Kyaw Thu

Kyaw Thu is a two-time Myanmar Academy Award winning film actor and film director. One of the top leading men of Burmese cinema in the 1980s and 1990s, Kyaw Thu has starred in over 200 films and has directed several successful films. Since the early 2000s, Kyaw Thu has devoted a significant amount of time to social work for the poor, and in the process has gradually emerged as a vocal critic of the Burmese military government.