Actor

Shyaporn Theerakulstit

March 1, 1973 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Shyaporn Theerakulstit is a Thai-American actor, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, based in New York City. He is also a writer, director, new media creator, martial artist, cosplayer and fake science lecturer. He has given talks on Godzilla biology and the technology of Star Trek vs Star Wars at TEDx, Nerd Nite, C2E2 and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the host of Atlas Obscura's "REAL/fake Science" lecture series. His Youtube channel has over 5 million video views and has been featured on Huffington Post and Comedy Central. He is a graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and a degree holder in traditional Shaolin kung fu with Alan Lee's Chinese Kung Fu Wu Su Association, one of the oldest martial arts schools in New York City.

Notable work

7.1
The Flight Attendant (2020)
as Bartender
6.5
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
as Man at the Bowery
7.4
Song Sung Blue (2025)
as Somechai

Often works with

Antonio Ortiz
2 titles together
Power Book III: Raising Kanan, The Land of Steady Habits

Full filmography · 9

Song Sung Blue
as Somechai
20257.4
The Kindergarten Teacher
as Man at the Bowery
20186.5
The Land of Steady Habits
as Bartender
20185.6
Kensho at the Bedfellow
as Byron
2017
God of Vampires
as Vincent
2010
Under the Gun: A Crime Story
as Michael
2008