Zin Wyne
Native nameဇင်ဝိုင်း
Birth nameHtay Lwin
Birth date18 July 1959 (age 67)
Birth placeYangon, Myanmar(Burma)
OccupationActor
Years active1981–present
ParentsSein Lwin
Yi Yi Shein
AwardsMyanmar Academy Award (Best Supporting Actor for 1997)

Zin Wyne (ဇင်ဝိုင်း, also spelt Zin Wine; born Htay Lwin on 18 July 1959,[1]) is a Burmese film actor. He won the Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards two times and served as the chairperson of the Myanmar Motion Picture Organization twice as well.

Career

Zin Wyne entered the film industry in 1973, when he was fourteen.[1] He made his feature film debut in the 1981 film, Thanyawzin Sodar Shidae (lit. 'Samyojana Does Exist'), along with Moh Moh Myint Aung.[2] He experienced a rise in popularity after starring as Thet Htwe[2] in the 1984 film, Thingyan Moe, directed by Maung Tin Oo[3] under whom Zin Wyne had learned cinematography for seven years.[2] He took his first male lead role in the 1991 film Dandaryi (lit. 'Legend'), alongside May Than Nu.[2] Zin Wyne won his first Academy Award in the 1997 film Noble Heart.[4]

After the Myanmar Motion Picture Organization was established as a non-government organization, Zin Wyne was elected as its chairperson in April 2012[1] but resigned for his health condition in 2014, before his term was due.[5] He re-contested and was elected as the chairperson of the organization on 26 September 2017.[6] On 30 December 2012, because of his efforts, the Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards presentation ceremony for 2011 could be held again in Yangon,[7] after four years in the new capital Naypyidaw.[8] In 2012,[9] he became a member of Aung San Film Executive Board,[10] together with Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, Wyne, Htun Eaindra Bo, Ei Ei Khaing, Zarganar and Lu Min,[11] formed by Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of the protagonist Aung San.[12]

Zin Wyne anticipated in the 2014 film, Made in Heart, with Pyay Ti Oo, Moe Hay Ko and Wutt Hmone Shwe Yi, and won his second academy award in the category of Best Supporting Actor.[13][14][15]

In the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, on 15 April, Zin Wyne was arrested under the section 505 (a) of the Myanmar Penal Code for encouraging civil servants to join ongoing civil disobedience movement,[16] along with several other celebrities,[17] while his son Min Maw Kun was issued an arrest warrant. He was released on 7 June but arrested again in a few months.[18][19]

Personal life

Zin Wyne, the fourth of five siblings, was born to retired lieutenant commander Sein Lwin and Yi Yi Shein. He married Khin Nwe Nwe Tun, and the couple had two sons, namely, Kyi Thar Htay Lwin and Kyaw Kyaw Htay Lwin.[20] The latter is better known by his stage name Min Maw Kun.

Filmography

Film

Some of the 165 films Zin Wyne appeared in:

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominated workResult
1985Myanmar Motion Picture Academy AwardsBest Supporting ActorThingyan Moe
1997Noble Heart
2014Made in Heart
2016My Lovely Hate
2019Responsible Citizen

References

  1. ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်ရုံ ၁၁၆ ရုံမှာ ၄၉ ရုံပဲ မြန်မာကားပြတယ် - ဦးဇင်ဝိုင်းနှင့် အင်တာဗျူး". The Irrawaddy. 6 October 2012.
  2. ^ "သင်္ကြန်မိုး ဘာကြောင့် နောက်ထပ် မရွာတော့သလဲ". The Irrawaddy. 11 April 2014. Archived 21 January 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  3. ^ "သင်္ကြန်မိုးအကြောင်း လူမသိတဲ့ ခြောက်ချက်" (in Burmese). BBC News မြန်မာ. Archived 2021-08-14 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2025-08-15.
  4. ^ "မြန်မာ့ရုပ်ရှင်ထူးချွန်ဆု ချီးမြှင့်ခြင်းမှတ်တမ်း". 8 September 2020. Archived from the original on 7 September 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  5. ^ "မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရုပ်ရှင်အစည်းအရုံး ဥက္ကဋ္ဌသစ်အဖြစ် သရုပ်ဆောင် အကယ်ဒမီဇင်ဝိုင်း တစ်ကျော့ပြန်ရွေးချယ်ခံရ". The Myanmar Times. 27 September 2017. Archived 9 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  6. ^ September 2017, ယုဖြူဟန် 26 (26 September 2017). "ရုပ်ရှင်အစည်းအရုံးဥက္ကဋ္ဌသစ်အဖြစ် အကယ်ဒမီဇင်ဝိုင်း ရွေးချယ်ခံရ". ဧရာဝတီ. Archived 15 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  7. ^ "အကယ်ဒမီ ရန်ကုန်မှာ ကျင်းပမယ် - BBC Burmese - မြန်မာ့ရေးရာ" (in Burmese). www.bbc.com. Archived 2019-08-15 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  8. ^ Nyein Ei Ei Htwe and Nuam Bwai (7 January 2013). "New winners for Myanmar film awards". The Myanmar Times. Archived 8 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  9. ^ "Aung San Film Won't Screen in Time for General's Centennial Birthday". The Irrawaddy. 13 February 2014. Archived 22 January 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 August 2025.
  10. ^ May 2021, ဧရာဝတီ 17 (17 May 2021). "ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ရုပ်ရှင်ကို အပြီးသတ်ထုတ်လုပ်ပြသရန် စစ်ကောင်စီ စီစဉ်". The Irrawaddy
  11. ^ "ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ရုပ်ရှင်ရဲ့သရုပ်ဆောင်ရွေးချယ်မှုအပေါ် သမိုင်းထဲက ခေါင်းဆောင် တချို့ရဲ့ မိသားစုဝင်တွေ စိတ်ပျက်" (in Burmese). BBC News မြန်မာ. 25 September 2019.
  12. ^ "ဗိုလ်ချုပ်သမီးဆီက အာဏာသိမ်းပေမဲ့ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ရုပ်ရှင်တော့ဆက်ရိုက်မယ်". Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight. Archived 2022-05-01 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2025-08-15.
  13. ^ "၂၀၁၄ နဲ့၂ဝ၁၅ ခုနှစ် အတွက် အကယ်ဒမီ ပေးပွဲ" (in Burmese). BBC News မြန်မာ. 3 April 2016.
  14. ^ "၂၀၁၄-၂၀၁၅ အကယ်ဒမီ ထူးချွန်ဆု ပေးပွဲတွင် နိုင်ငံရေး နှင့် ဆက်နွယ်သည့် ကောင်းကျိုးကိုယ်၌တည်စေမင်း ဇာတ်ကားမှ ဆုများစွာ သိမ်းပိုက်ခဲ့". Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight. Archived 2025-01-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2025-08-15.
  15. ^ "၂၀၁၄- ၂၀၁၅ အကယ်ဒမီဆုပေးပွဲ" (in Burmese). ဗီြအိုေအ
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  17. ^ "သရုပ်ဆောင် အကယ်ဒမီ မျိုးသန္တာထွန်း ရန်ကုန်လေဆိပ်တွင် ဖမ်းဆီးခံရ" (in Burmese). Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd. Archived 2025-01-21 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2025-08-15.
  18. ^ "ဖမ်းဆီးထိန်းသိမ်းခံထားရသော သရုပ်ဆောင်ဇင်ဝိုင်း ပြန်လည် လွတ်မြောက်" (in Burmese). Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd
  19. ^ "လ်ွပ္တျပက္ဆႏၵျပမႈတခ်ိဳ႕ျဖစ္ေနဆဲ၊ ႐ုပ္ရွင္မင္းသားဇင္ဝိုင္းျပန္လြတ္" (in Burmese). VOA Burmese. Archived 2025-06-13 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2025-08-15.
  20. ^ "ဇင်ဝိုင်း ပြန်လွတ်ပြီဆိုတဲ့ သတင်းမှားတွေကို သားဖြစ်သူ နှစ်ဦး တုံ့ပြန်". ဧရာဝတီ. 22 April 2021.