Saratswadee Wongsomphet

Saratswadee Wongsomphet (Thai: สรัสวดี วงศ์สมเพ็ชร), known by the nickname Nay (นาย) and sometimes romanised Saratsawadi, born 20 October 1971, is a Thai film and television director and screenwriter. By any measure of chronology she is the single most important director in the history of Thai girls’ love. She directed Yes or No in 2010, and she is still directing GL in 2026, which gives her a run of five verified GL credits across sixteen years, longer than anyone else working in the category.

She came up through Thai action cinema, in the crews that made Thailand’s martial arts films internationally famous. She was second assistant director on Ong-Bak (2003) and first assistant director on Born to Fight (2004), then on 4 Romance (2008) and The Melody (2012).

Her first credit as a director is Yes or No (อยากรัก ก็รักเลย, 2010), a university-set film about two roommates that dealt directly with homophobia and first love between women. TMDB’s own biography of her records that the film became widely known abroad, particularly in China. She returned to direct and write Yes or No 2 (2012), and directed Namaste Hello, Bye-Bye (2013), in which she also makes her only on-screen appearance, as Bung.

From 2014 she has worked almost continuously in Thai television drama, mostly on long runs: Full House (2014, 20 episodes), Pink Sin (2018, 24 episodes), Amazed by Love (2018), Secret Garden (2019, 20 episodes), Praomook (2021, 15 episodes), You Are My Heartbeat (2022, 20 episodes), You Are My Makeup Artist (2022, 16 episodes), Love Destiny 2 (2023, 26 episodes), My Love in the Countryside (2024, 24 episodes) and Money, My Love (2026, 20 episodes).

Her return to GL comes in 2024 with The Secret of Us (ใจซ่อนรัก, 8 episodes), adapted from a novel. She followed it with Only You (เพียงเธอ, 2025, 14 episodes), on which she is credited as both director and screenwriter, and Fulfill (รักเติมเต็ม, 2026, 8 episodes).

BLGLFlix editorial view. Her filmography settles a question that gets answered wrongly almost everywhere, including in the first draft of our own page on Kanittha Kwunyoo. Thai GL did not begin with 23.5 in 2024, and it did not begin with GAP in 2022 either. It began with Yes or No in 2010, a feature film with two women at the centre of it, made by a woman who had learned her trade on Ong-Bak. The genuinely interesting fact is what happened next, which is nothing. Twelve years separate Yes or No from the first Thai GL series. A film can prove that an audience exists; it cannot build a category, because a category needs recurring faces, a broadcast slot, a fandom with something to come back to every week, and a company willing to lose money for two seasons. That is why GAP in 2022 mattered more than its quality alone would suggest, and why 23.5 in 2024 mattered again. Our own read is that the correct way to describe Saratswadee is not as a precursor but as the one continuous thread: she was there for the beginning in 2010, she was absent from GL through the entire twelve-year gap, and she came back to direct three GL series in three years once the infrastructure finally existed to sustain them.