Ananda Everingham

Ananda Everingham (Thai: อนันดา เอเวอริ่งแฮม, born May 31, 1982 in Thailand) is a Lao Australian film actor and model. Working primarily in Thai films, he is best known for his lead role in the 2004 horror film, Shutter.

Biography

Education and Early Career

Ananda Everingham is the oldest of three sons of an Australian father, Bangkok-based photojournalist John Everingham, and a Laotian mother, Keo Sirisomphone. His parents' story was dramatized in the 1983 NBC television movie, Love Is Forever, starring Michael Landon and Laura Gemser, about a photojournalist who swims the Mekong to rescue his lover from Laos in 1977. 1

Ananda was born in Thailand and often visited Australia on school holidays and received some schooling there. He holds Australian citizenship. He attended Bangkok Patana School. At age 14, while working part-time in his family's restaurant, Himali Cha Cha, he was discovered by Khun Mingkwan of GMM Grammy, Thailand's largest entertainment company. Soon he started acting in films. At age 16, he switched from Bangkok Patana School to a tutoring school where he would follow flexible course and times while filming.

Aside from Shutter, he has starred in the horror-comedy, Ghost Delivery and the teen-slasher movie, 303 Fear Faith Revenge. In 2005, he starred in the Singaporean romance film, Leap of Love. He has been cast in the upcoming film by Nonzee Nimibutr, Queen of Lung-Gasuka. In 2007, he played the lead role in the romantic drama Me ... Myself. He had featured roles in the Singaporean film Pleasure Factory, and in Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy.

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