Daung

Daung was born on 30 March 1990 in Minhla, Tharyarwaddy District, Bago Division, Burma. He is the 4th son of 5 siblings. He moved to Mandalay in the second grade.{{Cite news|url=http://www.7daydaily.com/video/106492|title=ဒေါင်းရဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင်ဘဝအစ|last=Zay Thu|date=2017-09-04|work=7 Day Daily}}

His artistic talents emerged early; by fifth grade, he was teaching himself traditional Burmese songs on guitar and soon expanded his musical abilities across various instruments.{{Cite web |last=Foot |first=Sam |date=2020-02-09 |title=Daung: A cinematic artist |url=https://www.myanmore.com/2020/02/daung-a-cinematic-artist/ |access-date=2025-05-29 |website=MYANMORE |language=en-US}} By tenth grade, he had moved to Yangon as a self-taught singer-songwriter, aiming for a career in the city's music industry.

While pursuing music, he was scouted for professional football. In 2012, he signed as a striker for Southern Myanmar F.C., a Mawlamyine-based club predominantly operating from Yangon.{{Cite web |title=Footballer dabbles at the art of acting |url=https://www.mmtimes.com/lifestyle/8227-footballer-dabbles-at-the-art-of-acting.html |access-date=2019-03-18 |website=The Myanmar Times |language=en}} After a few years, he decided to leave football.

Daung made his acting debut with a leading role in the film The Second Heart in 2015, after being selected by Satori Creative Works, a film production company, from among almost 500 amateur actors. He then starred a male lead in the film Little Umbrella Story alongside Paing Phyo Thu in 2017.{{Cite news|url=http://kamayutmedia.com/trend/flim/10304|title=မင်းသားသစ်အဖြစ် ဒေါင်းကို ဆာတိုရီ ဘာ့ကြောင့်ရွေးတာလဲ|date=December 18, 2016|work=Kamayut News}} The film was both a domestic hit in Myanmar, and led to increased recognition for Daung.{{cite news |last1=Nyan |first1=Zwe |title=ဗီဒီယိုဇာတ်ကားတွေရိုက်ဖို့ ပြင်ဆင်နေတဲ့ ဒေါင်း |url=http://7daydaily.com/story/97996 |work=7Day News |date=4 June 2017 |language=my |access-date=23 March 2019 |archive-date=23 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323041059/http://7daydaily.com/story/97996 |url-status=dead }}

His stage name, "Daung" (ဒေါင်း), meaning "Peacock," was chosen by him from a list provided by Satori, primarily for its uniqueness. The peacock is a significant national symbol in Myanmar, associated with the Konbaung monarchy and the anti-colonial nationalist movement.

In 2017, he gain increased attention and popularity with his role as Maung Maung Gyi in the television series Bagan Myo Thu alongside May Myint Mo and Htoo Aung, aired on MRTV-4 on 28 November 2018 which was a huge commercial success, topping television ratings and becoming the most watched Burmese television drama at that time.{{cite news |last1=Nyan |first1=Zwe |title=ပုဂံမြို့သူဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲကြောင့် ပရိသတ်ပိုရလာတဲ့ ဒေါင်း l |url=http://www.7daydaily.com/story/145122 |work=7Day News |date=21 December 2018 |language=my |access-date=23 March 2019 |archive-date=23 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323041048/http://www.7daydaily.com/story/145122 |url-status=dead }}

In 2018, he took on his first big-screen leading role in the horror-thriller film The Only Mom, alongside actress Wutt Hmone Shwe Yi and actor Nine Nine, directed by Chatchai Katenut, which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 8 February 2019 stayed in local theaters for a record seven weeks and was also screened in 13 other nations.{{cite news |last1=Ei Ei Nwe |first1=Phoo |title=လိပ်ပြာစံအိမ်ရုပ်ရှင်ကို နိုင်ငံပေါင်း ၁၃နိုင်ငံတွင် ပြသမည် |url=http://www.mizzimaburmese.com/article/53325 |work=Mizzima |date=20 December 2018 |language=my}}

The same year, he portrayed the male lead in the big-screen film Wind up Dancer, directed by Myo Myint Shwe, and written by Nat Khat Ni. It was produced by JATAKA Film Production and premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 9 May 2019. And then, he starred in the television series Longing with Love where he played the leading role with Paing Phyo Thu and Angel Lamung, aired by Kamayut Media.{{cite news |title=ဒေါင်းနှင့် ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု ပါ၀င်သည့် အချစ်ဖြင့်လွမ်းစေ ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ဝင်တေး(ရုပ်သံ) |url=https://burmese.dvb.no/archives/313545 |work=Democratic Voice of Burma |date=15 February 2019|language=my}}{{cite news|title=မကြာခင်မှာ ပရိသတ်တွေရင်ခုန်စောင့်မျှော်နေရမယ့် အချစ်ဖြင့်လွမ်းစေ ရုပ်သံဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲ|url=http://we.com.mm/detail/7813|work=WeMedia|language=my|access-date=2019-03-23|archive-date=2020-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200115012136/http://we.com.mm/detail/7813|url-status=dead}} After this film, he starred in the epic drama film Legend of the Rain alongside Wutt Hmone Shwe Yi, Ye Deight and Shwe Htoo, directed by Win Lwin Htet which screened in Myanmar cinemas on 11 July 2019 and processed huge hit and successes.{{cite news |last1=Sett |first1=Myo |title=အနုပညာကို အကောင်းဆုံးဖြစ်အောင် ချပြဖို့အတွက်ဆိုရင် အချိန်ကတော့ နည်းနည်းတော့ ကြာမှာပါဆိုတဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ဒေါင်း |url=https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/112969.html |work=The Myanmar Times |date=17 July 2018 |language=my |access-date=12 March 2019 |archive-date=29 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329150317/https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/112969.html |url-status=dead }}

In 2020, he became the ambassador for the Doh Gabar campaign, an environmental awareness campaign, alongside actresses Swe Zin Htaik and Aye Wutyi Thaung. In addition, in 2022, he was also cast in the Thailand drama series From Chao Phraya to Irrawaddy directed by Chatchai Katenut and produced by Thai PBS.

He attended the Nineentertain awards 2023 held in Thailand on May 25, 2023. The TV drama, From Chao Phraya to Irrawaddy in which he starred won the Best TV Drama of the Year and Best Creative Team of the Year awards.

Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, he participated in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, he took part in protests, starting in February. He joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.

On 12 April 2021, warrants for his arrest were issued under Section 505 (a) of the Myanmar Penal Code by the State Administration Council for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, he was charged with calling for participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.{{cite news |title=Warrants issued for artists, entertainers that called for CDM participation |url=https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/warrants-issued-for-artists-entertainers-that-called-for-cdm-participation |work=Eleven |date=3 April 2021}}{{cite news |title=စစ်ကောင်စီကိုဆန့်ကျင်တဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို ဆက်တိုက်အမှုဖွင့်နေ |url=https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/myanmar-celebrities-arrest-warrant-myanmar-military-coup-04032021111747.html |work=Radio Free Asia |date=3 April 2021 |language=my}}{{cite news |title= CDM လှုပ်ရှားသူ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို အာဏာပိုင်တွေ အရေးယူဖို့ကြေညာ |url=https://burmese.voanews.com/a/cdm-actor-actress-artist-505a/5839861.html |work=VOA |date=4 August 2021 |language=my}}

• The Only Mom (လိပ်ပြာစံအိမ်) (2019)
• Wind Up Dancer (လေဆန်ကကြိုး) (2019){{Cite web|url=http://mizzimaburmese.com/article/54762|title=ဘန်ကောက်တူမန္တလေး ဒါရိုက်တာ ရိုက်ကူးမဲ့ဇာတ်ကားအတွက် သရုပ်ဆောင်သစ်ခေါ်ယူမယ်|website=Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight|language=en|access-date=2019-03-12}}
• Legend of the Rain (ဒဏ္ဍာရီမိုး) (2019){{Cite web|url=https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/112969.html|title=အနုပညာကို အကောင်းဆုံးဖြစ်အောင် ချပြဖို့အတွက်ဆိုရင် အချိန်ကတော့ နည်းနည်းတော့ ကြာမှာပါဆိုတဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ဒေါင်း|website=The Myanmar Times|language=my|access-date=2019-03-12|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329150317/https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/112969.html|url-status=dead}}
• 1014 (၁၀၁၄) (2019)
• Confession of a Woman (မိန်းမတစ်ယောက်၏ ဖွင့်ဟဝန်ခံချက်) (2020)
• Longing with Love (အချစ်ဖြင့်လွမ်းစေ) (2020)
• Ayoke Kya Yar Say Sat Htin (အရုပ်ကျရာ ဆေးစက်ထင်) (TBA)
• Mind away under the Moon (လရဲ့အောက်ဘက်မိုင်အဝေးမှာ) (TBA)
• Wutt Lae Taw Shwe PaSoe Tann Htoe Loe Kyo Mal (ဝတ်လဲတော်ရွှေပုဆိုးတန်းထိုးလို့ကြိုမယ်) (TBA)
• Surveillance Hnin Maung Vs Sanay Maung Maung (ဆားပုလဲနှင်းမောင်နှင့်စနေမောင်မောင် (TBA)
• Love Equation (TBA){{cite news |last1=Poe |first1=Chit |title="ကျနော် Gay တယောက် မဟုတ်ဘူး"လို့ ပြောလိုက်တဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ဒေါင်း|url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2018/08/16/166948.html |work=The Irrawaddy |date=16 August 2018}}

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• The Second Heart (ဒုတိယနှလုံးသား) (2016)
• Father's School (အဖေ့ကျောင်း) (2016)
• Little Umbrella Story (ထီးကလေးပုံပြင်) (2017)

• Bagan Myo Thu (ပုဂံမြို့သူ) (2017){{Cite news|url=http://7daydaily.com/story/112001|title=ဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲအတွက် ပြင်ဆင်ချင်လို့ ဇာတ်ကားကမ်းလှမ်းမှုကို ငြင်းပယ်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဒေါင်း|last=ဇွဲဉာဏ်|date=November 3, 2017|work=7 Day Daily}}
• Longing with Love (အချစ်ဖြင့်လွမ်းစေ) (2019){{Cite web|url=https://burmese.dvb.no/archives/313545|title=ဒေါင်းနှင့် ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု ပါဝင်သည့် အချစ်ဖြင့်လွမ်းစေ ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ဝင်တေး(ရုပ်သံ)|website=DVB|access-date=2019-03-12}}
• From Chao Phraya to Irrawaddy (ကျောက်ဖရားမှဧရာဝတီသို့) (2022)

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