She was born on 30 December 1943 to Tun Shwe and Than Tin in Rangoon, Burma, the youngest of four children.
She attended Methodist English High School and enrolled at Rangoon University for higher education.
She won three Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards,[2] for her work in Chit Thami (Lovely Daughter) in 1965, Chaung Ko Pyit Ywe Myit Ko Sha in 1969, and Meingalay Shin Ei Sanda in 1977.
[3] In 2012, she began work with Great Father Land Construction to redevelop the site of the historic cinema into a 14-storey condominium.
[5] The company accused her of retreating from an agreement to pay 1.2 billion kyat to build the tower and subsequently filed a defamation lawsuit in late June.