Thinzar Wint Kyaw (also spelled Thin Zar Wint Kyaw, Burmese: သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်; born 4 December 1986) is a Burmese actress and model. She was featured in The Myanmar Times "Top 10 Actor" list in 2019. Over the course of her successful career, she has appeared in more than 500 Burmese films.[1][2][3]
Thinzar Wint Kyaw | |
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သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော် | |
Born | Thinzar Wint Kyaw 4 December 1987 |
Nationality | Burmese |
Alma mater | East Yangon University |
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Years active | 2006–present |
Website | www |
Early life and education
editThinzar Wint Kyaw was born on 4 December 1987 in Yangon, Myanmar. She is the second daughter in her family. She attended the East Yangon University.
Career
editShe began her career as a commercial model. After she switched her career to film from modelling, she rose to fame in the eyes of many filmography companies thereafter with a lot of acting assigns.[4] Since 2017, she had to play in several films such as Min lal Bo-K Ngar lal Bo-K and A Ywal 3 Par Chit Tat The, ThuNgalChinYoukKhama 2, Thu Ngal and Wit Nhyn Ka Kyoe.[5]
Her notable internationally recognized film was Shwe Kyar directed by Wyne which educational drama film that screened in Myanmar, Singapore and Malaysia cinemas in 2018, both in English and Burmese languages, with that her movie had won several Myanmar Academy Awards in 2019.
Political activities
editIn the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, she actively engaged in the anti-coup movement, participating in person at rallies and leveraging her social media presence with 2.8 million followers. Nang Mwe San joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement, which originated on social media and has garnered support from numerous celebrities.[6][7]
Arrest
editOn 6 July 2022, Thinzar was arrested after her visit to the headquarters of the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP). During the visit, she was reported to have attended a wedding ceremony wearing an SSA military uniform in the presence of Colonel San Suh of the Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army. The junta's army was in conflict with the SSPP/SSA in the Momeik area of northern Shan state at that time, and her visit to the SSPP headquarters sparked criticism from pro-military groups.[8]
A statement from SSPP Info mentioned that the Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) had extended an offer to document local development projects encompassing religion, education, health, and transportation. However, pro-military lobby groups led by Han Nyein Oo, suspected to be a military spy, are urging the junta army to permanently halt Thinzar Wint Kyaw's involvement in modeling and entertainment.[9][10]
On 5 August 2022, the military junta initiated a legal case against Thinzar Wint Kyaw and model Nang Mwe San. The duo is accused of harming Myanmar culture and disseminating sexually explicit photos and videos on social networks. As per an announcement by state-controlled media MRTV, they have been arrested under Section 33(a) of the Electronic Law for earning money by posting sexually revealing photos on the websites OnlyFans and Extrania.[11][12]
In December 2022, she was sentenced to 5 years in prison by the military court.[13] On January 4, 2024, she was released from prison through a pardon to commemorate Independence Day.[14]
Selected filmography
editFilm (Cinema)
edit- Moe Nya Einmet Myu (မိုးညအိပ်မက်မြူ) (2009)
- A Lann Zayar (2011)
- A Lann Lun A Lun Lann (2012)
- A Mike Sar (2013)
- Chit San Eain 2028 (2015)
- Min lal Bo-K Ngar lal Bo-K (2016)
- Khoe Soe Lu Hnite (2016)[15]
- Wit Nyin Ka Kyoe (ဝိညာဉ်ကကြိုး) (2017)
- Shwe Kyar (ရွှေကြာ) (2018)
- Toe Kyaw Man Nae Nan San Tae Ywar (တိုးကျော်မန်းနဲ့နန်းစံရွာ) (2018)
- Ma Tahtaung Ta Kg Bwar (မတစ်ထောင်တကောင်ဖွားး) (2018)
- Tel Gyet (Decoy)(တည်ကြက်) (2018)
- MIDNIGHT (သန်းခေါင်ယံည) (2019)
- A Chit Sone Crush? (အချစ်ဆုံး Crush?) (2019)[16]
- Mya Mya (မြမြ) (2020)[17]
- Than Yaw Zin Min Thar
- Ma Chit That Tu Chin
References
edit- ^ "Top 10 : Actors". The Myanmar Times. 9 August 2019.
- ^ ""ချစ်သူများနေ့အပေါ် ထူးကဲပြီး စိတ်ခံစားမှု မရှိပါဘူး"လို့ သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော် ပြော". ဧရာဝတီ. February 14, 2020.
- ^ "အောင်ရဲထိုက်၊ သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်တို့ ပါဝင်သည့် သန်းခေါင်ယံရုပ်ရှင် ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၅ ရက် ရုံတင်မည် (ရုပ်ရှင်နမူနာ)". DVB. December 2, 2019.
- ^ "သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese).
- ^ "အရြယ္သုံးပါးခ်စ္တတ္သည္".
- ^ "တရားမျှတမှု We Want Justice ကန်ပိန်းတွင် အနုပညာရှင်များပါဝင် ဆန္ဒထုတ်ဖော် (ဓာတ်ပုံ)". DVB (in Burmese). 4 February 2021.
- ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 February 2021.
- ^ "Myanmar actress Thinzar Wint Kyaw arrested". The Star. 7 July 2022.
- ^ Mathieson, David Scott (7 July 2022). "Myanmar's 'peace talks' a dangerous diversion". Asia Times.
- ^ "Myanmar actress arrested after filming in Shan state". nationthailand. 8 July 2022.
- ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင် မင်းသမီး သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်နှင့် မော်ဒယ် နန်းမွေစံတို့ကို စစ်ကောင်စီ အမှုဖွင့်". DVB. 5 August 2022.
- ^ "The Juntas Opened A Legal Case Against Thin Zar Wint Kyaw And Nang Mwe San". 6 August 2022.
- ^ "Insein court sentences actress Thinzar Wint Kyaw to five-year prison term". The Star. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
- ^ "အဆိုတော် အောင်လ၊ သရုပ်ဆောင် သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်နဲ့ မန္တလေးမြို့တော်ဝန်ဟောင်းအပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဥ်းသားတချို့ လွတ်မြောက်လာ". Voice of Myanmar. 4 January 2024.
- ^ "Khoe Soe Lu Hnite". myanmore. 2016.
- ^ "Movie Time: Screenings from August 29 to September 4". The Myanmar Times. August 29, 2019.
- ^ "သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်ပါဝင်သည့် 'မြမြ'ရုပ်ရှင် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၆ ရက်ရုံတင်မည်(ရုပ်ရှင်နမူနာ)".