Nyein Chan Kyaw Explained

Nyein Chan Kyaw (my|ငြိမ်းချမ်းကျော်; born 25 July 1982) is a Burmese actor and writer. He has starred in several Burmese films and direct-to-videos, and best known for his role in the 2016 Burmese drama film The Gemini.^{[1] [2]}

Career

Nyein Chan Kyaw began acting in direct-to-videos, becoming widely noted for his role as Phoe Tar, a retarded boy, in 2015 direct-to-video Phoe Tar. In 2016, he starred his debut film The Gemini, the first LGBT-themed film in cinema of Myanmar, in which he played the role of a homosexual novelist.^[3]

Nyein Chan Kyaw has since acted in four other feature films, drama series and direct-to-videos. In 2019, he returned to acting with Myint Myat in Black Rose Mission (Burmese: အယူတော်မင်္ဂလာ).^[4] He won the New York Movie Awards 2020, Best Actor for his role in 2020 film The Naked Ghost.^[5]

Nyein Chan Kyaw started his writing career in 2016 by his debut film, The Gemini. In 2020, he writes a horror screenplay The Vacant, in which he casts one of the main role, a century aged ghost clingy to the colonial-style manor.^[6]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Who is your first Love?		Guest
2016	The Gemini	Nay Thit	[7]
2019	Black Rose Mission	Monday
2020	The Naked Ghost	Thant Sin	New York Movie Awards 2020 for best actor
TBA	The Vacant	Phoe Khin (Ghost)	Post-production

Direct-to-video

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Phoe Tar	Phoe Tar	[8]
2017	The Passion	Soe
2017	My Dear Bro-in-law	Nyein Chan
2018	Hopeless	Khit Thit
2018	Tearful Evening	Lwin Maung
2019	Let Alone Impossible	Maung Nyein	[9]
2019	Vengeful Love	Khet Htan
2020	Insurance	Shwe Pyae
2020	Smart Game	Wai Yan

Notes and References

1. Web site: Convoluted plot and tech issues undo gay romantic thriller 'The Gemini'. Los Angeles. Times.
2. News: Yu Mon Kyaw . မေထုန်ရာသီဖွား"ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကား အမေရိကန်မှာလည်း ပြသဖို့ စီစဉ် . 19 July 2020 . . 25 July 2016.
3. News: မေထုန်ရာသီဖွား ဇာတ်ကားအတွက် "ပရိသတ်ကို လိမ်ညာပြီး ပြောခဲ့တာ တစ်ခုမှ မရှိဘူး"လို့ ညိုမင်းလွင်တုန့်ပြန် (In Burmese) . 19 July 2020 . . 18 October 2016.
4. News: Khin Lay Myint . စိန်ခေါ် လိမ်လည်မှုများနဲ့ အယူတော်မင်္ဂလာ . 19 July 2020 . Yangon Life . 6 June 2019.
5. News: Nadi . မြန်မာသရဲကား The Naked Ghost က နိုင်ငံတကာရုပ်ရှင်ဆု ၃ဆု ဆွတ်ခူး (In Burmese) . 19 July 2020 . . 16 May 2020.
6. Web site: The Vacant . IMDb . 19 July 2020.
7. Web site: Burmese Director Explores Same-Sex Relationships in New Film. 28 January 2016.
8. Web site: Phoe Tar . IMDb . 19 July 2020.
9. Web site: Let Alone Impossible . IMDb . 19 July 2020.
10. Web site: Thit Sar Chi Tine . La La Kyi . 19 July 2020.