| Lin Linn | |
|---|---|
| လင်းလင်း | |
 Lin Linn at her film press show | |
| Born | Tun Lin (1982-08-06) 6 August 1982 (age 42) Yangon, Myanmar |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Education | University of Yangon |
| Occupation(s) | Make-up artist, actress |
| Years active | 2001–present |
Lin Linn (Burmese: လင်းလင်း; also spelled Lin Lin, born Tun Lin on 6 August 1982) is a Burmese make-up artist turned actress after her two decades-long experience in make-up industry. She rose to popularity after working with actress Moe Hay Ko. Lin Linn was listed on The Myanmar Times "Top 10 Make-up artists" list in 2018.
Early life and education
Lin Linn was born on 6 August 1982 in Yangon, Myanmar. She was the only son in the family and favoured a female identity and was constantly misunderstood, discriminated against, and abused, even within the family. She attended high school at Basic Education High School No. 2 Kamayut (St.Augustine) and studied at University of Yangon.
Career
In 2000s, she learned doing make-up from make-up artist Khin San Win. At age 28, she opened a beauty salon in Yangon. She offered to work for popular movie stars and made a name for herself in the make-up industry. She rose to prominence while working with actresses Moe Hay Ko, May Than Nu, Moe Yu San, Thandar Hlaing and others, arranging their hair and changing their looks. In 2017, she studied make-up classes at the Make Up Forever Academy and Make Up Art Academy Paris in France. In the same year, she participated as a judge on Make Me Beautiful by L'Oréal, a reality make-up contest TV show on selected make-up artists in Myanmar. In 2019, she won the Fashion Award at the L'Oréal Myanmar red carpet galas.
Lin Linn was offered an acting role in 2019 and made her big-screen debut with the comedy film Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite, alongside Myint Myat, Min Maw Kun, Khin San Win, Nyi Nyi Maung and Ma Htet. The film was directed by Pyi Hein Thiha which premiered in Myanmar cinemas on 29 August 2019. Her portrayal of the LGBT character was praised by fans for her acting performance and character interpretation, and experienced a resurgence of popularity. She then starred in her second film A Htein Taw where she played the main role with Myint Myat, Shin Mwe La, Nyi Nyi Maung and Ei Chaw Po.
Filmography
Film (Cinema)
| Year | Title | Director | Co-Stars | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite | Pyi Hein Thiha | Myint Myat, Min Maw Kun, Khin San Win, Nyi Nyi Maung, Ma Htet | Main |
| 2020 | A Htein Taw | Khin Hlaing | Myint Myat, Shin Mwe La, Nyi Nyi Maung, Ei Chaw Po | Main |
References
- Media, Asian Fame (11 September 2018). "မိတ်ကပ် ခင်စန်းဝင်း၊ ညီညီမောင် (စမ်းချောင်း)တို့နဲ့ရုပ်ရှင်ကားကြီးရိုက်ကူးမယ့်လင်းလင်း (Make up Artist)". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ""မိန်းကလေးလို ဝတ်တဲ့ မိန်းမလျာတွေအတွက် ဂုဏ်ယူတယ်"ဆိုတဲ့ မိတ်ကပ်လင်းလင်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 5 June 2018.
- ""လင်းလင်းရဲ့ ခင်ပွန်းကြီး ၁၀ ပါးမှာ မိုးဟေကို ပါတယ်"လို့ မိတ်ကပ် လင်းလင်း ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 13 January 2020.
- "ရန်ကုန်မြို့ရဲ့နာမည်အကျော်ဆုံး အလှဖန်တီးရှင်၁ဝ ဦး". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 21 November 2018. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- "make-up artists in Yangon". The Myanmar Times. 23 November 2018. Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- Fame, Asian (16 May 2017). "ပြင်သစ်မှာ မိတ်ကပ်သင်တန်း သွားတက်ခဲ့တဲ့ လင်းလင်း (Make Up Artist)". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- "ရိုက်ကူးရေးမှာ အရမ်းလန်းနေတဲ့ Makeup Artist သုံးယောက်". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 23 November 2017.
- "L'orel ပွဲတက်ဖက်ရှင်ဆုရတဲ့ ခံစားချက်ကို ပွင့်ပွင့်လင်းလင်းပြောပြလာတဲ့ မိတ်ကပ်လင်းလင်း". Momolay (in Burmese). 16 July 2019. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- "မိတ်ကပ်ဖန်တီးရှင်များကို ပွဲထုတ်ရိုက်ကူးမယ့် "ကျားကျားကြောက်ကြောက်" ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားကြီး". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 9 January 2019.
- "Red Carpet Show". Mizzima. 29 August 2019 – via PressReader.
- "Kyar Kyar Kyite Kyite". Myanmore Magazine (in Burmese). 28 August 2019.
- "ဒိတ်ဒိတ်ကြဲအလှဖန်တီးရှင် ၄ ယောက်နှင့် ဂျင်းကောင်မြင့်မြတ်ပါဝင်သည့် ကျားကျားကြိုက်ကြိုက် ရုပ်ရှင်(နမူနာ)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 23 August 2019.
- ""ကျားကျားကြိုက်ကြိုက်မှာ မိန်းမလျာတွေ ချစ်ဖို့ကောင်းတယ်ဆိုတာ မြင်ရမှာပါ"လို့ လင်းလင်း ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 20 August 2019.
- ""တတိယမြောက်ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားကြီးကို ရိုက်ကူးတော့မယ့် လင်းလင်းနဲ့ သုသု"". Lo Ta Ya Daily (in Burmese). 8 January 2020. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2020.