May May Win (, born Khin Mya Mya; 1908–1981) was a Burmese actress and

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dancer. She is best known for starring in film '' Bo Aung Din'' (1941) as the character Ma Mya Win.

Early life

May May Win was born in Ma Latto Village,

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in 1908 to parents U Pho Sein and Daw Aye Khin. Her birth name is Khin Mya Mya.

Career

Acting career

She started her acting career with a film ''Date Date Kyae'' directed by Sayar Khant and produced by United Att at a young age. After collaborating with

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, she has appeared under the name A1 Mya Mya in films such as ''Midnight'' (ညဉ့်ဦးယံ), ''Sein Shwe Shwe'' (စိမ်းရွှေရွှေ), ''Dway Nyi Naung'' (ဒွေးညီနောင်), ''Aung Pinlal'' (အောင်ပင်လယ်) and ''Helmet'' (သံခမောက်). When the British Burma Film Company was looking for an actress to make films with sound, she moved to British Burma Film and started acted under the name May May Win in film ''Modernized Man'' (ခေတ်ဆန်သူ). ''Beloved'' (အချစ်ဆုံး) and '' Bo Aung Din'' (ဗိုလ်အောင်ဒင်) film, directed by Chan Tun and produced by Nyunt Myanmar Film (formerly British Burma), was a huge success.

Ayeint dancer life

During

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, she fled to her native village Malatto. After the war, she danced in Sein Aung Min's Zat Pwal (Myanmar Drama Event) in plays of earlier parts.

Filmography

* ''Date Date Kyae'' (ဒိတ်ဒိတ်ကြဲ) * ''Midnight'' (ညဉ့်ဦးယံ) (1933) * ''Sein Shwe Shwe'' (စိမ်းရွှေရွှေ) (1934) * ''Dway Nyi Naung'' (ဒွေးညီနောင်) (1934) * ''Aung Pinlal'' (အောင်ပင်လယ်) (1934) * ''Helmet'' (သံခမောက်) (1935) * ''Modernized Man'' (ခေတ်ဆန်သူ) (1936) * '' Boycotter'' (ဘွိုင်ကော့တာ) (1937) * ''Flower Pagoda'' (ပန်းစေတီ) * ''Sun and Moon'' (နေနှင့်လ) * ''Taw Lay Wa'' (တော်လေးဝ) * ''Our Relative'' (ဒို့အမျိုး) * ''Bodyguard'' (ရံရွေတော်) * ''Human Art'' (လောကီပညာ) * ''Beloved'' (အချစ်ဆုံး ) (1939) * '' Bo Aung Din'' (ဗိုလ်အောင်ဒင်) (1941) * '' Son Bo Aung Din'' (သားဗိုလ်အောသ်ဒင်) (1955)

Personal life

She came to

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after she was marrying with Sheriff Maung Win at young age. They had a daughter Baby Win.

Death

In 1981, April 17, Myanmar New Year's Day, she died in

, Myanmar.မြန်မာ့စွယ်စုံကျမ်း နှစ်ချုပ် (၁၉၈၂)

References

{{Authority control People from Ayeyarwady Region 1908 births 1981 deaths Burmese dancers 20th-century Burmese actresses