Min Thway was born on 21 June 1986 in Taw Hthu Village, Manaung, Rakhine State, Myanmar to parents U Aung Than and Daw Than Myaing.
His elder brother Nay Toe is also an actor.
He attended high school at BEHS Manaung in 2001.
He fell unconscious and died shortly after returning to Myanmar from overseas.
Doctors did not release his cause of death but people speculate that it resulted from exhaustion or a heart attack.