Zin Wine

Zin Wyne entered the film industry in 1973, when he was fourteen. He made his feature film debut in the 1981 film, Thanyawzin Sodar Shidae ({{lit|Samyojana Does Exist}}), along with Moh Moh Myint Aung.{{cite news |title=သင်္ကြန်မိုး ဘာကြောင့် နောက်ထပ် မရွာတော့သလဲ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/opinion/2014/04/11/57497.html |work=The Irrawaddy |date=11 April 2014}} He experienced a rise in popularity after starring as Thet Htwe in the 1984 film, Thingyan Moe, directed by Maung Tin Oo{{cite news |title=သင်္ကြန်မိုးအကြောင်း လူမသိတဲ့ ခြောက်ချက် |url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/in-depth-47868421 |work=BBC News မြန်မာ |language=my}} under whom Zin Wyne had learned cinematography for seven years. He took his first male lead role in the 1991 film Dandaryi ({{lit|Legend}}), alongside May Than Nu. Zin Wyne won his first Academy Award in the 1997 film Noble Heart.{{cite web |title=မြန်မာ့ရုပ်ရှင်ထူးချွန်ဆု ချီးမြှင့်ခြင်းမှတ်တမ်း|date=8 September 2020|url=https://mmpodb.com/2020/09/08/%E1%80%BB%E1%80%99%E1%80%94%E1%80%B9%E1%80%99%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B7%E1%82%90%E1%80%AF%E1%80%95%E1%80%B9%E1%80%9B%E1%80%BD%E1%80%84%E1%80%B9%E1%80%91%E1%80%B0%E1%80%B8%E1%80%81%E1%81%BD%E1%80%BC%E1%80%94/academy-record/MMcities/671/}}

After the Myanmar Motion Picture Organization was established as a non-government organization, Zin Wyne was elected as its chairperson in April 2012 but resigned for his health condition in 2014, before his term was due.{{cite news |title=မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရုပ်ရှင်အစည်းအရုံး ဥက္ကဋ္ဌသစ်အဖြစ် သရုပ်ဆောင် အကယ်ဒမီဇင်ဝိုင်း တစ်ကျော့ပြန်ရွေးချယ်ခံရ |url=https://myanmar.mmtimes.com/news/101946.html |work=The Myanmar Times |date=27 September 2017}} He re-contested and was elected as the chairperson of the organization on 26 September 2017.{{cite news |last1=September 2017 |first1=ယုဖြူဟန် 26 |title=ရုပ်ရှင်အစည်းအရုံးဥက္ကဋ္ဌသစ်အဖြစ် အကယ်ဒမီဇင်ဝိုင်း ရွေးချယ်ခံရ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/2017/09/26/143393.html |work=ဧရာဝတီ |date=26 September 2017}} On 30 December 2012, because of his efforts, the Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards presentation ceremony for 2011 could be held again in Yangon,{{cite web |title=အကယ်ဒမီ ရန်ကုန်မှာ ကျင်းပမယ် - BBC Burmese - မြန်မာ့ရေးရာ |url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/burma/2012/12/121229_academyrgn |website=www.bbc.com |language=my}} after four years in the new capital Naypyidaw.{{cite news|last=Nyein Ei Ei Htwe and Nuam Bwai|title=New winners for Myanmar film awards|url=http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/lifestyle/3724-new-winners-for-myanmar-film-awards.html|access-date=16 July 2013|newspaper=The Myanmar Times|date=7 January 2013}} In 2012,{{cite news |title=Aung San Film Won't Screen in Time for General's Centennial Birthday |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/aung-san-film-wont-screen-time-generals-centennial-birthday.html |work=The Irrawaddy |date=13 February 2014}} he became a member of Aung San Film Executive Board,{{cite news |last1=May 2021 |first1=ဧရာဝတီ 17 |title=ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ရုပ်ရှင်ကို အပြီးသတ်ထုတ်လုပ်ပြသရန် စစ်ကောင်စီ စီစဉ် |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2021/05/17/241909.html |work=The Irrawaddy |date=17 May 2021}} together with Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, Wyne, Htun Eaindra Bo, Ei Ei Khaing, Zarganar and Lu Min,{{cite news |title=ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ရုပ်ရှင်ရဲ့သရုပ်ဆောင်ရွေးချယ်မှုအပေါ် သမိုင်းထဲက ခေါင်းဆောင် တချို့ရဲ့ မိသားစုဝင်တွေ စိတ်ပျက် |url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/burma-49822985 |work=BBC News မြန်မာ |date=25 September 2019 |language=my}} formed by Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of the protagonist Aung San.{{cite news |title=ဗိုလ်ချုပ်သမီးဆီက အာဏာသိမ်းပေမဲ့ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ရုပ်ရှင်တော့ဆက်ရိုက်မယ် |url=https://www.mizzimaburmese.com/article/80268 |work=Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight |language=en}}

Zin Wyne anticipated in the 2014 film, Made in Heart, with Pyay Ti Oo, Moe Hay Ko and Wutt Hmone Shwe Yi, and won his second academy award in the category of Best Supporting Actor.{{cite news |title=၂၀၁၄ နဲ့၂ဝ၁၅ ခုနှစ် အတွက် အကယ်ဒမီ ပေးပွဲ |url=https://www.bbc.com/burmese/burma/2016/04/160403_academy_tip |work=BBC News မြန်မာ |date=3 April 2016 |language=my}}{{cite news |title=၂၀၁၄-၂၀၁၅ အကယ်ဒမီ ထူးချွန်ဆု ပေးပွဲတွင် နိုင်ငံရေး နှင့် ဆက်နွယ်သည့် ကောင်းကျိုးကိုယ်၌တည်စေမင်း ဇာတ်ကားမှ ဆုများစွာ သိမ်းပိုက်ခဲ့ |url=https://mizzimaburmese.com/article/13095 |work=Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight |language=en}}{{cite news |title=၂၀၁၄- ၂၀၁၅ အကယ်ဒမီဆုပေးပွဲ |url=https://burmese.voanews.com/a/myanmar-acedamy-awards-2014-2016/3267935.html |work=ဗီြအိုေအ |language=my}}

In the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, on 15 April, Zin Wyne was arrested under the section 505 (a) of the Myanmar Penal Code for encouraging civil servants to join ongoing civil disobedience movement,{{cite news |title=သရုပ်ဆောင် ဒါရိုက်တာ ဇင်ဝိုင်း အဖမ်းခံရ |url=https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/arrested-actor-zinwine-04152021073447.html |work=Radio Free Asia |language=en}} along with several other celebrities,{{cite news |title=သရုပ်ဆောင် အကယ်ဒမီ မျိုးသန္တာထွန်း ရန်ကုန်လေဆိပ်တွင် ဖမ်းဆီးခံရ |url=https://news-eleven.com/article/206966 |work=Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd |language=my}} while his son Min Maw Kun was issued an arrest warrant. He was released on 7 June but arrested again in a few months.{{cite news |title=ဖမ်းဆီးထိန်းသိမ်းခံထားရသော သရုပ်ဆောင်ဇင်ဝိုင်း ပြန်လည် လွတ်မြောက် |url=https://news-eleven.com/article/209512 |work=Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd |language=my}}{{cite news |title=လ်ွပ္တျပက္ဆႏၵျပမႈတခ်ိဳ႕ျဖစ္ေနဆဲ၊ ႐ုပ္ရွင္မင္းသားဇင္ဝိုင္းျပန္လြတ္ |url=https://burmese.voanews.com/a/demonstrations-all-around-Burma-still-happen-with-different-forms-/5919350.html |work=VOA Burmese |language=my}}

Zin Wyne, the fourth of five siblings, was born to retired lieutenant commander Sein Lwin and Yi Yi Shein. He married Khin Nwe Nwe Tun, and the couple had two sons, namely, Kyi Thar Htay Lwin and Kyaw Kyaw Htay Lwin.{{cite news|title=ဇင်ဝိုင်း ပြန်လွတ်ပြီဆိုတဲ့ သတင်းမှားတွေကို သားဖြစ်သူ နှစ်ဦး တုံ့ပြန် |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2021/04/22/240977.html |work=ဧရာဝတီ |date=22 April 2021}} The latter is better known by his stage name Min Maw Kun.

Some of the 165 films Zin Wyne appeared in:

• Than Yaw Zin Shi Dal (သံယောဇဉ်ရှိတယ်; 1981)
• Thingyan Moe (သင်္ကြန်မိုး; 1985) – Thet Htwe
• Myint Myat Nha Lone Thar (မြင့်မြတ်နှလုံးသား; 1997)
• Myaw Lint Chin Myar Swar (မျှော်လင့်ခြင်းများစွာ; 2006) – U Tin Swe Nyein
• Htar Waya A Linn Tan Myar (ထာဝရအလင်းတန်းများ; 2011)
• Satan's Dancer (2013) – U Htun
• Made in Heart (2014) – U Thitsar
• Lu Gyi Min Khin Byar (လူကြီးမင်းခင်ဗျာ; 2015) – U Myat Min
• My Lovely Hate (2016) – U Toe Min
• Oak Kyar Myet Pauk (အုတ်ကြားမြက်ပေါက်; 2016) – U Sein Oak
• Kunlong Rak 40 (ကွမ်းလုံရက်၄၀; 2017)
• Original Gangster 2: Black Area (2017) – U Mogok
• Killing Field (2018)
• City Hunters (2019) – U Naung Ye Latt
• Wind Up Dancer (2019)
• Responsible Citizen (2019) – U Kaung Myat
• Sponsor (2019) – U Than Win Naing
• The Elite and the Fish Paste (2019) – U Min Paing
• Bo Nay Toe (2019)
• Hero (2019) – Wutyi's father
• Kan Ma Pha La (ကမ္မဖလ; 2020) – U Nakee
• Golden Princess (2020) – U Kyaw Nyein
• Padauk Musical (2020) – U Thet
• Vein of Love (2023)

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