Antonythasan Jesuthasan
Actor
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.
Filmography
A Private War
as Tamilselvan 2018
Dheepan
as Dheepan 2015
Notre-Dame on Fire
as Jonas, guardian of the cathedral 2022
Paris Pigalle
as Hakim 2018
Casanova, Last Love
as Jarba 2019
Zodi and Téhu: Princes of the Desert
as Kumail 2023
Woman at Sea
as Jesus 2023
Roobha
as Anthony 2017
Dilemna Dilemma
as The flower seller 2023
The Sunshine
2017
Men in Blue
as Vijayan Kumar 2022
The Loyal Man
as Monsieur 2019
Sengadal
2011