Zay Ye Htet Explained

Zay Ye Htet
Native Name:	ဇေရဲထက်
Native Name Lang:	my
Birth Place:	Lewe, Myanmar
Birth Date:	2 January 1986
Nationality:	Burmese
Occupation:	Actor, model, producer
Education:	Kyaukse University
Years Active:	2010–present

Zay Ye Htet (Burmese: ဇေရဲထက်; born 2 January 1986) is a Burmese actor, model and producer.^{[1] [2]} He is considered one of the highest successful actors of Burmese cinema.^{[3] [4]} Throughout his career, he has acted in over 100 films.^[5] In 2018, he founded the ZYH Film & Video Production.^{[6] [7]}

Early life and education

Zay Ye Htet was born on 2 January 1986 in Lewe, Myanmar. He is the eldest child among four siblings. He studied at Kyaukse University, majoring in Law for second year.

Career

He joined John Lwin's model training Stars Int'l Models Agency in 2010. Since then, he took professional training in modelling and catwalk. He began his entertainment career as a runway model as part of the Stars Int'l Models Agency with countless commercial model shows and runways that had been walked on. He then competed in the male model contests and have won many awards, such as Mr. Crown Award, Mr. Lapyaewun second runner-up award, Mr. Bestmatch Award, and Mr. Hero. Then came the offers for TV commercials and appeared in many TV commercial advertisements. His hardwork as a model and acting in TV commercials was noticed by the film industry and soon, film casting offers came rolling in.^[8]

In 2012, he signed a contract with Thalwin Film Production as their lead actor. He made his acting debut with a leading role in film Pyaw Loh Ma Phit Buu, alongside May Kabyar, and directed by Thamee Myat Kyaw. He then starred in films 2002 Zay Ye and 30 February, was both a domestic hit, and led to increased recognition for Zay Ye Htet.^{[9] [10]}

Zay Ye Htet made his big-screen debut with Online Paw Ka Wi Nyin alongside Nay Toe, Phway Phway and Chan Mi Mi Ko, which screened in Myanmar cinemas in January 2015.^[11] From 2015 to 2017, he has starred in several films. In 2018, he took on his first big-screen leading role in film Yar Zawin Yine Khae The alongside Aung Lay, Ye Aung, Zin Zin Zaw Myint and Khin Zarchi Kyaw which screened in Myanmar cinemas on 20 July 2018 and received critical acclaim and positive reviews for his portrayal of the character.^[12] Then he had to play in several films in 2019, such as Wine Gyi Choke Sponsor, Youk Pha Sit Sin Yay, Yamamin & Lucky Man and Noh Bi Lu.

Filmography

Films

Over 100 films, including

• Pyaw Loh Ma Phit Buu (ပြောလို့မဖြစ်ဘူး) (2012)
• 2002 Zay Ye (2012)
• 30 February (2012)
• Chote Say (ချုပ်ဆေး)
• Kyite Tar Yway Lite Lu Pyo Tway Pe (ကြိုက်တာရွေးလိုက် လူပျိုးတွေပဲ)
• Lu Soe Lay Myarr (လူဆိူးလေးများ)
• Moe Nant Thin Dae Nay Ma Win Nya Nay (မိုးနံ့သင်းတဲ့ နေမဝင်ညနေ)
• Nay Nae Pwint Dae Kumudra (နေနဲ့ပွင့်တဲ့ကုမုဒရာ)
• A Ngi Sel Yat (အငြိဆယ်ရက်)
• Kout Kyaung Myinn Pyaing (ကောက်ကြောင်းမျဉ်းပြိုင်)
• Ti Kya Ko Ko Nae Shat Pyar Pyo Pyo (တိကျကိုကို ရှက်ပြာပြိုပြို)
• Tout Tout Kyaw (တောက်တောက်ကြော်)
• A Chit Ko Win Yan Kya (အချစ်ကိုဝန်းရံကျ)
• T Khar Ka Htar Wa Ya Myarr (တစ်ခါကထာဝရများ)
• Arr Nar Parr Nar Pyan Chit Par (အားနာပါးနာပြန်ချစ်ပါ)
• Nga Yin Khwin Htae Ka Late Pyar (ငါ့ရင်ခွင်ထဲကလိပ်ပြာ)^[13]

Films (Cinema)

• Online Paw Ka Wit Nyin (အွန်လိုင်းပေါ်ကဝိညာည်) (2015)
• Yar Zawin Yine Khae The (ရာဇဝင်ရိုင်းခဲ့သည်) (2018)
• A Thel Kwal Party (အသဲကွဲပါတီ) (2018)^[14]
• A So Taw Tway Nay Tae Ywar (အဆိုတော်တွေနေတဲ့ရွာ) (2018)^[15]
• Pha Ye Thi Model (ဖရဲသီးမော်ဒယ်) (2018)^[16]
• Wine Gyi Choke Sponsor (ဝိုင်းကြီးချုပ် စပွန်ဆာ) (2019)^[17]
• Youk Pha Sit Sin Yay (ယောက်ဖစစ်ဆင်ရေး) (2019)^[18]
• Yamamin & Lucky Man (ယမမင်းနဲ့ကိုကံကောင်း) (2019)^[19]
• The Milk Ogre (နို့ဘီလူး) (2019)^{[20] [21]}

Notes and References

1. News: ကာရိုက်တာထက် သရုပ်ဆောင်ကို ရူးသွပ်သူပါဆိုတဲ့ ဇေရဲထက် . NPE . 25 July 2017.
2. News: တစ်နှစ်ပတ်လုံးစုထားတဲ့ ပိုက်ဆံတွေနဲ့ အဘွားကို ကန်တော့ခဲ့တဲ့ ဇေရဲထက် . Duwun . 2 June 2019 . en.
3. News: ကိုယ်တိုင်အနုပညာ ကြေးကို တိုးမြင့်တောင်းခဲ့တာမျိုးမရှိဘူးဆိုတဲ့ ဇေရဲထက် . Myanmarload TV . 28 September 2017. my.
4. News: Fame . Asian . အချိန်တန်ရင်တော့ ကျွန်တော့် ချစ်သူက ဘယ်သူဆိုတာကို ထုတ်ပြောသွားမှာပါ ဇေရဲထက် ဖေလိုးမေလိုမအေပေး. . 5 December 2016. my.
5. News: ပန်းတနော်မြို့က ညီမလေးကြောင့် ပရိသတ်ရဲ့ ချီးကျူးမှုကို ခံရတယ်လို့ ပြောလာတဲ့ ဇေရဲထက်. . 8 February 2019. my.
6. News: ဗီဒီယိုလောကကို မပျောက်ပျက်စေချင်ဘူးလို့ပြောလာတဲ့ ဇေရဲထက် . . 11 June 2018 . en.
7. News: Naing . Win Tun . ဇေရဲထက်နဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း . . 30 April 2018 . my.
8. News: ပေါကားတွေရိုက်ရတာ ပရိသတ်တောင်းဆိုမှုကြောင့်ပါဆိုတဲ့ ဇေရဲထက် . . 6 April 2017 . my.
9. News: ဇေရဲထက်/ ဇင်ဇင်ဇော်မြင့်တို့နှင့်တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း . . 23 September 2017 . my.
10. News: "ရွှေမှုံရတီကို အကောင်းဖက်က မြင်ပေးကြပါ" ဆိုသူ ဇေရဲထက်ဖေလိုးမ . . 20 August 2018.
11. News: ဒီတစ်ပတ်ရုပ်ရှင် (ဇန်နဝါရီ ၃၀ ရက်မှ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၅ ရက်အထိ) . . 28 January 2015. my.
12. News: Kyaw . Phyo Thu . Yar Zawin Yine Khae The . . 5 July 2018.
13. Web site: Zay Ye Htet films . www.iflix.com . en.
14. News: Kyaw . Phyo Thu . Cinema: Movies now showing in Yangon from 23rd to 29th March 2018 . . 22 March 2018.
15. News: Kyaw . Phyo Thu . Movies showing in Yangon this week 24th to 30th August 2018 . . 24 August 2018.
16. News: Movie Time: Screening from November 30 to December 6 . . 29 November 2018.
17. News: အချစ်ဟာသ 'ဝိုင်းကြီးချုပ် စပွန်ဆာ'ရုပ်ရှင် ဇာတ်ကားကြီး Press Show ပြသ . Yangon Media Group . 16 July 2018. my.
18. News: Movie Time: Screenings from May 24 to 30 . . 23 May 2019.
19. News: MOVIE TIME: Screenings from January 4 to 10 . . 3 January 2019.
20. News: Movie Time: Screenings from March 29 to April 4 . . 28 March 2019.
21. News: Movie Time: Screenings from April 25 to May 2 . . 25 April 2019.