Paing Phyo Thu

Paing Phyo Thu (Burmese: ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု; born 5 April 1990) is a Myanmar Academy Award winning Burmese film actress and trained physician. She won the Myanmar Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2017 Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards with the film 3Girls. Paing Phyo Thu is considered one of the most successful Burmese actresses and one of the highest paid actresses.

Paing Phyo Thu
ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု
Born5 April 1990 (1990-04-05) (age 31)
Yangon, Myanmar
NationalityBurmese
Other namesThu Thu Burmese: သုသု
Alma materUniversity of Medicine 1, Yangon
OccupationActress
Spouse(s)Na Gyi
Parent(s)Soe Win (father)
Nwe Oo (mother)

Early life and education

Paing Phyo Thu was born on 5 April 1990 in Yangon, Myanmar. Her mother Nwe Oo, is a physician. She graduated from the University of Medicine 1, Yangon.

Career

In 2017, she was cast to play a lead role in the film Mi, based on the eponymous novel by a prominent novelist, Kyi Aye.[1] The film's released was followed by significant criticism on her portrayal of cigarette smoking.[2] She married Na Gyi , a film director who was also the director of Mi film on 1 January 2019.[3][4]

Political activities

Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Paing Phyo Thu was active in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, she has taken part in protests since February.[5] She joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.[6]

On 2 April 2021, warrants for her arrest were issued under section 505 (a) of the penal code by the State Administration Council for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, she 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.[7][8]

Filmography

Film (cinema)

Television series

Awards
YearAwardCategoryFilmResult
2016Myanmar Academy AwardBest Supporting ActressAngel of EdenNominated
2017Myanmar Academy AwardBest Supporting Actress3Girls : Ghost, Giant & GirlWon
2018Myanmar Academy AwardBest Actress" Mi (film) "Nominated
2018Star Award[9]Best Actress" Mi (film) "Won
2019ASEAN International Films Festival and AwardsBest Actress" Mi (film) "Nominated

References
  1. "ဆရာမကြီးကြည်အေးရဲ့ မီနဲ့ ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု". Yangon Life. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  2. "ဆေးလိပ်သောက်သည့်ကိစ္စ အကယ်ဒမီ ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု ရှင်းလင်း (ရုပ်သံ)". DVB. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  3. "ထူးခြား ဆန်းသစ်မှု တွေနဲ့ ပြည့်နှက်နေတဲ့ ဒါရိုက်တာ ဏကြီး နဲ့ ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု တို့ရဲ့ မင်္ဂလာပွဲ" (in Burmese). Mahar Media News. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  4. "ဇာတ်ကောင်စရိုက်တိုင်းကို ပီပြင်စွာ ပုံဖော်လိုသူ ဆရာဝန်သရုပ်ဆောင် ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု၏ ငယ်ဘ၀ အမှတ်တရ ဖြတ်သန်းရာ". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd (in Burmese). Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  5. ""CDM Heroes တွေရဲ့ ကျေးဇူးကြွေးတွေ တင်နေပါပြီ"လို့ ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 23 February 2021.
  6. "မတ်လ ၂၄ ရက်နေ့ "Silent Strike" မှာ လူညီကြဖို့ ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု တိုက်တွန်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 23 March 2021.
  7. "Warrants issued for artists, entertainers that called for CDM participation". Eleven. 3 April 2021.
  8. "စစ်ကောင်စီကိုဆန့်ကျင်တဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို ဆက်တိုက်အမှုဖွင့်နေ". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
  9. http://www.globalnewlightofmyanmar.com/star-awards-2018-gives-prizes-for-best-film-tv-series-fashion-statements/
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