Antonythasan Jesuthasan

Acting

Born January 1, 1967, Allaippiddi, Sri Lanka

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

• 2023Dilemna Dilemma — The flower seller
• 2023Woman at Sea — Jesus
• 2023Zodi and Téhu: Princes of the Desert — Kumail
• 2022Men in Blue — Vijayan Kumar
• 2022Notre-Dame on Fire — Jonas, guardian of the cathedral
• The Coyotes — Amine
• 2021The Stronghold — Tamoul (uncredited)
• 2019Casanova, Last Love — Jarba
• 2019The Loyal Man — Monsieur
• 2018A Private War — Tamilselvan
• 2018Paris Pigalle — Hakim
• 2017Little Jaffna — Sathya
• 2017Roobha — Anthony
• 2017The Sunshine — Writer
• 2015Dheepan — Dheepan
• 2011Sengadal — Screenplay, Dialogue