Kezang Wangmo is a Bhutanese politician, actress, poet, singer, dancer and goodwill ambassador for organic farming in

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

. Kezang was born in

Paro District Paro District (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Spa-ro rdzong-khag'') is a district (''dzongkhag''), valley, river and town (population 20,000) in Bhutan. It is one of the most historic valleys in Bhutan. Both tra ...

, western part of Bhutan, where she learned to act at her school.

Professional career

Before becoming an actress, Kezang is recognized as a singer from her country, with a hit local-song "A La La Ngi Sem". She starred in various films from her country and rapidly gained fame which brought her to win 2 national awards, including the best newcomer, and best female lead actor for her role in ''Sem Gi Damtse''.

Political career

She joined politics in 2013. She was elected to the

National Assembly of Bhutan The National Assembly is the elected lower house of Bhutan's bicameral Parliament which also comprises the Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) and the National Council. It is the more powerful house. Current National Assembly The current National As ...

as a candidate of

People's Democratic Party People's Democratic Party or ''variant thereof'', could refer to: * People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan *People's Democratic Party (Belize) *People's Democratic Party (Bhutan) *People's Democratic Party (Chile) * People's Democratic Party (Dom ...

from Dokar-Sharpa constituency in

2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election National Assembly elections were held in Bhutan on 31 May and 13 July 2013.Druk Phuensum Tshogpa Druk Phuensum Tshogpa ( dz, འབྲུག་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ།; Wylie:'' 'brug phun-sum tshog-pa''; translation: Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party; abbr. DPT) is one of the major political parties in Bhutan. It wa ...

Filmography

Film

Television

References