Thinzar Wint Kyaw

Thinzar Wint Kyaw (also spelled Thin Zar Wint Kyaw, Burmese: သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်; born 4 December 1986) is a Burmese actress and model. Thinzar was listed on The Myanmar Times "Top 10 Actor" list in 2019.[1][2][3] Throughout her successful career, she has acted in over 500 Burmese films.

In this Burmese name, the given name is Thinzar Wint Kyaw. There is no family name.
Thinzar Wint Kyaw
သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်
Born
Thinzar Wint Kyaw

(1987-12-04) 4 December 1987
Rangoon, Burma
NationalityBurmese
Alma materEast Yangon University
Occupations
  • Actress
  • Model
  • Singer
Years active2006–present
Websitewww.thinzarwintkyaw.org

Early life and education

Thinzar 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

She 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

Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, she participated in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media channels with 2.8 million followers. She joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement, launched on social media, has been joined by many celebrities.[6][7]

Arrest

On 6 July 2022, Thinzar arrested after her visit to the headquarter of Shan State Progress Party (SSPP), where she was said to have attended with wearing an SSA military uniform at the wedding ceremony of the daughter of Colonel San Suh of Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army. The junta army is clashing now with SSPP/SSA in Momeik area in northern Shan state and her visit to SSPP headquarter has sparked an outcry for the pro-military group.[8]

A statement from SSPP Info said that the Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) had offered to film local development projects such as religion, education, health and transportation. The pro-military lobby groups led by Han Nyein Oo who is believed to be a military spy call on the junta army to permanently stop her from modelling and entertainment. The pro-military lobby groups led by Han Nyein Oo who is believed to be a military spy call on the junta army to permanently stop her from modelling and entertainment.[9][10]

On 5 August 2022, The military junta has opened a legal case against Thinzar Wint Kyaw and model Nang Mwe San as the due are accused of harming Myanmar culture and distributing sexually explosive photos and videos on social networks. According to a announcement by state controlled media MRTV, they have been arrested under Section 33(a) of 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 five years in prison.[13]

Selected filmography

Film (Cinema)

References
  1. "Top 10 : Actors". The Myanmar Times. 9 August 2019.
  2. ""ချစ်သူများနေ့အပေါ် ထူးကဲပြီး စိတ်ခံစားမှု မရှိပါဘူး"လို့ သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော် ပြော". ဧရာဝတီ. February 14, 2020.
  3. "အောင်ရဲထိုက်၊ သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်တို့ ပါဝင်သည့် သန်းခေါင်ယံရုပ်ရှင် ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၅ ရက် ရုံတင်မည် (ရုပ်ရှင်နမူနာ)". DVB. December 2, 2019.
  4. "သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese).
  5. "အရြယ္သုံးပါးခ်စ္တတ္သည္".
  6. "တရားမျှတမှု We Want Justice ကန်ပိန်းတွင် အနုပညာရှင်များပါဝင် ဆန္ဒထုတ်ဖော် (ဓာတ်ပုံ)". DVB (in Burmese). 4 February 2021.
  7. "ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 February 2021.
  8. "Myanmar actress Thinzar Wint Kyaw arrested". The Star. 7 July 2022.
  9. Mathieson, David Scott (7 July 2022). "Myanmar's 'peace talks' a dangerous diversion". Asia Times.
  10. "Myanmar actress arrested after filming in Shan state". nationthailand. 8 July 2022.
  11. "သရုပ်ဆောင် မင်းသမီး သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်နှင့် မော်ဒယ် နန်းမွေစံတို့ကို စစ်ကောင်စီ အမှုဖွင့်". DVB. 5 August 2022.
  12. "Insein court sentences actress Thinzar Wint Kyaw to five-year prison term". The Star. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  13. "Khoe Soe Lu Hnite". myanmore. 2016.
  14. "Movie Time: Screenings from August 29 to September 4". The Myanmar Times. August 29, 2019.
  15. "သင်ဇာဝင့်ကျော်ပါဝင်သည့် 'မြမြ'ရုပ်ရှင် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၆ ရက်ရုံတင်မည်(ရုပ်ရှင်နမူနာ)".
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