Nay Toe
Ko Nay Toe (Burmese: နေတိုး [nè tó]; born Nay Lin Tun on 9 September 1981) is a Myanmar Academy Award-winning film actor and a comedian with the Burmese traditional dance troupe Htawara Hninzi. He won his first Academy Award for best actor with the 2009 film Moe Nya Einmet Myu (မိုးညအိမ္မက္).
Nay Toe was born as Nay Lin Tun on 9 September 1981 to ethnic Rakhine parents, Than Myaing and her husband Aung Than in Manaung, Rakhine State. Being the second-born child in the family, Nay Toe has an elder brother as well as a younger brother and a younger sister.
He did not have any connections to the Burmese film industry before starting out his career as a Model and eventually as an Actor.
He graduated from Yangon University with a B.Sc. in Mathematics.
Career
Early Work
To commence his career as an artist, Nay Toe moved to Yangon in 1999 and joined the YIIK modeling agency and took singing lessons given by Saw Nue. He gained some titles in modeling contests. His artist name as a Model was Zin Min. His teenage dream was to become a composer and singer. He eventually released a collaborative album in the early 2000, but it was not a hit album.
