Up Poompat Iam-samang

Up Poompat Iam-samang (Thai: อัพ ภูมิพัฒน์ เอี่ยมสำอาง; born December 4, 1994) is a Thai actor, singer and model born in Bangkok. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the international programme of Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Communication Arts, where he was a “Chulakatakorn” drum major and campus theatre actor, then completed a master’s in international relations and diplomacy at SOAS University of London, and is pursuing a doctorate at Chulalongkorn’s Faculty of Political Science.

First famous online through the “Chula Cute Boy” Facebook page, Up entered the industry through KA Cosmetics commercials opposite First Kanaphan and the 2015 student film The Gifted, followed by the Korean reality show Babel 250 (2016). His breakthrough came as the writer Gene in Lovely Writer (2021). He later starred as superstar Ming in the iQIYI hit My Stand-In (2024) opposite Poom Phuripan, forming the UpPoom pairing, and reunited with Poom as police officer Krit in the WeTV series Love of Silom (2026). As a singer under his own label JustUp, he debuted on June 30, 2022 with the digital single “Up To You”.

Around these landmarks he built a run of smaller parts. In 2018 he played Sabi in the series GGEZ and appeared as Hok in a guest episode of Girl from Nowhere. In 2021 he took the part of Khanan in Me Always You: The Series, and in January of that year his company JustUp was registered. The following year he played Sun in Club Sapan Fine 2, and in 2023 he played Put in Step by Step. Lovely Writer aired on Channel 3 and on YouTube.

His studies have run beside the screen work. The doctorate at Chulalongkorn began in 2020, and it focuses on International Development Studies within the Faculty of Political Science, after the SOAS master’s degree in London. He also runs a YouTube channel under the name uppoompat.