Nay Toe (Burmese: [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 .
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.
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 Nu. 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 2000s, but it was not a hit album.
In the early days of his career, he started to gain recognition by starring in music videos. At the same time, he was attracted to the art of acting and started to educate himself with what would be needed to become a good actor. However, he did not go to any formal school or training courses to study acting.
By 2001, he starred in a movie named 3 Weeks which was the first film for him to take part in leading actor role. With the continued perseverance and dedication in his creation of art, he has increasingly gained recognition by Burmese audience, from time to time.
Nay Toe released his self-written biography and fashion book, Un Tightened Doors, on 1 January 2011. He composed about himself in 21 sections in the book: starting from his early days of career, including his personal interests, hobbies, family life, love affairs, personal notes, poems, a large variety of photos gallery and also hugely focusing on his religious insight into Buddhism as a devotee Buddhist.
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