Antonythasan Jesuthasan
Biography
Antonythasan Jesuthasan (Tamil: அந்தோனிதாசன் யேசுதாசன்), also known by the pseudonym Shobasakthi (Tamil: ஷோபா சக்தி), is a Sri Lankan Tamil author and actor.
Jesuthasan was born in 1967. He is originally from the village of Allaipiddy on the island of Velanaitivu in northern Sri Lanka. Jesuthasan had various low-paid jobs in Paris including stacking shelves in supermarkets, cooking, dish washing, street sweeping, hefting boxes around, construction work and working as a bellhop at Euro Disney. Jesuthasan's acting career started in 2011 when he wrote and starred in Sengadal (The Dead Sea), a film about Tamil fishermen struggling to make a living in the largely abandoned village of Dhanushkodi in southern India.
Filmography
Dilemna Dilemma
2023
as The flower seller
Zodi and Téhu: Princes of the Desert
2023
as Kumail
Woman at Sea
2023
as Jesus
Men in Blue
2022
as Vijayan Kumar
Notre-Dame on Fire
2022
as Jonas, guardian of the cathedral
The Stronghold
2021
as Tamoul (uncredited)
Casanova, Last Love
2019
as Jarba
The Loyal Man
2019
as Monsieur
A Private War
2018
as Tamilselvan
Paris Pigalle
2018
as Hakim
Roobha
2017
as Anthony
Little Jaffna
2017
as Sathya
The Sunshine
2017
Dheepan
2015
as Dheepan
Sengadal
2011