Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#10928
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Vithaya Pansringarm works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Vithaya Pansringarm appears in 19 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Vithaya. Thirteen Lives is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, action, crime. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Xavier Gens, Ron Howard, Jon Turteltaub and others, Vithaya Pansringarm helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Thirteen Lives (2022) as General Anuphond · Love Destiny: The Movie (2022) as Phra Surasawat · Nobody's Son (2026)
Career snapshot
Ranked #10928 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
19
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Thirteen Lives
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.8
Thirteen Lives
Most frequent director
Xavier Gens
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Xavier Gens
Most common genre
Action
12 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
6.7 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Nobody's Son, Pushpa 2 - The Rule, Art of Eight Limbs — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.7
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Meg, A Prayer Before Dawn, Paradox.
Most productive era
2020s
11 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.43 films | 6.95 films |
| Action | 6.36 films | 6.56 films |
| Thriller | 6.15 films | 6.66 films |
| Comedy | 6.51 film | 7.11 film |
| Crime | 6.26 films | 6.55 films |
| Romance | — | 7.11 film |
| Horror | 6.51 film | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Minister.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Thirteen Lives
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Nobody's Son
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
19 of 19 films
as General Anuphond
Directed by Ron Howard
as Officer Preecha
Directed by Unknown
as Phra Surasawat
Directed by Unknown
From the library
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The defining work
#1
Nobody's Son
Nobody's Son (2026)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Vithaya Pansringarm a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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General Anuphond
Thirteen Lives (2022)
Performance score7.4
Thirteen Lives asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. General Anuphond is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Officer Preecha
A Prayer Before Dawn (2018)
Performance score7.1
A Prayer Before Dawn asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Officer Preecha is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cetan
Hellhound (2024)
Performance score7.0
Hellhound asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cetan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
Start here. Nobody's Son is the clearest statement of what Vithaya Pansringarm does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 7.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Vithaya at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
A Prayer Before Dawn (2018)
Same director as Nobody's Son, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Thirteen Lives (2022)
Keeps the drama register of A Prayer Before Dawn but asks for a colder reading of it.
Love Destiny: The Movie (2022)
Keeps the history register of Thirteen Lives but asks for a colder reading of it.
Hellhound (2024)
Same director as Love Destiny: The Movie, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Todd Phillips
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hangover Part II
Isaac Florentine
Director
1 film together
Notably Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
Nicolas Winding Refn
Director
1 film together
Notably Only God Forgives
Dennis Gansel
Director
1 film together
Notably Mechanic: Resurrection
Wilson Yip
Director
1 film together
Notably Paradox
Jon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together
Notably The Meg
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Thirteen Lives
Xavier Gens
Director
1 film together
Notably Mayhem!
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thirteen LivesWilson Yip
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ParadoxXavier Gens
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mayhem!Isaac Florentine
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ninja: Shadow of a TearJon Turteltaub
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MegTodd Phillips
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hangover Part IIDennis Gansel
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mechanic: ResurrectionNicolas Winding Refn
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Only God ForgivesSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Thirteen Lives
as General Anuphond
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Thirteen Lives
as General Anuphond
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Thirteen Lives
as General Anuphond
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Thirteen Lives
as General Anuphond
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Nobody's Son
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Vithaya Pansringarm has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
12 catalogue titles in action, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Thirteen Lives
as General Anuphond
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Paradox
as Commissioner Chai
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Thirteen Lives
as General Anuphond
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Elephant White
as Taxi Driver
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Deliver Us from Evil
as Ran
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Mechanic: Resurrection
as Prison Warden
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Love Destiny: The Movie
as Phra Surasawat
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Meg
as Thai Boat Captain
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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