May May Win ( my, မေမေဝင်း, 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 ''Bo Aung Din'' ( my, ဗိုလ်အောင်ဒင်) is a 1941 Burmese black-and-white drama film, directed by Shwe Done Bi Aung, starring Khin Maung Yin, Ba Chit and May May Win. The film, produced by British Burma Film Company, wa ...

'' (1941) as the character Ma Mya Win.

Early life

May May Win was born in Ma Latto Village,

Ma-ubin District Maubin District ( my, မအူပင်ခရိုင် ) is a Districts of Myanmar, district in Ayeyarwady Division, Myanmar. It consists of 39 wards, 235 village groups and 1642 villages organized into four townships - Maubin Township, Maubin ...

Irrawaddy Division Ayeyarwady Region ( my, ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး , , ; formerly Ayeyarwady Division and Irrawaddy Division), is a region of Myanmar, occupying the delta region of the Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy River). It is bor ...

British Burma British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

in 1908 to parents U Pho Sein and

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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 A1 Film Company, 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 ''

'' (ဗိုလ်အောင်ဒင်) film, directed by Chan Tun and produced by Nyunt Myanmar Film (formerly British Burma), was a huge success.

Ayeint dancer life

During World War II, 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) * ''

'' (ဗိုလ်အောင်ဒင်) (1941) * ''

Son Bo Aung Din ''Son Bo Aung Din'' ( my, သားဗိုလ်အောင်ဒင်) is a 1955 Burmese black-and-white drama film, directed by Shwe Done Bi Aung starring Kyaw Swe, Myint Myint Khin, Khin Ohn Myint, Htun Wai, Ba Chit and May May Win. The ...

'' (သားဗိုလ်အောသ်ဒင်) (1955)

Personal life

She came to

Rangoon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

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