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20px july 22 , 1978 kob suvanant kongying suvanant kongying
 suvanant kongying actress , tv host , model , presenter http://www.allaboutkob.com/
suvanant kongying

suvanant kongying -lrb- ; ; born july 22 , 1978 , in bangkok -rrb- , also known by her nickname kob -lrb- ; -rrb- , is a thai actress .
she was the lead actress in many thai lakorns in the 1990s-2000s .
she has appeared in several `` lakorns '' -lrb- dramas -rrb- , including `` dao pra sook '' with sornram teppitak , in which she played dao , the main character .
she has been voted people 's choice winner for top actress for many years .
she 's considered thailand 's most famous actress and her leading lakorn partner is sornram teppitak .
suvanant was born in sirirat hospital , and lived with her grandmother at chachoengsao when she was a baby .
she moved to bangkok with her family when she was three to four years old .
her father , amnuay kongying -lrb- d. november 2001 -rrb- , was a teacher , and her mother , ubonrat kongying , works at the ministry of agriculture and cooperative .
she also have a younger brother name apisith golf kongying .
suvanant began acting from a very young age .
her first performance in a traditional thai folklore drama won her widespread popularity and her first major acting award , to which she has since added many .
she went on to star in `` dao pra sook '' -lrb- `` morning star '' -rrb- , in which she played a teenager abandoned as a baby but who grows up to find that she is after all wanted by many people , including the leading male character portrayed by sornram theppitak .
she now married with danuporn poonnakan also known as brook who had been her acting partner .
suvanant graduated with a bachelor 's degree from the private rangsit university , she was paid an undisclosed sum of money -- believed to be millions of baht -- to act as a presenter for `` mistine '' cosmetics .
suvanant is also a professional ice skating champion .
in 2003 a cambodian tabloid reported that suvanant kongying made a speech claiming that angkor wat belonged to thailand , the allegation which was later found to be groundless .
this prompted the 2003 phnom penh riots , in which the thai embassy in cambodia was destroyed .
suvanant is also known for co-hosting the famous show jun pun dao with nattawut skidjai .
