Acting
Jan 20, 1982
Thailand
Toni Rakkaen
Acting
Biography
Theerachai Wimolchaireuk, mostly known as Toni Rakkaen, is an actor, model and hair stylist born from a Vietnamese with a mix of French father and a Thai mother, the Mor Lam artist and Thai National Artist, Banyen Rakkaen. On December 2020, he married Thai actress and singer Jarinya Sirimongkolsakul (Kaew). When he was 12 years old, Toni moved to Melbourne, Australia, with his two older sisters. He relocated to study for Secondary school and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, majoring in Advertising. Toni lived and studied in Melbourne for 12 years. While in Melbourne, he also began his career as a hairstylist. He finished his education and came back to Thailand. Later he did an internship at the Leo Burnett advertising agency. He was his office's representative in the 2008 Cleo 50 Most Eligible Bachelors contest and won the award for the "most touchable hair". His appearance in one magazine that brought him to the attention of former Miss Thailand World and supermodel Metinee Kingpayome and Somporn Tirin, founder of The Lounge Hair Salon. Toni took the job at The Salon. In addition to his salon duties, Toni has maintained a busy schedule as a model, actor and singer. Toni's first film role came in 2010's Big Boy. After that initial success, he followed up with three romantic comedies Sud Ket Saled Ped (Loser Lover), Sor Kor Sor Sweety (Bangkok Sweety) and Valentine Sweety and a horror film, 3AM, he's also appeared in TV dramas. Toni is good in soccer and can sing. He sometimes takes on jobs in the entertainment business like modelling and acting, but he said that his priority is being a hair stylist.
Feature Films (15)
Po is a country young guy who dreams to become a cool B-Boy dancer to get attention from the girl he has a crush on. When Po hears the news of his grandfather Poon is in the hospital in Bangkok, he uses this news as an advantage to move to Bangkok, excusing his parents that he really wants to look after his grandfather. But grandfather Poon is perfectly a young at heart, playboy type and diehard who always has a quarrel with Po. Soon, their broken relationship slowly recovered when Po starts to pursue his B-Boy dream and grandfather Poon is his sole companion.
Big Boy
One would think it's impossible for a person to get a haircut everyday, however, Nara a young high school girl, visits the hair salon on a daily basis because she is head over heels in love with Dasie the hairdresser.
Love in the Rain
A brother and sister face hardships while coping with their father's illness and the loss of their mother. This is among nine films commissioned by Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej for the 2012 Terdglao Project.
Swim Across the Sea
Three filmmakers direct three different horror stories and the only thing they have in common is all the supernatural events occur at three in the morning.
3 A.M. 3D
Pueng, daughter of a military Colonel, has planned to spend her married life with Mann, a young Lieutenant with a promising future. On the day Martial Law was announced, she received a wedding invitation from a high school friend back in her hometown.
Snap
Television & Series (23)
Boo is a 17-year-old boy suffering from depression who finally finds a sense of purpose in skateboarding. However, his strict father is strongly against his new passion and forbids it.
Project S: Skate Our Souls
The eighth installment of this popular Thai series, based on a real-life call-in radio show, dramatizes personal stories of romance and heartbreak.
True Love or Just Confusion
The shop of a certain person wearing a mask sells gifts for people that you hate. There are four levels of gifts; making the receiver ashamed, scaring the receiver, hurting the receiver, and making the receiver die. Do you hate someone so much to give them this gift? Your hatred is their responsibility.
A Gift to the People You Hate
A young woman goes in search of her first love to get inspiration for a novel she is writing. In her search she finds herself pretending to be a man to be a manny for a guy who owns the home of her first love. ‘Tawanchai Nai Marn Mek (Tawanchai in a veil of clouds)’ is a lakorn for Ch3, produced by ‘Jett’ Nattapong Mernprasitivej and directed by actor Chai Chatayodom Hiranyatithi. It’s based of a novel by the same name and it centers around a young woman name Tawanchai played by Taew Nataporn who wants to be a writer and has to write about love, something she has never experienced before. Love doesn’t come easily, you can’t shop for it at the store, you can’t conjure it up by just saying come over–the only experience she had close to resembling love was a crush on P’Thee when she was in high school. Tawanchai goes in search for Thee at his home but she finds her nemesis P’Mek Boy Pakorn Chatborirak and his young son at the home. To investigate about the whereabouts of her first love, Tawanchai disguises herself as a man named ‘San’ to become a manny to Mek’s young son. Tawanchai has to disguise herself a guy because Mek is an oddball who will only allow men to watch over his young son.
