Min Maw Kun
Min Maw Kun | |
|---|---|
မင်းမော်ကွန်း | |
| Born | Kyaw Kyaw Htay Lwin 26 February 1979 |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, model, singer |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Zin Wine Khin Nwe Nwe Tun |
| Awards | Myanmar Academy Award (Best Lead Actor for 2001) |
Min Maw Kun (Burmese: မင်းမော်ကွန်း, born 26 February 1979) is a Myanmar Academy Award winning film actor and singer in Myanmar.[1] [2][3][4]
Early life[edit]
Min Maw Kun was born on 26 February 1979 in Yangon to Zin Wine and Khin Nwe Nwe Tun.
Career[edit]
He started acting since he was a childhood in 17 years old. His first film was A Yaite .
Political activities[edit]
Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Min Maw Kun was active in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media.[5][6][7] Denouncing the military coup, he has taken part in protests since February. He joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.[8]
On 2 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.[9][10][11][12] He is now living in Australia.[13]
Awards and nominations[edit]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards | Best Actor in a Leading Role | The Shadow | Nominated |
| 2001 | Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Good Hearted-Stupid Person | Won |
| 2003 | Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Value Of Mother's Milk | Nominated |
| 2003 | Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Moon That Born From Sun | Nominated |
| 2017 | Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | The Unfolded Umbrella | Nominated |
References[edit]
- ^ သားနဲ့ သမီးလေးအတွက် စိတ်ပူနေတဲ့ မင်းမော်ကွန်း
- ^ သမီးဖြစ်သူ လေပြေသွေးရဲ့ အနုပညာဝါသနာကို ပံ့ပိုးပေးမယ့် မင်းမော်ကွန်း
- ^ မင်းမော်ကွန်း
- ^ Weekiy Eleven Journal (1.7.2009)
- ^ "နာမည်ကျော် ရုပ်ရှင်သရုပ်ဆောင်များက စစ်အာဏာရှင်ကို ဆန့်ကျင်ဆန္ဒပြ". DVB (in Burmese). 28 February 2021.
- ^ "CDM မှာ ပူးပေါင်းကြဖို့ မေတ္တာရပ်ခံလိုက်တဲ့ မင်းမော်ကွန်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 2 March 2021.
- ^ "ဖမ်းဆီးထားသူတွေကို အမြန်ဆုံး ပြန်လွှတ်ပေးဖို့ မင်းမော်ကွန်း တောင်းဆို". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 4 March 2021.
- ^ ""အာဏာရှင်စနစ်ကို ပြတ်ပြတ်သားသား တော်လှန်ပါတယ်"လို့ မင်းမော်ကွန်း ဆို". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 15 February 2021.
- ^ "Warrants issued for artists, entertainers that called for CDM participation". Eleven. 3 April 2021.
- ^ "စစ်ကောင်စီကိုဆန့်ကျင်တဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို ဆက်တိုက်အမှုဖွင့်နေ". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
- ^ "CDM လႈပ္ရွားသူ အႏုပညာရွင္ေတြကုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြ အေရးယူဖုိ႔ေၾကညာ". VOA (in Burmese). 4 August 2021.
- ^ "မင်းမော်ကွန်း၊ အိန္ဒြာကျော်ဇင်၊ Rဇာနည်နှင့် ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု အပါအဝင် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
- ^ "Min Maw Kun was a leading actor in Myanmar. Now he's fighting military rule from Australia". SBS Language. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
External links[edit]
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