

In 2003, she spoke to Chiangmai-based The Irrawaddy magazine that "I have limited opportunities to act in current popular movies. Ironically, her film career in the early 2000s was handicapped by the top leading man of that day, Yaza Ne Win, her first cousin. She was nominated as best lead actress at Tha-Mee-Shin Film for 2000 Academy. In 2000, she scored her big break as an actress in the film Pyaw Lai Kya Ya Aung (Let's Have Great Fun) as the lead actress.

For the next two years she appeared in magazines and modeling shows. She became popular in Ah Hnine Mae TV series with a character called Po Tay. After this year, she became to act in TV series such as Loving Editor (Chit Thaw Editor) and Ah Hnine Mae. She won the Miss Kokkine contest in 1996, and then went on to win Miss Christmas that same year. Her first foray into the entertainment industry came by way of a local beauty contest. Rather she envisioned herself as an independent artist or a doctor but had to reevaluate her options after getting sub-par grades in school.

In an interview with The Myanmar Times, Kyaw Zin admitted that film was not her initial choice of a career. Kyaw Zin graduated from Yangon's Dagon 1 High School. She is a granddaughter of Bo Zeya, one of the Thirty Comrades that founded the modern Burmese Army, a niece of Dagon Taya, a writer, and a first cousin of singer Hayma Ne Win and singer and film star Yaza Ne Win. Eaindra Kyaw Zin was born to a well-to-do family in Yangon, the youngest child of Mya Thida and Kyaw Zin.
