Krit Shahkrit Yamnam
BIOGRAPHY
Kongdech in Ossan’s Love Thailand is the boss with a secret, and the man playing him had already shared a screen with Nicolas Cage. Krit Shahkrit Yamnam was a teen magazine face in the 1990s, a film lead by 1997 and a cooking show host for years before GMMTV cast him opposite Earth Pirapat Watthanasetsiri and Mix Sahaphap Wongratch in the Thai version of the Japanese office romance.
Shahkrit Yamnam (ชาคริต แย้มนาม), known as Krit, was born in Bangkok. He went to Bangkok International Preparatory School, studied in New Zealand for three years and then took a bachelor’s degree in Marketing through International Correspondence School in the United States. He is also credited as Shahkrit Yamnarm and Charkrit Ngamengarm.
His first pictures ran in the magazines Angel and Thoe Kub Chan. He hosted the youth programmes TeenTalk and e for teens and sang on the album Teentrax. Film followed fast: Itthiphon in Destiny Upside Down (1997), Puen in O-Negative (1998) opposite Tata Young, Chiradet in February (2003), Brice in Belly of the Beast (2003) with Steven Seagal and Kong in Bangkok Dangerous (2008). He also led A Moment in June (2009), Opapatika (2007) and the pair Lunlla Man and Lunlla Man 2.
Television kept him even busier. Across more than two decades he led lakorns on Channels 3, 5, 7 and 9, from Pleng Pee Bok (2000) to Fai Amata (2010) and Sai See Plerng (2014). Later work includes Diamond Eyes: The Series (2018), Sleepless Society: Bedtime Wishes (2019) and Tea Box (2021). Food is his second career: he hosted Krua Laew Tae Krit, the Thai and Korean cooking show The Team Chef and Iron Chef Thailand, and runs cooking content on his own YouTube channel.
The awards list stretches across three decades. He was nominated for Best Actor at the National Film Association Awards for Destiny Upside Down, O-Negative, February and A Moment in June, and for best lead actor at the 25th TV Gold Awards and the 2nd Nataraja Awards for Fai Amata. The win came at the 4th NineEntertain Awards in 2011, Best Actor for four titles at once: Fai Amata, Rong Raem Pee, Neur Mek and My Best Bodyguard.
What I enjoy about this casting: Ossan’s Love works because the older man in the triangle is played completely straight faced, with all the authority of a real company boss. GMMTV went and found a leading man with nearly thirty years of romantic leads behind him, so Kongdech arrives with that weight already built in. No training montage needed.
My tip: watch Kongdech’s scenes with Earth and Mix back to back with Krit’s film February. Twenty years apart, and the stillness in his close ups has not moved an inch.
PROFILE DETAILS
- Native Name
- ชาคริต แย้มนาม
- Real Name
- Shahkrit Yamnam
- Nickname
- Krit
- Birthplace
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- Years Active
- 1997-present
- Languages
- Thai
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