1%80%ad/|title=သရုပ်ဆောင်ခါရာရဲ့ဇာတိ|date=2018-08-07|website=Popular News Journal|language=my|access-date=2019-03-20}}</ref> He attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 1 Mogok and graduated from [[Dagon University]] with a degree in English.<ref name="a"/><ref>{{cite news |title=မြန်မာပြည်ရဲ့ နာမည်အကြီးဆုံး ၅ ယောက်ထဲမှာ ပါချင်တဲ့ ခါရာ|url=http://www.mizzimaburmese.com/article/25483 |work=[[Mizzima]] |date=31 March 2017 |language=my}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=သရုပ်ဆောင် မော်ဒယ် ခါရာရဲ့ ငယ်ဘဝဖြတ်သန်းရာ |url=https://news-eleven.com/entertainment/37071 |work=[[Eleven Media Group]] |date=8 February 2018 |language=my}}</ref>
==Modeling and male pageantry==
Khar Ra began his modeling career in 2013, and then he competed in the male model contest The First Myanmar Guys 2013. He also appeared on magazine cover photos and as model for many advertisements.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://7daydaily.com/story/17682|title=Mr.Asia တွင် ယှဉ်ပြိုင်မည့် Kharra|last=ကြူကြူဟန်|date=2014-08-07|work=7 Day Daily}}</ref> He joined the second edition of Miss Golden Land Myanmar which was held on 21 August 201. At the end of the event, he won Mr. Asia Myanmar 2014 and represented Myanmar at the [[Mr. Asia Contest|Mr. Asia Contest 2014]].<ref name="a"/>
In 2016, he was awarded ''Asia Model Star Award'' by Korea Model Association.<ref name="a"/>
===Mr. Asia 2014===
Khar Ra competed in the 2014 [[Mr. Asia Contest]], along with participants from 50 other nations which was held on 27 August to 27 September in [[Hong Kong]]. He placed as the 2nd runner-up and won four continental title awards for ''Mister Viewer's Choice Award'', ''Mister Gorgeous'', ''Mister Charismatic'', and ''Missosology Top Favourite Award''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thu |first1=Han |title='အကယ်၍ ဆုမရခဲ့ရင် ကျွန်တော် ရူးသွားနိုင်တယ်' |url=http://www.7daydaily.com/story/23890 |work=[[7Day News]] |date=30 October 2014|language=my}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/entertainment/20141004/bkn-20141004173519837-1004_00862_001.html|title=亞生：緬甸鐵漢唔怕紋身影響出賽|website=on.cc東網|language=zh-hk|access-date=2019-03-20}}</ref>
==Music career==
Khar Ra is also a singer. He started singing in 2015, and released his debut album "Ka Lane Ka Kyait" (Deceit) which was a duet album with his partner Nora Ko on 14 February 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mon Kyaw |first1=Yu |title=မစ္စတာခါရာရဲ့ "ကလိမ်ကကျစ်" |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/2016/02/07/106845.html |work=[[The Irrawaddy]] |date=7 February 2016|language=my}}</ref>
==Acting career==
===2017–2018: Film debut and recognition===
Rising to fame in 2017, he became an actor. He made his acting debut with a leading role in the film ''The Accident'' alongside Thinzar Nwe Win in 2017. He then starred in his second film ''Bella and Me'' where he played the leading role with [[Alice Ong]] and also starred in his third film ''Unstoppable'' in 2017. The films was both a domestic hit, and led to increased recognition for Khar Ra.<ref name="a"/>
===2018–present: Breaking into the big screen===
Khar Ra took on his first big-screen leading role in the action-thriller film ''[[Dimensions (2018 film)|Dimensions]]'' alongside Alice Ong, directed by Nyan Htin which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 9 February 2018 and was also screened in [[Singapore]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Phyu Han |first1=Yu |title="အောင်မြင်မှုတခု ရဖို့အတွက် အချိန်တခုက အရမ်းအရေးကြီးတယ်"ဆိုတဲ့ ခါရာ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2018/07/31/165353.html |work=[[The Irrawaddy]] |date=31 July 2018|language=my}}</ref>
In the same year, he starred in the big-screen film ''Poisoned Savages'' where he played the leading role with actor Naing Naing and Tun Ko Ko, which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 30 November 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Poe |first1=Chit |title=ဇာတ်ကားရိုက်တုန်းက မင်းသား နိုင်းနိုင်းအနား မကပ်ရဲခဲ့တဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2018/11/27/175739.html |work=[[The Irrawaddy]] |date=27 November 2018|language=my}}</ref> He then portrayed the male lead in the big-screen film ''City Hunters'', an action film alongside actress Pyae Wade Maung which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 1 March 2019.<ref>{{cite news |title="ခက်ခက်ခဲခဲ အရဲစွန့် ကြိုးစားခဲ့ကြတာပါ"- မြို့ပြမုဆိုး မင်းသား ခါရာ |url=http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/315711 |work=[[Democratic Voice of Burma]] |date=28 February 2019|language=my}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=ရုပ်ရှင်မကြည့်တာ ၃ နှစ်၊ ၅ နှစ်ရှိပြီ ဆိုတဲ့လူတွေအများကြီး ရုံထဲပြန်ပြီး ၀င်လာစေချင်တယ် – ခါရာ (မြို့ပြမုဆိုး) |url=http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/316240 |work=[[Democratic Voice of Burma]] |date=4 March 2019|language=my}}</ref>
In 2018, he portrayed his role as Ye Naung in the popular television series ''It was on Yesterday 2'', alongside [[Kyaw Kyaw Bo]], [[Tyron Bejay]], [[Aung Min Khant]] and [[Aye Myat Thu]], which aired on [[MRTV-4]] in September 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last1=April |first1=Wint |title=ကြိုးကြိုးစားစားဆော့ထားတဲ့ အမိုက်စားဘော်ဒီကို ပရိသတ်တွေရှေ့ထုတ်ပြလိုက်တဲ့ ခါရာ |url=http://www.shwemom.com/kha-ra-show-his-hot-body-structure-ap/ |work=ShweMon |date=25 September 2018|language=my}}</ref>
In April 2019, he won Rising Star Award (Male) in Star Awards where he also won Fashion Star Award (Male). On October 23, 2020, the Korean Embassy in Myanmar made an official announcement about him regarding the appointment of an honorary ambassador to promote Korean culture.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် ကိုရီးယားယဥ်ကျေးမှု မြှင့်တင်ရေး ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင် သံတမန် ခန့်အပ်ပွဲ ကျင်းပ 상세보기{{!}}သံအမတ်ကြီး လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်များပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်ဆိုင်ရာ တောင်ကိုရီးယားသမ္မတနိုင်ငံသံရုံး |url=https://overseas.mofa.go.kr/mm-my/brd/m_22928/view.do?seq=8 |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=overseas.mofa.go.kr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=MMRD |date=2020-10-25 |title=ကိုရီးယား၏ ယဥ်ကျေးမှု မြှင့်တင်ရေး ဂုဏ်ထူးဆောင် သံတမန်အဖြစ် သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာမှ ခန့်အပ်ခြင်းခံရ {{!}} Yangon Directory {{!}} Myanmar Business Directory {{!}} Advertise in Yangon - Yangon Directory {{!}} Yangon Yellow Pages |url=http://www.yangondirectory.com/article/khar-ra.html |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=www.yangondirectory.com |language=en}}</ref>
==Political activities==
Following the [[2021 Myanmar coup d'état]], Khar Ra was active in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, he has taken part in protests since February. He joined the "We Want Justice" [[Three-finger salute (pro-democracy)|three-finger salute]] movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.<ref>{{cite news |title=ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင် |url=https://news-eleven.com/article/204128 |work=Eleven Media Group |date=6 February 2021 |language=my}}</ref>
On 5 April 2021, warrants for his arrest were issued under section 505 (a) of the [[Myanmar Penal Code]] by the [[State Administration Council]] for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, he 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=ရုပ်ရှင်သရုပ်ဆောင် ခါရာ၊ အဆိုတော် သားငယ်နှင့် ဂျာနယ်လစ်များအပါအဝင် နောက်ထပ် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့် |url=https://burmese.dvb.no/archives/456257 |work=DVB |date=5 April 2021 |language=my}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=အမှန်တရားဘက်မှာ ရပ်တည်ခဲ့တဲ့အတွက် ဂုဏ်ယူမဆုံးဖြစ်ကြောင်း မြတ်နိုးအေး ပြော |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2021/04/06/240435.html |work=The Irrawaddy |language=my|date=6 April 2021}}</ref>
==Filmography==
===Film (Cinema)===
*''[[Dimensions (2018 film)|Dimensions]]'' (မျက်နှာပြင်များ) (2018)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.popularmyanmar.com/2017/02/28/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%80%E1%80%B9%E1%80%9B%E1%80%BD%E1%80%84%E1%80%B9-%E1%80%87%E1%80%AC%E1%80%90%E1%80%B9%E1%80%80%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%82%90%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%80%E1%80%B9%E1%80%80%E1%80%B0%E1%80%B8/|title=အက်ရှင် ဇာတ်ကားရိုက်ကူးရတာ ပိုးအားသာတယ် ခါရာ|last=မြတ်မိုးပွင့်|date=2017-02-28|work=Popular News Journal}}</ref>
*''[[Toxic Man]]'' (အဆိပ်ရှိလူရိုင်း) (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mmtimes.com/news/movie-time-screening-november-30-december-6.html|title=Movie Time: Screening from November 30 to December 6|website=The Myanmar Times|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}}</ref>
*''[[City Hunters (2019 film)|City Hunters]]'' (မြို့ပြမုဆိုးများ) (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mmtimes.com/news/movie-time-screenings-march-1-7.html|title=Movie Time: Screenings from March 1 to 7|website=The Myanmar Times|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}}</ref>
* ''[[Lady Danger]]'' (2020)
* ''Marry Me'' (TBA)
* ''Yangon Mafia'' (TBA)
* ''Secret Page'' (TBA)
===Film===
* ''The Accident'' (တိုက်ဆိုင်မှု) (2017)
* ''Bella and Me'' (ဘယ်လာနှင့်ကျွန်တော်) (2017)
* ''Unstoppable'' (တားဆီးမရနိုင်သော) (2017)
===Television series===
* ''[[It was on Yesterday 2]]'' (မနေ့ကဖြစ်သည် ၂) (2018)
*''[[Spirit of Fight]]'' (လောကကြိုးဝိုင်း) (2019)
*''[[Lake Pyar]]'' (လိပ်ပြာ) (2019)
*''[[74 Days of Love]]'' (ရင်ခုန်သံ၇၄ရက်) (2020)
* ''Love Square'' (ချစ်ခြင်းစတုဂံ) (TBA)
==Discography==
===Solo albums===
* ''Ka Lane Ka Kyait'' (Deceit) (ကလိမ်ကကျစ်) (2016)
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Facebook|KharRaMyanmarActorOfficial}}
* {{instagram|karakharra}}
*{{IMDb name|10237810}}
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