Soe Thu

Soe Thu (Burmese: စိုးသူ; born Soe Thu Lwin on 30 November 1965) is a Myanmar Academy Award winning Burmese actor, singer and physician. He has achieved fame and success as an actor and singer. Throughout his career, he has produced 13 music solo albums, and acted in over 200 films.

Soe Thu
Born
Soe Thu Lwin

30 November 1965 (1965-11-30) (age 54)
Taungdwingyi, Burma
Other namesKo Ko Lwin
OccupationActor, Singer, Physician
Years active1983-present
Spouse(s)Khin Mya Mya Wutt Hmone Swe (2001-2014 divorced)
Soe Myat Nandar
ChildrenAngel Soe Thu Lwin
Parent(s)Khin Maung Lwin
Khin Thuzar

Early life and education

Soe Thu was born on 30 November 1965 in Taungdwingyi, Burma to parent Khin Maung Lwin, an irrigation engineer, and Khin Thuzar, an attorney. He graduated from the University of Medicine 1, Yangon in 1996.

Career

Soe Thu began his entertainment career when he was recruited by director Ni Win Tun to film Nantha Lu Chein and Pan Bu Chain. He made his break in 1982 with the film Maik Kyway Maik Pyit. In 1984, he released his first music album, Achit Ye Hmattan. He subsequently retired from the entertainment industry, emigrating to the United States in 2001.[1] He works at the MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center and MedStar Washington Hospital Center in the United States as a cardiologist.[1] He returned to Myanmar by the end of September 2012 to care for his ailing mother.[2] Since then, he performed 3 solo shows in Yangon and Mandalay. From 1983 to present, he has starred in over 200 films.[3]

Personal life

Soe Thu is married to Khin Mya Mya Wutt Hmone Swe, and has a daughter, Angel Soe Lwin.[1]

Discography
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  • (ရည်းစားေလေးအချစ်ရဲ့မှတ်တမ်း) (1985)
  • (မျက်နှာဖုံး) (1987)
  • (ရာသက်ပန်) (1993)
  • (အရိုင်းလေး) (1995)
  • (ဆယ်ကျော်သက်)(1991)
  • (ကြိုပါကွယ်)(1990)
  • (သက်ဆုံးတိုင်) (1994)
  • (ကိုယ့်နေ့သစ်များ) (2001)
  • (ကြည်ဖြူပါတော့ရာသက်ပန်) (2000)
  • (အမြတ်နိုးဆုံးမင်းအကြောင်းလေး) (2015)
  • (ဘာမှားနေလဲ) (1995)
  • (သဘာဝ) (1995)
  • (ကျေပါတော့နှင့်အကောင်းဆုံးတေးများ) (1996)

Filmography
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Over 200 films, including

  • Maik Kyway Maik Pyit (မိုက်ကြွေးမိုက်ပြစ်) (1983)

References
  1. "အဝေးကြီးမှာ အကြာကြီး မနေချင်တော့ပါဘူး - သရုပ်ဆောင် စိုးသူနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". 7Day News (in Burmese). YTP. 18 January 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  2. Lwin Mar Htun (11 March 2013). "Soe Thu to hold free concert". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  3. "ဇာတ်ကား ပြန်ရိုက်တော့မယ့် စိုးသူကို အားပေးလိုက်တဲ့ စိုးမြတ်နန္ဒာ". The Irrawaddy. 6 September 2018.
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