Acting
Bangkok, Thailand
Art Supawatt Purdy
Acting
Biography
Art Supawatt Purdy, born Supawatt Aumprasit, on September 1, 1969, in Bangkok Thailand, is a Thai American actor, singer, TV host and Model. At the age of 14, Art moved to America to live with his parents in Fort Walton Beach, Florida where he attended Fort Walton Beach High School. In the fall of 1988, after graduating high school, Art began his undergraduates studies at Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee, Florida. In 1993, he graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering. Following his dream of working at NASA, he continued his education in the Industrial Engineering Master of Science program in Expert System. Second semester into his Master degree, he was offered a modeling contract, so he decided to put his NASA dream aside and gave modeling a try. Subsequently, he moved to New York City and signed with Storm Model Management and began his career in modeling. He later described his time in New York City as 'the time of my life' and appearing in Vogue (magazine), Germany Edition, in the advertisement for Givenchy as the proudest moment in his life. In 1996, after receiving news about many great job opportunities from his model friend who was working in Bangkok at the time, he decided it's time to move back to Thailand. After a year of working as a model in Thailand for various top fashion magazines, runways, advertisements and commercials, his big break came in 1997 when he was chosen to be the presenter in a TV commercial for 'Hunter Whiskey." Fluent in both English and Thai, Art acted in the leading role in several Thai language television mini-series (lakorn). In 2003, he signed a recording contract with Warner Music Thailand and released his first solo album 'Art of Love'. In 2008, he recorded 3 new songs, a cover version of a Southern gospel classic & 2 re-recorded new versions of the songs from his album Art of Love, to be included in the soundtrack of English Director Thomas Clay's Film Soi Cowboy. The 3 new tracks included the theme song Where We'll Never Grow Old (Never Grow Old), an uptempo version of Yaak Euie Wa Ruk (Thai: อยากเอ่ยว่ารัก) and a live-like recording of Yar Ton Eak Leoy (Thai: อย่าทนอีกเลย). At the 61st Cannes film festival, Soi Cowboy was selected for Un Certain Regard Award consideration, and for his effort on the soundtrack, he received the same honor in the music category. In 2016, after almost 14 years absent from the small screen, he returned to primetime playing a paranoid schizophrenia treasure hunter in the mini-series Thong Sip.
Feature Films (3)
In order to avoid working in the red-light district of Bangkok, a Thai woman lives with an overweight expatriate. Their lives are uneventful and dull until a provincial mafia hitman arrives on the scene.
Soi Cowboy
In 1946, just after World War 2, bandits rule the countryside of Siam. The notorious Bai rises to become the king of bandits and police chief Yodying has been ordered to apprehend Bai dead or alive.
Crime Kings
Chad Turner has been implanted with a the only working biometric computer chip (aka The Mark of the Beast) in the world. The chip has the power to change the world with whoever controls it and Joseph Pike is determined acquire the chip even in the face of the most unforeseen event "The Rapture". Pike has taken hostage Mr.Cooper the head of security of Avanti the chip maker in order to help locate Turner and deliver the chip to his boss. Amongst the chaos Chad Turner must beat all odds to stay alive and keep the chip from falling into the wrong hands
The Mark
Television & Series (8)
Komkrit, a thief with the alias ‘Skyraider’, receives a mission to rob the million-dollar diamond. He has to disguise himself in a traditional Likay troupe. He is getting closer with Phueng, a bodyguard, and starts to fall for her. Meanwhile, he has to escape a transnational mafia gang who is hunting for precious diamonds. This mission has their lives at stake.
Skyraider
Tawanchai returns from Australia thinking her father is dead, only to discover he is alive and indebted, while she becomes entangled with Don, a notorious player. Amid family debts and manipulations, powerful friends and rivals intervene, forcing her into a web of romantic and financial complications.
Hua Jai Song Park
"Sapan Dao" (TH:สะพานดาว) is a 1999 Thai television miniseries adaptation of the 1993 social-conscious best-selling novel of the same name by Thommayanti. Directed by Thapakorn Disayanon, starring Art Supawatt Purdy (as Supawatt Aumprasit) and Sririta Jensen. Produced by Kantana Video Production and written for television by Jintabutr, "Sapan Dao" was originally made for Ch. 5 as part of the 'TeleFive' Network primetime line-up. Fortunately, Kantana decided last minute to present it to the big boss at Ch. 7, Thailand most-watched television network. As luck would have it, Ch. 7 recognised right away a hit, and bought the right to the story for its Wednesday & Thursday primetime slot. "Sapan Dao" became one of ch. 7 biggest hits for 1999 and made Art an overnight sensation in the process.
Sapan Dao
PeangUma was so blinded by her old-fashioned prejudice that she could not see the love of her life was right in front of her and she almost lost the chance to be with the man she loves. Kenneth decided to go to Thailand with his best friend Yuth, but Yuth was asked to come home urgently because his family was bankrupt. Ken wanted to help by lending the money from his inheritance but he must be married before he could get any money. To Ken that's not a problem because he fell in love with Yuth's sister PeangUma and is willing to marry her. Unfortunately, PeangUma did not even give him a chance to love but married Ken anyway to help her family. PeangUma hated all Caucasians because her dearest aunt died from a broken heart caused by her aunt's caucasian husband. While Ken was trying to show how much he loved her, she kept pushing him away until it's almost too late.
