Art Supawatt Purdy

Art Supawatt Purdy born Supawatt Aumprasit on September 1 1969 in Bangkok Thailand is a Thai American actor singer TV host and Model At the age of 14 Art moved to America to live with his parents in Fort Walton Beach Florida where he attended Fort Walton Beach High School In the fall of 1988 after graduating high school Art began his undergraduates studies at Florida State University FSU in Tallahassee Florida In 1993 he graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering Following his dream of working at NASA he continued his education in the Industrial Engineering Master of Science program in Expert System Second semester into his Master degree he was offered a modeling contract so he decided to put his NASA dream aside and gave modeling a try Subsequently he moved to New York City and signed with Storm Model Management and began his career in modeling He later described his time in New York City as the time of my life and appearing in Vogue magazine Germany Edition in the advertisement for Givenchy as the proudest moment in his life In 1996 after receiving news about many great job opportunities from his model friend who was working in Bangkok at the time he decided its time to move back to Thailand After a year of working as a model in Thailand for various top fashion magazines runways advertisements and commercials his big break came in 1997 when he was chosen to be the presenter in a TV commercial for Hunter Whiskey Fluent in both English and Thai Art acted in the leading role in several Thai language television miniseries lakorn In 2003 he signed a recording contract with Warner Music Thailand and released his first solo album Art of Love In 2008 he recorded 3 new songs a cover version of a Southern gospel classic 2 rerecorded new versions of the songs from his album Art of Love to be included in the soundtrack of English Director Thomas Clays Film Soi Cowboy The 3 new tracks included the theme song Where Well Never Grow Old Never Grow Old an uptempo version of Yaak Euie Wa Ruk Thai ??????????? and a livelike recording of Yar Ton Eak Leoy Thai ?????????? At the 61st Cannes film festival Soi Cowboy was selected for Un Certain Regard Award consideration and for his effort on the soundtrack he received the same honor in the music category In 2016 after almost 14 years absent from the small screen he returned to primetime playing a paranoid schizophrenia treasure hunter in the miniseries Thong Sip