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Lee Jung-jae

Lee Jung-jae

Birthday: 1973-03-15 | Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea

Lee Jung-jae (이정재) is a South Korean actor. Born on March 15, 1973, he began modeling in 1993 before getting his first acting roles the film The Young Man (1994) and the TV series Feelings (1994) and Sandglass (1995), which is one of the highest rated Korean dramas of all time with a peak rating of 64.5%. But his real breakthrough was with leading roles in award-winning films The Affair (1998) and City of the Rising Sun (1999). The latter of which earned him the Best Actor award at the prestigious Blue Dragon film awards. This was followed by a series of critical hits like Il Mare (2000) and commercial successes including Last Present (2001), The Last Witness (2001), Oh Brothers (2003), and the blockbuster Typhoon (2005). After a brief career slump of flop movies and tv shows, he returned with the critical and commercial hit The Housemaid (2010), which is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name. Since then, he went on to cement himself as one of Korea's biggest movie stars with a string of some of the biggest blockbusters in Korean history including The Thieves (2012), New World (2013), The Face Reader (2013), Assassination (2015), Operation Chromite (2016), and the Along with the Gods films (2017-2018). Most of these films did north of 12 million admissions at the domestic box-office, with The Thieves (2012) and Along with the Gods (2017) becoming the #2 biggest Korean hit in history at their respective time of release. He received a number of awards and nominations for these works including a Popularity Award at the prestigious Grand Bell awards. His most recent blockbuster is Deliver Us From Evil (2020) in which he reunited with his New World (2013) co-star Hwang Jung-min. It crossed 4 million admissions domestically and was the second biggest hit of the year in Korea.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Hunt

as    Park Pyong-ho

2021
Squid Game

as    Seong Gi-hun / 'No. 456'

2020
Deliver Us from Evil

as    Ray

2019
Chief of Staff

as    Jang Tae-Joon

2019
Svaha: The Sixth Finger

as    Pastor Park Ung-jae

2018
2017
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds

as    King Yeomra

2014
Big Match

as    Choi Ik-ho

2013
The Face Reader

as    Grand Prince Soo-yang

2013
New World

as    Lee Ja-sung

2012
The Thieves

as    Popie

2010
The Housemaid

as    Hoon

2009
Triple

as    Shin Hwal

2008
The Accidental Gangster

as    Cheon-doong

2007
Air City

as    Kim Ji-sung

2005
Typhoon

as    Gang Se-jong

2002
Over the Rainbow

as    Jin-su Lee

2000
Il Mare

as    Han Sung-hyun

2000
Asako in Ruby Shoes

as    Woo-in

1998
White Nights 3.98

as    Lee Young-jun