Push Puttichai: The Life Story Behind Thailand's Cool Star

Most Thai stars are first known for a face. Push Puttichai was first known for a voice. Before he ever led a drama, his voice came into people’s cars, kitchens, and offices through the radio, talking between songs, making jokes, and sounding like a friend who had dropped by for a chat. That is a strange kind of fame, because people can love a voice for years without ever seeing the face that goes with it. When they finally do see the face, they feel they already know the man, and that feeling gave Push a head start that few actors ever get.

He was born in Bangkok in 1986, and he grew up in a city where radio, television, and music were changing fast. He liked to talk, he liked music, and he liked to make people feel comfortable, and those three likes became a career, first on the radio, then on television as a host, and then as an actor in dramas that young viewers loved. He did not become a star in one jump. He became a star in three steps, and each step taught him something the next step needed.

People call Push a cool star, and the word fits, but not in the way it usually does. His coolness is not coldness. It is a calm, friendly confidence, the kind of cool that makes a room relax rather than tense up. This is the story of how a Bangkok DJ’s voice became one of the most recognisable faces on Thai television, and how he kept that voice, that warmth, and that cool, all at the same time.

Bangkok, 1986, and a City That Talked All Day

Bangkok in 1986 was a noisy city, and radio was one of its loudest voices. Every taxi, every shop, and every home had a radio, and DJs were the people who filled the hours between songs with talk, laughter, and news. A child growing up in that city heard those voices every day, and Push was a child who listened. He liked the way a good DJ could make a listener feel like the only person in the room, even though thousands of people were listening at the same time. That trick, talking to one person while speaking to many, is the heart of radio, and it later became the heart of Push’s acting as well.

He was a talkative boy, but not in a loud way. He was the kind of boy who could start a conversation with a stranger, keep it going, and leave the stranger smiling. That skill is rare, and it cannot be taught in a classroom. It comes from liking people, from being curious about them, and from not being afraid to be the first one to speak. Push had that liking, and it showed in every job he took. People who worked with him on radio said the same thing that directors later said about him on a set: he makes the room feel easy.

School in Bangkok gave him the usual lessons, but it also gave him a stage, in the small sense of the word: class presentations, school events, and the chance to stand in front of people and talk without freezing. He learned that standing in front of people is not frightening if you have something to say, and if you say it as if you are talking to a friend. That lesson stayed with him. A DJ who sounds like he is reading a script will lose his listeners. A DJ who sounds like he is talking to a friend will keep them, and Push sounded like a friend from the start.

His family background gave him a base that was steady rather than showy. He grew up in a Thai-Chinese home in Bangkok, where hard work was expected and politeness was not optional. Those values sound old-fashioned, but they are useful in a public career, because a star who is polite in private is a star who can be trusted in public. Push learned to greet people properly, to thank the crew, and to treat a junior colleague with the same respect as a senior one, and those small habits built him a reputation that has lasted longer than any single hit.

The Radio Years: Learning to Talk to People You Cannot See

Push’s first real job in media was as a radio DJ, and radio taught him more about acting than most people realise. A DJ must talk for hours, fill silences, make people laugh, and keep listeners interested, all without seeing their faces. He must learn timing, which is knowing when to speak and when to pause, and tone, which is knowing how to say a sentence so that it sounds warm rather than flat. Push learned both, and he learned them well enough that listeners began to ask for him by name, and to feel that they knew him, even though they had never met him.

Radio also taught him how to handle a mistake. On live radio, there is no second take. If you say the wrong word, if a song starts at the wrong time, or if a guest says something unexpected, you must keep going, smile through it, and make it look as if it was part of the plan. Push learned to do that, and that skill later saved him many times on a television set, where a scene can go wrong in a dozen ways and the actor must stay calm and try again. Calm under pressure is not a talent you are born with. It is a habit you learn by making mistakes in public and surviving them, and Push learned it on the radio.

From radio, he moved into television hosting, which is a different skill, because the host is seen as well as heard. He had to learn how to stand, how to move, how to react to a guest in real time, and how to keep a live audience engaged without a script to hide behind. He handled the change well, because his radio training had already taught him how to talk, and his natural warmth helped him on camera. He was not a host who read lines. He was a host who talked, and the audience could feel the difference at once.

Those years in radio and hosting were also years when Push was building a name that was not yet about acting. People knew his voice, they knew his face, and they liked him, and that gave him a foundation that many young actors do not have. When he finally tried acting, he did not have to introduce himself to the audience. They already knew him, and they were willing to give him a chance, because they trusted the voice they had listened to for years.

Ugly Duckling and I Wanna Be Sup’tar: Proving He Could Act

The test for a DJ who becomes an actor is simple and brutal: can you play a person who is not yourself? Talking is not acting, and being liked on radio does not guarantee that you will be believed on screen. Push faced that test in dramas made for young viewers, including Ugly Duckling: Perfect Match and I Wanna Be Sup’tar, and he passed it, because he did not try to play a DJ. He tried to play a character, with feelings, flaws, and a story of his own.

In Ugly Duckling: Perfect Match, he played a man who meets a young woman and slowly learns to care for her, in a story that mixes comedy and romance. The drama was popular with young viewers, and it gave Push a new kind of fan: teenagers and young adults who liked his cool, friendly style. He was not a traditional romantic hero, with grand speeches and perfect manners. He was a modern man, with a modern sense of humour, and that modernity fitted the story well. The audience liked him because he felt like a real person, not like a figure from an old drama.

In I Wanna Be Sup’tar, he played a story about the entertainment world itself, about a young woman who wants to become a star, and about the people who help her and hurt her along the way. That role suited Push in a particular way, because he knew the entertainment world from the inside. He had been a DJ, a host, and now an actor, and he understood the pressure, the excitement, and the disappointment of that world in a way that an actor who had only ever acted could not. He played the role with that knowledge, and the drama felt more real because of it.

These two dramas were important because they changed how the industry saw Push. He was no longer only a DJ who acted. He was an actor, with his own fans, his own style, and his own place in Thai television. That change did not happen in a single night. It happened through many episodes, many long days on set, and many scenes where he had to prove, again and again, that he could feel what his character felt, not only say what his character said. By the mid-2010s, he had proved it, and the leading roles that followed were the reward.

U-Prince: The Handsome Cowboy and a New Generation of Fans

In 2016, Push starred in U-Prince: The Handsome Cowboy, part of a series of dramas about young men at a university, each with his own story, his own style, and his own romance. Push played the Handsome Cowboy, a man with a rugged, cool style, who works outdoors, who rides, and who loves with a quiet strength. The role suited him perfectly, because it mixed his cool image with a romantic heart, and it gave him a character that young viewers loved at once, without needing a long explanation.

U-Prince was made by GMMTV, a company known for dramas made for young people, and it was watched widely in Thailand and in other Asian countries, especially by viewers who watched Thai dramas online rather than on television. Push’s part in it showed that he could lead a youth drama, not only a traditional lakorn, and that he could connect with a younger audience who liked modern stories, modern clothes, and modern romance. That connection gave him a new generation of fans, who would follow him into his later work, and who still talk about the Handsome Cowboy today.

The cowboy was also a role that asked Push to be physical, to work outdoors, and to play a man who is comfortable in nature as well as in the city. He handled that well, because he is an active person, and he likes to be outdoors. He did not play the cowboy as a costume, with a hat and a smile. He played him as a man who lives that life, who works with his hands, and who loves with his whole heart. That honesty made the character feel real, and it made the audience love him, not only for his looks, but for the life he seemed to live.

After U-Prince, Push was known as a cool star in a way that stuck. He had proved that he could work in both traditional dramas and youth dramas, and that he could connect with viewers of different ages. That range is important for a long career, and Push was building it step by step, without making a fuss about it. He did not announce that he was changing. He simply took a new kind of role, did it well, and let the audience notice the change for themselves.

The Man Series, Later Dramas, and Growing Into Maturity

After U-Prince, Push continued to work in dramas that mixed romance, comedy, and modern life, including The Man Series, a set of stories about men at different stages of life, and other dramas in which he played husbands, lovers, and men with responsibilities. Those roles were important, because they showed a more mature side of him. A young DJ can play a cool cowboy, but a grown man can play a husband with a depth that a young man cannot, and Push’s later roles show that depth, in the way he listens, in the way he pauses, and in the way he handles a scene where the character must admit he was wrong.

Maturity in acting is not about age. It is about the willingness to play a character who is not perfect, who makes mistakes, and who must apologise and try again. Push learned to do that, and his later dramas are better for it. In them, he is not always the hero who is right. He is sometimes the man who is wrong, and who must learn, and that learning is what makes the audience care about him. A perfect hero is boring. A hero who learns is interesting, and Push became that kind of hero as he grew older.

His later work also showed that he was comfortable with the new way Thai dramas are watched. Viewers no longer only watch on television at a set time. They watch online, they share clips, and they talk about each episode the same night it airs. Push’s work fitted that world, because his scenes are easy to share: a good look, a funny line, or a tender moment can travel around the world in a few hours. That helped his fame grow beyond Thailand, to fans in other countries who discovered Thai dramas through streaming and stayed for the warmth of actors like Push.

He also kept his hosting skills alive, appearing in events and shows where his ability to talk, to listen, and to make people feel comfortable was still useful. That is a rare combination: an actor who can also host, and a host who can also act. It gives him more ways to work, and more ways to connect with an audience, and it is a reminder that his career began with a voice, not with a face, and that the voice is still part of what makes him special.

Marriage to Jooy and a Star Who Did Not Slow Down

Push married the actress Jooy Warattaya in 2018, in a wedding that was widely reported in Thailand and followed by fans across Asia. It was a happy moment, and it was also a public one, because both Push and Jooy were known stars, and their wedding was a story that many people wanted to follow. What made it memorable was not the scale of the event, but the feeling of it: two people who had worked in the same industry, who understood each other’s lives, and who chose each other after knowing each other for a long time. It felt personal, not staged, and fans responded to that honesty.

Marriage did not slow Push down, and it did not change his public manner. He still works steadily, he still chooses his roles carefully, and he still keeps his private life mostly private. That balance is hard to keep in Thailand, where fans love to know everything about their favourite stars. Push has managed it by being open about the big things, like his wedding, and quiet about the small things, like his daily life. That is a sensible way to live as a famous person, and it has helped him keep the respect of both fans and fellow actors, who know that he will not use his private life to stay in the headlines.

His marriage also gave his acting a new depth. A married man understands a love story differently from a single young man, because he knows what it means to live with another person, to compromise, and to keep a promise when it is hard. Push’s later roles show that understanding, in the way he plays a husband who must listen, a lover who must wait, and a man who must choose between his own wishes and the wishes of the person he loves. Those are not the roles of a young cowboy. They are the roles of a grown man, and Push plays them with a calm that comes from life, not only from a script.

Today, Push is in his late thirties, and he is at an age when an actor can play many kinds of roles. He can still play a lover, but he can also play a father, a businessman, or a man who must rebuild his life after a loss. That range is a gift, and he has earned it by working steadily for many years, from a radio microphone to a television camera, one step at a time.

The Host Who Became an Actor: Why the Radio Years Still Show on Screen

If you watch Push act closely, you can still hear the radio DJ in him, and that is a compliment, not a criticism. Radio teaches an actor something that acting school often cannot: how to listen. A DJ talks to people he cannot see, so he must imagine them, care about them, and keep them interested without any face to read. That habit follows Push into his dramas. When his leading lady speaks, he really listens, and the audience can tell, because his reactions are alive. He does not wait for his turn to speak. He hears the other person first, and then he answers, and that small difference makes a love scene feel real instead of rehearsed. It is the same skill that made listeners stay with him on the radio, only now the audience can see his face as well as hear his voice.

Radio also taught him timing, and timing is the secret of both comedy and romance. A joke that comes a second too late is not funny, and a kind word that comes a second too early can sound false. On live radio, Push learned to feel the right second, because there was no second take. If a song started at the wrong time, or a guest said something surprising, he had to keep going and make it look natural. That training shows in his dramas, especially in the lighter ones, where a scene can turn on a pause, a smile, or a line delivered just slowly enough to land. Many actors learn timing on a set, over years, by trial and error. Push arrived with it already in his body, because he had practised it for hours every day, talking to people who were driving, cooking, or working, and who would change the station if he bored them.

The third gift from those years is hosting, and it is the one that keeps him working between dramas. A host must make guests feel comfortable, must keep an event moving, and must talk to a room full of strangers as if they were friends. Push does that with the same calm warmth he brings to acting, and it gives him a second career that most actors do not have. It also keeps him close to ordinary people. An actor who only acts can start to live in a small world of sets and scripts. A host meets real people every week, hears their questions, and learns what they care about. That keeps his acting honest, because he never forgets who he is performing for. In the end, the radio years were not a detour on the way to acting. They were the foundation, and everything he built afterwards stands on them.

From the Radio Booth to the Screen

Before Push Puttichai became a television star, he was a voice. He worked as a DJ on the radio, and later as a television host, and those years behind a microphone taught him something that many actors never learn: timing. A DJ must know when to speak and when to let a song play. A host must know when to ask a question and when to let a guest talk. That sense of timing, of knowing when to fill a silence and when to leave it alone, is the same sense an actor needs in a scene, and Push brought it with him when he moved from hosting to acting. He did not arrive on a drama set as a beginner. He arrived as a man who already knew how to hold an audience’s attention, and that gave him an advantage that showed from his very first roles.

The radio years also taught him how to be himself in public, which is harder than it sounds. A DJ talks to people he cannot see, and he must make them feel that he is talking to them alone, even though thousands are listening. That skill, of making a large audience feel small and personal, is exactly what a television star needs, because a drama is watched by millions, and each viewer must feel that the actor is speaking to them. Push learned that on the radio, in a small booth, with only a microphone for company, and he carried it onto the screen, where it became one of his greatest strengths. His performances feel personal, as if he is talking to you, and that feeling is not an accident. It was learned, hour by hour, on the radio.

Hosting taught him something else as well: how to listen. A good host listens to his guest, and a good actor listens to his co-star, and Push does both with the same attention. On a drama set, that listening makes his scenes feel like conversations rather than speeches, and the audience can feel the difference. A scene where two people are truly listening to each other is alive, and a scene where they are only waiting for their turn to speak is dead. Push’s scenes are alive, because he learned, in the radio booth, that listening is the most important part of talking.

My Take:

I want to start my honest opinion by saying that Push Puttichai’s story makes me think about voices, and about how undervalued a voice is. Most stars are judged by their faces, but Push was first judged by his voice, and that is a different kind of fame. A face can be loved at once, but a voice must be loved over time. You have to listen to a voice for hours, days, and weeks before you decide you like it, and that slow liking is more honest than a quick glance. Push’s voice was liked, and that liking grew into a career, and then into a life as a leading man. I think that is a beautiful story, because it says that a person can be loved for how they talk, not only for how they look, and that is a hopeful message for anyone who does not think they are handsome enough to be a star.

What I like most about Push is his warmth. He is called a cool star, but I think the word cool is not quite right, or at least not complete. He is warm, and his coolness is really a kind of calm warmth. He does not shout, he does not show off, and he does not try to be the centre of every room. He talks, he listens, and he makes people feel comfortable. I think that is a rare quality, and it is a quality that comes from his radio years. A DJ learns to talk to one person at a time, even when thousands are listening, and Push still talks that way. When he acts, he is not performing for a crowd. He is talking to one person, and that person feels seen, and that feeling is why his fans stay loyal.

I also think about his move from radio to acting, and how brave that must have been. It is easy to stay in a job you are good at. It is hard to leave that job and try a new one, where you are a beginner again, where people doubt you, and where you might fail in public. Push left radio, he left hosting, and he tried acting, and he was a beginner again. That takes courage, and it takes humility, because you have to admit that you do not know everything, and that you need to learn. I respect that courage, and I think many people who are afraid to change jobs will respect it too. It says you can start again, even when you are already successful, and you can succeed again in a new way, if you are willing to be a student again.

There is something else I keep thinking about, and it is the way Push plays a modern man. In many Thai dramas, the hero is a traditional man, with old manners and old values. Push plays a modern man, with a modern manner, a modern sense of humour, and a modern way of loving. That modernity is important, because Thai viewers are modern people, and they want to see themselves on screen. Push gives them that, and he does it without losing the Thai values of politeness and respect. He is modern and Thai at the same time, and that combination is hard to play, but he plays it well, because he lives it himself, in Bangkok, in the present day.

I also want to talk about U-Prince, because it is a drama that tells me a lot about Push as a person. The Handsome Cowboy is a man who is rugged on the outside and tender on the inside, a man who works with his hands and loves with his whole heart. That is a character that many people dream of being, and Push played him with an honesty that made the dream feel real. I think that is why young fans loved him so much. They did not just love the cowboy. They loved the idea that a cool, strong man can also be kind, and that kindness does not make him weak. It makes him stronger, because a man who can be both strong and kind is a man who can be trusted with a heart.

At the same time, I want to be fair and say that I do not know Push as a person. I know his public story, and I know the roles he has played, and I will not pretend to know his private thoughts. That would be guessing, and guessing is not fair. What I can say is that the public picture is a good one. He works hard, he is polite, he is friendly, and he does not chase scandal. Those are small things, but they add up to a reputation that is hard to build and easy to lose. He has kept it for many years, and that tells me he is doing something right, even if it does not make headlines.

I also think about the young people who listen to his old radio work, or who watch his dramas now, and what they learn from him. A teenager who wants to be a DJ, or an actor, or a host might see Push and think, that could be me. That is a powerful thing, because it says you do not have to choose one job for your whole life. You can start in radio, move to television, move to acting, and keep learning all the way. That is a better message than the usual one, which says you must pick one path and stay on it forever. Push’s story says you can change paths, and you can succeed on each one, if you work hard and if you stay yourself. That is a message that can help a young person in real life, not only on a television set.

There is a sad side to his story as well, and I think it is the sadness of being known for your voice and your coolness. When people love you for being cool, they sometimes do not see the work behind it. They think you are cool because you were born that way, and they do not see the hours on the radio, the long days on set, and the effort it takes to stay calm when you are tired. Push’s coolness looks easy, but it is not easy. It is the result of hard work, and I think it must be frustrating to have that work ignored. I want to say plainly that I see the work, and I respect it. Coolness is not a gift you are born with. It is a skill you learn, and Push has learned it well, first on a microphone, and then in front of a camera.

I also wonder about the future for him, and I hope he does not get trapped in the image of the cool young star. He is very good at that image, and it will always be there for him, but I hope he also takes a role that breaks it. I would like to see him play a man who is not cool, a man who is nervous, or angry, or broken, and who must learn to be calm again. That kind of role would show a new side of him, and it would prove that his coolness is a choice, not a limit. I do not know if he will do it, but I think he is ready for it. He has the skill, he has the life experience as a husband, and he has the calm to play a man who loses his cool and must find it again.

If I compare Push to other Thai actors, what stands out is not his fame, although he is famous, and not his looks, although he is handsome. What stands out is his voice. Other actors have had bigger single hits, and other actors have had louder fan bases, but few have a voice that people love as much as Push’s. A voice is a personal thing, and it is a thing that stays with you even when you are not on screen. When people hear Push’s voice, they feel at home, and that feeling is a rare and valuable thing. It is why I admire him, and why I think many other people admire him too, even if they cannot explain why in words.

I also think his story teaches something about Thailand itself. Thai entertainment is now watched far beyond Thailand, and actors like Push are part of why that happened. They did not set out to conquer the world. They set out to tell Thai stories well, and the world came to them. Push’s work, from a radio studio in Bangkok to a university campus in a youth drama, is full of Thailand, and that is why it travels. It says you do not have to copy Hollywood to be seen. You have to be honest about where you come from, and tell stories that are true to that place, in a voice that people want to listen to.

The first thing I want to say about Push is that his voice deserves more respect than it usually gets. We live in a world that worships faces, and a handsome face will always get attention first. But a voice is what stays with you when the picture is gone. Push’s voice came into people’s cars, kitchens, and offices before his face ever led a drama, and it made friends out of strangers. A listener who has never seen you can still feel that you are kind, that you are funny, and that you are worth listening to again tomorrow. That is a deeper kind of fame than a photograph can give, because it is built on trust, not on looks. I think Push understood that from the start, and I think it is why he has lasted. He did not begin as a face looking for a voice. He began as a voice that people already loved, and the face only made the friendship complete.

I also keep thinking about the Handsome Cowboy in U-Prince, because it is a role that tells me something about how Thai drama changed. That series was made for young people who watch online, not only on television at a set time, and it travelled to other Asian countries in a way older dramas rarely did. Push, a man in his thirties who had started on radio, stepped into that young world and belonged there. He played a rugged man who works outdoors, who is comfortable in nature as well as in the city, and he did it without trying to look younger than he was. That is a hard balance to strike. Too cool and the character feels fake. Too serious and the young audience walks away. Push found the middle, and he found it because his coolness is not an act. It is calm, it is friendly, and it makes a room relax. A young viewer watching him online in another country does not need to know his radio past to feel that. They feel it in the first scene, and they stay.

There is one more part of his story that I think about, and it is his marriage to Jooy. In the world of celebrity, marriage is often treated as the end of a leading man’s career, as if a married man can no longer play a lover. Push proves the opposite. A married man understands a love story differently from a single young man, because he knows what it means to live with another person, to compromise, and to keep a promise when it is hard. His later roles carry that knowledge, and they are better for it. At the same time, he has kept his private life mostly private, which is a difficult balance in Thailand, where fans love to know everything. He shares enough to be warm, and he holds back enough to be a husband first and a star second. I respect that balance, and I think it is one of the reasons his career has stayed steady. He did not let fame eat his life. He built a life, and then he let fame fit around it, and that order of things is the right one.

In the end, my feeling about Push Puttichai is one of warmth and respect. I like him because he is friendly, because he is honest, and because he has built a career that feels real, from a microphone to a camera, one step at a time. I do not feel amazed by his story. I feel comforted by it. It tells me that a good voice, a kind manner, and hard work can still lead to success, even in a world that often rewards noise and speed. I hope Push keeps acting, keeps hosting, and keeps being the cool, warm star that Thailand loves, because the world needs more voices like his, not fewer, and more people who know how to talk to one person at a time.

Timing is the first thing I think about with Push Puttichai, and it is a quality that is easy to miss because it does not look like a quality at all. It looks like nothing, like a pause, like a smile that arrives a second later than you expect. But timing is everything in acting, and Push learned it on the radio, where a second too early or a second too late can ruin a song. He brought that timing to television, and it made his performances feel natural in a way that is hard to copy, because timing cannot be taught from a book. It can only be learned by doing, hour after hour, in front of an audience that you cannot see. Push did those hours, and the audience can feel it, even if they do not know why.

Reinvention is the second thing, because Push did not start as an actor. He started as a DJ, then became a host, and then became an actor, and each change asked him to learn a new skill and to risk failing in public. That takes courage, and it takes humility, because a man who is already famous as a host must be willing to be a beginner again as an actor. Push was willing, and that willingness is one reason I admire him. He did not protect his reputation by staying in one place. He risked it by moving, and the risk paid off, because he became a star in a new field, and he brought everything he had learned with him.

His cool image is the third thing, and it is worth a closer look, because coolness is often misunderstood. People think cool means cold, or distant, or uninterested, but Push’s coolness is none of those things. It is a calm, a steadiness, a man who does not need to shout to be heard. On screen, that calm makes his characters feel trustworthy, as if they will not panic when things go wrong. Off screen, it makes him easy to work with, because a calm leading man makes a calm set. I think that calm is his real gift, more than his looks, and more than his voice, because calm is rare, and it is the thing that lets everyone else do their best work around him.

He married Jooy Warattaya in 2018, and that part of his story matters to me, because it shows a man who chose a life as well as a career. A star who marries and stays married, in an industry where relationships are often short and public, is making a quiet statement: that some things are more important than fame, and that a home is worth protecting. I will not pretend to know anything about their private life, because that would be guessing, and guessing is not fair. What I can say is that the public picture is a steady one, and steadiness, in a life as well as in a career, is a quality I respect more than excitement.

If I could choose his next role, I would choose a part that uses his voice, the voice that made him a DJ, in a story about a man who talks for a living and must learn to listen. A part like that would bring his two careers together, and it would show an audience that knows him as a cool leading man a different side of him, the side that learned to listen in a radio booth. I do not know whether he will take such a part, but I think he is ready for it. He has the experience, he has the timing, and he has the calm to play a man who discovers that listening is harder than talking, and more important too.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Push Puttichai and how did he start his career?

Push Puttichai, whose full name is Puttichai Kasetsin, is a Thai actor, DJ, and TV host born in Bangkok in 1986. He started as a radio DJ, where his warm voice made him popular, then moved into television hosting, and later became an actor in dramas such as Ugly Duckling and U-Prince.

What is U-Prince: The Handsome Cowboy about?

U-Prince: The Handsome Cowboy is a 2016 youth drama in which Push plays a rugged, cool university man with a cowboy style who falls in love. It was part of the U-Prince series about young men at a university, and it gave Push a lasting image as a cool leading man for young viewers in Thailand and abroad.

What dramas made Push Puttichai famous as an actor?

Ugly Duckling: Perfect Match and I Wanna Be Sup’tar helped make Push famous as an actor, showing he could play romance and comedy as well as talk on radio. U-Prince: The Handsome Cowboy then gave him a bigger youth audience and a strong image as a modern, cool leading man.

How old is Push Puttichai and where was he born?

Push Puttichai was born in Bangkok in 1986, which makes him in his late thirties. He grew up in Bangkok, worked first in radio and television hosting, and then built his acting career, keeping much of his private life out of public view.

Who did Push Puttichai marry?

Push Puttichai married the actress Jooy Warattaya in 2018. Their wedding was widely followed by fans in Thailand and in other countries where Thai dramas are popular, and marriage has not slowed his career as an actor and host.

Is Push Puttichai still a DJ and host as well as an actor?

Push began as a DJ and TV host, and acting later became the main centre of his career, although his hosting and voice skills remain part of his public work. His radio training still shows in his acting, in the way he uses his voice, timing, and natural manner in front of the camera.