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Rungrapee Kingkaew

BIOGRAPHY

Rungrapee Kingkaew (Thai: รุ่งรพี กิ่งแก้ว) is a Thai television producer. She produced all ten episodes of the 2026 revenge thriller Payback. The sources describe her in exactly those terms, “a Thai television producer”, and that sentence is very nearly the whole of what has been published about her.

Her documented career is short and concentrated. Three productions are on the main record: The Luminous Solution (2023), 4MINUTES (2024) across eight episodes, and Payback (2026) across ten. A fourth entry, the alternate-cut release 4Minutes (Sultrier Version), brings her to four credits in four years, all as producer and all in Thai television.

4MINUTES is the production that connects her to almost everyone on Payback. It was written by Sammon, who supplies Payback’s screen story; it featured Fuaiz Thanawat Shinawatra, who plays Bank, in the role of Tonkla; and it featured Lilly Sarinya Olsson, who plays Karn, as Nan. Three of the people credited on Payback had already worked on a Rungrapee Kingkaew production before this one.

She works, in other words, as the continuity between two projects rather than as a hired hand on each: the same writer, the same producer, and overlapping casts, moving from a 2024 series into a 2026 one. On Payback she is the sole credited producer, alongside director Woodie Pongchaiphat Sethanand and cinematographer Nitiwat Samunlor, on a co-production spanning Thailand, Japan and South Korea through Raize Up Production, Aplan International Group, Kidari Studio and Copus Japan.

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Beyond the credits, the record is empty. No biography, birth date, place of birth, photograph or external identifier of any kind exists for her on any source we accept: no IMDb record, no Wikidata entry, no social account. One database adds the alternative romanisation Rungraphi Kingkaeo and confirms that she is Thai. That is the sum of it.

We are leaving this page as it stands, with most fields empty, because the emptiness is the finding. Producers are documented far less thoroughly than the people they put on screen, and the person who assembled a three-country co-production has less published about her than any of its cast. A reader who arrives here should understand that this page is not unfinished; the record is.

PROFILE DETAILS

Native Name
รุ่งรพี กิ่งแก้ว
Real Name
Rungrapee Kingkaew
Pronouns
she/her
Gender
Female
Profession
Nationality
Debut
2023 — The Luminous Solution (2023) as Producer – earliest dated credit
Years Active
2023-present
Languages
Thai (native)
Skills
Television Production, Production Management, International Co-Production

FILMOGRAPHY — TV SERIES (1)

FUN FACTS

  • She has four credits in four years, and all of them are as producer.
  • She is one of the very few women credited above the line on Payback.
  • She has produced two Sammon series in a row, two years apart.
  • Two Payback cast members had already worked for her on 4MINUTES.
  • She has no IMDb page, no Wikidata entry and no social media at all.
  • TMDB holds literally nothing about her except her name and three credits.
  • Payback is her first international co-production, across three countries.
  • She also produced the alternate-cut release of 4MINUTES.
  • Her name is romanised two ways: Rungrapee Kingkaew and Rungraphi Kingkaeo.
  • Her surname, กิ่งแก้ว, means roughly “crystal branch”.
  • Her jump in scale is steep: a 2023 series, then 4MINUTES, then Payback.
  • This profile has no photograph because no image of her exists publicly.

TRIVIA

  • Her name is romanised two ways: Rungrapee Kingkaew in the Payback credits, and Rungraphi Kingkaeo on another database. The Thai form is รุ่งรพี กิ่งแก้ว.
  • Her documented filmography is four titles in four years, all as producer: The Luminous Solution (2023), 4MINUTES (2024, eight episodes), 4Minutes (Sultrier Version) (2024) and Payback (2026, ten episodes).
  • She is the sole credited producer on Payback, working alongside director Woodie Pongchaiphat Sethanand and cinematographer Nitiwat Samunlor.
  • Payback is her first international co-production, spanning Thailand, Japan and South Korea via Raize Up Production, Aplan International Group, Kidari Studio and Copus Japan.
  • 4MINUTES is the link between her two major credits: it was written by Sammon, who supplies Payback’s screen story, making Payback their second series together.
  • Two Payback cast members had already worked on 4MINUTES for her: Fuaiz Thanawat Shinawatra as Tonkla and Lilly Sarinya Olsson as Nan.
  • She holds no IMDb name record, no Wikidata identifier and no verified social media account on any platform, and no photograph of her exists on any source this site is licensed to use.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Who is Rungrapee Kingkaew?

Rungrapee Kingkaew (Thai: รุ่งรพี กิ่งแก้ว) is a Thai television producer. She produced all ten episodes of the 2026 revenge thriller Payback, and previously produced 4MINUTES (2024) and The Luminous Solution (2023).

Who produced Payback?

Rungrapee Kingkaew. The aggregate credits list her as the sole producer across all ten episodes, working with director Woodie Pongchaiphat Sethanand and cinematographer Nitiwat Samunlor.

What else has Rungrapee Kingkaew produced?

Three other titles: The Luminous Solution (2023), 4MINUTES (2024) across eight episodes, and the alternate-cut release 4Minutes (Sultrier Version) (2024). That is four credits in four years, all as producer.

Is Rungrapee Kingkaew connected to Sammon?

Yes, professionally. She produced 4MINUTES (2024), which Sammon wrote, and Payback (2026), for which Sammon supplied the screen story. Payback is their second series together.

Did any Payback cast members work with her before?

Two. Fuaiz Thanawat Shinawatra, who plays Bank, appeared in 4MINUTES as Tonkla, and Lilly Sarinya Olsson, who plays Karn, appeared in the same series as Nan.

Is Payback her biggest production?

By scale, yes. It is a ten-episode international co-production spanning Thailand, Japan and South Korea, made through Raize Up Production, Aplan International Group, Kidari Studio and Copus Japan. Her earlier work was domestic Thai television.

Why is her name spelled two different ways?

Thai names admit multiple romanisations. The Payback credits give Rungrapee Kingkaew; another database gives Rungraphi Kingkaeo. Both render the same Thai name, รุ่งรพี กิ่งแก้ว.

How many women worked above the line on Payback?

Two are identifiable in the aggregate credits: Rungrapee Kingkaew as producer and Sammon as screen story writer. The director and cinematographer are both men.

What is Rungrapee Kingkaew working on now?

As of August 2026 her most recent production is Payback, which finished its ONE 31 broadcast on 1 August 2026. No further project has been announced.

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Sources

Every factual claim on this page is taken from the records below. Where two sources disagree, the disagreement is stated in the text rather than resolved silently.

Sources consulted: The Movie Database (TMDB), Wikipedia, Letterboxd, iQIYI, the official Payback The Series social accounts and ONE 31.

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