Myat Mon ( my, မြတ်မွန်, ; born 1942) is a Burmese actress who won the 1959 Academy Award in the film ''

Ka Gyi Yay Ka ''Ka Gyi Yay Ka'' ( my, ကကြီးရေက) is a 1959 Burmese black-and-white drama film, directed by Tha Du starring Htun Wai, Myat Mon and Khin Nyunt. Cast *Htun Wai *Myat Mon Myat Mon ( my, မြတ်မွန်, ; born 1942) is ...

''.

Early life and career

Myat Mon made her feature film debut when she was sixteen years old, taking on the leading role in ''Ka Gyi Yay Ka'' (1958) alongside

Htun Wai Htun Wai ( my, ထွန်းဝေ, also spelt also Tun Wai; 23 October 1920–8 August 2005) is a three-time Myanmar Academy Award winning Burmese actor. Htun won his first Myanmar Academy Award in 1957 with the film ''Bo Mya Din'', achieved ...

. She experienced a rise in popularity and won the

Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards The Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards are presented annually to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Burmese Film Industry of Myanmar. The awards ceremony has been held annually since 1952. Each winner is pr ...

in 1959. She appeared in ''Bae Pann Tha Loh Yin'', ''

Wearing Velvet Slippers under a Golden Umbrella ''Wearing Velvet Slippers under a Golden Umbrella'' ( my, ကတ္တီပါ ဖိနပ်စီး ရွှေထီးဆောင်း, Pronounced as Katipa phanat see shwe htee hsaung) is a 1970 Burmese black & white film directed by M ...

'', ''Shwe Pay Loh Ma Ya'' and ''Zar Khan Zi Nauk Kwe Hmar''. After starring in some films, Myat Mon withdrew from the film industry at the age of 32.

Later days

Myat Mon made her film comeback in the 2019 film ''

The Milk Ogre ''The Milk Ogre'' ( my, နို့ဘီလူး) is a 2019 Burmese drama film, directed by Lu Min starring Lu Min, Zay Ye Htet, Shwe Hmone Yati and Myat Mon. The film, produced by Aung Thiri Film Production premiered in Myanmar on March ...

'', alongside Lu Min,

Zay Ye Htet Zay Ye Htet ( my, ဇေရဲထက်; born 2 January 1986) is a Burmese actor, model and producer. He is considered one of the highest successful actors of Burmese cinema. Throughout his career, he has acted in over 100 films. In 2018, he fo ...

and

Shwe Hmone Yati Shwe Hmone Yati ( my, ရွှေမှုံရတီ; born 16 May 1998) is an academy-winning Burmese actress. She is best known for her leading roles in several Burmese films. Early life Shwe Hmone Yati was born on May 16, 1998, in Yangon, ...

, where her role became a hit at home and abroad, and led to further recognition.

Personal life

She married , the director of Ka Gyi Yay Ka. The couple had three children, artist Ah Yu, Kay Thi Mon and Mar Mar Mon. After divorcing Tha Du, she married an accordion player, Ohn Kyaw, and she gave birth to Thet Ngon Phoo, and Zarni Maung.

Filmography

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'' (ကကြီးရေက) #''Ahngo Lwe Thi'' (အငိုလွယ်သည်) #''Èthe'' (ဧည့်သည်) #''Akeywetha'' (အကယ်၍သာ) #''Apyay'' (အဖြေ) #'' First Class'' (ဖတ်စကလပ်) #''Bae Pann Tha Loh Yin'' (ဘယ်ပန်းသာလို့ယဉ်) #''Tawun'' (တာဝန်) #''Thine Thama'' (သိုင်းသမား) #''

'' (ကတ္တီပါဖိနပ်စီး ရွှေထီးဆောင်း) #''Pushsa Hsan Thaw Meinkale'' (ပုစ္ဆာဆန်သောမိန်းကလေး) #''Nganyi Ngamyay Ngaamay'' (ငါ့ညီ ငါ့မြေ ငါ့အမေ) #''Chit Thu Thant Thant Khant Khant Chaw'' (ချစ်သူသန့်သန့်ခန့်ခန့်ချော) #''Phan Pya Khwet Nae Kyauk Set Yay'' (ဖန်ပြာခွက်နဲ့ကျောက်စက်ရေ) #''Shwe Pay Loh Maya'' (ရွှေပေးလို့မရ) #''Zar Khan Zi Nauk Kwe Hmar'' (ဇာခန်းဆီးနောက်ကွယ်မှာ) #''Thet Htar So Thaw Meinma Chaw'' (သက်ထားဆိုသော မိန်းမချော) #''Wathanako Matanae Shin'' (ဝါသနာကိုမတားနဲ့ရှင်) #''Chit Yeeza'' (ချစ်ရည်းစား) #''

'' (နို့ဘီလူး)

Awards and nominations

References

{{Authority control Burmese film actresses Living people 20th-century Burmese actresses 1942 births