Yun Waddy Lwin Moe (Burmese: ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုး; born 21 October 1998) is a Burmese model and actress.[1][2]

Yun Waddy Lwin Moe
ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုး
Born
Yun Waddy Lwin Moe

(1998-10-21) October 21, 1998 (age 26)
Yangon, Myanmar
NationalityBurmese
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Occupations
  • Model
  • actress
Years active2012–present
Spouse
Htet Oo Hlaing
(m. 2018)
Parent(s)Lwin Moe
May Thu
RelativesYun Nandi Lwin Moe (sister)
Modeling information
Height5 ft 1 in (1.55 m)
Hair colorblack
Eye colorblack

Career

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She commenced her career as a child actor in numerous Burmese films. Over time, she ventured into the world of commercials, featuring in over 50 TV advertisements for brands such as Canmake, Kanebo, OPPO, Daisy Cotton, Pureen, Ovaltine, Alpine, Sein Nandaw, She Shines, Unique Clothing, and more. At the age of 20, she transitioned into modeling, gracing the runway at various fashion shows across Myanmar. From 2015 to 2020, she participated in the Myanmar International Fashion Week. In 2017, she was appointed as a UNICEF Youth Ambassador.[3][4][5][6]

She made her big-screen debut in the 2024 drama film Shwe Phoo Ser, starring alongside Paing Takhon, Kaung Myat San, and Phway Phway.[7][8][9]

Political activities

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Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, she engaged fervently in the anti-coup movement, participating in rallies and leveraging social media platforms. Since February, she has consistently protested against the military takeover. She aligned herself with the "We Want Justice" movement, which originated on social media and has attracted numerous celebrities to its cause, using the iconic three-finger salute as a symbol of pro-democracy resistance.[10]

She advocated for a social boycott and punishment for several local Burmese celebrities who aligned with and had connections to the military. Even though she is close to these celebrities, she emphasized, "Even if Myanmar achieves democracy after the people's Spring Revolution, we won't stop here. The social punishment movement and boycotts will persist. In this life, I recall that my mother was born to save my country."[11]

In April 2021, warrants for her arrest were issued under Section 505(a) of the penal code by the State Administration Council for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, she was charged with calling for participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.

On 17 November 2022, the state-owned MRTV News reported that charges against a group of 11 artists, including Yun Waddy Lwin Moe and others, had been dropped.[12]

Personal life

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Yun Waddy Lwin Moe was born on 21 October 1998 in Yangon. She is the eldest daughter of actor Lwin Moe and former TV host May Thu. She has one younger sibling Yun Nandi Lwin Moe.

In the June 22 issue of Unity Journal, the front-page headline claimed that "Yun Waddy Lwin Moe had reportedly eloped". However, contradictorily, it was later clarified on an inside page that the news about Yun Waddy Lwin Moe and Nay Shwe Thway Aung were false. This misleading reporting garnered significant attention nationwide. Consequently, May Thu, Yun Waddy Lwin Moe's mother, expressed outrage and threatened legal action for defamation. In response, the journal promptly issued an apology.[13]

She married Htet Oo Hlaing on 4 January 2018.[14] She gave birth to their first son Lwin Htet on 7 August 2018.[15]

Filmography

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Film (Cinema)

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Year Title Burmese Title Co-stars Note
2024 Shwe Shoo Ser ရွှေဖူးစာ Paing Takhon, Phway Phway

References

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  1. ^ "ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုးနဲ့ ယူနတီဂျာနယ် ကိစ္စ ပြေလည်သွားပြီ". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 10 July 2013.
  2. ^ "ဘွဲ့ရပြီးရင် အနုပညာနဲ့တွဲပြီး အလုပ်လုပ်မယ့် ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုး". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 18 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Yun Waddy Lwin Moe ရဲ့ အကောင်းမြင်ခြင်း အနုပညာ". Moda Magazine (in Burmese). 17 August 2019.
  4. ^ Fame, Asian (29 October 2018). "ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလထဲမှ သြစတြေးလျ ပြန်မယ့် ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုး". Popular News Journal.
  5. ^ "ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုး နဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 18 February 2020.
  6. ^ Fame, Asian (2 October 2017). "ဖခင်ဖြစ်သူကို စီးပွားရေးကိုပဲ ပိုလုပ်စေချင်တဲ့ ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုး". Popular News Journal.
  7. ^ "ပိုင်တံခွန်၊ ဖွေးဖွေး၊ ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုးတို့ ပါဝင်သည့် 'ရွှေဖူးစာ'ရုပ်ရှင်ရိုက်မည်". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 14 February 2020.
  8. ^ "ပထမဆုံးသရုပ်ဆောင်ရမှာကို စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားနေတဲ့ ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုး". 7Day News (in Burmese). 15 February 2020.
  9. ^ "ပိုင်တံခွန်၊ ဖွေးဖွေးနဲ့ ခေး တို့ပါဝင်သရုပ်ဆောင်သွားမယ့် "ရွှေဖူးစာ" ရုပ်ရှင်". Duwun. 14 February 2020.
  10. ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 February 2021.
  11. ^ "Social Punishment စာရင်းမှာ အနုပညာရှင်နဲ့ Influencer အချို့ ပါဝင်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 3 March 2021.
  12. ^ "နိုဝင်ဘာ ၁၇ ရက်ထိပ်တန်းသတင်းများ- ပုဒ်မ ၅၀၅ က အမှုတွေကနေ ပိတ်သိမ်းလိုက်တဲ့အနုပညာရှင် ၁၁ ဦး". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 17 November 2022.
  13. ^ "Rumours of model and Than Shwe's grandson eloping untrue". The Myanmar Times. 11 July 2013.
  14. ^ "မောင်ထက်ဦးလှိုင် နှင့် သရုပ်ဆောင်ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုး တို့ရဲ့ မင်္ဂလာညစာစားပွဲ". Myanmar Celebrity News. 5 January 2018.
  15. ^ "သားလေးမွေးခါစတုန်းက ကြုံတွေ့ခဲ့ရတဲ့အခက်အခဲတွေကိုပြောပြလာခဲ့တဲ့ ယွန်းဝတီလွင်မိုး". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 8 September 2019.
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