Moht Moht Myint Aung ( my, မို့မို့မြင့်အောင် , also Moh Moh Myint Aung) is a five-time
Myanmar Academy Award
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 ...
winning
Burmese film actress, best known for her leading lady roles in several Burmese films from the 1980s to the 2000s.
Early life
Moht Moht Myint Aung was born in
Yangon
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 ...
, the fifth child and youngest daughter of
Myint Aung, a successful
Burmese actor and
director. She grew up in the ''Kyaukmyaung'' section of
Tamwe Township
Tamwe Township (also Tarmwe Township; my, တာမွေ မြို့နယ်, ) is located in east central Yangon, Myanmar. The township comprises 20 wards, and shares borders with Yankin Township in the north, Thingangyun Township and Min ...
. She wanted to be an actress like the leading ladies of the day like
Wah Wah Win Shwe
Wah Wah Win Shwe ( my, ဝါဝါဝင်းရွှေ, also spelt War War Win Shwe) is a three-time Myanmar Academy Award winning Burmese film actress. She is considered one of the most commercially successful actresses in the Myanmar ent ...
and
Khin Than Nu
Khin is a classical membranophone
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of ...
. She attended high school at
BEHS 1 Tamwe but failed the university matriculation exam several times. With most of her friends attending college, she gave up attending college and decided to focus on a film career.
Career
Moht Moht Myint Aung was virtually unknown until
Kyaw Hein, one of the top leading men of his era, chose her to star in one of his films, ''Mun-Tet-Chein-Mha Nay-Win-Thi'' (The Sun Sets at Noon), in 1979. She was still in 8th Standard at the time.
[ After winning her first Academy Award for 1984, Mo Mo Myint Aung established herself as one of the leading actresses of Burmese cinema.
She is one of very few actresses in the Burmese film history able to lead a successful multi-decade career in a leading lady role. Mo Mo Myint Aung is still popular, seen by many as having aged gracefully, and continues to appear in several films in age appropriate roles. In a testament to her enduring popularity, she won her latest Academy Award for Best Actress for 2008.
]
Television
Moht Moht Myint Aung is on the judges panel in the show '' Myanmar's Got Talent'', the Burmese franchise of the Got Talent series
''Got Talent'' is a British talent show TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCOtv company. It has spawned spin-offs in over 69 countries, in what is now referred to as the 'Got Talent' format, similar to that described by Fremantl ...
.
Filmography
Moht Moht Myint Aung has made several movies over her over-three-decade-long career. She has won five Myanmar Academy Awards for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories.
Film (Cinema)
*'' Moon Tae Chain Twin Nay Win The'' (1982)
*Myo Pya Hna Lone Thar (1984)
*'' Kyee Yaung Saung Thaw Daung'' (1985)
*Khat Sein Sein Nay Pa Mal (1989)
*Thamee Nae A May Myar (1991)
*'' Ma Thudamasari'' (1994)
*'' Eain Met Yar Thi'' (2001)
*'' Ma Nyein Thaw Mee'' (2002)
*Myint Mo Htet Ka Tharaphu (2008)
TV series
*Forever Mandalay
''Forever Mandalay'' ( my, ထာဝရမန္တလေး) is a 2014 Burmese drama television series. It is a story of Mandalay. It aired on MRTV-4, from February 10 to April 9, 2014, on Mondays to Fridays at 19:15 for 43 episodes.
Cast Main ...
(2014)
*Kyee Myat Thaw Martar (2018)
TV show
* Myanmar's Got Talent
Awards and nominations
References
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Burmese film actresses
Living people
1960 births
People from Yangon
20th-century Burmese actresses