Lalita Panyopas (Nickname: Mew) is a Thai film and television actress. She is best known in Thailand for her roles in lakorn (soap operas). She made a string of feature films in the late 1980s and also was the lead actress in many Thai soap in the late 1980s to early 2000s. Her most prominent film role was as Tum, the unlucky central character in Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's 1999 film Ruang Talok 69. In 2007, she was reunited with Pen-Ek, starring in Ploy, which was screened in the Director's Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Her parents divorced when she was young and she was raised by her mother, Jaruwan Panyopas, who is also a respected actress. Her fraternal grandfather was English. She married Kong Sasiprapa in 2001, and they have two sons, nicknamed Plankton and Eaton. In 2017, She divorced on her ex-husband.
