Famous for his starring role as Issara Kriangkrai in the Thai television series Song Rao Nirun Dorn, Wongpuapan went on to receive Best Actor awards for his performances in the shows Oum Rak, Sawan Bieng, and Sood Sanaeha. At the age of seven, he acted in a television show called The Six Siblings. After putting his career on hold to study at ABAC University and at California's Brooks Institute of Photography, he returned to television in the late 1990s, appearing in Super Luk Toong.