
Antonythasan Jesuthasan
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1967-01-01 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Allaippiddi, Sri Lanka
Antonythasan Jesuthasan
Biography
Antonythasan Jesuthasan (Tamil: அந்தோனிதாசன் யேசுதாசன்), also known by the pseudonym Shobasakthi (Tamil: ஷோபா சக்தி), is a Sri Lankan Tamil author and actor.
Jesuthasan was born in 1967. He is originally from the village of Allaipiddy on the island of Velanaitivu in northern Sri Lanka. Jesuthasan had various low-paid jobs in Paris including stacking shelves in supermarkets, cooking, dish washing, street sweeping, hefting boxes around, construction work and working as a bellhop at Euro Disney. Jesuthasan's acting career started in 2011 when he wrote and starred in Sengadal (The Dead Sea), a film about Tamil fishermen struggling to make a living in the largely abandoned village of Dhanushkodi in southern India.
Known For
Acting
(2023)
Princes of the Desert
as Kumail
(2023)
Woman at Sea
as Jesus
(2023)
Dilemna Dilemma
as The flower seller
(2022)
Notre-Dame on Fire
as Jonas, guardian of the cathedral
(2022)
Men in Blue
as Vijayan Kumar
(2019)
Casanova, Last Love
as Jarba
(2019)
The Loyal Man
as Monsieur
(2018)
A Private War
as Tamilselvan
(2018)
Paris Pigalle
as Hakim
(2017)
Little Jaffna
as Sathya
(2017)
Roobha
as Anthony
(2017)
(2015)
Dheepan
as Dheepan
(2011)
Crew
(2017)
The Sunshine
Writer
(2011)
Sengadal
Screenplay, Dialogue