Win Min Than

The First Myanmar Actress in Hollywood

Win Min Than achieved Hollywood fame as the co-star with Gregory Peck of the 1954 film The Purple Plain, based on the 1947 novel of the same name by British author H.E. Bates, and set during the Burma Campaign of World War Two. The Purple Plain was her first acting experience, and though offered many subsequent roles, she chose never to appear in a film again. She was married to Bo Setkya of the Thirty Comrades.