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WA WA WIN SHWE
Wa Wa Win Shwe is a Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards winning  actress,director and producer. She was born to U Tun Shwe and Daw Than Tin, as the youngest of four children in Yangon ,Myanmar. She finished her secondary education from Methodist English High School (MEHS).Her application to attend the Medical school was successful, however, she became a movie star at the age of sixteen (1961) after her debut film named " Sait "( Mind ).This  film's enormous popularity instantly made Wa Wa Win Shwe one of the leading women of Burmese cinema. She continued her higher education at Yankin College under Rangoon University.

She starred in hundreds of films, and directed more than fifty films, and was considered one of the most important actresses in Burmese cinema. She won three academy awards in her career; in chit tha mee (loveliest daughter) (1965), Chaung Ko Pyit Ywae' Myit Ko Shar (leaving the stream and craving for the river) (1969), Main Ka Lay Shin Ei Sanda (what the brides' parents wants? ) (1979). In 1988, she played the leading actress role in a very famous movie called Hmwe Aung Hla The' Pan ( The flower with both beauty and fragrance), in which she had to shave her head in order to play her role as a nun. She was nominated for the best actress award, and her fans also had faith in winning the award. However, because of the nationwide strikes against the military coup in 1988, the award winning ceremony was cancelled that year, and she missed that opportunity. Wa Wa Win Shwe is one of the very few actresses in the Burmese film history able to lead a successful multi-decade career in a leading actress role. She is considered one of the most beautiful and commercially successful actresses of her generation. Wa Wa Win Shwe is still popular, seen by many as having aged gracefully, and continues to appear in several films in supporting roles. She is also an aspiring painter who interested in painting of landscape and scenery. Many considered her paintings as masterpieces although she never sells them commercially. She can also play piano and many considered her as a gifted artist.

She founded Wa Wa Win Shwe Film Production in 1970 and her Film Production is also the pioneer making the first color film, named a chit yay (my love) (1989). Some of her famous films she directed and acted in were Chit Thae Bel Khar Sone Par Mel (when will the two lovely hearts meet?) ,Shi Sat Ka Jin Jin Lei, Bel Oo Ma, Mel Min Gyi Ma, Dat Tha Gee Ri A Thel and Hnyuan Sar Phwe' Lo' Ma Mhee. The famous film, Chit Thu Waing Waing Lei, the very first film that she has directed in 1970, which won the academy award for the best actor. It was considered one of the best movies in the history of Myanmar Motion Picture.

She is also actively involved in social welfare and charity movements and has donated a lot to religious and other social foundations. In 1999, she donated 6.5 kg of pure gold to Shwedagon pagoda. In 2001, she donated huge amount of money for one thousand eight hundred children, including orphans and kids from poor families, to be held as novices which was considered one of the most auspicious donation in Buddhism. A two story monastery (Pyinsanicae Kyaung Taik) was also build in Yankin Township, Yangon, with the donation from her hard earned money as an actress.

She is married to U Than Htut (actor) in 1971. They have two sons. Her elder son, Win Htut Win, inherited her genes in directing career, and involved in many of her movies as an assistant director. However, her younger son, Wa Zin, is interested in acting and is also an actor in many movies and videos produced by his mother and other production companies.

Currently, she is emphasizing on converting her cinema hall, Su Htoo Pan Cinema, into a thirty stories Multiplex Tower which includes Cineplex,Service Apartments,Offices, Hotels and Trade Centre, at the heart of Yangon.