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name: "Antonythasan Jesuthasan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/antonythasan-jesuthasan"
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imdb_id: "nm7316147"
tmdb_id: 1470255
wikidata_id: "Q12989491"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T23:28:15.875485+00:00"
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# Antonythasan Jesuthasan

## Identity

Antonythasan Jesuthasan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/antonythasan-jesuthasan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** antonythasan-jesuthasan
- **IMDb ID:** nm7316147
- **TMDB ID:** 1470255
- **Wikidata ID:** Q12989491
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonythasan_Jesuthasan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12989491, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7316147/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1470255

Actor. Born 1 January 1967 in Allaippiddi, Sri Lanka.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1967, Allaippiddi, Sri Lanka
- **Also known as:** அந்தோனிதாசன் யேசுதாசன், Shobasakthi, ஷோபா சக்தி
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonythasan_Jesuthasan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12989491, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7316147/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1470255

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Dheepan*](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md) (68)

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## Biography

Antonythasan Jesuthasan, also known by the pseudonym Shobasakthi, is a Sri Lankan Tamil author and actor. He was born in 1967 in Allaipiddy on the island of Velanaitivu in northern Sri Lanka.

As a teenager he joined the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the Sri Lankan civil war. He left the organisation, was imprisoned, and reached France as a refugee in 1993, where he worked in various low-paid jobs. He began writing under the name Shobasakthi in the late 1990s. His acting career began in 2011 when he wrote and starred in the Tamil film *Sengadal*. He played the title role in Jacques Audiard’s *Dheepan* (2015), which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes; he received a César nomination for best actor for the performance. He has since appeared in films including *A Private War* (2018), *Paris Pigalle* (2018), *Casanova, Last Love* (2019), *The Coyotes* (2021), *The Stronghold* (2021) and *Notre-Dame on Fire* (2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dheepan* (2015), Fi1m 68, as Dheepan — [page](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *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)
- *The Coyotes* (2021), series, as Amine
- *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), Writer
- *Dheepan* (2015), as Dheepan — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md)
- *Sengadal* (2011), Screenplay, Dialogue

## Gallery

- ![Antonythasan Jesuthasan](https://film.one/media/person/4169068/gallery-3053779d408c.jpg) Antonythasan Jesuthasan — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Antonythasan_Jesuthasan_Cannes_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Cesar16 (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/4169068/gallery-4334c1fd753f.jpg) Cesar16 (2016) — ShobasakthiA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/ANTONY_CESAR_16.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Antonythasan Jesuthasan](https://film.one/media/person/4169068/gallery-2316eda0921f.jpg) Antonythasan Jesuthasan — Image via TMDB

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