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Tony Jaa
Birth at
5 February 1976
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Tony Jaa is a Thai stuntman, film actor and director who works in films that use martial arts. The real name given to him by his parents is Pan Yirum. He was born on February 5, 1976 in the Thai province of Surin, which borders Cambodia. Panom's parents raised elephants. That was the bulk of the family income. In childhood and adolescence, Yirum fascinated by watching all films with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and on this enthusiastic wave began to independently engage in oriental martial arts, the main
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Tony Jaa is a Thai stuntman, film actor and director who works in films that use martial arts. The real name given to him by his parents is Pan Yirum. He was born on February 5, 1976 in the Thai province of Surin, which borders Cambodia. Panom's parents raised elephants. That was the bulk of the family income. In childhood and adolescence, Yirum fascinated by watching all films with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and on this enthusiastic wave began to independently engage in oriental martial arts, the main of which was Thai boxing. By the age of fifteen, the teenager achieved certain success in this field and became a student of the famous Thai stuntman Panna Rittikray. Panom studied Taekwondo and Judo at the Physical Education College. Soon the talented young man became the best stuntman in the group of Panna Rittikray. He began to be trusted to duplicate famous actors.
In 2003, an action film was released.
Ong Bak. Thai Warrior In which Panom (Tony Jaa is a pseudonym for Western audiences) performed complex tricks with extreme acrobatics. On the set did not use any computer graphics, Jaa everything, until the last trick, performed independently.
The next big work in the cinema was the shooting of the film “Honor of the Dragon”, which was released in 2005. The picture was a stunning success in Hong Kong, Thailand. Tony Jaa was talked about as the new star of Asian militants, prophesying to him great fame and popularity in the near future.
In 2006, Tony Jaa began work on the film Ong Bak 2, where he first tried his hand as a director. The premiere of the picture took place on December 5, 2008. Planned to shoot a large work on the film called “Sword”, where Tony was supposed to demonstrate the art of Thai combat with two swords, however, for unknown reasons, work on this film was interrupted, and then stopped altogether.
In May 2010, Tony Jaa, along with his teacher Rittikrai, shot the film Ong Bak 3, which was highly appreciated by the audience.