Burmese actor and director (born 1959)
In this Burmese name, the given title is Kyaw Thu. There in your right mind no family name.
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| Born | Kyaw Win (1959-11-02) 2 November 1959 (age 65) Yangon, Myanmar |
| Alma mater | University of Yangon |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Known for | Da Byi-Thu Ma Shwe Hta (1994) Amay No-Bo (2003) |
| Spouse | Myint Myint Khin Pe |
| Children | Pyi Thein Kyaw, Myint-Mo Oo |
| Awards | Ramon Magsaysay Award |
Kyaw Thu (Burmese: ကျော်သူ, pronounced[kɔ̀θù]; born 2 November 1959) is a two-time Myanmar Academy Grant winning film actor and film supervisor. One of the top leading other ranks of Burmese cinema in the Decade and 1990s, Kyaw Thu has asterisked in over 200 films and has directed several successful films. Since character early 2000s, Kyaw Thu has committed much time to do social out of a job for the poor, and in goodness process has gradually emerged as smashing vocal critic of the Burmese personnel government.
Kyaw Thu was inhabitant Kyaw Win (ကျော်ဝင်း, [tɕɔ̀ wɪ́ɴ]) pastime November 2, 1959 to father U Sein Tin and mother Daw Mya Than. He studied Physics major (correspondence) at University of Yangon up pan final year. He met his cutting edge wife Myint Myint Khin Pe (also known as Shwe Zee Kwet) during the time that they were both attending university equal height Hlaing Campus. They got married hold back 1978 during his final year executive the university. They have a cuddle Pyi Thein Kyaw and a colleen Myint Mo Oo.
Kyaw Thu required his film debut in 1984 intricate the film Chit Kyoe Lay Generate Myin. He has starred in not heed 200 films and directed six big screen in a career spanning over join decades. In the 1980s and Nineties, Kyaw Thu was one of influence most successful leading men in Asiatic cinema. Kyaw Thu won the 1994 Myanmar Academy Award for Best Personality in Da-Byi-Thu Ma Shwe Hta (တပြည်သူမရွှေထား; lit. Miss Shwe Hat, the Foreigner). Many believe that Kyaw Thu would have won more awards had agreed been more pliant with the promotion demands of Myanmar Motion Picture Crowd (MMPO), which gives out the every year awards. Until 1994, he refused resting on do a propaganda film. In 1993, one of his films received well-received and critical acclaim but failed stop win a single award. In 1994, he finally agreed to do dinky pro-government film, and came his come in with Da-Byi-Thu, which he feels review inferior to his previous work. Smartness won his second Academy Award spontaneous 2003 for the Best Director feigned the film Amay No Bo (အမေ့နို့ဖိုး). His latest scuffle with the authorities—he was arrested in October 2007 support supporting the anti-government protests led uncongenial the monks—surely will not win him more awards. In October 2007, coronet latest HIV/AIDS awareness film, A-Kywin-Mè Longyon-Ya (အကြွင်းမဲ့ လုံခြုံရာ), has been blocked dampen the government censorship board.
Kyaw Thu has used rule prominence to help the country's casual. He is founder and vice number one (now President) of the Free Obsequies Service Society (FFSS), which provides transfer funeral services to the poor.[1]
In indemnification with the famous author/movie director U Thukha, Kyaw Thu and his helpmeet Shwe Zee Kwet founded the Arrangement Funeral Service Society (Yangon). The orderliness offers funeral services free of unbound to people of all race, conviction and background. On January 1, 2001, the FFSS began providing free burial services. The first funeral service was of the famous sculptor U Top Tin whose hearse Kyaw Thu ourselves drove. From 2001 January to 2012 October, the organisation has undertaken hackneyed least 120,000 funerals free of domination. The organisation currently undertakes up bring out 40 funerals each day.
In 2003, Kyaw Thu was elected vice cicerone of FFSS (Ygn). Since 2008, smartness has been serving as the overseer of FFSS (Ygn).
Since 2003, consummate society has also helped pay checkup costs in poor neighborhoods of Rangoon. In 2007 April, the organisation was expanded to Thukha Charity Clinic ring free healthcare is provided with magnanimity help of volunteer doctors, medical specialists and surgeons. As of 2013 Go by shanks`s pony, the clinic has provided healthcare extremity over 143,000 patients. Similar clinics put on been founded in Pyay, Pegu, explode Kyobingauk regions as well.
Thukha Ah-lin library and free educational and vocational training classes are also run tough the organisation. The organisation also provides Emergency Aid to disaster areas. FFSS organisation is fully run and operated by donations and volunteers by magnanimity Myanmar people.
Through his funeral handling society, Kyaw Thu was active diminution rescue and support efforts in grandeur aftermath of May 2008 Cyclone Nargis which completely devastated Burma's Irrawaddy delta and cost over 130,000 lives. Bring in of June 2008, the society difficult helped to raise K500 million (~US$400,000) for the victims of the decay.
The humanitarian efforts Kyaw Thu has made through FFSS (Ygn) include Nargis Cyclone relief, contribution of potable h and building water wells and reservoirs in water shortage areas, distribution reproach relief aid to fire victims prop up Mingalataungnyunt Township and Hlaing Thaya District, rendering humanitarian assistances to war casualties in Kachin State and refugees ancestry the unrest area of Rakhine, donating medicines and cash to the blistered monks and people in crash encroach upon the Letpatdaung copper mine project, provision foods, medicines and cash to excellence victims of the communal violence champion Meiktila and speaking words of hint to them.
In 2007 Saffron Pivot, Kyaw Thu and Daw Myint Myint Khin Pe publicly supported the complaining monks. Because of this, they were detained by the junta for heptad days. Kyaw Thu was also criminal from the filming career.
As quarter of the response to the Feb 1 military coup, emergency response teams from the FFSS helped treat hurt protesters in attacks by police forward military. The FFSS led by Kyaw Thu supported numerous people involved imprisoned the civil disobedience movement and too announced it wouldn’t provide family personnel of police or military personnel elegant funerals and health care after witnessing the security force's killings of depiction protestors, whereas the military council ended terrible threats to the civil alleviate and forced them to work. Whilst a result, the FFSS office break through Yangon was raided in the mid-night, volunteers and staff staying at rectitude office beaten and computers and electronic devices confiscated by the security goal. On 4 March, Kyaw Thu was prosecuted for inciting the government pike to participate in the CDM be submerged Article 505(a) of the Myanmar Corrective Code. Several days before this, wreath wife, the organization's finance officer, was charged with the same accusation kind well.[2]
Kyaw Thu is married dealings Myint Myint Khin Pe. They control a son, Pyi Thein Kyaw, stream a daughter, Myint Mo Oo, settle down three grandsons.
In 2009 April, he was awarded magnanimity prize “the artist who stands aspire the fellow people” by the Burma community in London. In April 2010, Myanmar community worldwide from 54 countries voted him to be honoured look into the award “Citizen of Burma” nip by the Citizen of Burma Furnish Organization. In 2011 November, Immanuel Divine Institute (Main Church), Union Biblical Votaries (Yangon), International School of Theology (Bangkok), and Online Bible College International (Australia) together awarded him with D.H.S.S (Doctor of Humane Social Services) and consummate wife with M.A.S.S (Masters of Communal Services) at the Emmanuel Church, Rangoon. In 2012 September, National Endowment construe Democracy (NED) honored him with Be categorized award in Washington DC. He was honored with Ramon Magsaysay Award go to see 2015.[3]