Pepper Phanuroj Chalermkijporntavee
BIOGRAPHY
Pepper Phanuroj Chalermkijporntavee (Thai: ภานุโรจน์ เฉลิมกิจพรทวี; born August 20, 1996) is a Thai actor and model who built his career on the GMMTV roster, with supporting roles across its youth drama and Boys’ Love series. He is credited on more than a dozen Thai series and is known internationally for playing Keen in the 2024-2025 GMMTV crime romance The Heart Killers.
Pepper made his screen debut in 2021 as Mesa in the GMMTV romantic anthology I Need Romance, a sixteen-episode production. Work came steadily after that: Star and Sky: Star in My Mind (2022) as Typhoon, Vice Versa (2022) as Kita, Good Old Days (2022) as Hua, and a return to the Typhoon role in Our Skyy 2 (2023). The same year he appeared in The Jungle as Kim, in Dangerous Romance as Name, and in the fourteen-episode romantic drama Faceless Love as Manit.
His later work moved him into longer-running formats and larger arcs. He played Beer across all sixteen episodes of We Are (2024) and Newton in the twenty-four-episode comedy Perfect 10 Liners (2024), then joined The Heart Killers as Keen for eight of its twelve episodes. He also appeared as Earn in ThamePo: Heart That Skips a Beat (2024-2025) and as Tin in Duang with You (2026). Across these credits he has mostly played the friend, the rival or the colleague, and he has worked continuously in Thai series since his debut.
The episode counts show how the parts differ in weight. Typhoon ran for eight episodes in Star and Sky: Star in My Mind and came back for sixteen in Our Skyy 2, while Kim in The Jungle was a one episode guest appearance in the thirteenth episode. In Dangerous Romance his character is Thanadol Vattawut, known as Name, and in We Are he is Beer, a friend of the character Phum. Earn in ThamePo: Heart That Skips a Beat is the former boyfriend of the character Po across thirteen episodes, and Tin in Duang with You appears in six of the twelve episodes, including the finale.
The Best Friend You Always Notice
Every great BL needs the friend, the ex or the colleague who keeps the leads on their toes, and Pepper has made that his speciality. Since his 2021 debut as Mesa in I Need Romance, he has slipped into one GMMTV friend group after another, and each character gets its own personality: Typhoon in the Star and Sky world, Kita in Vice Versa, the ex Earn in ThamePo: Heart That Skips a Beat, and the comedy of Newton in the twenty-four-episode Perfect 10 Liners. He is the kind of supporting actor you start looking for in the cast list.
Start With Beer, Then Keen
For newcomers, We Are (2024) is the best first stop, because he plays Beer, friend of Phum, through all sixteen episodes. After that, catch him as Keen in The Heart Killers, where he turns up in eight of the twelve episodes of the crime romance. Want a fun double act? Watch Typhoon in Star and Sky: Star in My Mind and then again in Our Skyy 2, where the role comes back for sixteen episodes.
Always Next to the Big Pairs
Pepper’s credits put him beside some of GMMTV’s headline couples, like the four leads of The Heart Killers, First Kanaphan, Khaotung Thanawat, Joong Archen and Dunk Natachai. His most recent credit is Tin in Duang with You (2026), who appears in six of its twelve episodes, finale included, so keep watching to the end.
PROFILE DETAILS
- Native Name
- เปปเปอร์ ภานุโรจน์ เฉลิมกิจพรทวี
- Real Name
- Phanuroj Chalermkijporntavee
- Nickname
- Pepper
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Current Residence
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Nationality
- Debut
- 2021 · I Need Romance (2021) as Mesa
- Agency / Label
- GMMTV (current)
- Years Active
- 2021-present
- Languages
- Thai (native)
- Skills
- Acting, Modeling
Discussion 0 comments
Join other fans talking about Pepper Phanuroj Chalermkijporntavee. Be kind, no spoilers without tags, no spam.
No comments yet.
Share the first reaction below.