# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pen-ek-ratanaruang
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:34:52.726Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pen-ek-ratanaruang"
name: "Pen-ek Ratanaruang"
slug: "pen-ek-ratanaruang"
description: "Pen-ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading \"new wave\" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet."
tagline: "Thai film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pen_ek_Rattanaruang_June_5_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.07
  momentum:             0.4492512479201332
  historical:           16.622608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/penek69/"
    handle:    "penek69"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0711579/"
    handle:    "nm0711579"
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    title: "پين يك راتاناروانج"
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    title: "彭力·雲坦拿域安"
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    title: "Pen-Ek Ratanaruang"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump