Remember the movie 'Ong Bak', check out the new look of the Actor (photos)
Remember the movie 'Ong Bak', check out the new look of the Actor (photos)
Tony Jaa was born and raised in a rural area in Surin Province to Rin Saipetch and Thongdee Yeerum.
He is of Kuy descent and he can speak Thai, Northern Khmer and Kuy.
In his youth, Jaa watched films by Bruce Lee , Jackie Chan and Jet Li at temple fairs, which was his inspiration to learn martial arts.
He was so inspired by them that while he was doing chores or playing with friends, he would imitate the moves that he had seen, practicing in his father's rice paddy.
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior is a 2003 Thai martial arts film directed by Prachya Pinkaew, featured stunt choreography by Panna Rittikrai and starred Tony Jaa.
Ong-Bak proved to be Jaa's breakout film, with the actor hailed internationally as the next major martial arts star.
Jaa went on to star in Tom-Yum-Goong (called The Protector in the US and Warrior King in the UK) and directed and starred in two prequels to Ong-Bak: Ong-Bak 2 and Ong-Bak 3.
"What they [Chan, Lee, and Li] did was so beautiful, so heroic that I wanted to do it too," Jaa told Time in a 2004 interview.
"I practiced until I could do the move exactly as I had seen the masters do it."
Jaa began training in Muay Thai at the local temple from age 10 and at age 15 he requested to become a protege of stuntman and action film director Panna Rittikrai.
Panna had instructed Jaa to attend Maha Sarakham College of Physical Education in Maha Sarakham Province from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree.
Tony Jaa officially registered his marriage to longtime girlfriend Piyarat Chotiwattananont on 29 December 2011.
The wedding ceremony was held on 3 May 2012. The couple have a daughter and a son.
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